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Class A digital · channel 17 · DES MOINES, IA
| Facility ID | 46753 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | KDIT-TV LLC |
| Community of licence | DES MOINES, IA
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 | 41.83000, -93.61517 |
| Effective radiated power | 15 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 850.7 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.
| Website | http://kdao.com/kdaotv.htm |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | none |
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | yes |
Checked 2026-09-22 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| facility 794422 | 2 | LPD | |
| facility 794425 | 3 | LPD | |
| facility 794431 | 4 | LPD | |
| KCCI | 8 | DTV | HEARST PROPERTIES INC. |
| KDIN-TV | 11 | DTV | IOWA PUBLIC BROADCASTING BOARD |
| WHO-DT | 13 | DTV | TRIBUNE BROADCASTING COMPANY II LLC |
| facility 795300 | 14 | LPD | |
| facility 795298 | 15 | LPD | |
| KDSM-TV | 16 | DTV | KDSM LICENSEE, LLC |
| KDMI | 19 | DTV | RADIANT LIFE MINISTRIES, INC. |
| K20PU-D | 20 | LPD | |
| KAJR-LD | 21 | LPD | DTV AMERICA CORPORATION |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/KDIT-CD | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=KDIT-CD | 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.