Founded November 20, 1981 Transmitter power 70 kW | Former callsigns K42DT (until 2005) | |
Channels Analog: 42 (UHF)
Digital: 20 (UHF) (CP) Owner Venture Technologies Group, LLC Former affiliations Independent (2002-2007)
TBN (1981-2002) (unverified, assumed) | ||
KSCZ-LP was a low power broadcast television station in San Benito County, California that broadcast on analog channel 42. The station was operated by Venture Technologies Group, LLC. Although the station is currently silent, it is still licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
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History
Signing on as K42DT, the station had been owned by the Trinity Broadcasting Network. By 2002 the station was under the ownership of Venture Technologies Group, which it continues to be owned.
From 2002, the station became silent, and was granted a temporary authority license the following year by the FCC. In May 2006 the station owners moved the station's location from Coalinga Ridge in Coalinga, California to a transmitter site on Mt. San Benito, and changed the station's city of license to Greenfield, California.
KSCZ went silent at 4pm on Sunday, March 18, 2007 by Brian Holton of Venture Technology Group, licensee. Pending resolution of an FCC filing against it by Marty Jackson of Monterey, California, it may return to the air serving Santa Cruz, California.
On October 11, 2007, KSCZ-LP was granted an original construction permit for a digital companion channel by the FCC under the callsign of KSCZ-LD. The digital station is expected to broadcast digitally on channel 20 from a transmitter site in Fremont Peak, from where other Salinas and Monterey-area broadcasters transmit.
Programming
It is unknown what programming the station previously broadcast, though it is assumed to have broadcast Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) network programming under TBN ownership. It also broadcast a moving test pattern consisting of a repeating hour showing ships sailing under the Golden Gate Bridge, as viewed from the Marin Headlands. Video for this test pattern was shot by 2006 Venture employee Frank Martin. Music on the audio playing during this 'test pattern' was original compositions from Steve Salani of orchestra.net. This 'test pattern' repeating hour broadcast continuously from sign on at the Mt. San Benito site on May 18, 2006 until sign off by Brian Holton..
Technical information
KSCZ-LP TV channel 42 is located at the American Tower Site on Mt. San Benito in San Benito County, California. Mt. San Benito is located near the historic mining town of New Idria, a posted Cinnabar mine closed due to mercury pollution. New Idria has been a superfund toxic waste cleanup site since 1974.
KSCZ-LP could be viewed in northern Central California, broadcasting from Mt. San Benito between Interstate 5 and Highway 101. The station used a 1 kW NTSC transmitter with directional parabolic antennas directed at the community of Greenfield, California with an effective radiated power of 70KW.
The frequency shift keying of the morse code version of the call letters KSCZ-LP could be heard by tuning towards channel 43 in Clovis, California.