KDLH
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Duluth, Minnesota-Superior, Wisconsin United States |
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| Branding | Duluth CW |
| Slogan | Dare to Defy |
| Channels |
Digital: 33 (UHF) Virtual: 3 () |
| Subchannels | 3.1 CW |
| Translators | see article |
| Affiliations | The CW (secondary from 2006–2016) |
| Owner |
SagamoreHill Broadcasting (SagamoreHill of Duluth Licenses, LLC) |
| First air date | March 14, 1955 |
| Call letters' meaning | DuLutH |
| Former callsigns | KDAL-TV (1954–1979) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 3 (VHF, 1954–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Primary: NBC (1954–1955) CBS (1955–2016) Secondary: ABC (1954–1966) Fox (1996–2000) The WB (1998–2006) |
| Transmitter power | 381 kW |
| Height | 311.9 m |
| Facility ID | 4691 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 46°47′7.1″N 92°7′16.3″W / 46.785306°N 92.121194°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
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Profile CDBS |
KDLH is the CW-affiliated television station for Northeastern Minnesota and the Iron Range area, that is licensed to Duluth. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 33 from a transmitter west of downtown in Hilltop Park.
Owned by the SagamoreHill Broadcasting, the station was formerly operated as a CBS affiliate through a shared services agreement by Quincy Media, making it sister to NBC affiliate KBJR-TV and its semi-satellite KRII. Following the end of KDLH's SSA on August 1, 2016 (resulting from the station's sale from Malara Broadcast Group, concurrent with the sale of KBJR by Granite Broadcasting), CBS programming was moved to KBJR-DT2 and KDLH switched exclusively to The CW.
In addition to its main signal, KDLH may be viewed through the following translators in northern Minnesota. All of the stations broadcast in digital and relay KRII.
KDLH discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 3, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 33, using to display KDLH's virtual channel as 3 on digital television receivers.
KDLH began broadcasting on March 14, 1954 as KDAL-TV and aired an analog signal on VHF channel 3. It took its calls from the initials of its founder, Dalton Alexander LeMasurier, who owned the station along with KDAL-AM 610. It switched affiliations with WDSM-TV (now KBJR) in 1955 and joined CBS. It also aired some ABC programs in off-hours, splitting them with WDSM-TV, until WDIO-TV signed-on in 1966. The station's original studio facilities were located with KDAL Radio in the Bradley Building (demolished) moved to West Superior Street in Downtown Duluth in the Mid 1960s. During the late-1950s, KDAL was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. The LeMasurier family sold KDAL-AM-TV to what eventually became Tribune Broadcasting in 1960. KDAL began broadcasting in color in 1965. Tribune sold the station to Palmer Broadcasting in 1979, who changed the call letters to the current KDLH-TV on February 21. Palmer Broadcasting then sold KDLH to Benedek Broadcasting in 1985. The station dropped the -TV suffix in 1991.
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