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KCOS (TV)

KCOS channel 13 is a PBS member station based in El Paso, Texas. It also operates on cable channel 12 and digital channel 13. The station is owned by El Paso Public Television Foundation, a non-profit agency.

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History

KCOS began broadcasting on August 18, 1978 on channel 7. It swapped channels with KVIA-TV in July 1981, moving from channel 7 to channel 13.

Prior to KCOS's debut, El Paso was the largest city in the United States without a PBS member station. Some viewers did receive KRWG-TV in Las Cruces, New Mexico, but most of the market was unable to receive it due to the Franklin Mountains blocking the signal coverage. Thus, KTSM-TV aired Sesame Street to El Pasoans from the show's debut in 1969 until KCOS's launch in 1978 (this was a common practice in other markets throughout the country with a similar lack of public television access). Cable-viewers in El Paso did receive PBS coverage from both Las Cruces and from Albuquerque's KNME until 1978.

KCOS-LP channel 28 Phoenix, Arizona is unrelated to KCOS.

Digital television

Currently, the station's digital channel is not multiplexed:

Subchannel Programming
13.1 Main KCOS / PBS programming

Analog shutdown

On June 12, 2009 at 11:30 P.M. MDT, KCOS completed the analog television shutdown and digital conversion during its scheduled daily sign-off period. Additionally, KCOS moved its digital broadcasts from channel 30 to its former analog channel number, 13.[1]

External links

References

  1. ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
v • d • Television stations in the El Paso/Las Cruces/Juárez area
Local stations

KDBC (4.1 CBS, 4.2 MNTV) • KVIA 7 (7.1 ABC, 7.2 CW, 7.3 StormTRACK 24/7, 7.4 LATV) • KTSM (9.1 NBC, 9.2 Estrella TV) • KCOS (13.1 PBS) • KFOX (14.1 Fox, 14.2 RTV) • KINT (26.1 UNI) • KSCE 38 (Religious) • K40FW 40 (Multimedios) • KTFN (65.1 TFU)
Las Cruces Reception may vary by geographical location

KRWG (22.1 PBS main, 22.2 PBS secondary, 22.3 V-me) • KLCP 30 (GLC) • KTDO (48.1 TMD)
Ciudad Juárez

XEPM 2 (Televisa Local) • XEJ 5 (Televisa XEQ) • XHCJE 11 (Azteca 13) • XHCJH 20 (Azteca 7) • XHJCI 32 (Televisa XEW) • XHIJ 44 (C3) • XHJUB 56 (Televisa XHGC)
Texas Broadcast television areas by city:

Abilene/Sweetwater • Amarillo (Texas Panhandle) • Austin • Beaumont/Port Arthur • Corpus Christi • Dallas-Fort Worth • Del Rio, TX • El Paso • Houston • Laredo • Lubbock • Midland-Odessa (Permian Basin) • Rio Grande Valley • San Angelo • San Antonio • Sherman/Ada, OK • Texarkana/Shreveport, LA • Tyler/Longview (East Texas) • Victoria • Waco/Bryan (Brazos Valley) • Wichita Falls/Lawton, OK

New Mexico Broadcast television areas by city: Albuquerque/Santa Fe • Amarillo, TX • El Paso, TX • Odessa/Midland, TX
v • d • PBS Member Stations in the state of Texas

KACV 2 (Amarillo) - KTXT 5 (Lubbock) - KUHT 8 (Houston) - KLRN 9 (San Antonio) - KCOS 13 (El Paso) - KERA 13/K44GS 44 (Dallas/Wichita Falls) - KAMU 15 (College Station) - KEDT 16 (Corpus Christi) - KLRU 18 (Austin) - KPBT 36 (Odessa) - KMBH 38 (Harlingen) - KNCT 46 (Belton)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, ION, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Texas

Categories: PBS member stations | Channel 13 digital TV stations in the United States | Channel 13 TV stations in the United States | Television channels and stations established in 1978 | Television stations in El Paso, Texas

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