Ion Mystery station in Colorado Springs, Colorado
KZCS-LD (channel 18) is a low-power television station in Colorado Springs, Colorado , United States, airing programming from the digital multicast network Ion Mystery . It is owned and operated by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside Pueblo -licensed NBC affiliate KOAA-TV (channel 5). KZCS-LD's transmitter is located on Cheyenne Mountain . Master control and most internal operations are based at the studios of ABC affiliate KMGH-TV (channel 7) on Delgany Street in Denver 's River North Art District.[ a]
History
The station signed on the air in 1994 on analog channel 38 as K38DM, a translator of KMGH-TV, then a CBS affiliate. It moved to channel 23 in 2003, changing its call sign to K23GJ. It assumed the KZCS-LP call sign in 2005, and became an Azteca América affiliate in 2013, relaying KMGH-TV's second digital subchannel. It switched to Escape (which later rebranded to Court TV Mystery, now Ion Mystery since 2022) in 2019, and flash-cut to digital in 2020.
Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed :
Notes
References
Full power
KOAA-TV/K30JM-D (5.1 NBC , 5.2 Court , 5.3 Grit , 5.4 Ion+ , 5.5 Ion , 5.6 LC , 5.7 HSN2 )KTSC (8.1 PBS , 8.2 PBS Kids , 8.3 Create , 8.4 World )KKTV (11.1 CBS , 11.2 MNTV /MeTV , 11.3 Outlaw )KRDO-TV (13.1 ABC , 13.2 TMD , 13.3 News, 13.4 Dabl , 13.5 QVC , 13.6 HSN , 13.7 H&I )KXRM-TV (21.1 Fox , 21.2 CW , 21.3 Ion , 21.4 Mystery )KVSN-DT (48.1 UNI , 48.2 UniMás , 48.3 LATV , 48.4 TBD , 48.5 Crime , 48.6 Charge! ) Low power
KZCS-LD (18.1 Mystery , 18.2 Bounce , 18.3 Laff )KGHB-CD (27.1 UniMás , 27.2 Comet )KSPK-LD (28.1 A1 /AMGTV)K31KM-D 31 (12.1 PBS /simulcast of KBDI-TV , 12.2 FNX /KBDI+, 12.3 DW , 12.4 NHK )KTLO-LD (46.1 TMD )KWHS-LD (51.1 CTN , 51.2 Grio )KXTU-LD (57.1 CW , 57.2 Bounce , 57.3 Laff , 57.4 ANT ) Defunct
ABC CBS Fox NBC The CW MyNetworkTV Ion Television PBS Telemundo Univision UniMás Other
KCDO-TV 3 (Ind. , Sterling )*KREG-TV 3 (MeTV , Glenwood Springs )*KZCS-LD 18 (Mystery , Colorado Springs )*K19JA-D 19.2 (Classic Showcase , Cortez )*KLML-DT 20.4 (Cozi , Grand Junction )*KSPK-LD 28 (AMGTV, Walsenburg )*K36DB-CD 36 (Outside , Avon )*KPJR-TV 38 (TBN , Greeley/Denver )*KQDK-CD 39 (CTN , Aurora )*KRMT 41 (Daystar , Denver )*K34QB-D 45 (Outside , Vail )*KWHS-LD 51 (CTN , Colorado Springs )*KPXH-LD 52 (Daystar , Fort Collins )*KETD 53 (Estrella , Castle Rock/Denver )* (*) – indicates station is in one of Colorado's primary
TV markets (**) – indicates station is in an out-of-state TV market, but reaches a small portion of Colorado
