KEZT-CD


KEZT-CD, virtual channel 23, is a low-powered, Class A television station licensed to Sacramento, California, United States. It is a translator of Modesto-licensed Univision owned-and-operated station KUVS-DT which is owned by the Univision Local Media subsidiary of Univision Communications. KEZT-CD's transmitter is located on 22nd Street in downtown Sacramento. Its parent station shares studios with Stockton-licensed duopoly partner and UniMás owned-and-operated station KTFK-DT on Arden Way near Cal Expo in Sacramento.

History

KEZT first aired programming from The Box in the 1990s, and then Telefutura, when the network was launched in 2002. When KTFK-TV channel 64 was acquired by Univision Communications in 2003, it assumed the Telefutura affiliation in 2004 and channel 23 switched to the Home Shopping Network. This made KEZT one of two television stations owned by Univision to broadcast in English ; however, it re-aired a Spanish-language newscast and two Spanish-language public affairs programs from KUVS on Sunday mornings to meet Federal Communications Commission requirements regarding local programming on Class A television stations.
In 2014, KEZT began repeating KUVS-DT, which made KUVI-DT the only English-language Univision-owned station. To accommodate these changes, the station added three new subchannels, expanding from one SD channel to four channels.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
ChannelVideoAspectPSIP Short NameProgramming
23.11080iKEZT-CDSimulcast of KUVS-DT / Univision
23.21080iKEZT.2Simulcast of KTFK-DT / UniMás
23.3480iKEZT.3Bounce TV
23.4480iKEZT.4Court TV Mystery

Analog-to-digital conversion

Since it was a Class A low-power analog station, it stayed on the air well after the June 2009 cutoff, but left the air on January 26, 2012. It was replaced with a digital channel the same day.

Newscasts

The newscasts of both sister stations KUVS and KTFK are seen on the station's.1 and.2 subchannels, respectively.