KREZ-TV

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    KREZ-TV
    Satellite of KRQE,
    Albuquerque–Santa Fe, New Mexico
    KREZ-TV News 6 logo.png
    CityDurango, Colorado
    Channels
    BrandingKREZ News 6
    Programming
    Affiliations
    Ownership
    Owner
    History
    First air date
    		September 15, 1963
    (59 years ago)     (1963-09-15)
    Former call signs
    		KFJT-TV (CP, 1962–1963)[1]
    KJFL-TV (1963–1964)
    Former channel number(s)
    		Analog:
    6 (VHF, 1963–2009)
    Technical information
    Licensing authority
    		FCC
    Facility ID48589
    ERP46 kW
    HAAT90.4 m (297 ft)
    Transmitter coordinates37°15′46″N 107°54′0.2″W / 37.26278°N 107.900056°W / 37.26278; -107.900056 (KREZ-TV)
    Translator(s)See below
    Links
    Public license information
    Websitewww.krqe.com

    KREZ-TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Durango, Colorado, United States, affiliated with CBS and Fox. It is a satellite of Albuquerque, New Mexico–based KRQE (channel 13), which is owned by Nexstar Media Group. KREZ-TV's offices are located on Turner Drive in Durango, and its transmitter is located atop Smelter Mountain; its parent station maintains studios on Broadcast Plaza in Albuquerque.

    KBIM-TV (channel 10) in Roswell, New Mexico, also serves as a satellite of KRQE. These satellite operations provide additional news bureaus for KRQE and sell advertising time to local sponsors.

    History[edit]

    The station began operations on September 15, 1963, as KJFL-TV, a free-standing local independent station owned by Jeter Telecasting;[2] it went off the air after its facilities were destroyed in a February 1964 fire,[3] and the station was sold, rebuilt and returned to the air on September 9, 1965, as KREZ-TV, a satellite of CBS affiliate KREX-TV (channel 5) in Grand Junction, Colorado.[4] KREZ operated as such for nearly 30 years (with many attempts at regional news along the way) before being sold to Davenport, Iowa-based Lee Enterprises and becoming a KRQE satellite in 1995.[5]

    In 1998, Lee Enterprises rebranded the combination of KRQE, KREZ-TV, and KBIM-TV as "CBS Southwest" and revamped the Durango and Roswell stations' news services to produce inserts into KRQE's early evening newscasts.[6] Two years later, Lee would exit broadcasting and sell KRQE, KREZ-TV, KBIM-TV, and most of its other television properties to Emmis Communications; in 2005, Emmis, in its own exit from television, sold its New Mexico outlets to LIN TV Corporation.

    A deal to sell KREZ to Native American Broadcasting, LLC was reached in April 2011;[7] upon the sale's completion, KREZ was to become a full-scale independent station (with plans for extensive local programming), and change its call letters to KSWZ-TV.[8] However, the sale was never finalized, and KREZ remains a KRQE satellite.

    On March 21, 2014, it was announced that Media General would acquire LIN.[9] The merger was completed on December 19.[10] Just over a year later, on January 27, 2016, it was announced that the Nexstar Broadcasting Group would buy Media General for $4.6 billion. After selling then-Fox affiliate KASA-TV to Ramar Communications, KRQE and its satellites became part of "Nexstar Media Group."[11] The sale was completed on January 17, 2017, reuniting KREZ with former parent station KREX.[12]

    Technical information[edit]

    Subchannels[edit]

    The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

    Channel Video Aspect Short name Programming[13]
    6.1 1080i 16:9 KREZ-HD Main KREZ-TV programming / CBS
    6.2 720p FoxNM KREZ-DT2 / Fox

    Analog-to-digital conversion[edit]

    KREZ-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 6, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 15,[14] using PSIP to display KREZ-TV's virtual channel as 6 on digital television receivers.

    Translators[edit]

    City of license Callsign Channel ERP HAAT Facility ID Transmitter coordinates Owner
    Bayfield
    Ignacio    		 K34QD-D 34 0.28 kW 507 m (1,663 ft) 48595 37°11′3″N 107°29′8.1″W / 37.18417°N 107.485583°W / 37.18417; -107.485583 (K34QD-D) Nexstar Media Group
    Dulce K22GE-D 22 0.197 kW 487 m (1,598 ft) 125926 36°59′0″N 106°58′14.1″W / 36.98333°N 106.970583°W / 36.98333; -106.970583 (K22GE-D) Ramar Communications, Inc.
    Durango K08ET-D 8 1.75 kW 204 m (669 ft) 36361 37°15′46″N 107°54′0.24″W / 37.26278°N 107.9000667°W / 37.26278; -107.9000667 (K08ET-D) City of Durango
    Durango
    Hermosa    		 K31FV-D 31 0.399 kW 382 m (1,253 ft) 48593 37°20′18″N 107°49′23.2″W / 37.33833°N 107.823111°W / 37.33833; -107.823111 (K31FV-D) Nexstar Media Group
    Hesperus K13XX-D 13 0.006 kW 181 m (594 ft) 130894 37°17′58″N 108°1′35.2″W / 37.29944°N 108.026444°W / 37.29944; -108.026444 (K13XX-D) Southwest Colorado TV Translator Association
    Pagosa Springs K23OR-D 23 0.444 kW 416 m (1,365 ft) 51294 37°11′32″N 107°5′59.1″W / 37.19222°N 107.099750°W / 37.19222; -107.099750 (K23OR-D) Nexstar Media Group
    Farmington, NM K29HR-D 29 4.4 kW 204 m (669 ft) 167895 36°40′16″N 108°13′59.2″W / 36.67111°N 108.233111°W / 36.67111; -108.233111 (K29HR-D)

    References[edit]

    1. ^ "FCC History Cards for KREZ-TV".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
    2. ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1964 (PDF). 1964. p. A-10. Retrieved May 15, 2011.[permanent dead link]
    3. ^ "And the West is History". February 18, 2014. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
    4. ^ "New TV stations" (PDF). Broadcasting. September 20, 1965. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
    5. ^ "Application Search Details". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. December 9, 2021. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
    6. ^ "CBS Southwest". Albuquerque Journal. Albuquerque, New Mexico. August 9, 1998. p. 52. Retrieved December 7, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
    7. ^ "LIN sends an Albuquerque TV satellite out of its orbit". Television Business Report. April 22, 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
    8. ^ "Local company agrees to buy KREZ-TV". The Durango Herald. May 8, 2011. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
    9. ^ Sruthi Ramakrishnan (March 21, 2014). "Media General to buy LIN Media for $1.6 billion". Reuters. Retrieved March 21, 2014.
    10. ^ Media General Completes Merger With LIN Media Archived December 19, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Press Release, Media General, Retrieved December 19, 2014
    11. ^ "Nexstar Broadcasting Group Enters into Definitive Agreement to Acquire Media General for $4.6 Billion in Accretive Cash and Stock Transaction". Archived from the original on January 30, 2016. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
    12. ^ Nexstar Broadcasting Group Completes Acquisition of Media General Creating Nexstar Media Group, The Nation’s Second Largest Television Broadcaster Nexstar Media Group, January 17, 2017. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
    13. ^ "RabbitEars TV Query for KREZ". Retrieved December 5, 2021.
    14. ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.

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