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KXRM-TV (channel 21) is a
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in
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, United States, affiliated with the
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network. It is owned by
Nexstar Media Group Nexstar Media Group, Inc. is an American publicly traded media company with headquarter offices in Irving, Texas; Midtown Manhattan; and Chicago, Illinois. The company is the largest television station owner in the United States, owning 197 te ...
alongside low-power CW
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KXTU-LD KXTU-LD (channel 57) is a low-power television station in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, serving Southern Colorado with programming from The CW. It is owned and operated by network majority owner Nexstar Media Group alongside Fox a ...
(channel 57). Both stations share studios on Wooten Road in Colorado Springs, while KXRM-TV's transmitter is located on
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.


History

KXRM-TV first signed on the air as an
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on January 22, 1985. Its
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were chosen in part to reflect the region in which it operates and its original intent of classic family friendly programing, current and classic cartoon programing mixed with Christian Teaching/Talk shows. The first two letters stand for Khrist (
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) Xalted (Exalted) and the last two letters stand for "
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." The station tried to sign on
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1984, but technical glitches prevented that from happening. KXRM was Southern Colorado's first independent station, and the region's first commercial television station since
KRDO-TV KRDO-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) alongside low-power Telemundo affiliate KTLO-LD (channel 46) and radio stations ...
signed on 31 years earlier. KXRM-TV became one of the initial group of independent television stations to agree to affiliate with the Fox Broadcasting Company in 1986 and had remained an affiliate of the network ever since. The station was locally owned until 2000 when it was bought by
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. After Raycom merged with the
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, KXRM was one of several stations that were spun off to
Barrington Broadcasting Barrington Broadcasting Group, LLC, headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois was an American corporation focused on broadcast television, primarily in middle and small size media markets. Barrington owned or operated via duopoly twenty-four televi ...
. On October 11, 2007, the station began airing programming from the
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(RTV) on its second
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. Previously, this aired The Tube (a 24-hour music channel) until the network suspended operations on October 1. On September 15, 2008, KXRM replaced RTV programming on 21.2 with a simulcast of KXTU. This signal increases KXTU's broadcasting radius; KXTU did not convert to digital until 2010, and even in digital, its coverage area is effectively limited to
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and
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counties. On February 28, 2013, Barrington Broadcasting announced the sale of its entire group, including KXRM-TV, to
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. The sale was completed on November 25. On August 20, 2014, Sinclair announced that it would sell KXRM-TV and KXTU-LD, along with WTTA in Tampa Bay and WHTM in Harrisburg (which Sinclair, on behalf of
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is planning on to divest) to Media General in a swap for WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, the WLUK-TV and WCWF duopoly in
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, and
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in Savannah, Georgia. The swap was part of Media General's merger with LIN Media. WHTM's sale of Media General was explored nearly two months earlier, and it was completed, nearly three months before the Media General/LIN deal was completed. The sale was completed on December 19. On January 27, 2016, it was announced that the
Nexstar Broadcasting Group Nexstar Media Group, Inc. is an American publicly traded media company with headquarter offices in Irving, Texas; Midtown Manhattan; and Chicago, Illinois. The company is the largest television station owner in the United States, owning 197 te ...
would buy Media General for $4.6 billion. KXRM became part of "Nexstar Media Group" as Nexstar's second station in Colorado, joining Grand Junction's CBS affiliate KREX-TV, along with their sister Fox station KFQX through their JSA with Mission Broadcasting. The deal was approved by the FCC on January 11, 2017, and it was completed on January 17. Nexstar would then acquire Tribune Media and their Denver duopoly of CW affiliate KWGN-TV and Fox affiliate KDVR, thus consolidating full control over the Fox stations across Colorado.


News operation

Currently, KXRM broadcasts 43 hours of local news each week (with 7½ hours each weekday, 2½ hours on Saturdays and three hours on Sundays). It has the highest local newscast output among all broadcast television stations in the Colorado Springs– Pueblo market. The station began airing a half hour prime time newscast at 9 p.m. on March 11, 2001 that was produced by local CBS affiliate
KKTV KKTV (channel 11) is a television station in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, affiliated with CBS. The station is owned by Gray Television, and maintains studios on East Colorado Avenue in downtown Colorado Springs and a transmitter ...
. KXRM established its own in-house news department in 2006 and expanded the nighty 9 p.m. newscast to a full hour. The station hosts a morning show (first started in 2007 as a three hour newscast) that currently runs from 5 to 9 a.m. that has been recognized by the Colorado Broadcasters Association as one of the best morning shows in the market. On January 20, 2016, a 10:00 p.m. newscast was added for weeknights. KXRM also airs weekend morning newscasts running from 5 to 7 a.m. on Saturdays and 6 to 8 a.m. on Sundays. The Saturday evening newscasts run a half hour from 9-9:30 p.m., and the Sunday Night newscasts run an hour from 9-10 p.m. In late September 2010, KXRM became the fourth station in Colorado Springs–Pueblo to start broadcasting its local newscasts in 16:9 widescreen. In 2013, the
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recognized KXRM with
National Edward R. Murrow Award
for Continuing Coverage of the Waldo Canyon Fire.


Technical information


Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:


Analog-to-digital conversion

KXRM-TV shut down its analog signal, over
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channel 21, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 22. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 21.


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