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.

KZJL
Channels
Branding
  • Estrella TV Houston
  • Noticias 61 (newscast)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KTJM, KQQK, KEYH, KNTE
History
First air date
June 2, 1995 (29 years ago) (1995-06-02)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 61 (UHF, 1995–2009)
  • Digital: 44 (UHF, 2003–2019)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID69531
ERP880 kW
HAAT595 m (1,952 ft)
Transmitter coordinates29°33′45.2″N 95°30′35.9″W / 29.562556°N 95.509972°W / 29.562556; -95.509972
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.estrellatv.com

History

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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

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Subchannels

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The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KZJL
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
61.1 720p 16:9 KZJL-HD 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 480p Confess Confess

Analog-to-digital conversion

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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.[2] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 44, using virtual channel 61.

References

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  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KZJL". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ List of Digital Full-Power Stations Archived August 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
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