The Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship dedicated themselves to
bring Christian television into the Mid-Columbia area in 1985. As a
result, a 100 watt UHF station, K66BW, was born.
The original station crew were:
Bob Huff
Chief Administrator
Brad Buswell
General Manager
Jim Pelicer
Chief Engineer
The first studio was located in a local home until 1987 when production
activities were moved into the GESA building in Richland. With the
installation of a microwave relay, it was no longer necessary to transport VHS
tapes to the transmitter on Badger Mountain.
K66BW became Radiant Light
Broadcasting, licensed in the State of Washington as a 501.c.3 non-profit,
community broadcaster in 1988, with ownership transferred from Full Gospel
Businessmen's Fellowship.
Signal strength was increased from 100
to 1,000 watts in 1989, licensed by the FCC to broadcast on channel 49 KCN.
UHF K66BW was sold to FOX network in Spokane. RLB also became an
affilate of Trinity Broadcasting Network and the studio and offices were
moved to the current location at 704 Symons, Richland, WA that year.
RLB-TV broadcasts were added to
Tri-City cable service broadcasting in 1990, assigned to channels 58
(Kennewick/Pasco) and 7 (Richland).
A second transmitter was built
in 1996 and RLB-TV began airing on UHF channel 47 in Walla Walla, WA and
Pendleton, Milton-Freewater, and Umatilla, Oregon.
Access to broadcast inside the Walla
Walla State Penitentuary on channel 7 was acquired in 1998.
RLB-TV affiliated with Total Living
Network (TLN) of Chicago in 2001 to provide Family Time TV learning programs
and Saturday night music programming.
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March 02, 2008
