KCOS (TV)

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KCOS
KCOS-TV logo
El Paso, Texas
Channels Analog: 13 (VHF)

Digital: 30 (UHF)
Affiliations PBS
Owner El Paso Public Television Foundation
First air date August 18, 1978
Former channel number(s) 7 (1978-1981)
Transmitter Power 224 kW (analog)
393 kW (digital)
Height 265 m (analog)
226 m (digital)
Facility ID 19117
Transmitter Coordinates 31°47′15.4″N, 106°28′48.9″W
Website www.kcostv.org
This article is about a PBS-member television station in El Paso, Texas.
For the unrelated religious television station in Phoenix, Arizona, see KCOS-LP.
"KCOS" is also the ICAO airport code for Colorado Springs Airport.

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 KRWG-TV in Las Cruces, New Mexico, but most of the market was unable to receive it 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 Phoenix, Arizona is unrelated to KCOS.

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American Broadcast television in the El Paso-Las Cruces-Ciudad Juárez market  (Nielsen DMA #98)

KDBC 4 (CBS, MyNetworkTV on DT2) - KVIA 7 (ABC, The CW on DT2, Weather on DT3, LATV on DT4 ) - KTSM 9 (NBC, WX+ on DT2) - KCOS 13 (PBS, PBS HD on DT1) - KFOX 14 (Fox, Weather on DT2) - KRWG 22 (PBS) - KINT 26 (Univision) - KSCE 38 (Rel.) - K40FW 40 (Multimedios) - KTDO 48 (Telemundo) - KTFN 65 (Telefutura)

Mexican Broadcast television in the El Paso-Las Cruces-Ciudad Juárez market
XEPM 2 (Televisa local) - XEJ 5 (Televisa XEQ) - XHCJE 11 (TV Azteca 13) - XHCJH 20 (TV Azteca 7) - XHJCI 32 (Televisa XEW) - XHIJ 44 (Spanish) - XHJUB 56 (Televisa XHGC)
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PBS Member Stations in the state of Texas
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetwork TV, NBC, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Religious, Other English and Other Spanish stations in Texas