KZCO-LD
Translator of KMGH-DT2, Denver, Colorado
  • Denver, Colorado
  • United States
Channels
Brandingsee KMGH-TV
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KMGH-TV
History
Founded2002[specify]
First air date
2003 (21 years ago) (2003)[specify]
Last air date
August 11, 2014 (2014-08-11) (as KZCO-LP)
Former call signs
KCIN-LP (2003–2005)
KZCO-LP (2005–2014)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 27 (UHF, 2003–2014)
  • Digital: 17 (UHF, 2013–2020)
Call sign meaning
Azteca América Colorado (former affiliation)
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID168782
ClassLD
ERP15 kW
HAAT231.1 m (758 ft)
Transmitter coordinates39°43′45.9″N 105°14′9.9″W / 39.729417°N 105.236083°W / 39.729417; -105.236083
Links
Public license information
LMS
Websitewww.thedenverchannel.com

KZCO-LD is a low-power dual Ion Mystery/Laff owned-and-operated television station in Denver, Colorado, United States. It rebroadcasts four secondary digital subchannels of ABC affiliate KMGH-TV (channel 7). Like KMGH-TV and KCDO-TV (channel 3), as well as KSBS-CD (channel 10), KZCO-LD is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. KZCO-LD shares a channel with KLPD-LD (channel 28), owned by Syncom Media Group, and transmits from atop Lookout Mountain, near Golden; its parent station maintains studios on East Speer Boulevard in Denver's Congress Park neighborhood.

History

The license history for KZCO-LD dates back to 1971, when it was authorized in Estes Park, Colorado, as K65AA. This was one of five UHF translators authorized to Translator TV, Inc., to rebroadcast Denver stations.[3] In 2003, it moved to channel 27 as K27GF, soon changed to KCIN-LP.

In 2005, the McGraw-Hill Company, owner of KMGH-TV, acquired KZCO-LP and used it as one of several transmitters for a regional Azteca América service, broadcast from transmitters in Denver (KZCO-LP), Windsor for Fort Collins and Greeley (KZFC-LD), and Colorado Springs (KZCS-LD).[4] On October 3, 2011, McGraw-Hill announced that it would exit from broadcasting and sell KMGH-TV, KZCO-LP and its other television stations to the E. W. Scripps Company.[5] The sale was completed on December 30, 2011.[6]

In 2013, KZCO signed on a digital signal on UHF channel 17 to serve as a fill-in translator of KMGH-TV, which has experienced issues with signal reception in portions of the Denver market since the digital television transition on June 12, 2009, due to that station operating its digital signal on VHF channel 7, which is prone to signal interference.

On August 11, 2014, the FCC canceled the KZCO-LP license, being replaced by KZCO-LD.[7][8]

In early 2021, the simulcast of KMGH-TV's main channel moved to a subchannel of KSBS-CD, a translator of KCDO-TV.

Subchannels

Scripps uses major channels 3 and 7, as extensions and simulcasts of KMGH-TV. KMGH-TV also broadcasts the 3.3 and 3.4 subchannels. Syncom's KLPD-LD uses major channel 28.

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KLPD-LD (28.x) and KZCO-LD (3.x, 7.x)[9]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
3.3 480i 16:9 Newsnet QVC2 (KMGH-TV)
3.4 Shop-LC Shop LC (KMGH-TV)
7.2 MYS Ion Mystery (KMGH-TV)
7.3 24/7 Laff (KMGH-TV)
28.1 720p 16:9 MTN TV MTN-TV (Outside TV)
28.2 480i 16:9 Movies Movies!
28.3 Decades HSN2
  Simulcast of subchannels of another station

References

  1. ^ "KLPD-LD Purpose of Amendment". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. January 9, 2019. Retrieved January 30, 2019.
  2. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KZCO-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ^ "Memorandum Opinion and Order, FCC 71-1030". FCC Reports, Second Series. Federal Communications Commission. October 6, 1971. pp. 269–272.
  4. ^ Kreck, Dick (March 18, 2005). "Channel 7 to launch Latino station". The Denver Post. p. FF02.
  5. ^ "McGraw-Hill Sells TV Group To Scripps". TVNewsCheck. October 3, 2011. Retrieved October 3, 2011.
  6. ^ "Scripps completes McGraw-Hill Stations Buy". TVNewsCheck. December 30, 2011. Retrieved December 31, 2011.
  7. ^ FCC status for KZCO-LP
  8. ^ http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=51781[bare URL PDF]
  9. ^ "TV Query for KZCO and KLPD". RabbitEars.

External links

Broadcast television in Northern Colorado, including Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins and Greeley
Broadcast television stations by affiliation in the state of Colorado
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