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KETD

KETD
Estrella TV Logo.png
LeSEA Logo.png
Castle Rock/Denver, Colorado
United States
City Castle Rock, Colorado
Branding Estrella TV KETD 53
KWHS 51 (on DT2)
Channels Digital: 46 (UHF)
Virtual: 53 ()
Affiliations
Owner Liberman Broadcasting
(KRCA License LLC)
First air date July 1, 1990; 26 years ago (1990-07-01)
Call letters' meaning Estrella
TV
Denver
Former callsigns KWHD (1990–2010)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 53 (UHF, 1990–2009)
Former affiliations LeSEA (1990–2010)
Transmitter power 300 kW
Height 178 m
Facility ID 37101
Transmitter coordinates 39°25′56.5″N 104°39′20.2″W / 39.432361°N 104.655611°W / 39.432361; -104.655611Coordinates: 39°25′56.5″N 104°39′20.2″W / 39.432361°N 104.655611°W / 39.432361; -104.655611
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website estrellatv.com

KETD, virtual channel 53 (UHF digital channel 46), is an Estrella TV owned-and-operated television station serving Denver, Colorado, United States that is licensed to Castle Rock. The station is owned by Liberman Broadcasting. KETD maintains offices located on East Jamison Circle in Englewood, and its transmitter is located on Mount Morrison in western Jefferson County.

The station first signed on the air on July 1, 1990 as KWHD. Founded by the LeSea Broadcasting Corporation, the station carried a mix of Christian-targeted programs, family-oriented syndicated programs and movies. Christian programming aired for much of the broadcast day, with breakaway windows for secular programming (including sitcoms, westerns and public domain movies) each weekday from 2:00 to 7:00 p.m. and a scattered amount for a few hours a day on Saturdays, which included a morning children's program block, and a schedule consisting entirely of Christian-oriented religious programs on Sundays. By 2008, KWHD claimed to be "the only full-time, commercial, independent TV station in Colorado." Its schedule by this point was split between family-oriented secular programming and local sports programming 40% of the time and Christian religious programs for the remaining 60% of the broadcast day outside of Sundays.

On January 28, 2010, LeSEA announced that it would sell KWHD to Liberman Broadcasting. On June 1, 2010, the station became an owned-and-operated station of the Liberman-owned Estrella TV and changed its call letters to KETD. As part of the deal, KETD agreed to lease its second digital subchannel to LeSEA to continue carrying its programming (which is also carried on the station's former semi-translator KWHS-LD in Colorado Springs, which LeSEA continues to own).


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