KTTM covers areas of south-central and southeastern South Dakota that receive a marginal to non-existent over-the-air signal from KTTW.
It then sold the KTTW and KTTM facilities and licenses to Radiant Life Ministries, a sister company of TCT.
After applying on June 1, 1984, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted Family Broadcasting Company, Inc., of Fairfield, Iowa, a construction permit to build a new commercial television station on channel 17 in Sioux Falls in November of that year.
It filled the weekday schedule with cartoons, home shopping shows, and fare from the Hit Video USA service and American Christian Television System.
[9] Independent also sold five translators of KTTW, at Aberdeen, Brookings, Pierre, Watertown, and Worthington, Minnesota, to Gray for $1.
[10][a] According to a local business publication, Independent Communications was exiting television altogether and intended to sell or donate KTTW "to a nonprofit entity in the near future".