KAZT-TV
 
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Prescott/Phoenix, Arizona United States |
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| City | Prescott |
| Branding | AZ-TV 7 MeTV Arizona (on DT2) HSN 7.3 (on DT3) |
| Slogan | Arizona's Own |
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Digital: 7 (VHF) Virtual: 7 () |
| Translators | KAZT-CD 36 Phoenix (for others, see list in article) |
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| Owner | Londen Media Group (KAZT, LLC) |
| First air date | September 5, 1982 |
| Call letters' meaning | AriZona Television |
| Former callsigns | KUSK (1982–2002) |
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| Transmitter power | 3.2 kW |
| Height | 792 m |
| Facility ID | 35811 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°41′14.6″N 112°7′3.8″W / 34.687389°N 112.117722°WCoordinates: 34°41′14.6″N 112°7′3.8″W / 34.687389°N 112.117722°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.aztv.com |
KAZT-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 7, is an independent television station located in Prescott, Arizona, United States, and serving the Phoenix market. The station is owned by the Londen family of Phoenix, and, as such, is the only locally owned English-language television station in the Phoenix market. KAZT maintains studio facilities on Tower Road in Prescott, with a secondary studio in the Londen Center on Camelback Road in Phoenix. Its main transmitter is located atop Mingus Mountain (northeast of Prescott). Its signal is relayed through a network of seven low-power translators across central and northern Arizona, including KAZT-CD (UHF digital channel 36) in Phoenix. The station is also carried on cable providers throughout the state (except in the Tucson and Yuma markets), as well as on the Phoenix DirecTV and Dish Network local feeds.
The station was originally assigned the call letters “KNAZ” in January 1980, when the original construction permit was granted; that September, the calls were changed to “KUSK” (the KNAZ call letters ended up being assigned to the NBC-affiliated station in Flagstaff), and it was under the latter calls that the station first signed on the air on September 5, 1982. By the 1990s, channel 7 was running low-budget programming that mainly targeted northern Arizona, through its main transmitter transmitting from Mingus Mountain and a network of translators from Yuma to Payson, and from Casa Grande to Bullhead City. The station broadcast television series from the 1950s and old public domain movies (some of which were provided by America One and the American Independent Network), syndicated programs that were declined by other Phoenix stations, local talk shows, and home shopping programs from America's Store. Before the Arizona Diamondbacks began play in 1998, KUSK thrived on Major League Baseball telecasts, and aired San Diego Padres, Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants games.
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