KCDO

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KCDO
city =
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding =
analog = 3 (VHF)
digital = 23 (UHF)
subchannels =
other_chs =
affiliations = America One
network =
founded = December 28, 1963
location = Sterling, Colorado
callsign_meaning = ColoraDO
former_callsigns = KTVS (1963-2002)
KUPN (2002-2008)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Newsweb Corporation
licensee = Channel 20 TV Company
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = CBS (1963-1999)
UPN (1999-2006)
effective_radiated_power = 60.3 kW (analog)
599 kW (digital)
HAAT = 232 m (analog)
204 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?list=0&facid=63158 63158]
coordinates = coord|40|34|56.5|N|103|1|57.9|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KCDO
homepage =

KCDO is a full-service television station in Sterling, Colorado, broadcasting locally in analog on VHF channel 3, with a construction permit to broadcast in digital on UHF channel 23 as an America One affiliate. First going to air on December 28 1963, the station is owned by Newsweb Corporation, operating under the name Channel 20 TV Company, or CTTC.

History

The original channel 3 was assigned to Pueblo, Colorado with the call sign KDZA-TV, which operated in 1955. The station was a DuMont affiliate, co-owned with KDZA-AM 1230 (now KKPC), and getting its signal from Denver via microwave, employing a relay tranmitter located in Black Forest. After only a few months, KDZA's Black Forest relay transmitter was destroyed in a wind storm, forcing the station to shut down due to lack of resources to replace the transmitter or to provide local programming. Star-Chieftain Publishing Corporation, owner of rival KCSJ-TV channel 5 (now KOAA-TV), bought the license and moved it to Sterling. [cite web |url=http://www.newsblab.com/newsworthy_may03.htm |title=Once upon a time... there was KDZA |work=News Blab |date=2003-05-03 |accessdate=2008-08-27] A short time later, the station was sold to the McCracken family, owners of CBS affiliate KFBC-TV channel 5 (now KGWN-TV) in Cheyenne, Wyoming, which returned channel 3 to the air in late 1963 as KTVS, a satellite of KFBC.

In September 1999, Newsweb Corporation, operating under the name Channel 20 TV Company (CTTC), acquired KTVS from Benedek Broadcasting, then-owners of KGWN, with the intent of making KTVS a satellite of KTVD. It became one of very few U.S. satellite television stations which was older than its primary station, which signed on in 1988. On January 8 2002, CTTC changed the station's call sign to KUPN, to reflect the UPN affiliation held by the primary station at the time.cite web |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=63158 |title=Call Sign History |work=FCC CDBS database |accessdate=2008-08-27] CTTC sold KTVD to Gannett in June 2006, but retained ownership of KUPN, making it an America One affiliate.

On July 21 2008, CTTC once again changed the station's call sign to KCDO. To increase its viewer audience, the station has applied to build a new transmitter southeast of Fort Morgan, Colorado. The new location and increased transmitter power will add most of the Denver metro area as well as Fort Collins, Greeley, Longmont and Loveland to the station's service area. [cite web |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101258176&formid=301&fac_num=63158 |title=Public Interest Statement |pages=(Attachment 1) |work=FCC CDBS database |date=2008-06-02 |accessdate=2008-10-09]

References

External links

* [http://www.americaone.com/home.htm Official America One website]
* [http://www.mcsittel.com/html/photos3.html Mcsittel.com: screengrabs from 1983-1992 (including the old KTVS), taken from Kingsport, TN]
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