KETD
KETD, virtual channel 53 (UHF digital channel 45), is an Estrella TV owned-and-operated television station serving Denver, Colorado, United States that is licensed to Castle Rock. The station is owned by Estrella Media. KETD's offices are located on East Jamison Circle in Englewood, and its transmitter is located on Mount Morrison in western Jefferson County.
| Castle Rock/Denver, Colorado United States | |
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| City | Castle Rock, Colorado |
| Branding | Estrella TV KETD 53 |
| Channels | Digital: 45 (UHF) (to move to 15 (UHF)) Virtual: 53 (PSIP) |
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| Owner | Estrella Media |
| Licensee | Estrella Television License LLC |
| First air date | July 1, 1990 |
| Call sign meaning | Estrella TV Denver |
| Former call signs | KWHD (1990–2010) |
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| Former affiliations | LeSEA (1990–2010) |
| Transmitter power | 100 kW 200 kW (CP) |
| Height | 320 m (1,050 ft) 314.8 m (1,033 ft) (CP) |
| Facility ID | 37101 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°40′16.9″N 105°13′7.9″W 39°40′17″N 105°13′8″W (CP) |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information | Profile CDBS |
| Website | estrellatv |
History
The station first signed on the air on July 1, 1990 as KWHD. Founded by LeSEA Broadcasting (now Family Broadcasting Corporation), the station carried a mix of Christian-targeted programs, family-oriented syndicated programs and movies. Christian programming aired for much of the broadcast day, with breakaway windows for secular programming (including sitcoms, westerns and public domain movies) each weekday from 2 to 7 p.m. and a scattered amount for a few hours a day on Saturdays, which included a morning children's program block, and a schedule consisting entirely of Christian-oriented religious programs on Sundays. By 2008, KWHD claimed to be "the only full-time, commercial, independent TV station in Colorado." Its schedule by this point was split between family-oriented secular programming and local sports programming 40% of the time and Christian religious programs for the remaining 60% of the broadcast day outside of Sundays.[1]
On January 28, 2010, LeSEA announced that it would sell KWHD to Liberman Broadcasting (which was renamed Estrella Media in February 2020, following a corporate reorganization of the company under private equity firm HPS Investment Partners, LLC). On June 1, 2010, the station became an owned-and-operated station of the Liberman-owned Estrella TV and changed its call letters to KETD.[2] As part of the deal, KETD agreed to lease its second digital subchannel to LeSEA to continue carrying its programming (which was also carried on the station's former semi-translator KWHS-LD in Colorado Springs, which LeSEA owned until 2018).
Digital television
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP short name | Programming[3] |
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| 53.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KETD-ES | Estrella TV |
Analog-to-digital conversion
KETD shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 53, on January 16, 2009. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 46.[4][5] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 53, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.
References
- "KWHD TV-53 Programming". KWHD TV-53. Retrieved 2008-04-06.
- Ostrow, Joanne (January 28, 2010). "Denver's TV market to get new Latino station". Denver Post. Retrieved February 2, 2010.
- RabbitEars TV Query for KETD
- "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
- Ostrow, Joanne (January 30, 2009). "Digital deadline debate is producing brain static". Denver Post.