Free-to-air Television
Galaxy 18 is the home of many free-to-air television channels, including approximately three dozen US local stations operated by Equity Broadcasting. Ku band DVB-S programming may be received by compliant FTA receivers throughout North America using satellite dishes as small as one metre.
As of 2008, available free-to-air channels at 123°W include:
- ABC TV (KATV, KKTU, KTWO)
- Daystar TV
- Fox TV (KBTZ, KLMN, KMMF, WMQF)
- KWWF (Ind. - Waterloo, Iowa)
- Multimedios Television (KMCC)
- My Network TV (KFDF-CD, KPBI, KWBF, KWBM, WGMU)
- Retro Jams
- RTN Radio
- Telefutura (KAMT, KUTF)
- This TV (KCBU, KEGS, KKYK, KQDK-CA, KQUP, KTVC, KWCE, WNGS, WPXS)
- Univisión (KEYU, KUTH, KUWF, KXUN-LP, WNYI, WUMN)
- University of Washington TV and the ResearchChannel
- Veterans Affairs Knowledge Network
Free ethnic programming includes Aaj TV, Hum TV, Peace TV and TV One (Pakistan).
All Equity Media-owned stations are programmed from a central hub in Little Rock, Arkansas, with the satellite feeds used to deliver the complete signals to the individual station transmitter sites and to cable television operators. The future status of these stations is unknown, as Equity Media Holdings filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy on December 8, 2008.
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