KBGU-LD,

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33 (

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channel 27), is a low powered

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- affiliated

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, United States. The station is owned by

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History

Although granted a

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in July 1987, the station did not commence broadcasting until 1991. The station was originally K18BT, an owned-and-operated

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of the

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, with all programming retransmitted via a satellite feed from TBN's headquarters in

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. The station's call letters were changed to K33GU upon moving to analog UHF channel 33. In 2010, TBN closed down many of its low-powered repeaters, including K33GU, due to ongoing economic problems. Many of these repeaters would be donated by TBN to the Minority Media and Television Council (MMTC), an organization designed to preserve equal opportunity and civil rights in the media. In 2015, the station was purchased by DTV America Corporation, but the license was held under the company King Forward, Inc., a unit of DTV America, with Regal Media announced as the operator of the station. King Forward changed the call letters to KBGU-LP, and converted the station to digital. The station returned to the air on May 25 of that year as an affiliate of

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, with

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being offered on a second

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, an
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a music channel originating from southern

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, on a third subchannel.DTV America launches MundoFox and Estrella in St. Louis , DTV America
7 months later, in December 2015, MundoMax was replaced with Buzzr. King Forward sold its stations, including KBGU-LP, to

in 2017. The station changed its call sign to KBGU-LD on March 4, 2020.

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is

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