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KQCK

Coordinates:39°40′31.2″N104°52′24.1″W/ 39.675333°N 104.873361°W/39.675333; -104.873361
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KQCK
CityCheyenne, Wyoming
Channels
BrandingRocky Mountain CTN
Programming
Affiliations
  • 33.1:CTN
  • 33.2:CTN Lifestyle
  • 33.3:CTNi
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
August 28, 1987(37 years ago)(1987-08-28)
Former call signs
  • KKTU (1987–2005)
  • KDEV (2005–2008)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:33 (UHF,1987–2008)
Call signmeaning
EquityCheyenne (referring to former owner)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID18287
ERP16kW
HAAT650 m (2,133 ft)
Transmitter coordinates40°32′46.5″N105°11′51.9″W/ 40.546250°N 105.197750°W/40.546250; -105.197750
Translator(s)KQDK-CD33 (16UHF) Denver
Links
Public license information
Websiterockymountainctn.com
Translator
KQDK-CD
  • Denver, Colorado
Channels
History
FoundedOctober 30, 1990(1990-10-30)
First air date
November 15, 1999;24 years ago(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[2]
Facility ID29455
ClassCD
ERP2kW
HAAT85.5 m (281 ft)
Transmitter coordinates39°40′31.2″N104°52′24.1″W/ 39.675333°N 104.873361°W/39.675333; -104.873361
Links
Public license information

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

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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.[3]

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.[4]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.[5]RTN would eventually sign a deal to affiliate withSterling-basedKCDO-TV(channel 3) that May.[6]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.[7]Valley Bank, in turn, filed to sell the stations to an ownership group connected to Fusion Communications on September 9.[8]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.[9]KQCK was acquired by Casa Media Partners in April 2012.[10]The station subsequently switched its affiliation toMundoFoxon August 13, 2012.[11]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.[12][13]Casa Media Partners filed forChapter 11 bankruptcyon April 14, 2015.[14]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.[15]The sale was completed on June 30, 2017.[16]

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

Technical information

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Subchannels

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The stations' signals aremultiplexed:

Subchannels of KQCK[17]and KQDK-CD[18]
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

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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.[19]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.

References

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  1. ^"Facility Technical Data for KQCK".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^"Facility Technical Data for KQDK-CD".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ^Smith, Doug (November 1995)."TV News"(PDF).VHF-UHF Digest.pp. 11, 13.RetrievedApril 18,2015.
  4. ^What’s Wrong with MyTV?ArchivedJanuary 13, 2009, at theWayback Machine
  5. ^TV Newsday: "Financial Dispute Disrupts RTN Diginet", 1/5/2009.
  6. ^"KCDO Denver Adding Retro TV Network".TVnewsday.May 7, 2009.RetrievedJune 21,2009.
  7. ^"Equity Stations Get 21 Million in Auction".Broadcasting & Cable.April 17, 2009.RetrievedSeptember 29,2009.
  8. ^"Equity Media props spin again".Television Business Report.September 9, 2009. Archived fromthe originalon September 26, 2009.RetrievedSeptember 11,2009.
  9. ^"'VasalloVision Network' in Las Vegas, Nevada "(Press release). VasalloVision Television Network. January 14, 2010.RetrievedFebruary 6,2010.
  10. ^"Denver TV, Cheyenne LP Go For $9 Million".TVNewsCheck.April 11, 2012.RetrievedAugust 9,2012.
  11. ^Ostrow, Joanne (August 6, 2012)."Mundo FOX coming to Denver on Channel 33".Denver Post.RetrievedAugust 9,2012.
  12. ^"FCC 398 Children's Television Programming Report".KidVid Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.October 6, 2014.RetrievedApril 18,2015.
  13. ^"FCC 398 Children's Television Programming Report".KidVid Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.January 9, 2015.RetrievedApril 18,2015.
  14. ^Bandell, Brian (April 17, 2015)."Miami-based owner of radio and TV stations files Chapter 11 with $13M in debt".South Florida Business Journal.RetrievedApril 18,2015.
  15. ^"Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License".CDBS Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.January 19, 2017.RetrievedFebruary 3,2017.
  16. ^"Consummation Notice".CDBS Public Access.Federal Communications Commission.June 30, 2017.RetrievedDecember 24,2017.
  17. ^"Digital TV Market Listing for KQCK".RabbitEars.info.RetrievedMay 6,2024.
  18. ^"Digital TV Market Listing for KQDK-CD".RabbitEars.info.RetrievedMay 6,2024.
  19. ^"Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA".FCC CDBS database.June 27, 2008.RetrievedAugust 16,2008.
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