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| City | Durango, Colorado |
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| Branding | KREZ News 6 |
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| History | |
First air date | September 15, 1963 (61 years ago) (1963-09-15) |
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Former channel number(s) | Analog: 6 (VHF, 1963–2009) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 48589 |
| ERP | 46kW |
| HAAT | 90.4 m (297 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°15′46″N107°54′0.2″W / 37.26278°N 107.900056°W /37.26278; -107.900056 (KREZ-TV) |
| Translator(s) | see§ Translators |
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| Website | www |
KREZ-TV (channel 6) is atelevision station licensed toDurango, Colorado, United States, affiliated withCBS andFox. It is asatellite ofAlbuquerque, New Mexico–basedKRQE (channel 13), which is owned byNexstar Media Group. KREZ-TV's offices are located on Turner Drive in Durango, and its transmitter is located atopSmelter Mountain; its parent station maintains studios on Broadcast Plaza in Albuquerque.
KBIM-TV (channel 10) inRoswell, New Mexico, also serves as a satellite of KRQE. These satellite operations provide additionalnews bureaus for KRQE and selladvertising time to localsponsors.
The station began operations on September 15, 1963, as KJFL-TV, a free-standing localindependent station owned by Jeter Telecasting;[3] it went off the air after its facilities were destroyed in a February 1964 fire,[4] and the station was sold, rebuilt and returned to the air on September 9, 1965, as KREZ-TV, a satellite of CBS affiliateKREX-TV (channel 5) inGrand Junction, Colorado.[5] KREZ operated as such for nearly 30 years (with many attempts at regional news along the way) before being sold toDavenport, Iowa-basedLee Enterprises and becoming a KRQE satellite in 1995.[6]
In 1998, Lee Enterprises rebranded the combination of KRQE, KREZ-TV, and KBIM-TV as "CBS Southwest" and revamped the Durango and Roswell stations' news services to produce inserts into KRQE's early evening newscasts.[7] Two years later, Lee would exit broadcasting and sell KRQE, KREZ-TV, KBIM-TV, and most of its other television properties toEmmis Communications; in 2005, Emmis, in its own exit from television, sold its New Mexico outlets toLIN TV Corporation.
A deal to sell KREZ to Native American Broadcasting, LLC was reached in April 2011;[8] upon the sale's completion, KREZ was to become a full-scale independent station (with plans for extensive local programming), and change its call letters to KSWZ-TV.[9] However, the sale was never finalized, and KREZ remains a KRQE satellite.
On March 21, 2014, it was announced thatMedia General would acquire LIN.[10] The merger was completed on December 19.[11] Just over a year later, on January 27, 2016, it was announced that theNexstar Broadcasting Group would buy Media General for $4.6 billion. After selling then-Fox affiliateKASA-TV to Ramar Communications, KRQE and its satellites became part of "Nexstar Media Group."[12] The sale was completed on January 17, 2017, reuniting KREZ with former parent station KREX.[13]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 6.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KREZ-HD | CBS |
| 6.2 | 720p | FoxNM | Fox |
KREZ-TV shut down its analog signal, overVHF channel 6, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transitionUHF channel 15,[15] usingvirtual channel 6.
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(*) – indicates station is in one of Colorado's primaryTV markets (**) – indicates station is in an out-of-state TV market, but reaches a small portion of Colorado | ||
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