KETD (channel 53) is a

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licensed to

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, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language

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network to the

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area.

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, the station maintains offices on East Jamison Circle in Englewood, and its transmitter is located on Mount Morrison in western Jefferson County.

History

The station first signed on the air on July 1, 1990, as KWHD. Founded by LeSEA Broadcasting (now

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), the station carried a mix of

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-targeted programs, family-oriented syndicated programs and

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. Christian programming aired for much of the broadcast day, with breakaway windows for

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programming (including

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s, westerns and

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movies) each weekday from 2 to 7 p.m. and a scattered amount for a few hours a day on Saturdays, which included a morning children's program block, and a schedule consisting entirely of Christian-oriented religious programs on Sundays. By 2008, KWHD claimed to be "the only full-time, commercial, independent TV station in Colorado." Its schedule by this point was split between family-oriented secular programming and local sports programming 40% of the time and Christian

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programs for the remaining 60% of the broadcast day outside of Sundays. On January 28, 2010, LeSEA announced that it would sell KWHD to Liberman Broadcasting (which was renamed

in February 2020, following a corporate reorganization of the company under

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firm HPS Investment Partners, LLC). On June 1, 2010, the station became an owned-and-operated station of the Liberman-owned

and changed its call letters to KETD. As part of the deal, KETD agreed to lease its second

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to LeSEA to continue carrying its programming (which was also carried on the station's former semi-translator KWHS-LD in

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, which LeSEA owned until 2018).

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

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Analog-to-digital conversion

KETD shut down its analog signal, over

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channel 53, on January 16, 2009. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 46, using

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53.

References

External links

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