KZJL

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
BrandingEstrella TV Houston (general)
Noticias 61 (newscast)
Programming
Affiliations61.1: Estrella TV
61.2: Estrella News
61.3: Jewelry Television
61.4: Shop LC
61.5: Positiv
61.6: QVC2
Ownership
Owner
Radio: KTJM, KQQK, KEYH, KNTE
History
First air date
June 2, 1995 (1995-06-02)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
61 (UHF, 1995–2009)
Digital:
44 (UHF, 2003–2019)
Shop at Home (1995–2001)
Spanish Independent (2001–2009)
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
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.estrellatv.com

History

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

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KZJL
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
61.1 720p16:9KZJL-HDMain KZJL programming / Estrella TV
61.2 KZJL-2Estrella News
61.3 480i4:3JTVJewelry Television
61.4 16:9SHOP-LCShop LC
61.5 720pPOSI-TVPositiv
61.6 480iQVCQVC2

Analog-to-digital conversion

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 PSIP to display KZJL's virtual channel as 61 on digital television receivers, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

References
  1. "Facility Technical Data for KZJL". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. List of Digital Full-Power Stations Archived 2013-08-29 at the Wayback Machine


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