K15CU-D (channel 15) is a low-power television station licensed to

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, United States, broadcasting the digital multicast network

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to the

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area.

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by the

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group, it relays the second

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from San Jose. K15CU-D's transmitter is located on

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in the

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above

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, over above

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History

The station was put on air on February 16, 1990 (by

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, then under separate ownership), as a

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. The translator briefly had a local operation in Salinas, including a news bureau, which was closed in a cost-cutting move in 1992. On February 8, 2010, the station went

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for technical reasons. The station returned to the air on March 11, 2010. On March 10, 2011, the license was canceled by mistake of the FCC. On April 8, NBC filed an Engineering STA and a Petition for Reconsideration to restore the station.Petition for Reconsideration - Federal Communications Commission
/ref> The STA was granted on April 18, 2011. On May 8, the Petition for Reconsideration was granted and the license was reinstated. On December 3, 2013, the FCC approved a request by NBCUniversal to convert the analog low-power station to digital, as a translator of KMUV-LP, the local Telemundo affiliate owned by the

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. In 2014, the station became a primary affiliate of

, listed in FCC records as a translator of

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owned-and-operated

, which airs Cozi TV on a subchannel.Current FCC status for K15CU-D
/ref> In October 2019, K15CU-D added

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as a second digital subchannel.

Subchannels

The station's signal is

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References

External links

Cozi TV website
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