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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.
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| City | Durango, Colorado |
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| Branding | KREZ News 6 |
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| History | |
First air date | September 15, 1963 |
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Former channel number(s) | Analog: 6 (VHF, 1963–2009) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 48589 |
| ERP | 46 kW |
| HAAT | 90.4 m (297 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°15′46″N 107°54′0.2″W / 37.26278°N 107.900056°W |
| Translator(s) | see § Translators |
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| Website | www |
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
editThe station began operations on September 15, 1963, as KJFL-TV, a free-standing local independent station owned 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 affiliate KREX-TV (channel 5) in Grand Junction, Colorado.[5] 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.[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 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;[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 that Media General would acquire LIN.[10] The merger was completed on December 19.[11] 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."[12] The sale was completed on January 17, 2017, reuniting KREZ with former parent station KREX.[13]
Technical information
editSubchannels
editThe station's signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 6.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KREZ-HD | CBS |
| 6.2 | 720p | FoxNM | Fox |
Analog-to-digital conversion
editKREZ-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 6, on June 12, 2009, the official date on 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,[15] using virtual channel 6.
Translators
editReferences
edit- ^ "FCC History Cards for KREZ-TV".
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KREZ-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Broadcasting Yearbook 1964 (PDF). 1964. p. A-10.
- ^ "And the West is History". Durango Herald. February 18, 2014. Retrieved September 2, 2020.
- ^ "New TV stations" (PDF). Broadcasting. September 20, 1965. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
- ^ "Application Search Details". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. December 9, 2021. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
- ^ "CBS Southwest". Albuquerque Journal. Albuquerque, New Mexico. August 9, 1998. p. 52. Retrieved December 7, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "LIN sends an Albuquerque TV satellite out of its orbit". Television Business Report. April 22, 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
- ^ "Local company agrees to buy KREZ-TV". The Durango Herald. May 8, 2011. Retrieved May 15, 2011.
- ^ Ramakrishnan, Sruthi (March 21, 2014). "Media General to buy LIN Media for $1.6 billion". Reuters. Retrieved March 21, 2014.
- ^ Media General Completes Merger With LIN Media Archived December 19, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Press Release, Media General, Retrieved December 19, 2014
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "RabbitEars TV Query for KREZ". Retrieved December 5, 2021.
- ^ "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.