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KCSG is a full-service television station in Cedar City/St. George, Utah, broadcasting locally in digital on UHF channel 14 in Cedar City as the affiliate of RTV for the state of Utah. Founded June 11, 1984, the station began broadcasting in May 1990 and was licensed June 21, 1990. It is owned by Southwest Media LLC, with offices and studios in St. George. KCSG serves St. George on UHF channel 16, and has a network of translators in southwestern Utah; it is also carried on DirecTV, Dish Network, Galaxy 19, and cable systems in the Salt Lake City market.[1]

History

KCSG began as KCCZ, with a construction permit issued on June 11, 1984 to Michael Glenn Golden. After several extensions and replacements of expired permits, and transfer of the permit to Liberty Broadcasting Company, KCCZ came on the air in May 1990 as an independent station and was licensed by the FCC on June 21, 1990. The station would be short-lived. Financial difficulties doomed KCCZ and it ceased broadcasting in November 1992. Liberty Broadcasting filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy on December 17, 1992, but the filing had to be converted to Chapter 7 Bankruptcy on June 22, 1993. On October 20, Seagull Communications Company filed an application to acquire the station out of bankruptcy and on November 12, changed its call letters to KSGI-TV. The acquisition was approved by the FCC and consummated February 1, 1994. Seagull Communications returned the station to air the same day, again as an independent station.[2]

Almost immediately, the new owners applied to the FCC to build booster stations serving St. George, Utah and Beaver Dam, Arizona/Mesquite, Nevada, communities cut off from the signal by mountainous terrain. The FCC granted the construction permit for the St. George booster, KSGI1 (later KCSG1), on February 28, 1995, but did not grant a permit for the Beaver Dam booster, KSGI2 (later KCSG2), until January 1998. That station was never built, but the construction permit remained in the FCC database until 2009.

In 1997, Seagull Communications sold KSGI-TV to Bonneville Holding Company, a broadcasting company wholly owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The sale was approved by the FCC on December 10, 1997 and was consummated on April 27, 1998. On February 16, 1998, the station changed its call letters to KXIV, in anticipation of its DTV channel assignment on UHF channel 14, but the FCC adopted the virtual channel standard, whereby digital stations would continue to identify by their analog channel assignment, and on May 15, 1998, the station again changed call letters, this time to KCSG. That August, the station affiliated with Pax TV, a network formed to bring family-friendly entertainment to the airwaves. In August 2002, the station was sold to Broadcast West, a St. George-based partnership of Daniel Matheson and local auto dealer Stephen Wade. The new owners elected to continue the Pax affiliation and to maintain an association with Bonneville-owned KSL-TV.[1]

Broadcast West began to make changes to KCSG that would establish its identity as a Southern Utah television station. In 2003, they began a local TV news operation, the first in the region. Before, the only TV news available to residents of Cedar City and St. George was from the Salt Lake City-area stations. In June 2005, with Pax TV heading in a different direction, KCSG switched affiliation to America One, continuing to offer family-focused programming. The station made news in September 2005, when it began offering its news programs in Spanish, as well as in English, attempting to serve the region's growing Hispanic population.[3] The Broadcast West partnership was dissolved on October 18, 2005, and a new company, Southwest Media, owned by Stephen Wade, became the licensee.[4]

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KCSG's logo as a MyNetworkTV affiliate.

On August 18, 2008, KCSG replaced Salt Lake City's KJZZ-TV as Utah's MyNetworkTV affiliate.[5] The station added an RTV affiliation, previously held in the market by KUSG and KCBU, in 2009.[6]

For a time, starting on September 20, 2010, KCSG was one of two MyNetworkTV affiliates serving the geographically large Utah media market, along with KUSG; the affiliation was subsequently ceded completely to the renamed KMYU.

On January 24, 2011 KCSG announced that they were adding two digital subchannels. 14.2 now airs My Family TV and 14.3 airs local information and music. [7]

Programming

Currently, KCSG primarily airs a mix of programming from RTV (including the talk show Daytime) and infomercials. The station also airs some syndicated programming; these are primarily shown in the late night hours, though it also airs Steven and Chris and The Wendy Williams Show during the day.

News operation

KCSG was the first station in southern Utah to have local television news. Until KCSG started its news department, St. George residents got their local news from stations in Salt Lake City; indeed, KCSG itself simulcast KSL-TV's morning newscast for a time under Bonneville ownership.[8] The station's news operation began in 2003 with a 5-minute newscast; this subsequently expanded to half-hour newscasts at 5:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. KCSG discontinued its newscasts on February 19, 2010; the station still broadcasts news updates and still places news stories on its website.[9][10] After a six-month hiatus, full-scale newscasts were reinstated on August 23, 2010, with the early evening newscast now airing at 6:30 p.m., in addition to the 9 p.m. newscast. KCSG previously announced a partnership with Dixie State College of Utah.[11]

Sports

The station broadcasts select games of the local professional baseball, the St. George RoadRunners of the Golden Baseball League.

The St. George Marathon, the City of St. George First Night and the Huntsman World Senior Games are broadcast on KCSG.

On November 5, 2009 it was announced that the final Dixie State College of Utah football game would be aired on KCSG in a partnership with the Dick Nourse Center for Media Innovation. Play by play will be handled by John Potter and Phil Tuckett. The goal is to broadcast Dixie State football and basketball games in the near future.[12]

Translators

KCSG extends its over-the-air coverage throughout southwestern Utah through a network of one booster station and more than 15 analog and digital translator stations:

References

  1. ^ a b "About Us". KCSG.com. Retrieved June 18, 2009.
  2. ^ "FCC Memorandum Opinion and Order". FCC CDBS database. December 5, 1997. Retrieved September 19, 2007.
  3. ^ Perkins, Nancy (September 21, 2005). "St. George station's news popular in English, Spanish". Deseret Morning News. Retrieved September 19, 2007.
  4. ^ "License Renewal: Public Inspection File attachment". FCC CDBS database. May 31, 2006. Retrieved September 19, 2007.
  5. ^ Malone, Michael (July 21, 2008). "KCSG Salt Lake City Grabs MNT Affiliation". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved July 22, 2008.
  6. ^ Miller, Mark K. (July 23, 2009). "New Deals Put RTV Near 89% Coverage". TVNewsCheck. Retrieved March 28, 2010.
  7. ^ Morgan Skinne (January 24, 2011). "KCSG Television Adds Two Digital "Over-the-air" Channels in Southern Utah". KCSG. Retrieved January 24, 2011.
  8. ^ "Programming". KCSG Television. Archived from the original on January 27, 2000. Retrieved March 28, 2010.
  9. ^ "KCSG Television Announces News Format Change". KCSG. February 20, 2010. Retrieved February 20, 2010.
  10. ^ "KCSG nightly news goes dark". Casie Forbes, Editor for the Dixie Sun. February 22, 2010. Retrieved February 22, 2010.
  11. ^ "Dixie State College and KCSG Television Announce Partnership". 2010. Retrieved August 30, 2010.
  12. ^ "DSC's final football game to be televised". 2009. Retrieved November 5, 2009.[dead link]
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