Selective TV

04/21/2026

NEW TRANSMITTERS
The process of installing new transmitters will continue tomorrow afternoon April 22 beginning at noon and will effect channels 5, 9, 10, and 41 at various times throughout the afternoon. These are your membership dollars at work keeping Selective TV strong and reliable now and into the future. Thank-you Members!

04/13/2026

KSTC
We have been informed that channels 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, and 5.6 will be off the air tomorrow April 14th for about 2 hours beginning at 11:30 AM while transmitter maintenance is performed at KSTC in the Twin Cities.

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03/19/2026

Transmitters coming back on line.

03/15/2026

TOWER MAINTENANCE
On Thursday March 19th a major maintenance project will take place on the Selective TV broadcast tower. While the tower crew is on the tower it must be de energized. This means that all Selective TV channels will be off the air from approximately 10:00AM until 3:00PM. Two other maintenance projects will take place during this same time period of time. Channel 42 will remain on the air as those signals come of the KSTP tower near Westport. While broadcast interruptions are inconvenient for all of us they are occasionally necessary to insure reliability of service into the future. Depending on your television you may have to rescan after the work on the tower is done. We will send out a notification when the outage is over. Thank-you for your patience, we will work as fast as we can.

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02/03/2026

CHANNEL 11.7 Confess TV
Channel 11.7 Confess TV has disappeared from the KARE lineup. We don't know why, or if it will be returning to the channels KARE provides. This is not an equipment issue with Selective TV. It may be and equipment issue at KARE, or they may have decided to drop the channel for one reason or another.

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01/31/2026

REELZ UPDATE
In an effort to make more efficient use of our transmitters REELZ Channel 1.3 has been moved to a different transmitter. You will have to rescsan to get REELZ back. It will still show up as channel 1.3. We have also added some religious programming. Channel 14.3 is SMB which stands for Saint Micheal Broadcasting. And Channel 14.4 is EWTN. When you rescan you will pick these channels up as well.

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01/22/2026

LALA Channel 20.5
The audio issue on channel 20.5 LALA is not something Selective TV can fix. LALA is owned and operated by Gardonville Telephone Cooperative. Selective TV can only broadcast what Gardonville sends to us. If you would like to voice your concerns contact Gardonville at 320-524-2211.

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12/31/2025

CHANNEL 4 WCCO
Both transmitters for Channel 4 WCCO are now operating. We ended up replacing the new transmitter with one of our old transmitters while the new one is being fixed. Thanks for your patience and Happy New Year from the Selective TV board of directors. If you are currently a member thank-you for support, if you are not a member please become a member in 2026. Annual membership is only $150.00 a year, it's the best deal going. Every penny of your membership dollars goes directly to cover operating expenses. You can send a check today to:
Selective TV
2308 S. Broadway Suite 2
Alexandria, MN 56308
or you can set up recurring $12.50 monthly contributions thru Pay Pal on the Selective TV website selectivetv.org or you can set it up thru your online banking. There are more upgrades and repairs that will need attention in 2026 and your membership dollars will make these necessary maintenance projects possible so that we can keep Selective TV as reliable as it can be into the future for all of us.

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12/26/2025

Channel 4 WCCO.
Selective TV broadcasts channel 4 on two different frequencies from two different transmitters. We do this because CBS is very important to most viewers and some viewers in parts of our viewing area have trouble receiving one or the other of the frequencies. Currently one of these two transmitters is off the air. If you receive two sets of channel 4 it would be the second set that is affected. Our engineer has been working on the problem for last several days. At this point we do not know if it is a setting within the transmitter that can be corrected or if a component in the transmitter has gone bad. Hopefully we will know more later today. In the meantime, if you have lost channel 4 you can do a rescan and hopefully pick up the other set of 4's that are coming from the other transmitter. Will keep you posted.

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12/07/2025

JINGLE BELLS
We have received a number of comments regarding the quality of the Jingle Bells Telethon on Selective TV channel 20.5. What viewers need to understand is that LALA is owned and operated by Gardonville Cooperative Telephone Association. The quality of the video and audio on this channel, 20.5, is controlled by Gardonville. Selective TV provides this over the air channel to Gardonville as a public service at no charge. Selective TV can only broadcast what it receives from Gardonville. If what is received by Selective TV from Gardonville is of low quality, what will go out over the air will be of low quality. If you would like to express your concern or lodge a complaint contact Gardonville as they are solely responsible for making any improvement to their over the air content.

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11/14/2025

TRANSMITTER ADJUSTMENTS
There may be brief interruptions today 11/14/25, on channels 4, 5, 9, and 11 as adjustments are made to the transmitters to correct brief signal losses you may have been seeing on these channels.

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