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KXRM-TV
  • United States
  • CityColorado Springs, Colorado
    Channels
  • Virtual: 21
  • Branding
    • Fox 21; Fox 21 News
  • SOCO CW (on DT2)
  • Programming
    Affiliations
  • 21.2: The CW (KXTU-LD)
  • for others, see § Subchannels
  • Ownership
    Owner
  • (Nexstar Media Inc.)
  • Sister stations

    KXTU-LD
    History

    First air date

    January 22, 1985 (39 years ago) (1985-01-22)

    Former channel number(s)

    Analog: 21 (UHF, 1985–2009)

    Former affiliations

  • UPN (secondary, 1995–1999)
  • Call sign meaning

    "Christ Exalted in the Rocky Mountains"
    Technical information[1]

    Licensing authority

    FCC
    Facility ID35991
    ERP51kW
    HAAT641 m (2,103 ft)
    Transmitter coordinates38°44′42.9″N 104°51′41.9″W / 38.745250°N 104.861639°W / 38.745250; -104.861639 (KXRM-TV)
    Translator(s)see § Translators
    Links

    Public license information

  • LMS
  • Websitewww.fox21news.com

    KXRM-TV (channel 21) is a television stationinColorado Springs, Colorado, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside low-power CW owned-and-operated station KXTU-LD (channel 57). The two stations share studios on Wooten Road in Colorado Springs; KXRM-TV's transmitter is located on Cheyenne Mountain.

    History[edit]

    KXRM-TV first signed on the air as an independent station on January 22, 1985. Its call letters were chosen in part to reflect the region in which it operates and its original intent of classic family friendly programing, current and classic cartoon programing mixed with Christian teaching and talk shows. The first two letters stand for "Khrist" (Jesus Christ) "Xalted" (Exalted) and the last two letters stand for "Rocky Mountains". The station had hoped to sign on Christmas Eve 1984, but technical glitches prevented that from happening. KXRM was Southern Colorado's first independent station, and the region's first commercial television station since KRDO-TV signed on 31 years earlier. KXRM-TV became one of the initial group of independent television stations to agree to affiliate with the Fox Broadcasting Company in 1986 and had remained an affiliate of the network ever since.

    The station was locally owned until 2000 when it was bought by Raycom Media. After Raycom merged with the Liberty Corporation, KXRM was one of several stations that were spun off to Barrington Broadcasting.

    On October 11, 2007, the station began airing programming from the Retro Television Network (RTV) on its second digital subchannel.[2] Previously, this aired The Tube (a 24-hour music channel) until the network suspended operations on October 1. On September 15, 2008, KXRM replaced RTV programming on 21.2 with a simulcast of KXTU.[3] This signal increases KXTU's broadcasting radius; KXTU did not convert to digital until 2010, and even in digital, its coverage area is effectively limited to El Paso and Pueblo counties.

    On February 28, 2013, Barrington Broadcasting announced the sale of its entire group, including KXRM-TV, to Sinclair Broadcast Group.[4] The sale was completed on November 25.[5] On August 20, 2014, Sinclair announced that it would sell KXRM-TV and KXTU-LD, along with WTTAinTampa Bay and WHTMinHarrisburg (which Sinclair, on behalf of Allbritton is planning on to divest) to Media General in a swap for WJARinProvidence, Rhode Island, the WLUK-TV and WCWF duopoly in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and WTGSinSavannah, Georgia. The swap was part of Media General's merger with LIN Media.[6][7] WHTM's sale of Media General was explored nearly two months earlier, and it was completed, nearly three months before the Media General/LIN deal was completed.[8][9] The sale was completed on December 19.[10] On January 27, 2016, it was announced that the Nexstar Broadcasting Group would buy Media General for $4.6 billion. KXRM became part of "Nexstar Media Group" as Nexstar's second station in Colorado, joining Grand Junction's CBS affiliate KREX-TV, along with their sister Fox station KFQX through their JSA with Mission Broadcasting.[11] The deal was approved by the FCC on January 11, 2017, and it was completed on January 17.[12] Nexstar would then acquire Tribune Media and their Denver duopoly of CW affiliate KWGN-TV and Fox affiliate KDVR, thus consolidating full control over the Fox stations across Colorado.

    News operation[edit]

    Currently, KXRM broadcasts 43 hours of local news each week (with 7+12 hours each weekday, 2+12 hours on Saturdays and three hours on Sundays). It has the highest local newscast output among all broadcast television stations in the Colorado Springs–Pueblo market.

    The station began airing a half hour prime time newscast at 9 p.m. on March 11, 2001, that was produced by local CBS affiliate KKTV. KXRM established its own in-house news department in 2006 and expanded the nighty 9 p.m. newscast to a full hour. The station hosts a morning show (first started in 2007 as a three-hour newscast) that currently runs from 5 to 9 a.m. that has been recognized by the Colorado Broadcasters Association as one of the best morning shows in the market. On January 20, 2016, a 10 p.m. newscast was added for weeknights. KXRM also airs weekend morning newscasts running from 5 to 7 a.m. on Saturdays and 6 to 8 a.m. on Sundays. The Saturday evening newscasts run a half hour from 9 to 9:30 p.m., and the Sunday night newscasts run an hour from 9 to 10 p.m.

    In late September 2010, KXRM became the fourth station in Colorado Springs–Pueblo to start broadcasting its local newscasts in 16:9 widescreen.

    In 2013, the Radio Television Digital News Association recognized KXRM with a National Edward R. Murrow Award for continuing coverage of the Waldo Canyon Fire.[13]

    Technical information[edit]

    Subchannels[edit]

    The station's signal is multiplexed:

    Subchannels of KXRM-TV[14]
    Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
    21.1 720p 16:9 KXRM-DT Fox
    21.2 1080i SOCO CW The CW (KXTU-LD)
    21.3 480i ION Ion
    21.4 Mystery Ion Mystery
      Simulcast of subchannels of another station

    Analog-to-digital conversion[edit]

    KXRM-TV ended regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 21, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 22,[15] using virtual channel 21.

    As part of the SAFER Act, KXRM kept its analog signal on the air until June 26 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the National Association of Broadcasters.[16]

    Translators[edit]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KXRM-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  • ^ Three Markets Go Retro with Retro Television Network. Broadcastingcable.com. Retrieved on July 22, 2013.
  • ^ KXRM takes KXTU under its digital wing. Springstvtalk.blogspot.com (September 17, 2008). Retrieved on July 22, 2013.
  • ^ Malone, Michael (February 28, 2013). "Sinclair's Chesapeake TV Acquires Barrington Stations". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
  • ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 3, 2013. Retrieved November 25, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  • ^ "Media General, LIN Sell Stations In 5 Markets". TVNewsCheck. August 20, 2014. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
  • ^ Malone, Michael (August 20, 2014). "Media General, LIN Divest Stations in Five Markets". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
  • ^ Staff (June 23, 2014). "Media General Buying WHTM For $83.4M". TV News Check. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
  • ^ "Media General Completes Acquisition of WHTM-TV in Harrisburg, PA". www.businesswire.com. September 2, 2014. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
  • ^ Sinclair Broadcast Group Closes on Certain Station Acquisitions and Divestitures with Media General Archived December 19, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Press Release, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Retrieved December 19, 2014
  • ^ "Nexstar Broadcasting Group Enters into Definitive Agreement to Acquire Media General for $4.6 Billion in Accretive Cash and Stock Transaction". Archived from the original on January 30, 2016. Retrieved January 28, 2016.
  • ^ Nexstar Broadcasting Group Completes Acquisition of Media General Creating Nexstar Media Group, The Nation's Second Largest Television Broadcaster Nexstar Media Group, January 17, 2017. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
  • ^ 2013 National Edward R. Murrow Award Winners. RTDNA. Retrieved on July 22, 2013.
  • ^ RabbitEars TV Query for KXRM
  • ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
  • ^ "UPDATED List of Participants in the Analog Nightlight Program" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. June 12, 2009. Retrieved June 14, 2024.
  • External links[edit]


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