KDUL-LP

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KDUL-LP
station_
station_slogan =
analog = 12 (VHF)
60 (UHF)
station_branding =
digital =
affiliations = Defunct
founded = October 2000 "(operations ceased August 2001)"
location = Duluth, Minnesota
callsign_meaning = DULuth
former_callsigns = K60EZ (1990s-2000)
owner = Duluth TV Partners
former_affiliations = UPN, AIN
effective_radiated_power =
homepage =

KDUL-LP Channel 12 was a low-power television station in Duluth, Minnesota, which operated from October 2000 to August 2001. [NorthPine.com Upper Midwest Broadcasting archive, http://www.northpine.com/broadcast/archive]

The station operated with 502 Watts from a transmitter on Duluth's Observation Hill. KDUL-LP's office and master control were located in Fitger's Brewery Complex, a popular shopping and entertainment venue. It was owned by Duluth Broadcasting Partners and managed by ESI Broadcasting.

KDUL-LP was originally K60EZ Channel 60, which carried a scrambled version of Nickelodeon as part of an eight-channel subscription TV service which operated in the mid-1990s.

After several missed launch dates, KDUL-LP began regular broadcasting on October 1, 2000, carrying UPN, the American Independent Network, and Entertainment Tonight. It was also carried on the cable system serving Duluth and Superior on channel 16. The system also carried then-UPN affiliate KMSP Minneapolis and blacked out UPN programming on KMSP at KDUL-LP's request.

KDUL-LP was to have been co-operated with KWMN-LP Channel 56 in Duluth, another former subscription TV station which was to have carried PAX TV. It never signed on. There were also plans to rebroadcast KDUL-LP on W25CA Channel 25 in Ashland, Wisconsin (later WAST-LP), which also never materialized.

ESI Broadcasting severed its management relationship with the station in April 2001. Shortly thereafter, the owners put the station up for sale and fired all employees except one technician. The station left the air permanently on August 31, 2001, after news that the cable system planned to drop KDUL-LP due to poor video and audio quality. No buyer was ever found.

During its entire run on Channel 12, KDUL-LP operated under construction permit program test authority. The construction permit for Channel 12 was cancelled after KDUL-LP went silent. The FCC deleted KDUL-LP on May 15, 2008, nearly seven years after its last broadcast.

References

External links

* [http://www.northpine.com/broadcast/captures/mn/kdullp.html NorthPine.com screengrab of KDUL-LP from 2000]
*TVQ|KDUL-LP