KSCZ-LD,

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16 (

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channel 23), is a low-powered

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licensed to San Jose and

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, United States. It broadcasts mostly

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programming from atop

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in unincorporated Alameda County. The station is owned by

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. Until 2017, the station served the Central Coast media market.

History

The station originally signed on as K42DT on analog channel 42. It was owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. By 2002, the station was under the ownership of Venture Technologies Group, which continues to own it. From 2002, the station became silent, and was granted a temporary authority license the following year by the FCC. In May 2006, the station owners moved the station's location from Coalinga Ridge in

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to a transmitter site on Mt. San Benito, and changed the station's city of license to Greenfield, California. KSCZ went silent at 4pm on Sunday, March 18, 2007, by Brian Holton of Venture Technology Group, licensee. Pending resolution of an FCC filing against it by Marty Jackson of

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, it was expected to return to the air serving Santa Cruz, California. On October 11, 2007, KSCZ-LP was granted an original

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for a digital companion channel by the FCC under the callsign of KSCZ-LD. The digital station broadcast digitally on channel 20 from a transmitter site in

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, from where other Salinas and Monterey-area broadcasters transmit. KSCZ-LP went off the air on August 8, 2017, and resumed broadcasting on March 15, 2018. Several

subchannels moved from KAXT-CD to KSCZ-LP. On June 1, the station changed its city of license to San Jose and

and began broadcasting from

Programming

KSCZ-LD broadcasts mostly

programming. Several of the digital subchannels are branded as San Jose stations and serve the Vietnamese American community in Santa Clara Valley. Quê Hương and VieTop originate locally in San Jose, while other subchannels are simulcasts of networks based in

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or Houston.

Digital subchannels

Former programming

It is unknown what programming the station previously broadcast, though it is assumed to have broadcast Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) network programming under TBN ownership. It also broadcast a moving test pattern consisting of a repeating hour showing ships sailing under the

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, as viewed from the

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. Video for this test pattern was shot by 2006 Venture employee Frank Martin. Music on the audio playing during this 'test pattern' was original compositions from Steve Salani of orchestra.net. This 'test pattern' repeating hour broadcast continuously from sign on at the Mt. San Benito site on May 18, 2006 until sign off by Brian Holton.

Technical information

KSCZ-LP's broadcast antenna is located on

, within the Sunol Regional Wilderness in unincorporated Alameda County, California, to the southeast of Fremont and to the north of San Jose. KSCZ-LP can be viewed in Santa Clara, Alameda, San Mateo, and Santa Cruz counties,

, and parts of

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. The station uses an

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transmitter with an effective radiated power of 3.6

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s. Before its move to the San Francisco Bay Area, KSCZ-LP broadcast from

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, near the historic mining town of

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. The frequency shift keying of the morse code version of the call letters KSCZ-LP could be heard by tuning towards channel 43 in Clovis, California.

History

Programming

Digital subchannels

Former programming

Technical information

See also

References

External links