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Channels | |
Branding | Estrella TV Houston (general) Noticias 61 (newscast) |
Programming | |
Affiliations | 61.1: Estrella TV 61.2: Estrella News 61.3: Jewelry Television 61.4: Shop LC 61.5: Positiv 61.6: QVC2 |
Ownership | |
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Radio: KTJM, KQQK, KEYH, KNTE | |
History | |
First air date | June 2, 1995 |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 61 (UHF, 1995–2009) Digital: 44 (UHF, 2003–2019) |
Shop at Home (1995–2001) Spanish Independent (2001–2009) | |
Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 69531 |
ERP | 880 kW |
HAAT | 595 m (1,952 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 29°33′45.2″N95°30′35.9″W / 29.562556°N 95.509972°W |
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Public license information | |
Website | www |
KZJL (channel 61) is a television station in Houston, Texas, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language network Estrella TV. It is owned and operated by Estrella Media and is sister to four radio stations. KZJL's studios are located on Bering Drive on the city's southwest side, and its transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County.
The station first signed on the air on June 2, 1995, as an affiliate of home shopping network Shop at Home. In 2001, the station was purchased by Liberman Broadcasting (which was renamed Estrella Media in February 2020, following a corporate reorganization of the company under private equity firm HPS Investment Partners, LLC) and became a Spanish-language independent station; on September 14, 2009, KZJL became a charter owned-and-operated station of Liberman's Spanish-language broadcast network Estrella TV.
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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61.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KZJL-HD | Main KZJL programming / Estrella TV |
61.2 | KZJL-2 | Estrella News | ||
61.3 | 480i | 4:3 | JTV | Jewelry Television |
61.4 | 16:9 | SHOP-LC | Shop LC | |
61.5 | 720p | POSI-TV | Positiv | |
61.6 | 480i | QVC | QVC2 |
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