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Full-power digital · channel 30 · MINNEAPOLIS, MN
| Facility ID | 35843 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | KSTC-TV, LLC |
| Community of licence | MINNEAPOLIS, MN
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 | 45.06250, -93.13944 |
| Effective radiated power | 1000 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 712.9 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://www.kstc45.com/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | none |
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | yes |
Checked 2026-09-11 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 795525 | 5 | LPD | |
| facility 794333 | 6 | LPD | |
| KMSP-TV | 9 | DTV | FOX TELEVISION STATIONS, LLC |
| W11DX-D | 11 | LPD | EDGE SPECTRUM, INC. |
| facility 795431 | 11 | LPD | |
| K12XX-D | 12 | LPD | EDGE SPECTRUM, INC. |
| KTCJ-LD | 13 | LPD | EDGE SPECTRUM, INC. |
| KWJM-LD | 15 | LPD | DTV AMERICA CORPORATION |
| KHVM-LD | 18 | LPD | EDGE SPECTRUM, INC. |
| KKTW-LD | 19 | LPD | DIGITAL NETWORKS-MIDWEST, LLC |
| KMBD-LD | 20 | LPD | DTV AMERICA |
| WUMN-LD | 21 | LPD | BRIDGE NEWS LLC |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/KSTC-TV | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=KSTC-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.