KCOS (TV)
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| El Paso, Texas | |
| Channels | 13 (VHF) analog, 30 UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | PBS |
| Owner | El Paso Public Television Foundation |
| Founded | August 18, 1978 (On channel 7, Moved to channel 13 in 1981) |
| Transmitter Power | 224 kW (analog) 1000 kW (digital) |
| Website | www.kcostv.org |
KCOS channel 13 is a PBS member station based in El Paso, Texas. It also operates on cable channel 12 and digital channel 30. The station is owned by El Paso Public Television Foundation, a non-profit agency.
[edit] History
KCOS began broadcasting on August 18, 1978 on channel 7. It swapped channels with KVIA-TV in July 1981, moving from channel 7 to channel 13.
Prior to KCOS's debut, El Paso was the largest city in the United States without a PBS member station. Some viewers did receive the PBS station from Las Cruces, New Mexico, but others were unable to receive the station due to the Franklin Mountains blocking the signal coverage. Thus, KTSM-TV aired Sesame Street to El Pasoans from the show's debut in 1969 until KCOS's launch in 1978. Cable-viewers in El Paso did receive PBS coverage from both Las Cruces and from Albuquerque's KNME until 1978.
KCOS-LP channel 28, a religious station in Phoenix, Arizona, is unrelated to KCOS.
[edit] External links
| American Broadcast television in the El Paso-Las Cruces-Ciudad Juárez market (Nielsen DMA #99) | ||
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KDBC 4 (CBS) - KVIA 7 (ABC) (The CW on DT2) - KTSM 9 (NBC) - KCOS 13 (PBS) - KFOX 14 (Fox) - KRWG 22 (PBS) - KINT 26 (Univision) - KSCE 38 (Rel.) - K40FW 40 (Multimedios) - KTDO 48 (Telemundo) - KTFN 65 (Telefutura) |
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Mexican Broadcast television in the El Paso-Las Cruces-Ciudad Juárez market |
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KTLA 5 (The CW) (Los Angeles) |
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| PBS Member Stations in the state of Texas | |
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KACV 2 (Amarillo) - KTXT 5 (Lubbock) - KUHT 8 (Houston) - KLRN 9 (San Antonio) - KCOS 13 (El Paso) - KERA 13 (Dallas) - KAMU 15 (College Station) - KEDT 16 (Corpus Christi) - KLRU 18 (Austin) - KWBU 34 (Waco) - KPBT 36 (Odessa) - KDTN-DT 43.2 (Denton) - KNCT 46 (Belton) - KMBH 60 (Harlingen) |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetwork TV, NBC, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Religious, Other English and Other Spanish stations in Texas | |
