KSCZ-LP

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KSCZ-LP
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding =
analog = 42 (UHF)
digital = 20 (UHF) "(CP)"
other_chs =
affiliations = Silent
founded = November 20,1981
location = Greenfield, California
owner = Venture Technologies Group, LLC
licensee =
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns = K42DT (until 2005)
former_affiliations = Independent (2002-2007)
TBN (1981-2002) "(unverified, assumed)"
effective_radiated_power = 70 kW
HAAT = 643 m
class = TX
facility_id = 68091
homepage =

KSCZ-LP was a low power broadcast television station in San Benito County, California that broadcast on analog channel 42. The station was operated by Venture Technologies Group, LLC. Although the station is currently silent, it is still licensed by the FCC.

History

Signing on as K42DT, the station had long been owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. By 2002 the station had been under the ownership of Venture Technologies Group, which it continues to be owned by to this day.

From 2002, the station became silent, and was granted a special temporary authority license the following year by the FCC. In May 2006, the station owners moved the station's location from Coalinga Ridge in Coalinga, California to a transmitter site on Mt. San Benito, along with changing the station's city of license to Greenfield, California.

KSCZ went silent at 4pm on Sunday, March 18, 2007 by Brian Holton of Venture Technology Group, licensee. Pending resolution of an FCC filing against it by Marty Jackson of Monterey, California, it may return to the air serving Santa Cruz, California. As of September 11, 2007, the station continues to remain silent.

On October 11, 2007, KSCZ-LP was granted an original construction permit for a digital companion channel by the FCC under the callsign of KSCZ-LD. The digital station is expected to broadcast digitally on channel 20 from a transmitter site in Fremont Peak, where other Salinas and Monterey-area broadcasters currently transmit from.

Programming

It is unknown what programming the station previously broadcast, though it is assumed to have broadcast TBN network programming under TBN ownership. It also broadcast a moving test pattern consisting of a repeating hour showing ships sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge, as viewed from the Marin Headlands. Video for this test pattern was shot by 2006 Ventureemployee Frank Martin. Music on the audio playing during this 'test pattern' was original compositions from Steve Salani of orchestra.net. This 'test pattern' repeating hour broadcast continuously from sign on at the Mt. San Benito site on May 18, 2006 until sign off by Brian Holton, listed above.

Technical Information

KSCZ-LP TV channel 42 is located at the American Tower Site on Mt. San Benito in San Benito County, California. Mt. San Benito is located near the historic mining town of New Idria, a posted Cinnabar mine closed due to mercury pollution. New Idria has been a superfund toxic waste cleanup site since 1974.

KSCZ-LP could be viewed in northern Central California, broadcasting from Mt. San Benito between Interstate 5 and Highway 101. The station used a 1 kW NTSC transmitter with directional parabolic antennas directed at the community of Greenfield, California with an effective radiated power of 70KW.

One could also hear the frequency shift keying of the morse code version of the call letters KSCZ-LP, by "tuning a bit" towards channel 43 in Clovis, California.

External links

*tvq|KSCZ
* [http://ednixon.com/pix/2006/sanbenito/ Station Location on Mt. San Benito]