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{{Short description|Television station in Cedar City, Utah}}
{{Short description|Television station in Cedar City, Utah}}
{{about|the television station|other uses of the abbreviation KCSG|KCSG (disambiguation)}}
{{about|the television station|other uses of the abbreviation KCSG|KCSG (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox television station dual
{{Infobox television station dual
| name1                  = KCSG
| name1                  = KCSG
| city1                  = [[Cedar City]]–[[St. George, Utah]]
| city1                  = [[Cedar City]]–[[St. George, Utah]]
| logo                    = File:Me-TV KTVX.png
| logo                    = Me-TV KTVX.png
| logo_size              = 200px
| branding                = MeTV Utah
| branding                = MeTV Utah
| digital1                = 14 ([[UHF]])
| digital1                = 14 ([[UHF]])
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| licensee                = KCSG-TV [[LLC]]
| licensee                = KCSG-TV [[LLC]]
| country                = United States
| country                = United States
| founded1                = June 11, 1984
| airdate1                = {{start date and age|1990|4|23|p=y}}
| airdate1                = {{start date and age|1990|4|23|p=y}}
| callsign_meaning        = Cedar City St. George
| callsign_meaning        = Cedar City St. George
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| website                = {{URL|https://www.metv.com/kcsg|KCSG page on MeTV website}}  
| website                = {{URL|https://www.metv.com/kcsg|KCSG page on MeTV website}}  
| name2                  = KCSG-LD
| name2                  = KCSG-LD
| city2                  = [[Ogden, Utah|Odgen]]–[[Salt Lake City]], Utah
| city2                  = [[Ogden, Utah|Ogden]]–[[Salt Lake City]], Utah
| digital2                = 18 ([[UHF]])
| digital2                = 18 ([[UHF]])
| virtual2                = 8
| virtual2                = 8
| former_callsigns2      = {{ubl|K68GP (2006–2009)|K68GP-D (2009)|KQTI-LD (2009–2020)}}
| former_callsigns2      = {{ubl|K68GP (2006–2009)|K68GP-D (2009)|KQTI-LD (2009–2020)}}
| former_channel_numbers2 = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 68 (UHF, 2006–2009)|'''Digital:''' 31 (UHF, 2009–2024)}}
| former_channel_numbers2 = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 68 (UHF, 2006–2009)|'''Digital:''' 31 (UHF, 2009–2024)}}
| former_affiliations2    = [[America One]], [[Youtoo America]], [[NewsNet]]
| former_affiliations2    = America One, [[Youtoo America]], [[NewsNet]]
| erp2                    = 15 kW
| erp2                    = 15 kW
| haat2                  = {{convert|1110|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| haat2                  = {{convert|1110|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
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| coordinates2            = {{coord|40|40|56|N|112|12|12|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
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'''KCSG''' (channel 8) is a [[television station]] licensed to [[Cedar City, Utah]], United States, airing programming from the classic television network [[MeTV]]. [[Owned and operated]] by network parent [[Weigel Broadcasting]], the station maintains studios on West 1600 South Street in [[St. George, Utah|St. George]], and its transmitter is located on [[Cedar Mountain Formation|Cedar Mountain]], southeast of Cedar City.  
'''KCSG''' (channel 8) is a [[television station]] licensed to [[Cedar City, Utah]], United States, airing programming from the classic television network [[MeTV]]. [[Owned and operated]] by [[Weigel Broadcasting]], it broadcasts from a main transmitter on [[Cedar Mountain Formation|Cedar Mountain]], southeast of Cedar City. The station is rebroadcast on the [[Wasatch Front]] by '''KCSG-LD''', licensed to [[Ogden, Utah|Ogden]] and transmitting from [[Farnsworth Peak]] in the [[Oquirrh Mountains]], and on additional [[Broadcast relay station#Broadcast translators|translators]] in Utah.


'''KCSG-LD''' (channel 8) in [[Ogden, Utah|Ogden]] operates as a [[Low-power broadcasting#Television|low-power]] [[Broadcast relay station#Broadcast translators|translator]] of KCSG, serving the [[Salt Lake City metropolitan area]]; this station's transmitter is located atop [[Farnsworth Peak]] in the [[Oquirrh Mountains]]. In addition to KCSG-LD, KCSG has a [[#Other translators|network of 11 broadcast translators]] that extend its over-the-air coverage throughout the state. It is also available on [[DirecTV]], [[Dish Network]], [[Galaxy 19]], and [[cable television|cable]] systems throughout the geographically large Salt Lake City [[media market]].<ref name="KCSG">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcsg.com/about |title=About Us |work=KCSG.com |access-date=June 18, 2009}}</ref>
Channel 4 in Cedar City spent most of its history as a station with local programming for [[Southern Utah]]. It was built by Michael Glen Golden as KCCZ, which began broadcasting on April 23, 1990, as an [[independent station]] with studios in Cedar City. Golden ran out of money in 1992, causing the station to leave the air. Seagull Communications, which owned radio stations in [[St. George, Utah|St. George]], acquired the station out of bankruptcy and returned it to the air as KSGI-TV in 1994. [[Bonneville International Corporation]], the owner of [[KSL-TV]] in Salt Lake City, acquired the station in 1998. It was relaunched under new KCSG call letters and served as an affiliate of [[Ion Television|Pax]].
 
Broadcast West acquired KCSG in 2002, beginning a 14-year ownership tenure for KCSG under car dealer Stephen Wade. Wade launched a news department for KCSG in 2003, which was shuttered in 2010 due to poor advertising support. Local news was revived through an agreement with [[Dixie State College]], which briefly managed the station. KCSG converted to digital broadcasting in 2009 and began using [[virtual channel]] 16. After being a [[MyNetworkTV]] affiliate beginning in 2008, KCSG's main channel began broadcasting MeTV in 2011 before switching to [[Heroes & Icons]] in 2014. West American Finance Corporation acquired KCSG in 2016 and switched its virtual channel to 8. In 2017, the station was acquired by Weigel directly.


== History ==
== History ==
KCSG began as KCCZ, with a [[construction permit]] issued on June 11, 1984, to Michael Glenn Golden. After several extensions and replacements of expired permits, and transfer of the permit to Liberty Broadcasting Company, the station first signed on the air on April 23, 1990, operating as an [[independent station]]; it was licensed by the [[Federal Communications Commission]] on June 21, 1990. However, financial difficulties doomed KCCZ and it shut down in November 1992. Liberty Broadcasting filed for [[Chapter 11 bankruptcy]] on December 17, 1992, but the filing had to be converted to [[Chapter 7 bankruptcy]] on June 22, 1993. On October 20, Seagull Communications Company, whose principals owned KSGI radio (1450 AM, now [[KSGO]], and 99.9 FM, now [[KONY (FM)|KONY]]) in St. George, filed an application to acquire the station out of bankruptcy and on November 12, changed its call letters to KSGI-TV to match the radio stations. The acquisition was approved by the FCC and consummated on February 1, 1994. Seagull Communications returned the station to air the same day, again as an independent station.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/1997/da972559.txt |title=FCC Memorandum Opinion and Order |publisher=FCC CDBS database |date=December 5, 1997 |access-date=September 19, 2007}}</ref>
===KCCZ and KSGI-TV: Early years===
 
On June 11, 1984, the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) issued a [[construction permit]] to Michael Glen Golden of [[Parowan, Utah]], for a new commercial TV station to broadcast on channel 4. Golden believed that [[Southern Utah]]'s growth could support a television station. He attempted to secure affiliation or program deals with the major networks and later met with officials from [[CBS]] and [[Turner Broadcasting System]] but was unsuccessful, leading him to target construction of channel 4 as an [[independent station]].<ref name="Dail850627">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-2-full-power-televisi/175420931/|date=June 27, 1985|pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-stations-target-so-u/175421083/ 6]|first=Loren|last=Webb|title=2 full-power television stations target So. Utah|newspaper=The Daily Spectrum|location=St. George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 27, 2025}}</ref><!-- Thu --> Construction on the transmitter site on Cedar Mountain began in October 1986, with Golden—through his Liberty Broadcasting Company—hoping to have KCCZ on the air by January 1987.<ref name="Wash861007">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/washington-county-news-kccz-transmitter/175421310/|date=October 7, 1986|page=6|first=Steve|last=Lutz|title=KCCZ transmitter work begins|newspaper=Washington County News|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 27, 2025}}</ref><!-- Tue -->
Almost immediately, the new owners applied to the FCC to build booster stations serving St. George, Utah, and [[Beaver Dam, Arizona]]–[[Mesquite, Nevada]], communities cut off from the signal due to the mountainous terrain of those areas. The FCC granted the construction permit for the St. George booster, KSGI1 (later KCSG1), on February 28, 1995, but did not grant a permit for the Beaver Dam booster, KSGI2 (later KCSG2), until January 1998. That station was never built, but the construction permit remained in the FCC database until 2009.
 
In 1997, Seagull Communications sold KSGI-TV to [[Bonneville International|Bonneville Holding Company]], a broadcasting company wholly owned by [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]]. The sale was approved by the FCC on December 10, 1997, and was consummated on April 27, 1998. On February 16, 1998, the station changed its call letters to KXIV, in anticipation of its [[Digital terrestrial television|DTV]] channel assignment on UHF channel 14, but the FCC adopted the virtual channel standard, whereby digital stations would continue to identify by their analog channel assignment, and on May 15, 1998, the station again changed call letters, this time to KCSG. On August 31, 1998, the station became a charter affiliate of the family-oriented network Pax TV (now [[Ion Television]]). In August 2002, KCSG was sold to Broadcast West, a St. George-based partnership of Daniel Matheson and local auto dealer Stephen Wade. The new owners elected to continue the Pax affiliation and to maintain an association with Bonneville-owned [[KSL-TV]] (channel 5).<ref name="KCSG"/>


Broadcast West began to make changes to KCSG that would establish its identity as a Southern Utah station. In 2003, the company founded the region's first television news department for the station. Before, the only local news program available to residents of Cedar City and St. George came from Salt Lake City area stations. In June 2005, with Pax TV preparing to adopt a more general entertainment format, KCSG switched its affiliation to [[America One]], continuing to offer family-focused programming. The station made news in September 2005, when it began offering its news programs in [[Spanish language in the United States|Spanish]], as well as in English, attempting to serve the region's growing Hispanic population.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20050921/ai_n15361707 |title=St. George station's news popular in English, Spanish |last=Perkins|first=Nancy |work=Deseret Morning News |date=September 21, 2005 |access-date=September 19, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090330090421/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20050921/ai_n15361707 |archive-date=March 30, 2009 }}</ref> The Broadcast West partnership was dissolved on October 18, 2005, and a new company, Southwest Media, owned by Stephen Wade, became the licensee.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getattachment_exh.cgi?exhibit_id=423916 |title=License Renewal: Public Inspection File attachment |publisher=FCC CDBS database |date=May 31, 2006 |access-date=September 19, 2007}}</ref>
KCCZ began broadcasting on April 23, 1990,<ref>{{Cite book|chapter=KCSG|title=Television & Cable Factbook|year=2006|page=A-2329}}</ref> from studios on Airport Road in Cedar City.<ref name="Dail900502">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-kccz-tv-hits-the-airw/175421566/|date=May 2, 1990|page=15|title=KCCZ-TV hits the airwaves|newspaper=The Daily Spectrum|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 27, 2025}}</ref><!-- Wed --> In September 1992, it began offering 12:30, 6:30 and 9:30&nbsp;p.m. newscasts from [[KSL-TV]] featuring dedicated Southern Utah news stories and weather forecasts.<ref name="Dail920906">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-ksl-televisions-colo/175422390/|date=September 6, 1992|page=15C|type=Advertisement|title=KSL-Television's Color Country Eyewitness News brings all the news home to Color Country.|newspaper=The Daily Spectrum|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 27, 2025}}</ref><!-- Sun --> However, the station was suffering financially. Over the course of 1992, five liens were filed against Liberty Broadcasting Company property for failure to pay federal taxes. In early November, the station abruptly shut down, after which time Golden was assessed a civil tax penalty of more than $22,000.<ref name="Dail921212">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-kccz-wrestles-with-fi/175422422/|date=December 12, 1992|pages=1A, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-kccz-station-struggl/175422447/ 3A]|first=Donna M.|last=Brown|title=KCCZ wrestles with finances: Golden hopes to put station back on the air|newspaper=The Daily Spectrum|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 27, 2025}}</ref><!-- Sat -->


On August 18, 2008, KCSG replaced Salt Lake City's [[KJZZ-TV]] (also on channel 14) as Utah's [[MyNetworkTV]] affiliate.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6580119.html?rssid=193 |title=KCSG Salt Lake City Grabs MNT Affiliation |work=Broadcasting & Cable |last=Malone|first=Michael |date=July 21, 2008 |access-date=July 22, 2008}}</ref> The station added programming from the [[Retro Television Network]], which was previously carried in the market by KUSG and [[KCBU]], in 2009.<ref name="tvnc-kcsgrtv">{{cite news|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/articles/2009/07/23/daily.5/|title=New Deals Put RTV Near 89% Coverage|last=Miller|first=Mark K.|date=July 23, 2009|work=TVNewsCheck|access-date=March 28, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503101410/http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2009/07/23/34128/new-deals-put-rtv-near-89-coverage?nocookies|archive-date=May 3, 2012}}</ref> For a time, starting on September 20, 2010, KCSG was one of two MyNetworkTV affiliates serving the geographically large Utah [[media market]], along with KUSG; the affiliation was subsequently ceded completely to the renamed [[KMYU]] (channel 12).
KCCZ was sold at bankruptcy in September 1993 to Seagull Communications Corporation, which won the bidding for $75,000. Seagull's principals owned [[St. George, Utah|St. George]] radio station [[KSGO|KSGI]] (1450 AM) and were building [[KONY (FM)|KSGI-FM]] 99.7 at the time.<ref name="Dail930924">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-seagull-wins-bid-for/175422673/|date=September 24, 1993|page=A5|first=Loren|last=Webb|title=Seagull wins bid for Liberty|newspaper=The Daily Spectrum|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 27, 2025}}</ref><!-- Fri --> The station resumed broadcasting as KSGI-TV either in January 1994{{r|Dail940125}} or on February 1.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/1997/da972559.txt |title=Memorandum Opinion and Order |publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]] |date=December 5, 1997 |access-date=September 19, 2007 |archive-date=December 28, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071228013926/http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/1997/da972559.txt |url-status=live }}</ref> It maintained the Cedar City studio and opened another on North 1000 East and broadcast a family-friendly independent station format with local programming and a package of [[Colorado Rockies]] baseball games.<ref name="Dail940125">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-ksgi-broadcasting-in/175423182/|date=January 25, 1994|page=B3|title=KSGI broadcasting in Cedar, St. George|newspaper=The Daily Spectrum|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 27, 2025}}</ref><!-- Tue --><ref name="Dail940407">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-st-georges-ksgi-not/175423261/|date=April 7, 1994|page=A5|first=Tricia|last=Ciaravino|title=St. George's KSGI not just radio anymore|newspaper=The Daily Spectrum|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 27, 2025}}</ref><!-- Thu -->


[[File:KCSG14.png|thumb|Former KCSG logo used 2011-2017]]
===KCSG: Local TV for Southern Utah===
On September 5, 2011, KCSG switched its primary affiliation to classic television network [[MeTV]].<ref>[http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/15039755/article-Memorable-Television--ME-TV--Comes-to-KCSG-Telelvision-September-5th?instance=home_first_stories (ME-TV) Comes to KCSG Television September 5th] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928214456/http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/15039755/article-Memorable-Television--ME-TV--Comes-to-KCSG-Telelvision-September-5th?instance=home_first_stories |date=September 28, 2011 }} Retrieved August 11, 2011</ref><ref>[http://mainstreetbusinessjournal.com/articleview.php?articlesid=5847&volume=14&issue=21 KCSG Launches Classic Television Station] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330221926/http://mainstreetbusinessjournal.com/articleview.php?articlesid=5847&volume=14&issue=21 |date=March 30, 2012 }}</ref> On July 26, 2012, KCSG added [[FamilyNet]] to Baja Broadband channel 87.<ref>[http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/19583023/article-Family-Net-Television-Joins-KCSG Family Net Television Joins KCSG] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115215622/http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/19583023/article-Family-Net-Television-Joins-KCSG |date=November 15, 2012 }} Retrieved July 26, 2012</ref> FamilyNet is limited to cable and satellite viewing because of programming restrictions placed on it by the network. Otherwise, FamilyNet would have been added to digital subchannel 14.4.
The [[Bonneville International Corporation]], a broadcasting company wholly owned by [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] and owner of KSL-TV, acquired KSGI-TV from Seagull in 1997.<ref name="Salt970725">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salt-lake-tribune-bonneville-to-buy/175423599/|date=July 25, 1997|page=D10|title=Bonneville to Buy TV Station|newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune|location=Salt Lake City, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 27, 2025}}</ref><!-- Fri --> The station changed its call sign to KXIV by the time Bonneville completed the purchase in April 1998.<ref name="Salt980501">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salt-lake-tribune-bonneville-buys-st/175423673/|date=May 1, 1998|page=D-15|title=Bonneville Buys Station|newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune|location=Salt Lake City, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 27, 2025}}</ref><!-- Fri --> The call sign was changed again to KCSG before Bonneville relaunched the station as an affiliate of [[Ion Television|Pax]] on October 12, 1998. Pax had only gone on the air that August. The station maintained studios in Cedar City but had its offices in St. George. Station leadership stated plans to eventually produce a local newscast,<ref name="Dixi981014">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-dixie-sun-kcsg-begins-dawn-of-a-new/175423877/|date=October 14, 1998|pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-dixie-sun-kcsg/175423889/ 3]|title=KCSG Begins 'Dawn of a New Era'|first=Billy Ray|last=Vosburg|newspaper=The Dixie Sun|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 28, 2025}}</ref><!-- Wed --> but by 2000 the only local newscasts on the station's schedule were rebroadcasts from KSL-TV.<ref name="kcsg-kslonkcsg">{{cite web|url=http://www.kcsg.com/pgprog.htm |title=Programming |work=KCSG Television |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000127054209/http://kcsg.com/pgprog.htm |archive-date=January 27, 2000 |access-date=March 28, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Under Bonneville, KCSG also offered some local college sports, including [[Utah Tech University|Dixie College]] and [[Southern Utah University]] athletics.<ref>{{Cite news|page=D4|title=Monica behind Olbermann's move|work=[[The Deseret News]]|first=Scott D.|last=Pierce|date=November 11, 1998}}</ref><ref name="Dail990929">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-dixie-college-noteboo/175424270/|date=September 29, 1999|pages=B1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-dixie/175424242/ B3]|first=Mike|last=Morrow|title=Dixie College Notebook: Rebels show progress at Arizona tournament|newspaper=The Daily Spectrum|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 28, 2025}}</ref><!-- Wed --><ref name="Dail000110">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-malden-to-highlight-l/175424566/|date=January 10, 2000|page=A1|title=Malden to highlight lecture series|newspaper=The Spectrum's High Country Daily News|first=Ed|last=Kociela|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 28, 2025}}</ref><!-- Mon -->


On September 29, 2014, KCSG switched its affiliation from MeTV to [[Heroes & Icons]], a new network owned by MeTV's parent company (and KCSG's future owner), [[Weigel Broadcasting]], as its first non-owned affiliate. The network mainly carries a format of crime shows and westerns targeted to men from the MeTV acquisition library. MeTV is still available throughout the state via [[KTVX|KTVX-DT2]].
In August 2002, KCSG was sold to Broadcast West, a St. George-based partnership of general manager Dan Matheson and local auto dealer Stephen Wade, for $450,000.<ref name="Dail020713">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-pax-affiliated-kcsg-l/175424765/|date=July 13, 2002|page=A1|first=Angie|last=Parkinson|title=PAX-affiliated KCSG looks to change owners: Broadcast West has made offer but no deal finalized|newspaper=The Daily Spectrum|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 28, 2025}}</ref><!-- Sat --> The new owners elected to continue the Pax affiliation and to increase local programming.<ref name="Dail020802">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-local-pax-affiliate-k/175424817/|date=August 2, 2002|page=A1|first=Angie|last=Parkinson|title=Local PAX affiliate KCSG sale official|newspaper=The Daily Spectrum|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 28, 2025}}</ref><!-- Fri --> Among the company's moves was to implement a news department, which launched in 2003. By 2005, KCSG was offering a nightly newscast as well as a newscast in Spanish three times a week.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20050921/ai_n15361707 |title=St. George station's news popular in English, Spanish |last=Perkins|first=Nancy |work=Deseret Morning News |date=September 21, 2005 |access-date=September 19, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090330090421/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20050921/ai_n15361707 |archive-date=March 30, 2009 }}</ref> The Broadcast West partnership was dissolved on October 18, 2005, and a new company—Southwest Media, owned by Stephen Wade—became the licensee.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getattachment_exh.cgi?exhibit_id=423916 |title=License Renewal: Public Inspection File attachment |publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]] |work=Consolidated Database System |date=May 31, 2006 |access-date=September 19, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>


On July 19, 2017, Weigel (through TV-49, Inc., the licensee of [[WMLW-TV]] in [[Racine, Wisconsin]]) agreed to acquire the station for $1.1 million.<ref>[http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1761834&Service=DT&Form_id=314&Facility_id=59494 Application for consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License - Federal Communications Commission]</ref> The sale will convert KCSG in a H&I owned-and-operated station, though the possibility of Weigel's other networks being contained to it is also possible. It would also be Weigel's first purchase of any station outside of a state along [[Lake Michigan]], as all of its properties are in [[Illinois]], [[Wisconsin]] and [[Indiana]]. The sale closed on December 5,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101773695&formid=905&fac_num=59494|title=Consummation Notice|date=December 5, 2017|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|access-date=December 9, 2017}}</ref> with the St. George-related channel contracts voided the week before in order to make it a station only carrying H&I and Decades for the moment.
KCSG replaced Salt Lake City's [[KJZZ-TV]] as Utah's [[MyNetworkTV]] affiliate on August 18, 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6580119.html?rssid=193 |title=KCSG Salt Lake City Grabs MNT Affiliation |work=Broadcasting & Cable |last=Malone|first=Michael |date=July 21, 2008 |access-date=July 22, 2008}}</ref> By this time, KCSG was producing local news on weekdays from 7 to 8 a.m., 5:30 to 6 p.m., and 9 to 10 p.m. and a local sports program, ''Sports Jam'', airing three nights a week.<ref name="KCSG">{{cite web |url=http://www.kcsg.com/about |title=About Us |work=KCSG.com |access-date=June 18, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 10, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210022103/http://www.kcsg.com/about}}</ref> The station added programming from the [[Retro Television Network]], which was previously carried in the market by KUSG and [[KCBU]], in July 2009.<ref name="tvnc-kcsgrtv">{{cite news|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/articles/2009/07/23/daily.5/|title=New Deals Put RTV Near 89% Coverage|last=Miller|first=Mark K.|date=July 23, 2009|work=TVNewsCheck|access-date=March 28, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503101410/http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2009/07/23/34128/new-deals-put-rtv-near-89-coverage?nocookies|archive-date=May 3, 2012}}</ref> KCSG ceased analog broadcasting with the [[Digital television transition in the United States|digital television transition]] on June 12, 2009. It continued to broadcast its main digital signal from Cedar City on UHF channel 14. Its translator in St. George, which converted at the same time, operated on channel 16, which became the [[virtual channel]] number for the station in lieu of 4.<ref name="Dail090605">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-digital-tv-hits-deadl/175436246/|date=June 5, 2009|pages=Neighborhoods 2, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-digital/175436227/ 3]|title=Digital TV hits deadline mark|newspaper=The Daily Spectrum|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 28, 2025}}</ref><!-- Fri -->


On July 16, 2020, it was announced that low-power stations KUTA-LD and KQTI-LD would be sold to Weigel Broadcasting for $375,000.<ref name="kutatoweigel">{{cite web|url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101819121&formid=345&fac_num=127064|title=Application for Transfer of Control of a Corporate Licensee or Permittee, or for Assignment of License or Permit of TV or FM Translator Station or Low Power Television Station|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|date=July 16, 2020|access-date=July 21, 2020}}</ref> Weigel intends to use the stations as relays of KCSG for northern Utah and the Salt Lake City metropolitan area.<ref>[https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101819121&qnum=5150&copynum=1&exhcnum=1 Document]fcc.go {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412063937/https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101819121&qnum=5150&copynum=1&exhcnum=1 |date=April 12, 2023 }}</ref> The sale was completed on September 17.<ref>[http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1821149&Service=LD&Form_id=905&Facility_id=127064 "Consummation Notice"], ''CDBS Public Access'', [[Federal Communications Commission]], September 21, 2020, Retrieved September 21, 2020.</ref>
In September 2009, the format of KCSG's nightly newscast changed when production of the program, except for anchoring, was outsourced to [[Dixie State College]], with students producing the newscast at the college's studio.<ref name="Dixi090930">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-dixie-sun-kcsg-dsc-partner-up-broa/175425085/|date=September 30, 2009|pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-dixie-sun-kcsg/175425110/ 2]|first=Amanda|last=Anderson|first2=Whitney|last2=Phillips|title=KCSG, DSC partner up: Broadcast communication majors now working with KCSG officials to produce nightly newscast|newspaper=The Dixie Sun|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 28, 2025}}</ref><!-- Wed --> After this and other attempts by Wade to cut costs did not stop the newscast from losing money, KCSG ceased airing local news in February 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://media.www.dixiesunlink.com/media/storage/paper1365/news/2010/02/22/DscNews/Kcsg-Nightly.News.Goes.Dark-3878103.shtml |title=KCSG nightly news goes dark |first=Casie|last=Forbes|work=The Dixie Sun |date=February 22, 2010 |access-date=February 22, 2010 |archive-date=July 10, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710135103/http://www.dixiesunlink.com/2.11007/kcsg-nightly-news-goes-dark-1.1530550 |url-status=dead }}</ref>


==Programming==
In August 2010, Wade signed a [[local marketing agreement]] with Dixie State College's [[Dick Nourse]] Center for Media Innovation to program the station. This included the return of a news presence on August 23,<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/9003363/article-Dixie-State-College-and-KCSG-Television-Announce-Partnership| title = Dixie State College and KCSG Television Announce Partnership| year = 2010| access-date = August 30, 2010| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101127064600/http://kcsg.com/view/full_story/9003363/article-Dixie-State-College-and-KCSG-Television-Announce-Partnership| archive-date = November 27, 2010}}</ref> with 15-minute newscasts recorded on weekdays.<ref name="Dixi100922">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-dixie-sun-kcsg-returns-to-dsc-fully/175439741/|date=September 22, 2010|pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-dixie-sun-kcsg/175439847/ 2]|first=Mark|last=Green|title=KCSG returns to DSC fully integrated|newspaper=The Dixie Sun|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 28, 2025}}</ref><!-- Wed --> After seven months, Southwest Media resumed managing KCSG, but the Center for Media Innovation continued to supply the station with news and sports programming.<ref name="Dixi110406">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-dixie-sun-kcsg-contract-revamped/175439877/|date=April 6, 2011|page=2|first=Mark|last=Schurr|title=KCSG contract revamped|newspaper=The Dixie Sun|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 28, 2025}}</ref><!-- Wed --> Later in 2011, KCSG began offering re-airs of selected KSL-TV newscasts and daily weather forecasts from KSL.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418212523/http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/14936532/article-KCSG-DT-Expands-Digital-Channel-Programming-on-Baja-Broadband---Mesquite---|first=Morgan|last=Skinner|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 18, 2012|url=http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/14936532/article-KCSG-DT-Expands-Digital-Channel-Programming-on-Baja-Broadband---Mesquite---|title=KCSG-DT Expands Digital Channel Programming on Baja Broadband - Mesquite|date=August 2, 2011}}</ref> It also signed a deal to air [[Utah State University]] football and men's and women's basketball games.<ref>{{cite news|title=Utah State Football and Basketball Games Will Be Broadcast on KCSG Television Beginning This Fall|url=http://www.utahstateaggies.com/genrel/080411aaa.html|date=August 4, 2011|access-date=August 4, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=KCSG Television to Broadcast USU Aggie Football and Basketball|url=http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/14936120/article-KCSG-Television-to-Broadcast-USU-Aggie-Football-and-Basketball-----?instance=1|date=August 4, 2011|access-date=August 4, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928214536/http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/14936120/article-KCSG-Television-to-Broadcast-USU-Aggie-Football-and-Basketball-----?instance=1|archive-date=September 28, 2011}}</ref>
===News operation===
KCSG was the first television station in southern Utah to produce local newscasts for the region. Until KCSG started its news department, St. George residents received local newscasts from stations in Salt Lake City; indeed, KCSG itself simulcast KSL-TV's morning newscast for a time under Bonneville ownership.<ref name="kcsg-kslonkcsg">{{cite web|url=http://www.kcsg.com/pgprog.htm |title=Programming |work=KCSG Television |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000127054209/http://kcsg.com/pgprog.htm |archive-date=January 27, 2000 |access-date=March 28, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The station's news operation began in 2003 with a five-minute newscast; this subsequently expanded to half-hour newscasts at 5:30 and 9&nbsp;p.m. KCSG discontinued its newscasts on February 19, 2010; the station still broadcasts news updates and still places news stories on its website.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kcsg.com/news/local/84843647.html |title=KCSG Television Announces News Format Change |publisher=KCSG |date=February 20, 2010 |access-date=February 20, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201164057/http://www.kcsg.com/news/local/84843647.html |archive-date=February 1, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://media.www.dixiesunlink.com/media/storage/paper1365/news/2010/02/22/DscNews/Kcsg-Nightly.News.Goes.Dark-3878103.shtml |title=KCSG nightly news goes dark |publisher=Casie Forbes, Editor for the Dixie Sun |date=February 22, 2010 |access-date=February 22, 2010 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200618/http://media.www.dixiesunlink.com/media/storage/paper1365/news/2010/02/22/DscNews/Kcsg-Nightly.News.Goes.Dark-3878103.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref>


After a six-month hiatus, full-scale newscasts were reinstated on August 23, 2010, with the early evening newscast now airing at 6:30&nbsp;p.m., in addition to the 9 p.m. newscast. KCSG previously announced a partnership with [[Dixie State College of Utah]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/9003363/article-Dixie-State-College-and-KCSG-Television-Announce-Partnership| title = Dixie State College and KCSG Television Announce Partnership| year = 2010| access-date = August 30, 2010| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101127064600/http://kcsg.com/view/full_story/9003363/article-Dixie-State-College-and-KCSG-Television-Announce-Partnership| archive-date = November 27, 2010}}</ref> In late August 2011, KCSG began rebroadcasting the first half-hour of [[KSL-TV]]'s 6 p.m. newscast at 7 p.m., and its 6:30&nbsp;p.m. newscast re-airs at 9 p.m. Both newscasts are titled ''KSL Live 5 News on KCSG''.
===MeTV and Weigel purchase===
[[File:KCSG14.png|thumb|KCSG logo used 2011-2017|alt=Black text "KCSG" with smaller wording "Television". The K sits on a sky blue-to-white gradient circle.]]
On September 5, 2011, KCSG switched its primary affiliation to [[MeTV]], a [[diginet]] specializing in classic television programming.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/15039755/article-Memorable-Television--ME-TV--Comes-to-KCSG-Telelvision-September-5th?instance=home_first_stories|title=Memorable Television (ME-TV) Comes to KCSG Television September 5th|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928214456/http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/15039755/article-Memorable-Television--ME-TV--Comes-to-KCSG-Telelvision-September-5th?instance=home_first_stories |archive-date=September 28, 2011 |access-date=August 11, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mainstreetbusinessjournal.com/articleview.php?articlesid=5847&volume=14&issue=21|title=KCSG Launches Classic Television Station|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330221926/http://mainstreetbusinessjournal.com/articleview.php?articlesid=5847&volume=14&issue=21 |archive-date=March 30, 2012|work=Main Street Business Journal }}</ref> In 2014, it switched diginets from MeTV to [[Heroes & Icons]], which like MeTV is owned by [[Weigel Broadcasting]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 3, 2014 |title='Heroes and Icons': KCSG-TV launches new, exclusive, family friendly network |url=https://www.cedarcityutah.com/life/arts-entertainment/heroes-and-icons-kcsg-tv-launches-new-exclusive-family-friendly-network/article_c8615fdc-e76b-529c-98fa-ef02286ee355.html |access-date=2025-06-28 |work=Cedar City News |language=en}}</ref>


===Sports programming===
West American Finance Corporation acquired KCSG in 2016 and rebranded it using [[virtual channel]] 8. The station also launched an 8 p.m. newscast, lasting eight minutes in length, continuing the Heroes & Icons affiliation.<ref name="Dail161101">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-kcsg-tv-builds-a-new/175441968/|date=November 1, 2016|page=A3|first=Steve|last=Kiggins|title=KCSG TV builds a new local identity|newspaper=The Daily Spectrum|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 28, 2025}}</ref><!-- Tue -->
On August 4, 2011, [[Utah State University]] announced that it had partnered with KCSG to show select [[college football|football]] and men's and women's [[college basketball|basketball]] games on the station.<ref>{{cite news|title=Utah State Football and Basketball Games Will Be Broadcast on KCSG Television Beginning This Fall|url=http://www.utahstateaggies.com/genrel/080411aaa.html|date=August 4, 2011|access-date=August 4, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=KCSG Television to Broadcast USU Aggie Football and Basketball|url=http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/14936120/article-KCSG-Television-to-Broadcast-USU-Aggie-Football-and-Basketball-----?instance=1|date=August 4, 2011|access-date=August 4, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928214536/http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/14936120/article-KCSG-Television-to-Broadcast-USU-Aggie-Football-and-Basketball-----?instance=1|archive-date=September 28, 2011}}</ref>


The St. George Marathon, the City of St. George [[First Night]] and the [[Huntsman World Senior Games]] are broadcast on KCSG.
Weigel Broadcasting acquired KCSG and its translators in St. George from West American Finance for $1.1&nbsp;million in 2017.<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 8, 2017 |title=Station Trading Roundup: 4 Deals, $1,150,000 |url=https://tvnewscheck.com/uncategorized/article/station-trading-roundup-4-deals-1150000/ |access-date=2025-06-28 |work=TVNewsCheck |language=en-US}}</ref> The transaction marked the beginning of Weigel purchasing stations outside of its traditional Midwest markets, as before the end of 2017, it had agreed to acquire stations serving [[Los Angeles]], [[St. Louis]], [[San Francisco]], and [[Seattle]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jessell |first=Harry A. |date=September 12, 2017 |title=Weigel Moving Into Los Angeles, St. Louis |url=https://tvnewscheck.com/uncategorized/article/weigel-moving-into-los-angeles-st-louis/ |access-date=2025-06-28 |work=TVNewsCheck |language=en-US |archive-date=September 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240907232924/https://tvnewscheck.com/uncategorized/article/weigel-moving-into-los-angeles-st-louis/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=October 25, 2017 |title=Expanding Weigel Buys Into S.F., Seattle |url=https://tvnewscheck.com/uncategorized/article/expanding-weigel-buys-into-s-f-seattle/ |access-date=2025-06-28 |work=TVNewsCheck |language=en-US |archive-date=May 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523155555/https://tvnewscheck.com/uncategorized/article/expanding-weigel-buys-into-s-f-seattle/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2020, it acquired KUTA-LD in [[Logan, Utah|Logan]] and KQTI-LD, licensed to [[Ogden, Utah|Ogden]], from Airwaves Inc.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Miller |first=Mark K. |date=July 22, 2020 |title=Station Trading Roundup: 1 Deal, $375,000 |url=https://tvnewscheck.com/business/article/station-trading-roundup-1-deal-375000/ |access-date=2025-06-28 |website=TVNewsCheck |language=en-US}}</ref> to rebroadcast KCSG.<ref name="kutatoweigel">{{cite web|url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/views/public/assignmentDraftCopy?displayType=html&appKey=0759c2e0c103415e9c79c1b6063ebeb7&id=0759c2e0c103415e9c79c1b6063ebeb7&goBack=N|title=Application for Transfer of Control of a Corporate Licensee or Permittee, or for Assignment of License or Permit of TV or FM Translator Station or Low Power Television Station|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|date=July 16, 2020|access-date=July 21, 2020|archive-date=January 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220123233608/https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/views/public/assignmentDraftCopy?displayType=html&appKey=0759c2e0c103415e9c79c1b6063ebeb7&id=0759c2e0c103415e9c79c1b6063ebeb7&goBack=N|url-status=live}}</ref>


==Technical information==
==Technical information==
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The stations' signals are [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
The stations' signals are [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of KCSG<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KCSG#station|title=RabbitEars TV Query for KCSG|website=[[RabbitEars.info]]|accessdate=November 24, 2024}}</ref> and KCSG-LD<ref>{{cite web|title=RabbitEars TV Query for KCSG-LD|url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=130912#station|website=[[RabbitEars]]|access-date=October 4, 2020}}</ref>
|+Subchannels of KCSG<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KCSG#station|title=RabbitEars TV Query for KCSG|website=[[RabbitEars]]|accessdate=November 24, 2024|archive-date=February 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202234356/http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KCSG#station|url-status=live}}</ref> and KCSG-LD<ref>{{cite web|title=RabbitEars TV Query for KCSG-LD|url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=130912#station|website=[[RabbitEars]]|access-date=October 4, 2020}}</ref>
! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
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| EMLW || [[OnTV4U]] ([[Infomercial]]s)
| EMLW || [[OnTV4U]] ([[Infomercial]]s)
|}
|}
===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KCSG shut down its analog signal, over [[VHF]] channel 4, on June 12, 2009, as part of the [[Digital television transition in the United States|federally mandated transition from analog to digital television]].<ref name="Analog to Digital">[http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf List of Digital Full-Power Stations] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |date=August 29, 2013 }}</ref> The station's digital signal broadcasts on its pre-transition UHF channel 14, using [[virtual channel]] 8.


===Other translators===
===Other translators===
KCSG's signal is additionally rebroadcast over the following translators:<ref>{{Cite web|date=July 23, 2021|title=List of TV Translator Input Channels|url=https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/tv-translator-input-channels-07232021.xlsx|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209195336/https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/tv-translator-input-channels-07232021.xlsx|archive-date=December 9, 2021|access-date=December 17, 2021|publisher=Federal Communications Commission}}</ref>
*[[Beaver, Utah|Beaver]]: K25PF-D
*[[Beaver, Utah|Beaver]]: K25PF-D
*[[Delta, Utah|Delta]]–[[Oak City, Utah|Oak City]]: K25PF-D
*[[Delta, Utah|Delta]]–[[Oak City, Utah|Oak City]]: K25PF-D
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*[[Garrison, Utah|Garrison]]: K30PI-D
*[[Garrison, Utah|Garrison]]: K30PI-D
*[[Leamington, Utah|Leamington]]: K16MT-D
*[[Leamington, Utah|Leamington]]: K16MT-D
*[[Logan, Utah|Logan]]: K08QL-D
*[[Logan, Utah|Logan]]: K08QL-D, K22MH-D
*[[Logan, Utah|Logan]]: K22MH-D
*[[Minersville, Utah|Minersville]]: K17HX-D
*[[Minersville, Utah|Minersville]]: K17HX-D
*[[Parowan]]–[[Enoch, Utah|Enoch]]: K25PD-D
*[[Parowan]]–[[Enoch, Utah|Enoch]]: K25PD-D
*[[St. George, Utah|St. George]]: K16DS-D
*[[St. George, Utah|St. George]]: K16DS-D, K27MQ-D
*[[St. George, Utah|St. George]]: K27MQ-D


==References==
==References==

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "about". Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox television station dual KCSG (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Cedar City, Utah, United States, airing programming from the classic television network MeTV. Owned and operated by Weigel Broadcasting, it broadcasts from a main transmitter on Cedar Mountain, southeast of Cedar City. The station is rebroadcast on the Wasatch Front by KCSG-LD, licensed to Ogden and transmitting from Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, and on additional translators in Utah.

Channel 4 in Cedar City spent most of its history as a station with local programming for Southern Utah. It was built by Michael Glen Golden as KCCZ, which began broadcasting on April 23, 1990, as an independent station with studios in Cedar City. Golden ran out of money in 1992, causing the station to leave the air. Seagull Communications, which owned radio stations in St. George, acquired the station out of bankruptcy and returned it to the air as KSGI-TV in 1994. Bonneville International Corporation, the owner of KSL-TV in Salt Lake City, acquired the station in 1998. It was relaunched under new KCSG call letters and served as an affiliate of Pax.

Broadcast West acquired KCSG in 2002, beginning a 14-year ownership tenure for KCSG under car dealer Stephen Wade. Wade launched a news department for KCSG in 2003, which was shuttered in 2010 due to poor advertising support. Local news was revived through an agreement with Dixie State College, which briefly managed the station. KCSG converted to digital broadcasting in 2009 and began using virtual channel 16. After being a MyNetworkTV affiliate beginning in 2008, KCSG's main channel began broadcasting MeTV in 2011 before switching to Heroes & Icons in 2014. West American Finance Corporation acquired KCSG in 2016 and switched its virtual channel to 8. In 2017, the station was acquired by Weigel directly.

History

KCCZ and KSGI-TV: Early years

On June 11, 1984, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a construction permit to Michael Glen Golden of Parowan, Utah, for a new commercial TV station to broadcast on channel 4. Golden believed that Southern Utah's growth could support a television station. He attempted to secure affiliation or program deals with the major networks and later met with officials from CBS and Turner Broadcasting System but was unsuccessful, leading him to target construction of channel 4 as an independent station.[1] Construction on the transmitter site on Cedar Mountain began in October 1986, with Golden—through his Liberty Broadcasting Company—hoping to have KCCZ on the air by January 1987.[2]

KCCZ began broadcasting on April 23, 1990,[3] from studios on Airport Road in Cedar City.[4] In September 1992, it began offering 12:30, 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. newscasts from KSL-TV featuring dedicated Southern Utah news stories and weather forecasts.[5] However, the station was suffering financially. Over the course of 1992, five liens were filed against Liberty Broadcasting Company property for failure to pay federal taxes. In early November, the station abruptly shut down, after which time Golden was assessed a civil tax penalty of more than $22,000.[6]

KCCZ was sold at bankruptcy in September 1993 to Seagull Communications Corporation, which won the bidding for $75,000. Seagull's principals owned St. George radio station KSGI (1450 AM) and were building KSGI-FM 99.7 at the time.[7] The station resumed broadcasting as KSGI-TV either in January 1994Template:R or on February 1.[8] It maintained the Cedar City studio and opened another on North 1000 East and broadcast a family-friendly independent station format with local programming and a package of Colorado Rockies baseball games.[9][10]

KCSG: Local TV for Southern Utah

The Bonneville International Corporation, a broadcasting company wholly owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and owner of KSL-TV, acquired KSGI-TV from Seagull in 1997.[11] The station changed its call sign to KXIV by the time Bonneville completed the purchase in April 1998.[12] The call sign was changed again to KCSG before Bonneville relaunched the station as an affiliate of Pax on October 12, 1998. Pax had only gone on the air that August. The station maintained studios in Cedar City but had its offices in St. George. Station leadership stated plans to eventually produce a local newscast,[13] but by 2000 the only local newscasts on the station's schedule were rebroadcasts from KSL-TV.[14] Under Bonneville, KCSG also offered some local college sports, including Dixie College and Southern Utah University athletics.[15][16][17]

In August 2002, KCSG was sold to Broadcast West, a St. George-based partnership of general manager Dan Matheson and local auto dealer Stephen Wade, for $450,000.[18] The new owners elected to continue the Pax affiliation and to increase local programming.[19] Among the company's moves was to implement a news department, which launched in 2003. By 2005, KCSG was offering a nightly newscast as well as a newscast in Spanish three times a week.[20] The Broadcast West partnership was dissolved on October 18, 2005, and a new company—Southwest Media, owned by Stephen Wade—became the licensee.[21]

KCSG replaced Salt Lake City's KJZZ-TV as Utah's MyNetworkTV affiliate on August 18, 2008.[22] By this time, KCSG was producing local news on weekdays from 7 to 8 a.m., 5:30 to 6 p.m., and 9 to 10 p.m. and a local sports program, Sports Jam, airing three nights a week.[23] The station added programming from the Retro Television Network, which was previously carried in the market by KUSG and KCBU, in July 2009.[24] KCSG ceased analog broadcasting with the digital television transition on June 12, 2009. It continued to broadcast its main digital signal from Cedar City on UHF channel 14. Its translator in St. George, which converted at the same time, operated on channel 16, which became the virtual channel number for the station in lieu of 4.[25]

In September 2009, the format of KCSG's nightly newscast changed when production of the program, except for anchoring, was outsourced to Dixie State College, with students producing the newscast at the college's studio.[26] After this and other attempts by Wade to cut costs did not stop the newscast from losing money, KCSG ceased airing local news in February 2010.[27]

In August 2010, Wade signed a local marketing agreement with Dixie State College's Dick Nourse Center for Media Innovation to program the station. This included the return of a news presence on August 23,[28] with 15-minute newscasts recorded on weekdays.[29] After seven months, Southwest Media resumed managing KCSG, but the Center for Media Innovation continued to supply the station with news and sports programming.[30] Later in 2011, KCSG began offering re-airs of selected KSL-TV newscasts and daily weather forecasts from KSL.[31] It also signed a deal to air Utah State University football and men's and women's basketball games.[32][33]

MeTV and Weigel purchase

Black text "KCSG" with smaller wording "Television". The K sits on a sky blue-to-white gradient circle.
KCSG logo used 2011-2017

On September 5, 2011, KCSG switched its primary affiliation to MeTV, a diginet specializing in classic television programming.[34][35] In 2014, it switched diginets from MeTV to Heroes & Icons, which like MeTV is owned by Weigel Broadcasting.[36]

West American Finance Corporation acquired KCSG in 2016 and rebranded it using virtual channel 8. The station also launched an 8 p.m. newscast, lasting eight minutes in length, continuing the Heroes & Icons affiliation.[37]

Weigel Broadcasting acquired KCSG and its translators in St. George from West American Finance for $1.1 million in 2017.[38] The transaction marked the beginning of Weigel purchasing stations outside of its traditional Midwest markets, as before the end of 2017, it had agreed to acquire stations serving Los Angeles, St. Louis, San Francisco, and Seattle.[39][40] In 2020, it acquired KUTA-LD in Logan and KQTI-LD, licensed to Ogden, from Airwaves Inc.[41] to rebroadcast KCSG.[42]

Technical information

Subchannels

The stations' signals are multiplexed:

Subchannels of KCSG[43] and KCSG-LD[44]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
8.1 720p 16:9 KCSG-HD MeTV
8.2 480i Decades Catchy Comedy
8.3 StartTV Start TV
8.4 Heroes Heroes & Icons
8.5 MeTV+ MeTV+
8.6 Story Story Television
8.7 Movies! Movies!
8.8 TOONS MeTV Toons
8.12 EMLW OnTV4U (Infomercials)

Other translators

KCSG's signal is additionally rebroadcast over the following translators:[45]

References

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External links

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