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KREZ-TV
CityDurango, Colorado
Channels
BrandingKREZ News 6
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
September 15, 1963
(60 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[2]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID48589
ERP46kW
HAAT90.4 m (297 ft)
Transmitter coordinates37°15′46″N107°54′0.2″W/ 37.26278°N 107.900056°W/37.26278; -107.900056(KREZ-TV)
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Links
Public license information
Websitewww.krqe

KREZ-TV(channel 6) is atelevision stationlicensed toDurango, Colorado,United States, affiliated withCBSandFox.It is asatelliteofAlbuquerque, New Mexico–basedKRQE(channel 13), which is owned byNexstar Media Group.KREZ-TV's offices are located on Turner Drive in Durango, and its transmitter is located atopSmelter Mountain;its parent station maintains studios on Broadcast Plaza in Albuquerque.

KBIM-TV(channel 10) inRoswell, New Mexico,also serves as a satellite of KRQE. These satellite operations provide additionalnews bureausfor KRQE and selladvertisingtime to localsponsors.

History[edit]

The station began operations on September 15, 1963, as KJFL-TV, a free-standing localindependent stationowned by Jeter Telecasting;[3]it went off the air after its facilities were destroyed in a February 1964 fire,[4]and the station was sold, rebuilt and returned to the air on September 9, 1965, as KREZ-TV, a satellite of CBS affiliateKREX-TV(channel 5) inGrand Junction, Colorado.[5]KREZ operated as such for nearly 30 years (with many attempts at regional news along the way) before being sold toDavenport, Iowa-basedLee Enterprisesand becoming a KRQE satellite in 1995.[6]

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.[7]Two years later, Lee would exit broadcasting and sell KRQE, KREZ-TV, KBIM-TV, and most of its other television properties toEmmis Communications;in 2005, Emmis, in its own exit from television, sold its New Mexico outlets toLIN TV Corporation.

A deal to sell KREZ to Native American Broadcasting, LLC was reached in April 2011;[8]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.[9]However, the sale was never finalized, and KREZ remains a KRQE satellite.

On March 21, 2014, it was announced thatMedia Generalwould acquire LIN.[10]The merger was completed on December 19.[11]Just over a year later, on January 27, 2016, it was announced that theNexstar Broadcasting Groupwould buy Media General for $4.6 billion. After selling then-Fox affiliateKASA-TVto Ramar Communications, KRQE and its satellites became part of "Nexstar Media Group."[12]The sale was completed on January 17, 2017, reuniting KREZ with former parent station KREX.[13]

Technical information[edit]

Subchannels[edit]

The station's signal ismultiplexed:

Subchannels of KREZ-TV[14]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
6.1 1080i 16:9 KREZ-HD CBS
6.2 720p FoxNM Fox

Analog-to-digital conversion[edit]

KREZ-TV shut down its analog signal, overVHFchannel 6, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcastsunder federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transitionUHFchannel 15,[15]usingvirtual channel6.

Translators[edit]

References[edit]

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