K25HD and K27EC are low-power Class A

Class A television service

The class A television service is a system for regulating some low-power television stations in the United States. Class A stations are denoted by the broadcast callsign suffix "-CA" or "-CD" , although very many analog -CA stations have a digital companion channel that was assigned the -LD...

 television stations serving Bullhead City, Arizona

Bullhead City, Arizona

Bullhead City is a city located on the Colorado River in Mohave County, Arizona, USA, roughly south of Las Vegas, Nevada, and directly across the Colorado River from Laughlin, Nevada, whose casinos and ancillary services supply much of the employment for Bullhead City...

 and Lake Havasu City, Arizona

Lake Havasu City, Arizona

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 41,938 people, 17,911 households, and 12,716 families residing in the city. The population density was 974.4 people per square mile . There were 23,018 housing units at an average density of 534.8 per square mile...

, respectively, as Cornerstone Television Network (CTVN) affiliates.

K25HD operates as an analog

NTSC

NTSC, named for the National Television System Committee, is the analog television system that is used in most of North America, most of South America , Burma, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, and some Pacific island nations and territories .Most countries using the NTSC standard, as...

 station on UHF

Ultra high frequency

Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres...

 channel 25 and is owned by Richard D. Tatham of Lake Havasu City. Its transmitter is located approximately 12 miles (20 km) northwest of Bullhead City on Spirit Mountain, where it serves both Bullhead City, Arizona and Laughlin, Nevada

Laughlin, Nevada

Laughlin is a census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States, and a port located on the Colorado River. Laughlin is south of Las Vegas, located in the far southern tip of Nevada. It is best known for its gaming, entertainment, and water recreation. As of the 2010 census, the...

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K27EC operates as an analog station on UHF channel 27 and is owned by Lake Havasu Christian Television of Lake Havasu City. Richard Tatham is President of Lake Havasu Christian Television. The station's transmitter is located on Goat Hill, approximately 5 miles (8 km) north of Lake Havasu City.

The stations also provide over-the-air service to Kingman, Arizona

Kingman, Arizona

Kingman is located in a desert climate on the edge of the Mojave Desert, but its higher elevation and location between the Colorado Plateau and the Lower Colorado River Valley tempers summer high temperatures and contributes to winter cold and rare snowfall. Summer daytime highs reach above 90 °F ...

 via translator station K16GB.

K25HD

An original construction permit for a low-power station on channel 65 was issued on February 20, 1992 to Richard D. Tatham. The station, known as K65FI, was originally to specify Laughlin as its city of license, but changed to Bullhead City during the course of construction. After several extensions of the construction permit, the station was licensed on April 5, 1996. In 2000, required to abandon the 700 mHz spectrum, K65FI applied to move to channel 25; the application was granted in May 2001. The station also sought to convert its license to Class A. The upgrade was approved in September 2001 and the station was licensed as K25HD on June 4, 2004.

K27EC

An original construction permit for a low-power station on channel 27 was issued on March 19, 1993 to Lake Havasu Christian Television. After several extensions of the construction permit, the station was licensed on March 1, 1996 and upgraded its license to Class A in September 2001. It has been known as K27EC since the original permit.

Digital television

The FCC

Federal Communications Commission

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gave low-power television station licensees and construction permit holders the option of either applying for a separate companion channel for digital operations during the DTV conversion, or to turn off the analog broadcast signal and turn on the digital signal (known as a "flash cut"). Tatham and Lake Havasu Christian Television opted for the latter course of action, and applied for flash cut conversions on both K27EC and K25HD. On July 24, 2006, K25HD was granted authorization to construct digital facilities on channel 25 and flash cut to digital. The digital flash cut application for K27EC has not yet been approved by the FCC as of March 2007.