KEGS-LP
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Goldfield, Nevada United States |
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|---|---|
| Channels | Analog: 7 (VHF) |
| Translators | KEGS-LP 30 Las Vegas KRRI-LP 43 Reno |
| Affiliations | defunct |
| Owner |
Equity Media Holdings Corporation (Nevada Channel 3, Inc.) |
| First air date | April 2002 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Equity Goldfield Station |
| Former callsigns | KTVY-TV (2002–2005) |
| Former affiliations |
ImaginAsian (to 5/30/2007) RTN (2007–2009) Independent (2009) |
| Transmitter power | 22.9 kW |
| Height | 448 m |
| Facility ID | 86201 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°3′5″N 117°13′33″W / 38.05139°N 117.22583°W |
KEGS, channel 7, was a television station in Goldfield, Nevada that served both the Reno and Las Vegas markets by way of translators KRRI-LP channel 25 in Reno and KEGS-LP channel 30 in Las Vegas. Like many stations that were owned by Equity Broadcasting, the stations were operated remotely by satellite; their programming could be seen free-to-air on Galaxy 18.
The Las Vegas station was founded on January 12, 1993 as K63FD, and later gained the call sign KTVY-LP in 1997. In April 2002, the Goldfield station signed on as KTVY-TV, matching the station in Las Vegas. Finally, in late May 2005, both stations changed their call sign to the current KEGS.
Until May 30, 2007, KEGS was affiliated with ImaginAsian. On that day, the station switched to the Retro Television Network (RTN).
On January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity Media Holdings Corporation and RTN interrupted the programming on many RTN affiliates. As a result, Luken Communications, LLC (who had purchased RTN in June 2008), restored a national RTN feed from its headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with individual customized feeds to non-Equity-owned affiliates to follow on a piecemeal basis. As a result, KEGS lost its RTN affiliation immediately, though Luken vows to find a new affiliate for RTN in the Las Vegas market. Viewers in the Reno area can still watch RTN on the digital subchannel of local Fox affiliate KRXI-TV, while KGNG-LP's DT4 subchannel took the affiliation in Las Vegas in June 2009.
At auction on April 16, 2009, KEGS-LP was sold to Mako Communications, while KRRI-LP and KELM-LP were sold to Ngensolutions LLC. In June 2013, Mako sold what had become KEGS-LD to Landover 5 LLC as part of a larger deal involving 51 other low-power television stations. The full-service KEGS signal never found a buyer, and signed off permanently on June 12, 2009; its license was finally canceled on July 6, 2010.
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