KZJL

Last updated
KZJL
Channels
BrandingEstrella TV Houston (general)
Noticias 61 (newscast)
Programming
Affiliations61.1: Estrella TV
61.2: Estrella News
61.3: Jewelry Television
61.4: Shop LC
61.5: Positiv
61.6: QVC2
Ownership
Owner
Radio: KTJM, KQQK, KEYH, KNTE
History
First air date
June 2, 1995(28 years ago) (1995-06-02)
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 / 29.562556; -95.509972
Links
Public license information
Website www.estrellatv.com

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.

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History

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.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KZJL
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
61.1 720p 16:9 KZJL-HDMain KZJL programming / Estrella TV
61.2KZJL-2 Estrella News
61.3 480i 4:3 JTV Jewelry Television
61.416:9SHOP-LC Shop LC
61.5720pPOSI-TV Positiv
61.6480iQVC QVC2

Analog-to-digital conversion

KZJL discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 61, on June 12, 2009, as part of federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. [1] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 44, using PSIP to display KZJL's virtual channel as 61 on digital television receivers, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

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