KZCS-LD (channel 18) is a low-power television station in

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, United States, airing programming from the digital multicast network Ion Mystery. It is

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by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside

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-licensed NBC affiliate KOAA-TV (channel 5). KZCS-LD's transmitter is located on Cheyenne Mountain. Master control and most internal operations are based at the studios of ABC affiliate KMGH-TV (channel 7) on Delgany Street in

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's River North Art District.

History

The station signed on the air in 1994 on analog channel 38 as K38DM, a

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of KMGH-TV, then a CBS affiliate. It moved to channel 23 in 2003, changing its call sign to K23GJ. It assumed the KZCS-LP call sign in 2005, and became an Azteca América affiliate in 2013, relaying KMGH-TV's second digital subchannel. It switched to Escape (which later rebranded to Court TV Mystery, now Ion Mystery since 2022) in 2019, and flash-cut to digital in 2020.

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Notes

References

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