KCSG
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| KCSG | |
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| Cedar City/St. George, Utah | |
| Branding | KCSG Television |
| Channels | Analog: 4 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | independent |
| Owner | Southwest Media, LLC |
| First air date | April 23, 1990 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Cedar City/Saint George |
| Former callsigns | KCCZ (1990-1993) KSGI-TV (1993-1998) KXIV (1998) |
| Former affiliations | Pax TV (2000-2005) |
| Transmitter Power | 0.98 kW (analog) 1000 kW (digital) |
| Height | 318.2 m (analog) 819 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 59494 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | (analog) (digital) |
| Website | www.kcsg.com |
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KCSG is a full-service television station in Cedar City/Saint George, Utah, broadcasting locally in analog on VHF channel 4 and in digital on UHF channel 14 as an affiliate of America One. Founded June 11, 1984, the station began broadcasting in May 1990 and was licensed June 21, 1990. It is owned by Southwest Media LLC, and although the station is licensed to Cedar City, its office and studios are based in St. George. KCSG serves downtown St. George with a low-power analog signal on VHF channel 4 via booster station KCSG1, has a network of translators in southwestern Utah, and can be seen throughout the state through coverage on cable and satellite television.[1]
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[edit] History
KCSG began as station KCCZ with a construction permit issued on June 11, 1984 to Michael Glenn Golden. After several extensions and replacements of expired permits, and transfer of the permit to Liberty Broadcasting Company, KCCZ came on the air in May 1990 as an independent station and was licensed by the FCC on June 21, 1990. The station would be short-lived. Financial difficulties doomed KCCZ and it ceased broadcasting in November 1992. Liberty Broadcasting filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy on December 17, 1992, but the filing had to be converted to Chapter 7 Bankruptcy on June 22, 1993. On October 20, Seagull Communications Company filed an application to acquire the station out of bankruptcy and on November 12, changed its call letters to KSGI-TV. The acquisition was approved by the FCC and consummated February 1, 1994. Seagull Communications returned the station to air the same day, still broadcasting as an independent.[2]
Almost immediately, the new owners applied to the FCC to build booster stations serving downtown St. George, Utah and Beaver Dam, Arizona/Mesquite, Nevada, communities cut off from the signal by mountainous terrain. The FCC granted the construction permit for the St. George booster, KSGI1 (now KCSG1), on February 28, 1995, but did not grant a permit for the Beaver Dam booster, KSGI2 (now KCSG2), until January 1998. That station was never built, but the construction permit remains active.
In 1997, Seagull Communications sold KSGI-TV to Bonneville Holding Company, a broadcasting company wholly owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The sale was approved by the FCC on December 10, 1997 and was consummated on April 27, 1998. On February 16, 1998, the station changed its call letters to KXIV, likely in anticipation of its DTV channel assignment on UHF channel 14, but the FCC adopted the virtual channel standard, whereby digital stations would continue to identify by their analog channel assignment, and on May 15, 1998, the station again changed call letters, this time to KCSG. The station became an affiliate of PAX TV, a network formed to bring family-friendly entertainment to the airwaves. In August 2002, the station was sold once again, this time to Broadcast West, a St. George-based partnership of Daniel Matheson and local auto dealer Stephen Wade. The new owners elected to continue affiliation with PAX and has maintained an association with Bonneville-owned KSL-TV.[1]
Broadcast West began to make changes to KCSG that would establish its identity as a Southern Utah television station. In 2003, they began a local news operation, the first in the region. Before, the only news available to residents of Cedar City and St. George was from the Salt Lake City-area stations. In June 2005, with PAX TV heading in a different direction, KCSG switched affiliation to America One, continuing to offer family-focused programming. The station made news in September 2005, when it began offering its news programs in Spanish, as well as in English, attempting to serve the region's growing Hispanic population.[3] The Broadcast West partnership was dissolved on October 18, 2005, and a new company, Southwest Media, owned by Stephen Wade, took control of the station.[4]
[edit] Programming
KCSG is the first station in southern Utah to have local news. Until KCSG started their news department, St. George residents got their local news from stations in Salt Lake City. Their news operation began in 2003, with the hiring of Tamara Lee, and Todd Morril. News gathering operations began with a 5-minute newscast, but have expanded to a half-hour newscast at 5:30PM, a full hour at 9PM, and a 5-minute radio broadcast at the top of the hour. As of August 13th 2007, KCSG incorporated a one hour (7A-8A) morning news show featuring weaather anchor Jared Larson and news anchor Sadie Hughes.
Currently from 3:30-9pm they have a classic TV block featuring shows such as Dennis the Menace, The Facts of Life, Who's the Boss?, Silver Spoons, and Charlie's Angels, among others.
[edit] On-air personalities
[edit] Current on-air personalities
- P.J. Javaheri - Weather;
- Jared Larson - Anchor/Weather 7A;
- Caroline Christiansen - Anchor 9P;
- Cameron Chow - Anchor 9P;
- Sadie Hughes - Anchor 5:30P;
- Trina Cobbley - Morning Anchor 7A;
- Pete Sumulong - Weekend Sports Anchor;
- Alana Brophy - Weather/Anchor Weekends
- Jason Carter - Sports Anchor 9P
[edit] Former on-air personalities
- Dan Matheson; General Manager and Co-host of So Utah
- Ann Staples; Host of So Utah
- Tamara Lee; First Anchor/Managing Editor; now a reporter at KTNV in Las Vegas.
- Adam Stiles; First Meteorologist; now working at KION in Salinas, California.
- Katie Christensen; Reporter; now working at Sutherland Institute
- Courtney Orton; Anchor/Reporter; now working as a Reporter at KSL.
- Aapree Hancey; Reporter; now working as Topical Producer at KUTV.
- Shara Park; Sports Anchor/Reporter: now working at KSL in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Mark Haas; Sports Anchor/Reporter; now working for USC Sports Wesite Dept.
- Russell Wilde: Reporter; now working at News 8 Austin.
- Todd Morrill: First bNews Director/Reporter; now working at WTXL Tallahassee, Florida.
- Nate Dowdle: First Sports Director/Anchor;
- Andi Jensen; Host of So Utah
[edit] Translators
KCSG extends its over-the-air coverage throughout southwestern Utah through a network of one booster station and more than 15 analog and digital translator stations:
- KCSG1 St. George
- K46IB Beaver
- K12PN Cedar City Canyon
- K29FQ Delta
- K50JW-D Delta, Oak City, etc.
- K32GE Fillmore
- K57JU-D Fillmore
- K44GP Garrison
- K51JT-D Garrison
- K38HK Leamington
- K57JS-D Leamington
- K49IF New Castle, etc.
- K19GS-D Rural Beaver County, etc.
- K33FW Rural Beaver County, etc.
- K16DS St. George
- K35IP-D Scipio
- K43JN Scipio
[edit] Logos
 Previous KCSG logo, discontinued in 2006 |
 KCSG logo used, 2006 to 2007 |
 New KCSG logo for 2007 |
[edit] External links
- Station website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KCSG
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KCSG-TV
[edit] References
- ^ a b About Us. KCSG.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-19.
- ^ FCC Memorandum Opinion and Order. FCC CDBS database (1997-12-05). Retrieved on 2007-09-19.
- ^ Perkins, Nancy (2005-09-21). St. George station's news popular in English, Spanish. Deseret Morning News. Retrieved on 2007-09-19.
- ^ License Renewal: Public Inspection File attachment. FCC CDBS database (2006-05-31). Retrieved on 2007-09-19.
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