City Wichita, Kansas Affiliations SSN (2014–present) Former callsigns K61GC (1994-2003) | Channels Digital: 40 (UHF) Founded January 26, 1994 | |
Owner DTV America
(Woods Reality, LLC) | ||
KFVT-LP is a low-powered digital television station that is licensed to and serving Wichita, Kansas. The station is owned by Woods Realty, LLC, and operated by Sunrise, Florida-based DTV America Corporation. Broadcasting a digital signal on UHF channel 40, the station is an affiliate of the Soul of the South television network.
History
The station signed on the air on January 26, 1994 as K61CG under ownership of Great Plains Television. The station’s call letters were changed to the current KFVT-LP on February 28, 2003. DTV America Corporation became KFVT’s operator in 2015.
For most of its history, the station was a translator of then Independent station KSBI of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This ended with the station began running Soul of the South programming at some point in the 2010s. The station’s second and third subchannels became available in December 2015. The second subchannel is a test pattern, and the third one provides programming from The Country Network. In 2016, a fourth subchannel was launched to carry the Sonlife Broadcasting Network.