KQDK-CD,

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33 (

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channel 16), is a low-power, Class A

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, United States. It is a

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–licensed

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(CTN)

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(channel 39). KQDK's transmitter is located near East Iliff Avenue and South Emporia Avenue (near SH 83) in southeastern Denver; its parent station maintains studios on East Lincolnway (near

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) in Cheyenne.

History

The station was founded on October 30, 1990. In 2008, under

Equity Media Holdings Equity Media Holdings Corporation was a broadcasting company based in Little Rock, Arkansas that owned and operated television stations across the United States. Prior to March 30, 2007, the company was known as Equity Broadcasting, a name later ...

ownership, KQDK became an affiliate of the

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(RTN). On January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity and

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(which had acquired RTN in June 2008) resulted in many RTN affiliates losing the network's programming. As a result, Luken moved RTN's operations to its headquarters in

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, and dropped its affiliations on all Equity-owned affiliates, including the then-KQDK-CA, immediately. RTN would eventually sign with

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that May. KQDK then switched its affiliation to

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, and later to @SportsTV. KQDK was sold at auction to Valley Bank on April 16, 2009. Valley Bank, in turn, filed to sell KQDK and KQCK to an ownership group connected to Fusion Communications on September 9. In January 2010,

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announced that it would affiliate with parent station KQCK. KQDK-CA was acquired by Casa Media Partners in April 2012. The station switched its affiliation to

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on August 13, 2012. Concurrent with the launch of the station's digital signal, on February 12, 2013, the station modified its call sign to KQDK-CD. In late 2014, KQDK dropped MundoFox for the

. Casa Media Partners filed for

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on April 14, 2015. On April 12, 2017, CTN's parent company, the Christian Television Corporation, agreed to purchase KQDK-CD outright for $750,000; CTN had earlier agreed to purchase sister station KQCK. The sale was completed on June 30, 2017. Sometime in 2019, KQDK-CD's

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was moved from

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to Denver.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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Analog-to-digital conversion

KQDK-CD shut down its analog signal, over

channel 39, on February 12, 2013. The station

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its digital signal into operation on its pre-transition UHF channel 39.

References

External links

* {{Christian Television Network Equity Media Holdings QDK-CD Television channels and stations established in 1990 1990 establishments in Colorado Christian Television Network affiliates Low-power television stations in the United States