KZSD-LP (channel 20) is a
low-power television station in
San Diego, California
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, United States. It is a
translator
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of
ABC affiliate
KGTV
KGTV (channel 10) is a television station in San Diego, California, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. The station's studios are located on Air Way in the Riverview-Webster section of San Diego, and i ...
(channel 10) which is owned by the
E. W. Scripps Company. KZSD-LP's transmitter is located on San Miguel Mountain southeast of
Spring Valley; its parent station maintains studios on Air Way in the
Riverview-Webster section of San Diego.
As a stand-alone
analog station affiliated with
Azteca América and later
MeTV
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, KZSD's broadcasting radius only covered northern and eastern parts of the city of San Diego and some adjacent suburbs (such as
Poway and
El Cajon). Therefore, the station was
simulcast
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in
widescreen
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standard definition
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over KGTV's second
digital subchannel
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in order to reach the entire
market.
The unusual numbering for the mapped subchannel in the past as channel 10.15 was in order to align it with KZSD's former cable placement on
Cox Communications
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channel 15 (
PBS member station KPBS-TV, which broadcasts on
virtual channel
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15
over the air
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, is instead carried on cable channel 11). Once
XHDTV-TDT2 (later
XHAS-TDT) assumed the Azteca América affiliation, KZSD-LP lost the channel 15 cable slot, but regained carriage on May 1, 2017 on Cox
digital
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channel 808, when it assumed the MeTV affiliation in San Diego.
KZSD-LP was converted to digital in 2018 as a KGTV translator, allowing homes with issues receiving KGTV's
VHF
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Frequencies immediately below VHF ...
signal or only a UHF antenna to receive KGTV in some form.
History
The station was initially granted a
construction permit
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by the
Federal Communications Commission
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(FCC) on September 25, 1997, and its
license
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was issued on September 13, 2000. In 2003, the station changed its
call letters to KZDF-LP and became an
Azteca América affiliate.
San Diego is one of four markets to receive programming from both the U.S.-based Azteca América network and Mexico-based
TV Azteca
TV Azteca, S.A.B. de C.V. is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate owned by Grupo Salinas. It is the second-largest mass media company in Mexico after Televisa. It primarily competes with Televisa as well as some local operators. It owns two natio ...
channels that preceded the American network's launch (
Del Rio,
El Paso and
Laredo, Texas
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are the others). Much of KZSD's Azteca programming can also be seen on TV Azteca-owned
XHTIT-TDT (channel 7) or
XHJK-TDT
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XHJK receive ...
(channel 13), sometimes simultaneously with the U.S. network's broadcasts.
McGraw-Hill Broadcasting purchased KZDF-LP from Laurie Mintz in 2005
and changed its call letters to KZSD-LP.
On October 3, 2011, McGraw-Hill announced that it would sell KZSD, along with its other television stations, to the
E. W. Scripps Company as part of its exit from broadcasting.
The deal was completed on December 30, 2011.
On March 6, 2017, Azteca América announced that it would move its San Diego affiliation from KZSD-LP to a subchannel of
XHDTV-TDT on March 15, 2017, and to
XHAS-TDT on July 1.
A channel map shuffle that day saw
Laff
Laff (legal name: Laff Media, LLC) is an American digital multicast television network headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and is owned by the Katz Broadcasting subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. The network specializes in comedy program ...
moved onto the re-numbered 10.3 from channel 10.2, which was converted to a loop of the latest KGTV newscast to air.
On May 1, 2017, Scripps took control of the MeTV affiliation on 10.2, along with its already-existing cable channel positions in the market, replacing
KFMB-DT2 (which began carrying
The CW
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in the market on May 31); MeTV also replaced Laff on KZSD-LP. The affiliation (which by contractual force requires it to reside only on a .1 or .2 subchannel) was sold by KFMB owner Midwest Television to Scripps in order to facilitate the change.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed:
References
External links
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Low-power television stations in the United States
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E. W. Scripps Company television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2000
2000 establishments in California