KZCO-LD is a

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, Colorado, United States. It rebroadcasts four secondary

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affiliate

KMGH-TV KMGH-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Denver, Colorado, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside Sterling-licensed independent station KCDO-TV, channel 3 (and its Denver-based translator ...

(channel 7), including

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on 7.3 and Laff on 7.4. Like KMGH-TV and

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(channel 3), as well as

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(channel 10), KZCO-LD is

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by the

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. KZCO-LD shares a channel with KLPD-LD (channel 28), owned by Syncom Media Group, and transmits from atop

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, near Golden; its parent station maintains studios on Delgany Street in Denver's River North Art District.

History

The license history for KZCO-LD dates back to 1971, when it was authorized in

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, as K65AA. This was one of five UHF translators authorized to Translator TV, Inc., to rebroadcast Denver stations. In 2003, it moved to channel 27 as K27GF, soon changed to KCIN-LP. In 2005, the

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Company, owner of KMGH-TV, acquired KZCO-LP and used it as one of several transmitters for a regional

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service, broadcast from transmitters in Denver (KZCO-LP),

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and Greeley (KZFC-LD), and

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KZCS-LD KZCS-LD (channel 18) is a low-power television station in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, airing programming from the digital multicast network Ion Mystery. It is owned and operated by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside Pueblo-l ...

). On October 3, 2011, McGraw-Hill announced that it would exit from broadcasting and sell KMGH-TV, KZCO-LP and its other television stations to the

. The sale was completed on December 30, 2011. In 2013, KZCO signed on a digital signal on UHF channel 17 to serve as a fill-in translator of KMGH-TV, which has experienced issues with signal reception in portions of the Denver market since the

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on June 12, 2009, due to that station operating its digital signal on VHF channel 7, which is prone to signal interference. On August 11, 2014, the FCC canceled the KZCO-LP license, being replaced by KZCO-LD.licensing.fcc.gov
In early 2021, the simulcast of KMGH-TV's main channel moved to a subchannel of KSBS-CD, a translator of KCDO-TV.

Subchannels

Scripps uses major channels 3 and 7, as extensions and simulcasts of KMGH-TV. KMGH-TV also broadcasts the 3.3 and 3.4 subchannels. Syncom's KLPD-LD uses major channel 28. The stations' signals are

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References

External links

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