KCSG

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KCSG
city =
station_
station_slogan = Your TV - Your Way
station_branding = KCSG Television
My KCSG TV
analog = 4 (VHF)
digital = 14 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = America One
MyNetwork TV
network =
founded =
airdate = April 23, 1990
location = Cedar City/St. George, Utah
callsign_meaning = Cedar City/Saint George
former_callsigns = KCCZ (1990-1993)
KSGI-TV (1993-1998)
KXIV (1998)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Southwest Media, LLC
licensee =
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = Pax TV (2000-2005)
effective_radiated_power = 0.98 kW (analog)
1000 kW (digital)
HAAT = 318.2 m (analog)
819 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 59494
coordinates = coord|37|38|22|N|113|1|59|W|type:landmark_scale:2000 (analog)
coord|37|32|29.4|N|113|4|7.5|W|type:landmark_scale:2000 (digital)
homepage = [http://www.kcsg.com/ www.kcsg.com]
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KCSG is a full-service television station in Cedar City/Saint George, Utah, broadcasting locally in analog on VHF channel 4 and in digital on UHF channel 14 as the affiliate of MyNetworkTV and America One for the state of Utah, and via cable for the Salt Lake City area to the north. Founded June 11 1984, the station began broadcasting in May 1990 and was licensed June 21 1990. It is owned by Southwest Media LLC, and although the station is licensed to Cedar City, its office and studios are based in St. George. KCSG serves downtown St. George with a low-power analog signal on VHF channel 4 via booster station KCSG1, has a network of translators in southwestern Utah, and can be seen throughout the state through coverage on cable and satellite television.cite web |url=http://www.kcsg.com/about |title=About Us |work=KCSG.com |accessdate=2007-09-19]

History

KCSG began as station KCCZ with a construction permit issued on June 11 1984 to Michael Glenn Golden. After several extensions and replacements of expired permits, and transfer of the permit to Liberty Broadcasting Company, KCCZ came on the air in May 1990 as an independent station and was licensed by the FCC on June 21 1990. The station would be short-lived. Financial difficulties doomed KCCZ and it ceased broadcasting in November 1992. Liberty Broadcasting filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy on December 17 1992, but the filing had to be converted to Chapter 7 Bankruptcy on June 22 1993. On October 20, Seagull Communications Company filed an application to acquire the station out of bankruptcy and on November 12, changed its call letters to KSGI-TV. The acquisition was approved by the FCC and consummated February 1 1994. Seagull Communications returned the station to air the same day, still broadcasting as an independent. [cite web |url=http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/1997/da972559.txt |title=FCC Memorandum Opinion and Order |publisher=FCC CDBS database |date=1997-12-05 |accessdate=2007-09-19]

Almost immediately, the new owners applied to the FCC to build booster stations serving downtown St. George, Utah and Beaver Dam, Arizona/Mesquite, Nevada, communities cut off from the signal by mountainous terrain. The FCC granted the construction permit for the St. George booster, KSGI1 (now KCSG1), on February 28 1995, but did not grant a permit for the Beaver Dam booster, KSGI2 (now KCSG2), until January 1998. That station was never built, but the construction permit remains active.

In 1997, Seagull Communications sold KSGI-TV to Bonneville Holding Company, a broadcasting company wholly owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The sale was approved by the FCC on December 10 1997 and was consummated on April 27 1998. On February 16 1998, the station changed its call letters to KXIV, likely in anticipation of its DTV channel assignment on UHF channel 14, but the FCC adopted the virtual channel standard, whereby digital stations would continue to identify by their analog channel assignment, and on May 15 1998, the station again changed call letters, this time to KCSG. The station became an affiliate of PAX TV, a network formed to bring family-friendly entertainment to the airwaves. In August 2002, the station was sold once again, this time to Broadcast West, a St. George-based partnership of Daniel Matheson and local auto dealer Stephen Wade. The new owners elected to continue affiliation with PAX and to maintain an association with Bonneville-owned KSL-TV.

Broadcast West began to make changes to KCSG that would establish its identity as a Southern Utah television station. In 2003, they began a local news operation, the first in the region. Before, the only news available to residents of Cedar City and St. George was from the Salt Lake City-area stations. In June 2005, with PAX TV heading in a different direction, KCSG switched affiliation to America One, continuing to offer family-focused programming. The station made news in September 2005, when it began offering its news programs in Spanish, as well as in English, attempting to serve the region's growing Hispanic population. [cite web |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20050921/ai_n15361707 |title=St. George station's news popular in English, Spanish |author=Perkins, Nancy |work=Deseret Morning News |date=2005-09-21 |accessdate=2007-09-19] The Broadcast West partnership was dissolved on October 18 2005, and a new company, Southwest Media, owned by Stephen Wade, took control of the station. [cite web |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getattachment_exh.cgi?exhibit_id=423916 |title=License Renewal: Public Inspection File attachment |publisher=FCC CDBS database |date=2006-05-31 |accessdate=2007-09-19]

Programming

KCSG is the first station in southern Utah to have local news. Until KCSG started their news department, St. George residents got their local news from stations in Salt Lake City. Their news operation began in 2003, with the hiring of Tamara Lee, and Todd Morril. News gathering operations began with a 5-minute newscast, but have expanded to a half-hour newscast at 5:30PM, a full hour at 9PM, and a 5-minute radio broadcast at the top of the hour. As of August 13th 2007, KCSG incorporated a one hour (7A-8A) morning news show featuring weaather anchor Jared Larson and news anchor Sadie Hughes.

Currently from 3:30-9pm they have a classic TV block featuring shows such as Dennis the Menace, The Facts of Life, Who's the Boss?, Silver Spoons, and Charlie's Angels, among others.

On August 18, 2008, KCSG replaced Salt Lake City's KJZZ-TV as Utah's MyNetworkTV affiliate; the station will use the moniker My KCSG TV for its MyNetworkTV programming. KCSG is available in the immediate Salt Lake City area via cable coverage. [cite web |url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6580119.html?rssid=193 |title=KCSG Salt Lake City Grabs MNT Affiliation |work=Broadcasting & Cable |author=Malone, Michael |date=2008-07-21 |accessdate=2008-07-22]

On-air personalities

Current on-air personalities

*Jared Larson - Weekday Weather Anchor
*Trina Cobbley - Weekday 5:30 P.M. Anchor
*Pete Sumulong - Weekend Sports Anchor
*Alana Brophy - Weekday 9:00 P.M. Anchor
*Jason Carter - Weekday Sports Anchor
*Jessica Gail - Reporter/Weekend Anchor
*Ryan Hawks - Weekend Weather Anchor/Weekday Reporter
*Ian Cull - Reporter/Sports Anchor
*Chance Walser - Weekday 9:00 P.M. Anchor

Former on-air personalities

*Sadie Hughes - Anchor
*Cameron Chow - Weekday 9 PM Anchor
*Caroline Christiansen -Weekday 9 PM Anchor
*P.J. Javaheri - Weather
*Dan Matheson; General Manager and Co-host of So Utah
*Ann Staples; Host of So Utah
*Tamara Lee; First Anchor/Managing Editor; now a reporter at KTNV in Las Vegas.
*Adam Stiles; First Meteorologist; now working at KION in Salinas, California.
*Katie Christensen; Reporter; now working at Sutherland Institute
*Courtney Orton; Anchor/Reporter; now working as a Reporter at KSL.
*Aapree Hancey; Reporter; now working as Topical Producer at KUTV.
*Shara Park; Sports Anchor/Reporter; now working as a Reporter at KSL in Salt Lake City, Utah.
*Mark Haas; Sports Anchor/Reporter; now working for USC Sports Wesite Dept.
*Russell Wilde: Reporter; now working at News 8 Austin.
*Todd Morrill: First News Director/Reporter; now working at WTXL Tallahassee, Florida.
*Nate Dowdle: First Sports Director/Anchor;
*Andi Jensen; Host of So Utah

Translators

KCSG extends its over-the-air coverage throughout southwestern Utah through a network of one booster station and more than 15 analog and digital translator stations:

* [http://www.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/video/tvq?call=KCSG1 KCSG1] St. George
* [http://www.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/video/tvq?call=K46IB K46IB] Beaver
* [http://www.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/video/tvq?call=K12PN K12PN] Cedar City Canyon
* [http://www.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/video/tvq?call=K29FQ K29FQ] Delta
* [http://www.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/video/tvq?call=K50JW-D K50JW-D] Delta, Oak City, etc.
* [http://www.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/video/tvq?call=K32GE K32GE] Fillmore
* [http://www.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/video/tvq?call=K57JU-D K57JU-D] Fillmore
* [http://www.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/video/tvq?call=K44GP K44GP] Garrison
* [http://www.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/video/tvq?call=K51JT-D K51JT-D] Garrison
* [http://www.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/video/tvq?call=K38HK K38HK] Leamington
* [http://www.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/video/tvq?call=K57JS-D K57JS-D] Leamington
* [http://www.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/video/tvq?call=K49IF K49IF] New Castle, etc.
* [http://www.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/video/tvq?call=K19GS-D K19GS-D] Rural Beaver County, etc.
* [http://www.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/video/tvq?call=K33FW K33FW] Rural Beaver County, etc.
* [http://www.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/video/tvq?call=K16DS K16DS] St. George
* [http://www.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/video/tvq?call=K35IP-D K35IP-D] Scipio
* [http://www.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/video/tvq?call=K43JN K43JN] Scipio

Logos

External links

* [http://www.kcsg.com/ Station website]
*TVQ|KCSG
*BIA|KCSG|TV|TV

References