KQDK-CD

KQDK-CD
Aurora, Colorado
United States
Branding Rocky Mountain CTN
Slogan Enjoy Life. Consider Eternity.
Channels Digital: 39 (UHF)
Virtual: 39 (PSIP)
Affiliations
  • .1: CTN
  • .2: CTNi
  • .3: CTN
  • .4: LifeStyle Family Television
Owner Casa Media Partners, LLC
(Casa en Denver, Inc.)
Operator Christian Television Network
(full acquisition pending)
Founded October 30, 1990 (1990-10-30)
Sister station(s) KQCK
Former callsigns
  • K16CM (?–1999)
  • K62FW (1999–2000)
  • KDEV-LP (2000–2008)
  • KQDK-CA (2008–2013)
Former affiliations
Transmitter power 35 kW
Height 165 m
Class Class A
Facility ID 29455
Transmitter coordinates 39°40′31.2″N 104°52′24.1″W / 39.675333°N 104.873361°W / 39.675333; -104.873361Coordinates: 39°40′31.2″N 104°52′24.1″W / 39.675333°N 104.873361°W / 39.675333; -104.873361
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.rockymountainctn.com

KQDK-CD, virtual and UHF digital channel 39, is a Christian Television Network-affiliated television station located in Aurora, Colorado, United States. The station is owned by Casa Media Partners, LLC. KQDK maintains transmitter facilities located on East Iliff Avenue (near Colorado Highway 83) in southeastern Denver. The station operates as a low-power translator station of Cheyenne, Wyoming CTN affiliate KQCK (channel 33).

History

The station was founded on October 30, 1990. In 2008, under Equity Media Holdings ownership, KQDK became an affiliate of the Retro Television Network (RTN). On January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity and Luken Communications (which had acquired RTN in June 2008) resulted in many RTN affiliates losing the network's programming.[1] As a result, Luken moved RTN's operations to its headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and dropped its affiliations on all Equity-owned affiliates, including the then-KQDK-CA, immediately.[2] RTN would eventually sign with KCDO-TV that May.[3] KQDK then switched its affiliation to AMGTV, and later to @SportsTV.

KQDK was sold at auction to Valley Bank on April 16, 2009.[4] Valley Bank, in turn, filed to sell KQDK and KQCK to an ownership group connected to Fusion Communications on September 9.[5]

KQCK/KQDK-CA logo during its affiliation with VasalloVision

In January 2010, VasalloVision announced that it would affiliate with parent station KQCK.[6] KQDK-CA was acquired by Casa Media Partners in April 2012.[7] The station switched its affiliation to MundoFox on August 13, 2012.[8] Concurrent with the launch of the station's digital signal, on February 12, 2013, the station modified its call sign to KQDK-CD. In late 2014, KQDK dropped MundoFox for the Christian Television Network.[9][10] Casa Media Partners filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on April 14, 2015.[11] On April 12, 2017, CTN's parent company, the Christian Television Corporation, agreed to purchase KQDK-CD outright for $750,000; CTN had earlier agreed to purchase sister station KQCK.[12]

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming
39.1 1080i 16:9 KQCK TV Main KQCK programming / CTN
39.2 480i 4:3 CTNi CTNi (Christian programming in Spanish)
39.3 CTN CTN national feed
39.4 Lifesty LifeStyle Family TV (Christian-based family entertainment)

Analog-to-digital conversion

KQDK-CD shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 39, on February 12, 2013. The station flash-cut its digital signal into operation on its pre-transition UHF channel 39.

References

  1. ↑ What’s Wrong with MyTV? Archived 2009-01-13 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ TV Newsday: "Financial Dispute Disrupts RTN Diginet", 1/5/2009.
  3. ↑ "KCDO Denver Adding Retro TV Network". TVnewsday. May 7, 2009. Retrieved June 21, 2009.
  4. ↑ "Takers found for 60 Equity stations". Television Business Report. April 18, 2009. Archived from the original on April 24, 2009. Retrieved April 20, 2009.
  5. ↑ "Equity Media props spin again". Television Business Report. September 9, 2009. Retrieved September 11, 2009.
  6. ↑ "'VasalloVision Network' in Las Vegas, Nevada" (Press release). VasalloVision Television Network. January 14, 2010. Retrieved February 6, 2010.
  7. ↑ "Denver TV, Cheyenne LP Go For $9 Million". TVNewsCheck. April 11, 2012. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  8. ↑ Ostrow, Joanne (August 6, 2012). "Mundo FOX coming to Denver on Channel 33". Denver Post. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  9. ↑ "FCC 398 Children's Television Programming Report". KidVid Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. October 6, 2014. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  10. ↑ "FCC 398 Children's Television Programming Report". KidVid Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. January 9, 2015. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  11. ↑ Bandell, Brian (April 17, 2015). "Miami-based owner of radio and TV stations files Chapter 11 with $13M in debt". South Florida Business Journal. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
  12. ↑ "APPLICATION FOR CONSENT TO ASSIGNMENT OF BROADCAST STATION CONSTRUCTION PERMIT OR LICENSE". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. April 18, 2017. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
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