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| Branding | Fox 4 |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Mission Broadcasting, Inc. |
| Operator | Nexstar Media Group |
| KREX-TV,KGJT-CD | |
| History | |
First air date | June 17, 2000 (24 years ago) (2000-06-17) |
Former call signs | KJWA (1993–1996) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 4 (VHF, 2000–2009) |
Call sign meaning | Visually-similar "Q" replacing O in Fox (affiliated network) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 31597 |
| ERP | 71.5kW |
| HAAT | 407 m (1,335 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°3′57.5″N108°44′47.1″W / 39.065972°N 108.746417°W /39.065972; -108.746417 |
| Translator(s) | see§ Translators |
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Public license information | |
| Website | www |
KFQX (channel 4) is atelevision station inGrand Junction, Colorado, United States, serving as theFox affiliate for Colorado'sWestern Slope region. Owned byMission Broadcasting, the station is managed byNexstar Media Group, owner ofCBS affiliateKREX-TV (channel 5) andMyNetworkTV affiliateKGJT-CD (channel 27), under ashared services agreement (SSA). The three stations share studios on Hillcrest Avenue in downtown Grand Junction; KFQX's transmitter is located at the Black Ridge Electronics Site at theColorado National Monument west of the city.
KREX obtained the rights to provide Fox programming in Grand Junction in 1994 and began airing the network on a low-power station. KFQX went on the air in 2000 and has been co-managed with KREX for its entire history. KFQX has largely been owned by sidecars to other companies; whenHoak Media owned KREX, Parker Broadcasting owned KFQX, and Mission acquired the station in a deal related to the Nexstar purchase. The station airs Grand Junction newscasts from KREX at 6:30 and 9 p.m.[2] and morning and late evening news from Nexstar-ownedKDVR inDenver.
KREX first began providing Fox to the Grand Junction area on September 1, 1994, when Withers Broadcasting activated low-power station K27CO. This replacedFoxnet on cable in Grand Junction.[3] Withers Broadcasting had obtained the primary affiliation the previous May for its planned full-service station, KJWA.[4] John Harvey Rees had been granted the construction permit for channel 4 in Grand Junction on November 20, 1992.[5]
KFQX signed on the air in June 2000, replacing K27CO (now KGJT-CD). Parker Broadcasting acquired KFQX in 2004,[6] following the 2003 purchase of KREX byHoak Media.[7] The station began offering simulcasts of the morning and late newscasts ofKDVR, the Fox station inDenver, in 2006; at least one Denver newscast had long been available on cable in Grand Junction, though network duplication issues had left the city without access to a Denver newscast for much of the year. The Denver news simulcasts included Grand Junction-specific weather inserts.[8]
The station was disrupted severely by a fire that destroyed the KREX studios in January 2008. The station was in service within two weeks airing national Fox programming.[9] A new studio facility was opened in August 2009.[10]
On November 20, 2013,Gray Television announced it would purchase Hoak Media and Parker Broadcasting in a $335 million deal. KFQX was to be sold to Excalibur Broadcasting, a company intended to serve as a sidecar for Gray. However, Gray and Excalibur opted to put the Grand Junction stations on the market, with the companies already runningKKCO andKJCT.[11][12] On December 19, Gray announced that KREX and its satellites would be sold toNexstar Broadcasting Group, while KFQX would be sold toMission Broadcasting, for $37.5 million.[13] The sale of KREX was completed on June 13, 2014; Nexstar began providing services to KFQX while it awaited FCC approval.[14] The sale was approved on February 27, 2017,[15] and finalized on March 31.[16]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming | |
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| KFQX | KREY-TV | ||||
| 4.1 | 10.2 | 720p | 16:9 | KFQX-HD | Fox |
| 4.2 | 10.1 | 480i | KREY-SD | CBS (KREX-TV) | |
| 4.3 | 10.3 | 4:3 | Mystery | Ion Mystery | |
| 4.4 | 10.4 | Grit | Grit | ||
KFQX also operates asatellite station inMontrose, Colorado,KREY-TV (channel 10). KREY transmits from Flattop Mesa, a hill northeast of Montrose. Due to its relatively weak signal and the area's very uneven terrain, the station uses sixtranslators to relay its signal to theUncompahgre Valley and surrounding San Miguel mountain communities. Local studios are located on North 1st Street in Montrose. In its earliest days, local programs includingLetters to Santa, in which area children were invited to sit onSanta Claus' lap on live television, were made in cramped quarters at the transmitter building, which doubled as KREY's studio through the 1970s. KREY previously produced short news inserts during KREX's weeknight newscasts, though this has since ended.
| Station | City of license | Channels (RF /VC) | First air date | Callsign meaning | ERP | HAAT | Transmitter coordinates | Facility ID | Public license information |
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| KREY-TV | Montrose | 13 (VHF) 10 | September 18, 1956 (68 years ago) (1956-09-18) | Rey is the Spanish word for "king" | 2.6kW | 35 m (115 ft) | 38°31′2″N107°51′14″W / 38.51722°N 107.85389°W /38.51722; -107.85389 (KREY) | 70579 | Public file LMS |
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