KSBS-CD,

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10 (

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digital channel 19), is a low-power, Class A

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licensed to

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, United States. It is a translator of

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-licensed

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KCDO-TV (channel 3) which is owned by the

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-based E. W. Scripps Company; it is also sister to Denver-licensed ABC

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(channel 7). KSBS-CD's transmitter is located atop Lookout Mountain, near Golden; its parent station shares studios with KMGH-TV on East Speer Boulevard in Denver's Congress Park neighborhood.

History

The license history begins with the establishment of K13OI in Estes Park Estates, which was a translator for NBC affiliate KUSA-TV. The station was acquired by GreenTV Corporation, which owned

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in Steamboat Springs, in 1995, and moved to channel 18 in Denver as K18FI; it later shifted to channel 67 and later 47, as KSBS-LP, one of two low-power stations bringing

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to Denver. In 2006,

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, which had acquired KSBS-TV and KSBS-LP in 2001, bought KDEN-TV in Longmont and relocated Telemundo there; it then donated KSBS-TV to

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and sold KSBS-LP, which was by then a Class A station, to Denver Digital Television. Under Denver Digital ownership, KSBS-LP received a $23,000 fine for omissions in its public file in 2013. Denver Digital sold KSBS to KCDO-TV in 2014, at which time it became a simulcast to bring KCDO's signal into the

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. On September 22, 2020, the E. W. Scripps Company announced it was buying KSBS-CD and KCDO-TV for an undisclosed price, pending approval of the

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(FCC); this would make them sister stations to KMGH-TV. The sale was completed on November 20."Consummation Notice"
''CDBS Public Access'',

, 23 November 2020, Retrieved 23 November 2020.

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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History

Subchannels

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