KZJL

Coordinates : 29°33′45.2″N 95°30′35.9″W  /  29.562556°N 95.509972°W  / 29.562556; -95.509972
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KZJL
Channels
Branding
  • Estrella TV Houston
  • Noticias 61 (newscast)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KTJM , KQQK , KEYH , KNTE
History
First air date
June 2, 1995 (28 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 ID 69531
ERP 880 kW
HAAT 595 m (1,952 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 29°33′45.2″N 95°30′35.9″W  /  29.562556°N 95.509972°W  / 29.562556; -95.509972
Links
Public license information
Website www .estrellatv .com

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 .

History [ edit ]

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 [ edit ]

Subchannels [ edit ]

The station's signal is multiplexed :

Subchannels of KZJL
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
61.1 720p 16:9 KZJL-HD Main KZJL programming / 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

Analog-to-digital conversion [ edit ]

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 [ edit ]

  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

External links [ edit ]