KRDO-TV

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KRDO-TV
Colorado Springs/Pueblo, Colorado
Branding	NewsChannel 13
Slogan	Where The News Comes First
Channels	Analog: 13 (VHF) Digital: 24 (UHF)
Affiliations	ABC
Owner	News-Press & Gazette Company (Pikes Peak Television, Inc.)
First air date	September 21, 1953
Call letters’ meaning	Kolorado’s [sic] Radio Dynamic Outlet
Former affiliations	NBC (1953-1960)
Transmitter Power	282 kW (analog) 200 kW (digital)
Height	652 m (analog) 675 m (digital)
Facility ID	52579
Transmitter Coordinates	38°44′45.1″N, 104°51′39.1″W
Website	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 broadcasts on cable channel 12 due to K49CJ(Telemundo) broadcasting on cable channel 13.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Logos

KRDO's previous logo, used until August 2006. The 13 in this logo dates back to the early 1980s.

KRDO logo, used from August 2006 until February 2008

[edit] External links

• KRDO-TV Web site
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KRDO
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KRDO-TV

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Colorado Springs/Pueblo market (Nielsen DMA #93) KOAA 5 / K30AA 30 (NBC) - KTSC 8 (PBS/RMPBS) - KKTV 11 (CBS, MNTV on DT2) - KRDO 13 (ABC) - KXRM 21 (Fox, RTN on DT2) - KZCS-LP 23 (AZA) - KGHB 27 (UNI) - KSPK-LP 28 (A1/FN) - K32EO 32 (PBS) - K34FB 34 (TEL) - KJCS 38 (TBN/DS) - K48CU 48 (TBN) - K49CJ 49 (TEL) - KWHS 51 (LeSEA) - KXTU 57 (The CW)

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