KRDO-TV
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| KRDO-TV | |
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| Colorado Springs/Pueblo, Colorado | |
| Branding | NewsChannel 13 HD |
| Slogan | Where The News Comes First |
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| Subchannels | 13.1 ABC 13.2 Telemundo |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner | News-Press & Gazette Company (Pikes Peak Television, Inc.) |
| First air date | September 21, 1953 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Kolorado’s [sic] Radio Dynamic Outlet |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 13 (1953-2009) |
| Former affiliations | NBC (1953-1960) |
| Transmitter Power | 200 kW (digital) |
| Height | 675 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 52579 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | 38°44′45.1″N 104°51′39.1″W / 38.745861°N 104.860861°W |
| Website | www.krdo.com |
KRDO-TV is the ABC television affiliate in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. The station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 24. The station is currently owned by Pikes Peak Television, a subsidiary of the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) of St. Joseph, Missouri, and is sister station to KRDO-AM and KRDO-FM.
KRDO-TV is carried on cable channel 12; channel 13 is instead occupied by Telemundo affiliate K49CJ.
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[edit] History
KRDO-TV first went on the air on September 21, 1953 as an NBC affiliate. At that time, KKTV channel 11 was a primary CBS affiliate with a secondary affiliation with ABC, and KCSJ-TV channel 5 was the NBC affiliate for nearby Pueblo. As such, during much of the 1950s, Southern Colorado was served by two full-time NBC affiliates and a CBS affiliate that also carried ABC programming.
By 1960, as virtually all TV viewers in both cities and the surrounding area were receiving each of those three stations, the formerly separate Colorado Springs and Pueblo TV markets melded into one single market serving the Pikes Peak region and surrounding areas. At that point, each of the three commercial TV stations became "exclusive" network affiliates with KKTV 11 retaining CBS, KCSJ-TV 5 (now KOAA-TV) continuing with NBC and KRDO-TV 13 becoming a full-time ABC affiliate.
KRDO-TV had been locally owned by Pikes Peak Broadcasting Company since the station signed on. In April 2006, the company announced that it was selling KRDO-TV (along with KRDO-AM and KJCT-TV in Grand Junction) to the News-Press & Gazette Company. News-Press & Gazette officially took over operations of KRDO-TV on June 26, 2006; in honor of Pikes Peak Broadcasting, it changed the name of its Colorado broadcast group to Pikes Peak Television. KRDO-TV's news operation was rebranded from News13 to NewsChannel 13 on the same day. A new logo and a new announcer were introduced on August 14, 2006. Under NPG; KRDO expanded its newscasts starting with 5PM and 6PM newscasts replacing the single early evening 5:30 PM newscasts. It added weekend morning newscasts (currently airing from 6-7 am & 8-9 am both on Saturdays and Sundays) that started in the final week of December 2006. In June 2007 it started a midday newscast that airs from 12-1 pm.
On July 23, 2008 KRDO-TV began broadcasting Southern Colorado's first local newscasts in high definition (HD), beginning with "NewsChannel 13 at Noon."
[edit] News/Station Presentation
[edit] Newscast Titles
- Your Esso Reporter (1953-1958)
- The Big News (1958-1964)
- Newscope (1964-1967)
- Eyewitness News (1967-1975)
- Channel 13 News (1975-1978)
- 13 News (1978-1979)
- News 13 (1979-2006)
- NewsChannel 13 (2006-present)
- NewsChannel 13 HD (2008-present)
[edit] Station Slogans
- Channel 13, Your Neighborhood Station (early 1970s)
- The Best in Southern Colorado, TV-13! (mid 1970s)
- Count on the Channel 13 News (mid 1970s)
- You're in 13 Country (late 1970s)
- TV-13, Just Look at Us! (late 1970's-early 1980's)
- You and Me and TV-13 (1981-1982)
- Come on Along to TV-13 (1982-1983)
- That Special Feeling on TV-13 (1983-1984)
- We're With You on TV-13 (1984-1985)
- Feel the Spirit Come Alive on TV 13 (1985-1989)
- A Part of Your Life (early 1990's)
- Everywhere Everyday (1996-2003)
- Your World at Home (2003-2006)
- Where The News Comes First (2006-present)
[edit] Logos
 KRDO's previous logo, used until August 2006. The 13 font in this logo dates back to the early 1980s. |
 KRDO logo, used from August 2006 until February 2008 |
KRDO's current logo, used from February 2008 to present |
[edit] External links
- KRDO-TV Web site
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KRDO
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KRDO-TV
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