Station History
The station signed on the air in 2004 to fill the UPN void left open by KSKN, who dropped the network in 2002 for The WB Television Network. The station dropped UPN for the Retro Television Network on January 1, 2006. However because its full-powered signal doesn't reach the Spokane, Washington metro, it uses a low-powered satellite, KQUP-LP, licensed to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, to fill in the areas.
On January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity Media Holdings Corporation and RTN interrupted the programming on many RTN affiliates. As a result, Luken Communications, LLC (who had purchased RTN in June 2008), restored a national RTN feed from its headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with individual customized feeds to non-Equity-owned affiliates to follow on a piecemeal basis. As a result, KQUP lost its RTN affiliation immediately; the network never found a new home in the market.
At auction on 16 April 2009, Daystar Television Network bought KQUP. KQUP-LP began airing Daystar programming that August but the full-power KQUP digital signal did not sign on until January 2010.
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