# KREZ-TV

KREZ-TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Durango, Colorado, United States, affiliated with CBS and Fox. It is a satellite of Albuquerque, New Mexico–based KRQE (channel 13), which is owned by Nexstar Media Group. KREZ-TV's offices are located on Turner Drive in Durango, and its transmitter is located atop Smelter Mountain; its parent station maintains studios on Broadcast Plaza in Albuquerque.
KBIM-TV (channel 10) in Roswell, New Mexico, also serves as a satellite of KRQE. These satellite operations provide additional news bureaus for KRQE and sell advertising time to local sponsors.

## History

The station began operations on September 15, 1963, as KJFL-TV, a free-standing local independent station owned by Jeter Telecasting; it went off the air after its facilities were destroyed in a February 1964 fire, and the station was sold, rebuilt and returned to the air on September 9, 1965, as KREZ-TV, a satellite of CBS affiliate KREX-TV (channel 5) in Grand Junction, Colorado. KREZ operated as such for nearly 30 years (with many attempts at regional news along the way) before being sold to Davenport, Iowa-based Lee Enterprises and becoming a KRQE satellite in 1995.
In 1998, Lee Enterprises rebranded the combination of KRQE, KREZ-TV, and KBIM-TV as "CBS Southwest" and revamped the Durango and Roswell stations' news services to produce inserts into KRQE's early evening newscasts. Two years later, Lee would exit broadcasting and sell KRQE, KREZ-TV, KBIM-TV, and most of its other television properties to Emmis Communications; in 2005, Emmis, in its own exit from television, sold its New Mexico outlets to LIN TV Corporation.
A deal to sell KREZ to Native American Broadcasting, LLC was reached in April 2011; upon the sale's completion, KREZ was to become a full-scale independent station (with plans for extensive local programming), and change its call letters to KSWZ-TV. However, the sale was never finalized, and KREZ remains a KRQE satellite.
On March 21, 2014, it was announced that Media General would acquire LIN. The merger was completed on December 19. Just over a year later, on January 27, 2016, it was announced that the Nexstar Broadcasting Group would buy Media General for $4.6 billion. After selling then-Fox affiliate KASA-TV to Ramar Communications, KRQE and its satellites became part of "Nexstar Media Group." The sale was completed on January 17, 2017, reuniting KREZ with former parent station KREX.

## Technical information
### Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:
Subchannels of KREZ-TV :
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
| 6.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KREZ-HD | CBS |
| 6.2 | 720p | 16:9 | FoxNM | Fox |

### Analog-to-digital conversion

KREZ-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 6, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 15, using virtual channel 6.

### Translators

* K34QD-D Bayfield & Ignacio
* K31CT-D Cortez
* K31FV-D Durango & Hermosa
* K29HR-D Farmington, NM
* K13XX-D Hesperus
* K23OR-D Pagosa Springs