| Translator of KGTV | |
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| Channels | |
| Branding | see KGTV |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | see KGTV |
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| History | |
| Founded | September 25, 1997 |
First air date | September 13, 2000 |
Former call signs |
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Former channel number(s) | Analog: 41 (UHF, 2000–2018) |
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Call sign meaning | Azteca San Diego (former affiliation) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 57054 |
| Class | LD |
| ERP | 7.3 kW |
| HAAT | 585.5 m (1,921 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°41′46.6″N 116°56′10.3″W / 32.696278°N 116.936194°W |
| Links | |
Public license information | LMS |
| Website | www |
KZSD-LD (channel 20) is a low-power television station in San Diego, California, United States. It is a translator of ABC affiliate KGTV (channel 10) which is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. KZSD-LD's transmitter is located on San Miguel Mountain southeast of Spring Valley; its parent station maintains studios on Air Way in the Riverview-Webster section of San Diego.
As a stand-alone analog station affiliated with Azteca América and later MeTV, KZSD's broadcasting radius only covered northern and eastern parts of the city of San Diego and some adjacent suburbs (such as Poway and El Cajon).[2] Therefore, the station was simulcast in widescreen standard definition over KGTV's second digital subchannel in order to reach the entire market.
The unusual numbering for the mapped subchannel in the past as channel 10.15 was in order to align it with KZSD's former cable placement on Cox Communications channel 15 (PBS member station KPBS which broadcasts on virtual channel 15 over the air, is instead carried on cable channel 11). Once XHDTV-TDT2 (later XHAS-TDT) assumed the Azteca América affiliation, KZSD-LP lost the channel 15 cable slot, but regained carriage on May 1, 2017, on Cox digital channel 808, when it assumed the MeTV affiliation in San Diego.
KZSD-LP was converted to digital in 2018 as a KGTV translator, allowing homes with issues receiving KGTV's VHF signal or only a UHF antenna to receive KGTV in some form.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KZSD-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Loading Map". January 28, 2016.