KQCK

"KDEV" redirects here. For the low-power television station in Cheyenne, seeKDEV-LP.

KQCK

Cheyenne, Wyoming Denver, Colorado United States
City	Cheyenne, Wyoming
Channels	Digital:11 (VHF) Virtual:33
Branding	Rocky Mountain CTN
Programming
Affiliations	33.1:CTN 33.2:CTN Lifestyle 33.3:CTNi
Ownership
Owner	Christian Television Network (Christian Television Corporation, Inc.)
History
First air date	August 28, 1987(1987-08-28)
Former call signs	KKTU (1987–2005) KDEV (2005–2008)
Former channel number(s)	Analog:33 (UHF,1987–2008)
Former affiliations	NBC(1987–2003) The WB(secondary, 1995–1998) ABC(2003–2006, DT2 2008–2009) RTN(2006–2009) AMGTV (2009–?) @SportsTV (?–2010) VasalloVision(2010–2012) MundoFox(2012–2014)
Call signmeaning	EquityCheyenne (referring to former owner)
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	18287
ERP	16kW
HAAT	650 m (2,133 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	40°32′46.5″N105°11′51.9″W
Translator(s)	KQDK-CD33 (16UHF) Denver
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	rockymountainctn.com
Translator
KQDK-CD
Denver, Colorado
Channels	Digital:16 (UHF) Virtual:33
History
Founded	October 30, 1990(1990-10-30)
First air date	November 15, 1999(1999-11-15)(inAurora, Colorado;license moved to Denver in 2019)
Former call signs	K16CM (?–1999) K62FW (1999–2000) KDEV-LP (2000–2008) KQDK-CA (2008–2013)
Former channel number(s)	Analog:39 (UHF, until 2013) Digital:39 (UHF, 2013–2019)
Technical information
Facility ID	29455
Class	CD
ERP	2kW
HAAT	85.5 m (281 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	39°40′31.2″N104°52′24.1″W
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS

KQCK(channel 33) is areligious television stationlicensed toCheyenne, Wyoming,United States, serving themarketsof Cheyenne andDenver, Colorado,as anowned-and-operated stationof theChristian Television Network(CTN). The station's studios are located on Yates Street in the Denver suburb ofWestminster,and its transmitter is located on Horsetooth Mountain, just outsideFort Collins, Colorado.

KQDK-CD(channel 16) in Denver operates as alow-power,Class Adigitaltranslatorof KQCK; this station's transmitter is located near East Iliff Avenue and South Emporia Avenue (nearSH 83) in southeastern Denver.

History

KQCK was originally assigned the call letters KDBJ when the station was first licensed by theFederal Communications Commissionon August 14, 1985. The station first signed on the air on August 28, 1987, as KKTU. It originally operated as asatellite stationofNBCaffiliateKTWO-TV(channel 2) inCasper.As a result of KKTU's sign-on, Cheyenne became one of the lastmarketsin the United States to receive full-time affiliations from the three major broadcast networks. Prior to 1987, NBC programming had been relegated to off-hours clearances onKGWN-TV(channel 5), although the network's Denver affiliateKCNC-TV(channel 4, now a CBS owned-and-operated station) had been available in the area on cable television for decades. For a time starting in 1995, KKTU (along with KTWO) had a secondary affiliation withThe WB.

KQDK-CD was founded on October 30, 1990, as K16CM.

On September 1, 2003, the NBC affiliation in Casper moved from KTWO-TV toKCWY(channel 13). Although KTWO temporarily became anindependent stationat that time until it could acquire theABCaffiliation fromKFNB(channel 20), KKTU was able to immediately switch to ABC; it began branding itself as "ABC 8", in reference to its channel placement on Cheyenne area cable systems. This made Cheyenne one of the last markets in the country to have an ABC affiliate. Before the switch, cable systems piped in Denver's ABC affiliate—first viaKUSA-TV(channel 9), then fromKMGH-TV(channel 7) following athree-way network affiliation switchthat occurred on September 10, 1995. KMGH had actually operated a translator in Cheyenne since the late 1990s. On May 31, 2005, the station changed its call letters to KDEV, with plans on expanding its signal into the nearby Denver market. Indeed, it built its digital transmitter near Fort Collins, in the Denver market.

On May 31, 2006, theEquity Broadcasting Corporationsold KTWO-TV to Silverton Media. Equity retained ownership of KDEV, but entered into alocal marketing agreementwith Silverton to operate it as a satellite of KTWO. Equity later moved the ABC affiliation in Cheyenne to a low-powered repeater, KKTU-LP (channel 40), and switched KDEV's affiliation to its in-house classic television network, theRetro Television Network.On June 8, 2008, KDEV began simulcasting KKTU-LP's ABC programming over its analog signal (restoring the "ABC 8" branding), and on its seconddigital subchannel.Nine days later on June 17, 2008, the station changed its call sign to KQCK.

On January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity andLuken Communications(which had acquired RTN in June 2008) resulted in many RTN affiliates losing the network's programming.As a result, Luken moved RTN's operations to its headquarters inChattanooga, Tennessee,and dropped its programming from all Equity-owned affiliates, including KQCK and KQDK, effective immediately.RTN would eventually sign a deal to affiliate withSterling-basedKCDO-TV(channel 3) that May.KQCK subsequently switched to AMGTV, and then later to @SportsTV.

On April 16, 2009, KQCK and KQDK, along with two other television stations, were purchased at auction by Valley Bank for $7 million.Valley Bank, in turn, filed to sell the stations to an ownership group connected to Fusion Communications on September 9.ABC programming remained on KQCK-DT2 and channel 40, by then renamedKDEV-LP,until 2009, when KTWO-TV began simulcasting its programming over the seconddigital subchannelofKLWY(channel 27). KQCK and KDEV-LP eventually parted ways; the latter station eventually switched toMyNetworkTVand thenMe-TVbefore shutting down in 2012.

In January 2010, KQCK and KQDK joined theSpanish languagenetworkVasalloVision.KQCK was acquired by Casa Media Partners in April 2012.The station subsequently switched its affiliation toMundoFoxon August 13, 2012.Concurrent with the launch of KQDK's digital signal, on February 12, 2013, the station modified its call sign to KQDK-CD. In late 2014, KQCK and KQDK dropped MundoFox for theChristian Television Network.Casa Media Partners filed forChapter 11 bankruptcyon April 14, 2015.On January 9, 2017, CTN's parent company, the Christian Television Corporation, agreed to purchase KQCK outright; on April 12 of that year, it agreed to also acquire KQDK-CD.The sale was completed on June 30, 2017.

Sometime in 2019, KQDK-CD'scity of licensewas moved fromAurora, Colorado,to Denver.

Technical information

Subchannels

The stations' signals aremultiplexed:

Subchannels of KQCKand KQDK-CD

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
33.1	1080i	16:9	CTN	CTN
33.2	480i	4:3	LFST	CTN Lifestyle
33.3			CTNi	CTNi (Spanish)
33.4			BIZ-TV	Biz TV

Analog-to-digital conversion

KQCK shut down its analog signal, overUHFchannel 33, on June 27, 2008, as a result of an equipment failure that forced the station to shut down the analog signal; however, it continued to transmit its programming over its digital signal and on cable via a direct-to-studio transmission link. Due to the cost of repairing the analog facilities, and the proximity of the end of thedigital television transition,KQCK requested to permanently shut down its analog transmissions.The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 11, usingvirtual channel33.

KQDK-CD shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 39, on February 12, 2013. The stationflash-cutits digital signal into operation on its pre-transition UHF channel 39.

External links

• Official website