KJCT
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| KJCT | |
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| Grand Junction, Colorado | |
| Branding | KJCT 8 |
| Slogan | Western Colorado's News Source |
| Channels | Analog: 8 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | ABC Telemundo (DT2) |
| Owner | News-Press & Gazette Company (Pikes Peak Television, Inc.) |
| First air date | October 22, 1979 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Grand JunCTion |
| Transmitter Power | 120 kW (analog) 9.7 kW (digital) |
| Height | 829 m (analog) 892 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 52593 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | |
| Website | www.kjct8.com |
KJCT is a television station in Grand Junction, Colorado. It is the market's ABC affiliate, and is owned and operated by the News-Press & Gazette Company of St. Joseph, Missouri. It broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 8 and its digital signal on VHF channel 7.
KJCT signed on the air on October 22, 1979 as a satellite of KRDO-TV Colorado Springs. The station had full production facilities in the west side of Grand Junction; however, much of the programming was fed via hundreds of miles of microwave links from KRDO. In the late 1990s, KJCT chief engineer Roger Hightower modernized KJCT into one of the first true digital facilities in Colorado, and severed the electronic umbilical cord with KRDO.
KJCT transmits its signal from the Mesa Point Electronics Site on the Grand Mesa, the world's tallest flat-top mountain. KJCT's primary translator, K28AD Montrose, has been on the air from Storm King Mountain since September, 1982. The KJCT signal is relayed by a licensed total of 14 analog and seven digital translators across central and northwestern Colorado.
KJCT was the first Western Colorado television station with modern electronic news gathering technology. "8 Live," the stations' first live microwave newsvan, came into service in 1984.
[edit] Previous logo
 Previous KJCT logo, used until September 2006. |
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KJCT
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KJCT-TV
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