KRDO-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KRDO-TV
city =
station_
station_slogan = Where The News Comes First
station_branding = NewsChannel 13
analog = 13 (VHF)
digital = 24 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = ABC
network =
founded =
airdate = September 21, 1953
location = Colorado Springs/Pueblo, Colorado
callsign_meaning = Kolorado’s " [sic] "
Radio
Dynamic
Outlet
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = News-Press & Gazette Company
licensee = Pikes Peak Television, Inc.
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = NBC (1953-1960)
effective_radiated_power = 282 kW (analog)
200 kW (digital)
HAAT = 652 m (analog)
675 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 52579
coordinates = coord|38|44|45.1|N|104|51|39.1|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.krdo.com/ www.krdo.com]

KRDO-TV is the ABC television affiliate in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. The station broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 13 (211.25 MHz video / 215.75 MHz audio), and its digital signal on UHF channel 24. The station is currently owned by Pikes Peak Television, a subsidiary of the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) of St. Joseph, Missouri, and is sister station to KRDO-AM and KRDO-FM.

KRDO-TV is carried on cable channel 12; channel 13 is instead occupied by Telemundo affiliate K49CJ.

History

KRDO-TV first went on the air on September 21, 1953 as an NBC affiliate. At that time, KKTV channel 11 was a primary CBS affiliate with a secondary affiliation with ABC, and KCSJ-TV channel 5 was the NBC affiliate for nearby Pueblo. As such, during much of the 1950s, Southern Colorado was served by two full-time NBC affiliates and a CBS affiliate that also carried ABC programming.

By 1960, as virtually all TV viewers in both cities and the surrounding area were receiving each of those three stations, the formerly separate Colorado Springs and Pueblo TV markets melded into one single market serving the Pikes Peak region and surrounding areas. At that point, each of the three commercial TV stations became "exclusive" network affiliates with KKTV 11 retaining CBS, KCSJ-TV 5 (now KOAA-TV) continuing with NBC and KRDO-TV 13 becoming a full-time ABC affiliate.

KRDO-TV had been locally owned by Pikes Peak Broadcasting Company since the station signed on. In April 2006, the company announced that it was selling KRDO-TV (along with KRDO-AM and KJCT-TV in Grand Junction) to the News-Press & Gazette Company. News-Press & Gazette officially took over operations of KRDO-TV on June 26, 2006; in honor of Pikes Peak Broadcasting, it changed the name of its Colorado broadcast group to Pikes Peak Television. KRDO-TV's news operation was rebranded from "News13" to "NewsChannel 13" on the same day. A new logo and a new announcer were introduced on August 14, 2006. Under NPG; KRDO expanded its newscasts starting with 5PM and 6PM newscasts replacing the single early evening 5:30 PM newscasts. It added weekend morning newscasts (currently airing from 6-7 am & 8-9 am both on Saturdays and Sundays) that started in the final week of December 2006. In June 2007 it started a midday newscast that airs from 12-1 pm.

On July 23, 2008 KRDO-TV began broadcasting Southern Colorado's first local newscasts in high definition (HD), beginning with "NewsChannel 13 at Noon"."

Logos

External links

* [http://www.krdo.com/ KRDO-TV Web site]
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