KZCO-LD,
virtual channel 7.2 (
UHF
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channel 30), is a
low-power dual
Ion Mystery/
Laff
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owned-and-operated television station licensed to
Denver, Colorado, United States. It relays the second and third
digital subchannel
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s of
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KMGH-TV (channel 7) which is owned by the
Cincinnati-based
E. W. Scripps Company; it is also
sister to
Sterling
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-licensed
independent station
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KCDO-TV, channel 3 (and its Denver-licensed
translator KSBS-CD, channel 10). KZCO-LD's transmitter is located atop
Lookout Mountain, near
Golden; its parent station maintains studios on East Speer Boulevard in Denver's Congress Park neighborhood.
History
The station first signed on the air in 2003 as KCIN-LP, an
Azteca América affiliate, and was founded by
McGraw-Hill. In 2005, the station changed its call letters to KZCO-LP. On October 3, 2011, McGraw-Hill announced that it would exit from broadcasting and sell KMGH-TV, KZCO-LP and its other television stations to the
E. W. Scripps Company.
The sale was completed on December 30, 2011.
In 2013, KZCO signed on a digital signal on UHF channel 17 to serve as a fill-in translator of KMGH-TV, which has experienced issues with signal reception in portions of the Denver market since the
digital television transition
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on June 12, 2009, due to that station operating its digital signal on
VHF
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channel 7, which is prone to signal interference.
On August 11, 2014, the FCC canceled the KZCO-LP license, being replaced by KZCO-LD.
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In early 2021, the simulcast of KMGH-TV's main channel moved to a subchannel of KSBS-CD, a translator of KCDO-TV.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed:
References
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Ion Mystery affiliates
Laff (TV network) affiliates
Low-power television stations in the United States
ZCO-LD
E. W. Scripps Company television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2003
2003 establishments in Colorado