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{{Short description|Television station in Cheyenne, Wyoming}}
{{redirect|KDEV|the low-power television station in Cheyenne|KDEV-LP}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2024}}
{{Infobox television station dual
| name1 = KQCK
| city1 = [[Cheyenne, Wyoming]]
| logo = Rocky Mountain CTN logo.png
| logo_size = 240px
| branding = Rocky Mountain CTN
| digital1 = 11 ([[VHF]])
| virtual1 = 33
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''33.1:''' [[Christian Television Network|CTN]]|''for others, see {{Section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| owner = [[Christian Television Network]]
| licensee = Christian Television Corporation, Inc.
| country = United States
| airdate1 = {{Start date and age|1987|8|28}}
| callsign_meaning1 = [[Equity Media Holdings|Equity]] Cheyenne (referring to former owner)
| former_callsigns1 = {{ubl|KKTU (1987–2005)|KDEV (2005–2008)}}
| former_channel_numbers1 = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 33 ([[UHF]], 1987–2008)}}
| former_affiliations1 = {{ubl|[[NBC]] (1987–2003)|[[The WB]] (secondary, 1995–1998)|[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] (2003–2006, 33.2 2008–2009)|[[Retro TV|RTN]] (2006–2009)|AMGTV (2009–20??)|@SportsTV (20??–2010)|[[VasalloVision]] (2010–2012)|[[MundoFox]] (2012–2014)}}
| erp1 = 16 [[Watt|kW]]
| haat1 = {{convert|650|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id1 = 18287
| coordinates1 = {{coord|40|32|46.5|N|105|11|51.9|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
| website = {{URL|rockymountainctn.com}} 
| name2 = KQDK-CD
| city2 = [[Denver]], Colorado{{efn|Originally licensed to [[Aurora, Colorado]]; moved to Denver in 2019.}}
| digital2 = 16 ([[UHF]])
| virtual2 = 33 
| founded2 = {{Start date|1990|10|30}}
| airdate2 = {{start date and age|1999|11|15}}
| former_callsigns2 = {{ubl|K16CM (?–1999)|K62FW (1999–2000)|KDEV-LP (2000–2008)|KQDK-CA (2008–2013)}}
| former_channel_numbers2 = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 39 (UHF, until 2013)|'''Digital:''' 39 (UHF, 2013–2019)}}
| erp2 = 2 [[kW]]
| haat2 = {{convert|85.5|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| class2 = [[Class A television service|CD]]
| facility_id2 = 29455
| coordinates2 = {{coord|39|40|31.2|N|104|52|24.1|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|display=inline,title}}
}}
'''KQCK''' (channel 33) is a [[religious television station]] licensed to [[Cheyenne, Wyoming]], United States, serving the [[media market|markets]] of Cheyenne and [[Denver]], Colorado, as an [[owned-and-operated station]] of the [[Christian Television Network]] (CTN). The station's studios are located on Yates Street in the Denver suburb of [[Westminster, Colorado|Westminster]], and its transmitter is located on Horsetooth Mountain, just outside [[Fort Collins, Colorado]].

'''KQDK-CD''' (channel 16) in Denver operates as a [[low-power broadcasting#Television|low-power]], [[Class A television service|Class A]] digital [[Broadcast relay station#Broadcast translators|translator]] of KQCK; this station's transmitter is located near East Iliff Avenue and South Emporia Avenue (near [[Colorado State Highway 83|SH 83]]) in southeastern Denver.

==History==
KQCK was originally assigned the call letters KDBJ when the station was first licensed by the [[Federal Communications Commission]] on August 14, 1985. The station first signed on the air on August 28, 1987, as KKTU. It originally operated as a [[broadcast relay station#satellite station|satellite station]] of [[NBC]] affiliate [[KTWO-TV]] (channel 2) in [[Casper, Wyoming|Casper]]. As a result of KKTU's sign-on, Cheyenne became one of the last [[media market|markets]] in the United States to receive full-time affiliations from the three major broadcast networks. Prior to 1987, NBC programming had been relegated to off-hours clearances on [[KGWN-TV]] (channel 5), although the network's Denver affiliate [[KCNC-TV]] (channel 4, now a CBS owned-and-operated station) had been available in the area on cable television for decades. For a time starting in 1995, KKTU (along with KTWO) had a secondary affiliation with [[The WB]].<ref name=vud-kktusecondarywb>{{cite news|last=Smith|first=Doug|title=TV News|url=http://www.wtfda.org/vud90s/1995/11-95vud.pdf|access-date=April 18, 2015|newspaper=VHF-UHF Digest|date=November 1995|pages=11; 13|format=PDF}}</ref>

KQDK-CD was founded on October 30, 1990, as K16CM.

On September 1, 2003, the NBC affiliation in Casper moved from KTWO-TV to [[KCWY]] (channel 13). Although KTWO temporarily became an [[independent station]] at that time until it could acquire the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] affiliation from [[KFNB]] (channel 20), KKTU was able to immediately switch to ABC; it began branding itself as "ABC 8", in reference to its channel placement on Cheyenne area cable systems. This made Cheyenne one of the last markets in the country to have an ABC affiliate. Before the switch, cable systems piped in Denver's ABC affiliate—first via [[KUSA-TV]] (channel 9), then from [[KMGH-TV]] (channel 7) following a [[Fox affiliate switches of 1994|three-way network affiliation switch]] that occurred on September 10, 1995. KMGH had actually operated a translator in Cheyenne since the late 1990s. On May 31, 2005, the station changed its call letters to KDEV, with plans on expanding its signal into the nearby Denver market. Indeed, it built its digital transmitter near Fort Collins, in the Denver market.

On May 31, 2006, the [[Equity Broadcasting Corporation]] sold KTWO-TV to Silverton Media. Equity retained ownership of KDEV, but entered into a [[local marketing agreement]] with Silverton to operate it as a satellite of KTWO. Equity later moved the ABC affiliation in Cheyenne to a low-powered repeater, KKTU-LP (channel 40), and switched KDEV's affiliation to its in-house classic television network, the [[Retro Television Network]]. On June 8, 2008, KDEV began simulcasting KKTU-LP's ABC programming over its analog signal (restoring the "ABC 8" branding), and on its second [[digital subchannel]]. Nine days later on June 17, 2008, the station changed its call sign to KQCK.

On January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity and [[Luken Communications]] (which had acquired RTN in June 2008) resulted in many RTN affiliates losing the network's programming.<ref>[http://www.wsav.com/sav/news/local/article/whats_wrong_with_mytv/7919/ What’s Wrong with MyTV?] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113030808/http://www.wsav.com/sav/news/local/article/whats_wrong_with_mytv/7919/ |date=January 13, 2009 }}</ref> As a result, Luken moved RTN's operations to its headquarters in [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]], and dropped its programming from all Equity-owned affiliates, including KQCK and KQDK, effective immediately.<ref>[http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2009/01/05/daily.5/ TV Newsday: "Financial Dispute Disrupts RTN Diginet" by Harry Jessell, January 5, 2009.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090410034424/http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2009/01/05/daily.5/ |date=April 10, 2009 }}</ref> RTN would eventually sign a deal to affiliate with [[Sterling, Colorado|Sterling]]-based [[KCDO-TV]] (channel 3) that May.<ref name="tvnd-kcdortv">{{cite news|url=http://www.tvnewsday.com/articles/2009/05/07/daily.9/|title=KCDO Denver Adding Retro TV Network|date=May 7, 2009|work=TVnewsday|access-date=June 21, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120603123845/http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/31973/kcdo-denver-adding-retro-tv-network?nocookies|archive-date=June 3, 2012}}</ref> KQCK subsequently switched to AMGTV in March 2009,<ref>{{cite news |last1=James |first1=Beau |title=Championship Wrestling Now Seen on TV All Across the USA |url=https://wrestlingnewscenter.blogspot.com/2009/03/championship-wrestling-now-seen-on-tv.html |publisher=Wrestling News Center |date=March 23, 2009}}</ref> and then to @SportsTV in October.

On April 16, 2009, KQCK and KQDK, along with two other television stations, were purchased at auction by Valley Bank for $7 million.<ref name="bc-kqcksale">{{cite news|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/209435-Equity_Stations_Get_21_Million_in_Auction.php?rssid=20065|title=Equity Stations Get 21 Million in Auction|date=April 17, 2009|work=Broadcasting & Cable|access-date=September 29, 2009}}</ref> Valley Bank, in turn, filed to sell the stations to an ownership group connected to Fusion Communications on September 9.<ref name="tvbr-kqcksoldagain">{{cite news|url=http://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/tv_deals/16920.html|title=Equity Media props spin again|date=September 9, 2009|work=Television Business Report|access-date=September 11, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090926083454/http://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/tv_deals/16920.html|archive-date=September 26, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> ABC programming remained on KQCK-DT2 and channel 40, by then renamed [[KDEV-LP]], until 2009, when KTWO-TV began simulcasting its programming over the second [[digital subchannel]] of [[KLWY]] (channel 27). KQCK and KDEV-LP eventually parted ways; the latter station eventually switched to [[MyNetworkTV]] and then [[MeTV]] before shutting down in 2012.

In January 2010, KQCK and KQDK joined the [[Spanish language]] network [[VasalloVision]].<ref name="vv-kqckaffil">{{cite press release|title='VasalloVision Network' in Las Vegas, Nevada|publisher=VasalloVision Television Network|date=January 14, 2010|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/vasallovision-network-in-las-vegas-nevada-81554492.html|access-date=February 6, 2010}}</ref> KQCK was acquired by Casa Media Partners in April 2012.<ref name=tvnc-saletocasa>{{cite news|title=Denver TV, Cheyenne LP Go For $9 Million|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/58669/denver-lp-cheyenne-tv-go-for-9-million|access-date=August 9, 2012|newspaper=TVNewsCheck|date=April 11, 2012}}</ref> The station subsequently switched its affiliation to [[MundoFox]] on August 13, 2012.<ref name=dp-kqckmundofox>{{cite news|last=Ostrow|first=Joanne|title=Mundo FOX coming to Denver on Channel 33|url=http://blogs.denverpost.com/ostrow/2012/08/06/mundo-fox-coming-denver-channel-33/10351/|access-date=August 9, 2012|newspaper=[[Denver Post]]|date=August 6, 2012}}</ref> Concurrent with the launch of KQDK's digital signal, on February 12, 2013, the station modified its call sign to KQDK-CD. In late 2014, KQCK and KQDK dropped MundoFox for the [[Christian Television Network]].<ref name=fcc-kqckasmundofox>{{cite web|title=FCC 398 Children's Television Programming Report|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/KidVidNew/public/report/19/report.faces?id=159315|website=KidVid Public Access|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|access-date=April 18, 2015|date=October 6, 2014}}</ref><ref name=fcc-kqckctn>{{cite web|title=FCC 398 Children's Television Programming Report|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/KidVidNew/public/report/19/report.faces?id=164160|website=KidVid Public Access|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|access-date=April 18, 2015|date=January 9, 2015}}</ref> Casa Media Partners filed for [[Chapter 11 bankruptcy]] on April 14, 2015.<ref name=sfbj-casabankruptcy>{{cite news|last1=Bandell|first1=Brian|title=Miami-based owner of radio and TV stations files Chapter 11 with $13M in debt|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2015/04/17/miami-based-owner-of-radio-and-tv-stations-files.html?page=all|access-date=April 18, 2015|work=[[South Florida Business Journal]]|date=April 17, 2015}}</ref> On January 9, 2017, CTN's parent company, the Christian Television Corporation, agreed to purchase KQCK outright; on April 12 of that year, it agreed to also acquire KQDK-CD.<ref name="fcc-saletoctn">{{cite web|title=Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1749298&Service=DT&Form_id=314&Facility_id=18287|website=CDBS Public Access|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|access-date=February 3, 2017|date=January 19, 2017}}</ref> The sale was completed on June 30, 2017.<ref>{{cite web|title=Consummation Notice|url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101760115&formid=905&fac_num=18287|website=CDBS Public Access|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|access-date=December 24, 2017|date=June 30, 2017}}</ref>

Sometime in 2019, KQDK-CD's [[city of license]] was moved from [[Aurora, Colorado]], to Denver.

==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The stations' signals are [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of KQCK<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KQCK#station|title=Digital TV Market Listing for KQCK|website=[[RabbitEars.info]]|accessdate=May 6, 2024}}</ref> and KQDK-CD<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KQDK#station|title=Digital TV Market Listing for KQDK-CD|website=[[RabbitEars.info]]|accessdate=May 6, 2024}}</ref>
! [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! Short name
! Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 33.1 
| [[1080i]] || [[16:9]] || CTN || [[Christian Television Network|CTN]] 
|-
! scope = "row" | 33.2 
| rowspan="3"|[[480i]] || rowspan="3"|[[4:3]] || LFST || CTN Lifestyle
|-
! scope = "row" | 33.3 
| CTNi || CTN International
|-
! scope = "row" | 33.4 
| BIZ-TV || Biz TV
|}

===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KQCK shut down its analog signal, over [[UHF]] channel 33, on June 27, 2008, as a result of an equipment failure that forced the station to shut down the analog signal; however, it continued to transmit its programming over its digital signal and on cable via a direct-to-studio transmission link. Due to the cost of repairing the analog facilities, and the proximity of the end of the [[digital television transition in the United States|digital television transition]], KQCK requested to permanently shut down its analog transmissions.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101252531&formid=910&fac_num=18287|title=Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA|work=FCC CDBS database |date=June 27, 2008|access-date=August 16, 2008}}</ref> The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 11, using [[virtual channel]] 33.

KQDK-CD shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 39, on February 12, 2013. The station [[flash-cut]] its digital signal into operation on its pre-transition UHF channel 39.

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==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|http://www.rockymountainctn.com/}}

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