KDNL-TV
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St. Louis, Missouri United States |
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| Branding | ABC 30 |
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Digital: 31 (UHF) Virtual: 30 () |
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Sinclair Broadcast Group (KDNL Licensee, LLC) |
| Founded | June 1966 |
| First air date | June 8, 1969 |
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| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 320.5 m (1,052 ft) |
| Facility ID | 56524 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°34′50″N 90°19′45.2″W / 38.58056°N 90.329222°WCoordinates: 38°34′50″N 90°19′45.2″W / 38.58056°N 90.329222°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | abcstlouis |
KDNL-TV, virtual channel 30 (UHF digital channel 31), is an ABC-affiliated television station located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. KDNL maintains studio facilities located on Cole Street in the Downtown West section of St. Louis, and its transmitter is located in Shrewsbury.
Channel 30 first signed on the air on June 8, 1969 as the first UHF television station in the St. Louis market in more than twelve years. Though its construction permit was awarded by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1966 to a group of local investors under the banner Greater Saint Louis Television Corporation, the station was signed-on under the ownership of Evans Broadcasting, a New York City-based company which acquired the permit in 1968. Initially KDNL-TV ran a format of business news, religious shows, rejected network programs from NBC affiliate KSD-TV (channel 5, now KSDK) and then-ABC outlet KTVI (channel 2), and classic movies. By 1976, the station's schedule became more of the then-standard for independent stations of the era, including cartoons, westerns, sitcoms, religious shows during the early mornings and movies in primetime and late nights. Also in 1976, KDNL began televising St. Louis Blues hockey games, which ran on the station for five seasons.
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