KGBY (TV)
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Grand Junction, Colorado United States |
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| Channels |
Digital: 7 (VHF) Virtual: 20 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Translators | K28AD-D 28 (UHF), Montrose |
| Affiliations | Cozi TV (2014–present) |
| Owner | Chang Media Group (Jeff Chang and Gabriella Gomez) |
| First air date | October 22, 1979 |
| Former callsigns | KJCT (1979–2014) |
| Former channel number(s) | 8 (VHF analog, 1979–2009) 8 (PSIP virtual, 2005–2014) |
| Former affiliations | ABC (1979–2014) |
| Transmitter power | 9.7 kW |
| Height | 892 m |
| Facility ID | 52593 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°2′54.8″N 108°15′7.6″W / 39.048556°N 108.252111°W |
KGBY is the Cozi TV-affiliated television station for Colorado's Western Slope region that is licensed to Grand Junction. It broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on VHF channel 7 (or virtual channel 20.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter at the Mesa Point Electronics Site on the Grand Mesa (southeast of Interstate 70). KGBY is owned by the Chang Media Group.
KGBY signed on the air on October 22, 1979 as KJCT, the first television station in Western Colorado since KREX-TV in 1954. It was owned by the Pikes Peak Broadcasting Company as a semi-satellite of KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs; as a result, it immediately took ABC away from KREX. The station had full production facilities in Grand Junction; however, much of the programming was fed via hundreds of miles of microwave links from KRDO. In the late 1990s, KJCT chief engineer Roger Hightower modernized KJCT into one of the first true digital facilities in Colorado, and severed the electronic umbilical cord with KRDO.
KJCT was the first Western Colorado television station with modern electronic news gathering technology. "8 Live," the stations' first live microwave newsvan, came into service in 1984.
In 2006, News-Press & Gazette Company announced the purchase of KJCT along with KRDO-TV and KRDO radio from Pikes Peak Broadcasting.
In late 2008, KJCT's third digital subcarrier became western Colorado's affiliate for The CW. However, despite The CW being available locally, Denver's KWGN-TV, which has been on cable for decades in Grand Junction, is still available through two low-powered repeaters in the area.
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