Gila River Broadcasting Corporation

KGRQ-LD
Gila River Indian Community
Branding Gila River Broadcasting Corporation
Channels Digital: 29 (UHF)
Virtual: 19
Owner Gila River Indian Community
(Gila River Telecommunications, Inc.)
First air date December 2014
Call letters' meaning Gila River
Transmitter power 15 kW (KGRQ, KGRF)
7 kW (KGRY)
Transmitter coordinates 33°09′38.5″N 111°48′41″W / 33.160694°N 111.81139°W
Website grbc.tv

The Gila River Broadcasting Corporation is a television station serving the Gila River Indian Community in south-central Arizona. It is owned by the Community through tribal enterprise Gila River Telecommunications.

GRBC broadcasts on three transmitters near the Community's major population centers: KGRQ-LD 29 at Stotonic, KGRY-LD channel 21 at Blackwater and KGRF-LD channel 19 at Maricopa Village. All transmitters use PSIP to display as channel 19.

History

GRBC launched in December 2014, two and a half years after the GRIC filed for the new television stations with the FCC. However, when Gila River Telecommunications was founded in 1989, a television station was planned but found to be cost-prohibitive.[1]

Programming includes public service announcements and tribal content. Local programming including news and children's shows is planned.[2]

Master control for GRBC is located at the Gila River Telecommunications facility on the northern edge of the Community, with a Chandler postal address.

References

  1. ↑ Gila River Indian News, 19 Dec. 2014
  2. ↑ Gila River Indian Community to launch low-power television station, KJZZ 15 Jan. 2015

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