| KCSG | |
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| Cedar City/St. George, Utah | |
| Branding | KCSG Television |
| Channels | Digital: 14 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | MyNetworkTV RTV |
| Owner | Southwest Media, LLC |
| First air date | April 23, 1990 |
| Sister station(s) | KSL-TV, Salt Lake City, UT |
| Former callsigns | KCCZ (1990-1993) KSGI-TV (1993-1998) KXIV (1998) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 4 (1990-2009) |
| Former affiliations | Pax TV (2000-2005) America One (2005 - 2008) |
| Transmitter Power | 25 kW |
| Height | 385 m |
| Facility ID | 59494 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | 37°38′22″N 113°2′0″W / 37.63944°N 113.033333°W |
| Website | www.kcsg.com |
KCSG is a full-service television station in Cedar City/St. George, Utah, broadcasting locally in digital on UHF channel 14 in Cedar City as the affiliate of MyNetworkTV and RTV for the state of Utah, and via cable for the Salt Lake City area to the north. Founded June 11, 1984, the station began broadcasting in May 1990 and was licensed June 21, 1990. It is owned by Southwest Media LLC with offices and studios in St. George. KCSG serves St. George on UHF channel 16 and has a network of translators in southwestern Utah, and can be seen throughout the state via satellie DirectTV channel 44, Dish Network TV channel 37 and cable.[1]
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History
KCSG began as station KCCZ with a construction permit issued on June 11, 1984 to Michael Glenn Golden. After several extensions and replacements of expired permits, and transfer of the permit to Liberty Broadcasting Company, KCCZ came on the air in May 1990 as an independent station and was licensed by the FCC on June 21, 1990. The station would be short-lived. Financial difficulties doomed KCCZ and it ceased broadcasting in November 1992. Liberty Broadcasting filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy on December 17, 1992, but the filing had to be converted to Chapter 7 Bankruptcy on June 22, 1993. On October 20, Seagull Communications Company filed an application to acquire the station out of bankruptcy and on November 12, changed its call letters to KSGI-TV. The acquisition was approved by the FCC and consummated February 1, 1994. Seagull Communications returned the station to air the same day, still broadcasting as an independent.[2]
Almost immediately, the new owners applied to the FCC to build booster stations serving St. George, Utah and Beaver Dam, Arizona/Mesquite, Nevada, communities cut off from the signal by mountainous terrain. The FCC granted the construction permit for the St. George booster, KSGI1 (now KCSG1), on February 28, 1995, but did not grant a permit for the Beaver Dam booster, KSGI2 (now KCSG2), until January 1998. That station was never built, but the construction permit remains active.
In 1997, Seagull Communications sold KSGI-TV to Bonneville Holding Company, a broadcasting company wholly owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The sale was approved by the FCC on December 10, 1997 and was consummated on April 27, 1998. On February 16, 1998, the station changed its call letters to KXIV, in anticipation of its DTV channel assignment on UHF channel 14, but the FCC adopted the virtual channel standard, whereby digital stations would continue to identify by their analog channel assignment, and on May 15, 1998, the station again changed call letters, KCSG and became an affiliate of PAX TV, a network formed to bring family-friendly entertainment to the airwaves. In August 2002, the station was sold to Broadcast West, a St. George-based partnership of Daniel Matheson and local auto dealer Stephen Wade. The new owners elected to continue affiliation with PAX and to maintain an association with Bonneville-owned KSL-TV.[1]
Broadcast West began to make changes to KCSG that would establish its identity as a Southern Utah television station. In 2003, they began a local TV news operation, the first in the region. Before, the only TV news available to residents of Cedar City and St. George was from the Salt Lake City-area stations. In June 2005, with PAX TV heading in a different direction, KCSG switched affiliation to America One, continuing to offer family-focused programming. The station made news in September 2005, when it began offering its news programs in Spanish, as well as in English, attempting to serve the region's growing Hispanic population.[3] The Broadcast West partnership was dissolved on October 18, 2005, and a new company, Southwest Media, owned by Stephen Wade, became the licensee.[4]
Programming
KCSG is the first station in southern Utah to have local television news. Until KCSG started their news department, St. George residents got their local news from stations in Salt Lake City. Their news operation began in 2003 with a 5-minute newscast and expanded to half-hour newscasts at 5:30PM and 9:00PM.
The following is the fall 2009 program lineup:
- 7:00 AM - KCSG Morning Show
- 8:00 AM - Daniel Boone
- 9:00 AM - Marcus Welby, M.D.
- 10:00 AM - The Bold Ones
- 11:00 AM - Quincy, M.E.
- 12:00 PM - Ironside
- 1:00 PM - Simon & Simon
- 2:00 PM - Emergency
- 3:00 PM - Lifestyles of Southern Utah (Produced locally)
- 3:30 PM - Leave It to Beaver
- 4:00 PM - Magnum, P.I.
- 5:00 PM - McHale's Navy
- 5:30 PM - KCSG Evening News - Trina Cobbley
- 6:00 PM - The Rockford Files
- 7:00 PM - MyNetworkTV shows Law & Order: Criminal Intent (Monday); Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (Tuesday); The Unit(Wednesday); Thursday Night Movie and WWE Friday Night SmackDown.
- 9:00 PM - KCSG Primetime News with Trina Cobbley
- 10:00 PM - I Spy
- 11:00 PM - KCSG News Late Edition - Trina Cobbley
- 5:30 PM - Saturday and Sunday: Newsmakers/Week in Review -
The station broadcasts select games of the local professional baseball, the St. George RoadRunners of the Golden Baseball League.
The St. George Marathon, the City of St. George First Night and the Huntsman World Senior Games are broadcast on KCSG-TV.
Sports
On November 5, 2009 it was announced that the final Dixie State College of Utah football game would be aired on KCSG in a partnership with the Dick Nourse Center for Media Innovation. Play by play will be handled by John Potter and Phil Tuckett. The goal is to broadcast Dixie State football and basketball games in the near future. [5]
MyNetworkTV
On August 18, 2008, KCSG replaced Salt Lake City's KJZZ-TV as Utah's MyNetworkTV affiliate; KCSG-TV can be viewed throughout the Salt Lake DMA (Designated Market Area) on a network of translators, cable systems and satellite television; Statewide via satellite on Direct-TV channel 44 and Dish Network TV channel 37; Salt Lake, Davis counties, Ogden, Brigham City, Logan, Provo and Park City - Comcast channel 116; Provo - Broadweave cable channel 6; Cedar City/St. George - Skyview Technologies channel 6; Cedar City/Delta - Bresnan channel 6; St. George, Santa Clara and Hurricane - Baja channel 6; Mesquite - Reliance Connects channel 99.
The licensee of KCSG-TV Channel 14, Cedar City-St. George is Southwest Media, LLC. [6]
Translators
KCSG extends its over-the-air coverage throughout southwestern Utah through a network of one booster station and more than 15 analog and digital translator stations:
- K16DS St. George
- K46IB Beaver
- K12PN Cedar City Canyon
- K29FQ Delta
- K50JW-D Delta, Oak City, etc.
- K32GE Fillmore
- K57JU-D Fillmore
- K44GP Garrison
- K51JT-D Garrison
- K38HK Leamington
- K57JS-D Leamington
- K49IF Newcastle, etc.
- K19GS-D Rural Beaver County, etc.
- K33FW Rural Beaver County, etc.
- K16DS St. George
- K35IP-D Scipio
- K43JN Scipio
External links
- Station website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KCSG
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KCSG-TV
References
- ^ a b "About Us". KCSG.com. http://www.kcsg.com/about. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
- ^ "FCC Memorandum Opinion and Order". FCC CDBS database. 1997-12-05. http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/1997/da972559.txt. Retrieved 2007-09-19.
- ^ Perkins, Nancy (2005-09-21). "St. George station's news popular in English, Spanish". Deseret Morning News. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20050921/ai_n15361707. Retrieved 2007-09-19.
- ^ "License Renewal: Public Inspection File attachment". FCC CDBS database. 2006-05-31. http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getattachment_exh.cgi?exhibit_id=423916. Retrieved 2007-09-19.
- ^ "DSC's final football game to be televised". 2009. http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20091105/SPORTS/911050309/DSC+s+final+football+game+to+be+televised. Retrieved 2009-11-05.
- ^ Malone, Michael (2008-07-21). "KCSG Salt Lake City Grabs MNT Affiliation". Broadcasting & Cable. http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6580119.html?rssid=193. Retrieved 2008-07-22.
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