Daystar Television Network

===FCC investigation===
In 2003, Daystar was investigated by the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC), centering on allegations that Daystar sold air time on its [[non-commercial educational]] stations to for-profit groups. The investigation complicated Daystar's [[United States dollar|US$]]21.5 million bid for [[KOCE-TV]], a [[PBS]] station in [[Huntington Beach, California]] which at the time mainly served the suburban area of [[Orange County, California|Orange County]],<ref>{{cite news|author=Arellano, Gustavo |url=http://www.ocweekly.com/news/news/jesus-meet-michael-powell/20226/ |title=Jesus, Meet Michael Powell |newspaper=OC Weekly |date=February 26, 2004 |access-date=May 22, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012140443/http://www.ocweekly.com/news/news/jesus-meet-michael-powell/20226/ |archive-date=October 12, 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Castillo, Andrew |url=http://www.themountaineeronline.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&ustory_id=c5fa3ef9-09ab-40f3-ba73-2b6168797309 |title=Governor stops sale of KOCE-TV station |publisher=Mt. San Antonio College Mountaineer |date=October 23, 2006 |access-date=May 22, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928150723/http://www.themountaineeronline.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&ustory_id=c5fa3ef9-09ab-40f3-ba73-2b6168797309 |archive-date=September 28, 2007 }}</ref> and other license renewals. After a lengthy process, Daystar and KOCE-TV eventually came to an agreement where Daystar leased a [[digital subchannel]] of KOCE, and broadcast network programming over KOCE-DT3 into Orange County and the [[Los Angeles]] area. This agreement has remained in place into the early 2020s, with KOCE since becoming the flagship Los Angeles area member station of PBS in January 2011, replacing [[KCET]] after that station defected from the network (the groups eventually merged, with KCET re-joining PBS secondarily).

On December 22, 2008, the FCC and Daystar entered into an agreement whereby Daystar would continue to utilize a multi-level review process to make sure its programming would not breach the [[underwriting spot]] guidelines applied by the FCC to non-commercial television stations, and would make additional [[good faith]] efforts to review all content received from external providers and remove direct [[Call to action (marketing)|calls for action]] before broadcasting the programming on Daystar's non-commercial educational stations. Daystar also agreed to pay a fine of $17,500 for past non-compliance.<ref>[https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20160707045413/https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA%2D08%2D2738A2.txt Consent Decree between FCC and Daystar.] Retrieved on December 23, 2008.</ref>

On March 13, 2012, the FCC questioned whether Daystar, through associated nonprofit companies, was qualified to purchase former PBS outlets KWBU-TV in [[Waco, Texas]] (which was renamed [[KDYW]]) and WMFE-TV in [[Orlando, Florida]].<ref name=fcc-dealquestioned>{{cite web|title=Re: Form 314 Application for Consent to Assignment of License of…|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=32621|format=PDF|date=March 13, 2012|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|access-date=March 17, 2012|archive-date=April 8, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130408133512/http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=32621|url-status=dead}}</ref> The WMFE deal was canceled two days later; the station was later resold and returned to PBS as [[WUCF-TV]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2012/08/fcc-gives-ucf-the-license-for-channel-24.html|title=FCC grants UCF the license for Channel 24|last=Boedecker|first=Hal|date=August 15, 2012|work=[[Orlando Sentinel]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120922163516/http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2012/08/fcc-gives-ucf-the-license-for-channel-24.html|archive-date=September 22, 2012}}</ref> On September 7, 2012, KDYW's licensee, the Brazos Valley Broadcasting Foundation, informed the FCC that it would request the dismissal of the license assignment application and the cancellation of the KDYW license, with the cancellation becoming final on September 27.<ref name=fcc-kdywgone>{{cite web|last=Harding|first=Kevin R.|title=In Re: BLCDT-20060622AAS…|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=36222|format=PDF|date=September 27, 2012|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=September 28, 2012|archive-date=April 8, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130408111250/http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=36222|url-status=dead}}</ref>