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Full-power digital · channel 27 · TACOMA, WA
| Facility ID | 62469 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | BATES TECHNICAL COLLEGE |
| Community of licence | TACOMA, WA
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 47.27872, -122.51289 |
| Effective radiated power | 100 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 259 m above average terrain · non-directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
No website is on file for this station, so there is nothing to check. Websites come from Wikidata; a station missing there is absent from this section rather than scored zero.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| facility 793900 | 5 | LPD | |
| KSTW | 11 | DTV | THE CW TELEVISION STATIONS INC. |
| KCPQ | 13 | DTV | FOX TELEVISION STATIONS, LLC |
| facility 793763 | 14 | LPD | |
| KTBW-TV | 21 | DTV | TRINITY BROADCASTING OF WASHINGTON |
| KWDK | 34 | DTV | PUGET SOUND EDUCATIONAL TV, INC. |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/KBTC-TV | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=KBTC-TV | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.