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| Cathedral City–Palm Springs, California United States | |
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| City | Cathedral City, California |
| Channels | Digital: 31 (UHF) Virtual: 45 |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Bridge News LLC |
| History | |
| Founded | January 24, 1996 |
| First air date | October 5, 1997 |
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| Former affiliations |
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| Call sign meaning | Retro TV (former affiliation) |
| Technical information | |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 10536 |
| Class | CD |
| ERP | 15 kW |
| HAAT | 175.9 m (577 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 33°51′58″N 116°26′8″W / 33.86611°N 116.43556°WCoordinates: 33°51′58″N 116°26′8″W / 33.86611°N 116.43556°W Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed. |
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| Public license information | Profile LMS |
KRET-CD (channel 45) is a low-power, Class A television station licensed to Cathedral City, California, United States, serving the Palm Springs area as an affiliate of Heroes & Icons. The station is owned by Bridge News LLC.
History
The FCC granted an original construction permit to Charles R. Meeker on January 24, 1996, to build a low-power television station on UHF channel 45 to serve Cathedral City and Palm Springs, California. It was given the call sign K45ET and began broadcasting October 18, 1997,[1] under the operation of Sun Holding Corporation as "KPSP" Sun TV an independent station.[2]
Sun TV struggled. It lacked cable carriage on the main Time Warner Cable system until 1998, when it was added from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. 24-hour carriage commenced in January 1999, too late for the station. Sun TV folded on February 11, 1999; channel 58 then exchanged call letters with KDPX-LP (channel 45),[3] also picking up KDPX-LP's Pax programming. As a Pax station, the station was operated by JB Broadcasting.[4]
In 2008, the call letters for the station were changed to KRET-CA; that May, it added Retro Television Network.[5] In 2011, KRET added MeTV to its main channel. From late July to late September 2013, due to a retransmission consent dispute between Time Warner Cable and Journal Broadcast Group's NBC affiliate KMIR-TV, that station subcontracted with KRET-CA to carry their evening newscasts during the dispute due to KRET's channel 14 position on TWC systems.[6]
The station was issued its license for digital operation on October 8, 2014, and simultaneously changed its call sign to KRET-CD.
Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 45.1 | 480i | 4:3 | H&I | Heroes & Icons |
| 45.2 | Cozi | Cozi TV | ||
| 45.3 | GEB | GEB America | ||
| 45.4 | catchy | Catchy Comedy | ||
| 45.5 | Antenna TV | Antenna TV | ||
| 45.6 | Nuestra | Nuestra Visión | ||
| 45.7 | Shop | |||
| 45.8 | Comfy | Comfy TV |
References
- ↑ Fessier, Bruce (February 12, 1999). "TV station that never got going goes off air". The Desert Sun. Palm Springs, California. p. D1. Retrieved March 13, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Fessier, Bruce (September 30, 1997). "Local fiddler gets taste of real show biz". The Desert Sun. Palm Springs, California. p. C1. Retrieved March 13, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Michaels, Pat (February 28, 1999). "Whatever happened to charm?". The Desert Sun. Palm Springs, California. p. E1. Retrieved March 13, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Fullam, Peter (June 18, 1999). "PAX sponsors can promote family values". The Desert Sun. Palm Springs, California. p. E1. Retrieved March 13, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Retro Television Network Now Local And On TW Cable". DesertLocalNews. Retrieved July 17, 2008. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) [dead link] - ↑ McCain, Marie (July 26, 2013). "KMIR newscasts airing on Time Warner Cable during dispute; KRET, Channel 14, to show newscasts while KMIR, Channel 6, is off local cable lineup". The Desert Sun. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
- ↑ "TV Query for KRET". RabbitEars.
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