Editing KSTC-TV (section)

===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KSTC-TV shut down its analog signal, over [[UHF]] channel 45, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States [[Digital television transition in the United States|transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts]] under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 44 to channel 45.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |format=PDF |access-date=March 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 }}</ref><ref name="FCC Form 387">[http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101233476&formid=387&fac_num=10758 CDBS Print<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In October 2011, KSTP and KSTC unified all of their over-the-air channels as [[virtual channel|virtual]] [[digital subchannel|subchannels]] of KSTP. As a result, the virtual channels of KSTC changed. The main KSTC channel is now on 5.2, with This TV now being tuned to 5.6.<ref>[http://kstc45.com/article/12384/ KSTC: Channel rescan notice] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425062447/http://kstc45.com/article/12384/ |date=April 25, 2012 }}</ref>

On September 2, 2019, KSTC moved from physical channel 45 to 30 as part of the ongoing [[spectrum reallocation]]. The station continues to use the 45TV branding.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kstp.com/news/kstc-move-new-transmitter-delayed-august-2/5395943/?cat=1|title=Having Problems Receiving Channel 5.2|work=KSTP.com}}</ref>