| Colorado Springs, Colorado | |
|---|---|
| Branding | NewsChannel 13 HD |
| Slogan | Where The News Comes First (general) Always Tracking. Always Alerting. (weather) |
| Channels | Digital: 24 (UHF) Virtual: 13 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 13.1 ABC 13.2 Telemundo |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner | News-Press & Gazette Company (Pikes Peak Television, Inc.) |
| First air date | September 21, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | Kolorado’s [sic] Radio Dynamic Outlet |
| Sister station(s) | KJCT |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 13 (VHF, 1953-2009) |
| Former affiliations | NBC (1953-1960) |
| Transmitter power | 200 kW |
| Height | 675 m |
| Facility ID | 52579 |
| Website | krdo.com |
KRDO-TV, virtual channel 13, is the ABC-affiliated television station in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. The station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 24. The station is owned by Pikes Peak Television, a subsidiary of the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) of St. Joseph, Missouri, and is sister station to KRDO-AM and KRDO-FM.
KRDO-TV is carried on cable channel 12; channel 13 is instead occupied by Telemundo affiliate K49CJ.
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KRDO-DT broadcasts on digital channel 24.
| Virtual channel |
Physical channel |
Video | Aspect | Name | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13.1 | 24.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KRDO-DT | Main KRDO/ABC HD programming |
| 13.2 | 24.2 | 480i | 4:3 | Telemundo | Spanish-language entertainment programming |
KRDO-TV first went on the air on September 21, 1953 as an NBC affiliate. At that time, KKTV channel 11 was a primary CBS affiliate with a secondary affiliation with ABC, and KCSJ-TV channel 5 was the NBC affiliate for nearby Pueblo. As such, during much of the 1950s, Southern Colorado was served by two full-time NBC affiliates and a CBS affiliate that also carried ABC programming.
By 1960, as virtually all TV viewers in both cities and the surrounding area were receiving each of those three stations, the formerly separate Colorado Springs and Pueblo TV markets melded into one single market serving the Pikes Peak region and surrounding areas. At that point, each of the three commercial TV stations became "exclusive" network affiliates with KKTV 11 retaining CBS, KCSJ-TV 5 (now KOAA-TV) continuing with NBC and KRDO-TV 13 becoming a full-time ABC affiliate. KRDO was one of the few ABC affiliates that didn't clear The Dick Cavett Show during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
KRDO-TV had been locally owned by Pikes Peak Broadcasting Company since the station signed on. In April 2006, the company announced that it was selling KRDO-TV (along with KRDO-AM and KJCT-TV in Grand Junction) to the News-Press & Gazette Company. News-Press & Gazette officially took over operations of KRDO-TV on June 26, 2006; in honor of Pikes Peak Broadcasting, it changed the name of its Colorado broadcast group to Pikes Peak Television.
KRDO-TV's news operation was rebranded from News13 to NewsChannel 13 on the same day that NPG took over the station's operations. Under NPG, KRDO expanded its newscasts starting with 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts replacing the single early evening 5:30 p.m. newscasts. It added weekend morning newscasts (currently airing from 6-7 a.m. & 8-9 a.m. both on Saturdays and Sundays) that started in the final week of December 2006. In June 2007 it started a midday newscast that airs from noon-1 p.m. Both were first anchored by Eric Singer who now anchors the 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts on KRDO-TV.
On July 23, 2008 KRDO-TV began broadcasting Southern Colorado's first local newscasts in high definition (HD), beginning with "NewsChannel 13 at Noon."
On October 10, 2011 KRDO-TV expand its early evening newscasts starting at 4:30 p.m.
Anchors
StormTracker 13 Weather Team
Sports team
Reporters
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