KHLM-LD

KHLM-LD
Houston, Texas; United States;
Channels	Digital: 10 (VHF), shared with KUVM-LD; Virtual: 12;
Branding	CTN Houston
Programming
Affiliations	12.1: CTN; 12.2: CTNi;
Ownership
Owner	Christian Television Network; (Christian Television Corporation, Inc.);
History
Founded	November 7, 1996
Former call signs	KHLM-LP (1997–2009)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 43 (UHF, 1996–2009); Digital: 43 (UHF, 2009–2021); Virtual: 43 (2009–2021);
Former affiliations	Multimedios (1997-2021); NewsNet (2021);
Call sign meaning	"Houston Lotus Multimedios" (former owner and affiliation)
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	57189
Class	LD
ERP	3 kW
HAAT	439.1 m (1,441 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	29°33′45.2″N 95°30′35.9″W / 29.562556°N 95.509972°W
Links
Public license information	LMS
Website	www.ctnhouston.com

KHLM-LD (channel 12) is a low-power religious television station in Houston, Texas, United States, owned and operated by the Christian Television Network. The station's transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County.

History

In its early years, this station did not broadcast a TV service at all. Instead, it was used to run an Internet Service Provider called AccelerNet, which delivered the downstream part of the service using UHF channel 43 and the upstream using a traditional dial-up modem or ISDN line.^[3]

Prior to 2020, KHLM-LD was the American flagship of the Mexican network Multimedios, and coordinated many of that network's talent appearances around the Houston area and southern Texas. Its local programming was also carried over the American feed of the network for cable and satellite providers, replacing Mexico-specific content.

The station temporarily ceased over-the-air broadcasting as of December 1, 2018, in preparation for the broadcast band repack in 2019 and a re-sort from UHF channel 43 onto VHF channel 10. KHLM-LD's main channel carrying Multimedios Houston is still available as a basic offering on most of the area's cable providers.

On June 4, 2021, it was announced that Lotus Communications would sell KHLM-LD to the Christian Television Network for $1.1 million.^[1] The sale was completed on August 18.^[4]