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On June 11, 1984, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a construction permit to Michael Glen Golden of Parowan, Utah, for a new commercial TV station to broadcast on channel 4. Golden believed that Southern Utah's growth could support a television station. He attempted to secure affiliation or program deals with the major networks and later met with officials from CBS and Turner Broadcasting System but was unsuccessful, leading him to target construction of channel 4 as an independent station.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-2-full-power-televisi/175420931/|date=June 27, 1985|pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-stations-target-so-u/175421083/ 6]|first=Loren|last=Webb|title=2 full-power television stations target So. Utah|newspaper=The Daily Spectrum|location=St. George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 27, 2025}} Construction on the transmitter site on Cedar Mountain began in October 1986, with Golden—through his Liberty Broadcasting Company—hoping to have KCCZ on the air by January 1987.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/washington-county-news-kccz-transmitter/175421310/|date=October 7, 1986|page=6|first=Steve|last=Lutz|title=KCCZ transmitter work begins|newspaper=Washington County News|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 27, 2025}}

KCCZ began broadcasting on April 23, 1990,{{Cite book|chapter=KCSG|title=Television & Cable Factbook|year=2006|page=A-2329}} from studios on Airport Road in Cedar City.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-kccz-tv-hits-the-airw/175421566/|date=May 2, 1990|page=15|title=KCCZ-TV hits the airwaves|newspaper=The Daily Spectrum|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 27, 2025}} In September 1992, it began offering 12:30, 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. newscasts from KSL-TV featuring dedicated Southern Utah news stories and weather forecasts.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-ksl-televisions-colo/175422390/|date=September 6, 1992|page=15C|type=Advertisement|title=KSL-Television's Color Country Eyewitness News brings all the news home to Color Country.|newspaper=The Daily Spectrum|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 27, 2025}} However, the station was suffering financially. Over the course of 1992, five liens were filed against Liberty Broadcasting Company property for failure to pay federal taxes. In early November, the station abruptly shut down, after which time Golden was assessed a civil tax penalty of more than $22,000.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-kccz-wrestles-with-fi/175422422/|date=December 12, 1992|pages=1A, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-kccz-station-struggl/175422447/ 3A]|first=Donna M.|last=Brown|title=KCCZ wrestles with finances: Golden hopes to put station back on the air|newspaper=The Daily Spectrum|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 27, 2025}}

KCCZ was sold at bankruptcy in September 1993 to Seagull Communications Corporation, which won the bidding for $75,000. Seagull's principals owned St. George radio station KSGI (1450 AM) and were building KSGI-FM 99.7 at the time.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-seagull-wins-bid-for/175422673/|date=September 24, 1993|page=A5|first=Loren|last=Webb|title=Seagull wins bid for Liberty|newspaper=The Daily Spectrum|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 27, 2025}} The station resumed broadcasting as KSGI-TV in January 1994. It maintained the Cedar City studio and opened another on North 1000 East and broadcast a family-friendly independent station format with local programming and a package of Colorado Rockies baseball games.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-ksgi-broadcasting-in/175423182/|date=January 25, 1994|page=B3|title=KSGI broadcasting in Cedar, St. George|newspaper=The Daily Spectrum|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 27, 2025}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-spectrum-st-georges-ksgi-not/175423261/|date=April 7, 1994|page=A5|first=Tricia|last=Ciaravino|title=St. George's KSGI not just radio anymore|newspaper=The Daily Spectrum|location=Saint George, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 27, 2025}}

The Bonneville International Corporation, a broadcasting company wholly owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and owner of KSL-TV, acquired KSGI-TV from Bonneville in 1997.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salt-lake-tribune-bonneville-to-buy/175423599/|date=July 25, 1997|page=D10|title=Bonneville to Buy TV Station|newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune|location=Salt Lake City, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 27, 2025}} The station changed its call sign to KXIV by the time Bonneville completed the purchase in April 1998.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salt-lake-tribune-bonneville-buys-st/175423673/|date=May 1, 1998|page=51|title=Bonneville Buys Station|newspaper=The Salt Lake Tribune|location=Salt Lake City, Utah|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=June 27, 2025}}

KCSG began as KCCZ, with a construction permit issued on June 11, 1984, to Michael Glen Golden. After several extensions and replacements of expired permits, and transfer of the permit to Liberty Broadcasting Company, the station first signed on the air on April 23, 1990, operating as an independent station; it was licensed by the Federal Communications Commission on June 21, 1990. However, financial difficulties doomed KCCZ and it shut down in November 1992. Liberty Broadcasting filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on December 17, 1992, but the filing had to be converted to Chapter 7 bankruptcy on June 22, 1993. On October 20, Seagull Communications Company, whose principals owned KSGI radio (1450 AM, now KSGO, and 99.9 FM, now KONY) in St. George, filed an application to acquire the station out of bankruptcy and on November 12, changed its call letters to KSGI-TV to match the radio stations. The acquisition was approved by the FCC and consummated on February 1, 1994. Seagull Communications returned the station to air the same day, again as an independent station.{{cite web |url=http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Orders/1997/da972559.txt |title=FCC Memorandum Opinion and Order |publisher=FCC CDBS database |date=December 5, 1997 |access-date=September 19, 2007}}

Almost immediately, the new owners applied to the FCC to build booster stations serving St. George, Utah, and Beaver Dam, Arizona–Mesquite, Nevada, communities cut off from the signal due to the mountainous terrain of those areas. The FCC granted the construction permit for the St. George booster, KSGI1 (later KCSG1), on February 28, 1995, but did not grant a permit for the Beaver Dam booster, KSGI2 (later KCSG2), until January 1998. That station was never built, but the construction permit remained in the FCC database until 2009.

In 1997, Seagull Communications sold KSGI-TV to Bonneville Holding Company, a broadcasting company wholly owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The sale was approved by the FCC on December 10, 1997, and was consummated on April 27, 1998. On February 16, 1998, the station changed its call letters to KXIV, in anticipation of its DTV channel assignment on UHF channel 14, but the FCC adopted the virtual channel standard, whereby digital stations would continue to identify by their analog channel assignment, and on May 15, 1998, the station again changed call letters, this time to KCSG. On August 31, 1998, the station became a charter affiliate of the family-oriented network Pax TV (now Ion Television). In August 2002, KCSG was sold to Broadcast West, a St. George-based partnership of Daniel Matheson and local auto dealer Stephen Wade. The new owners elected to continue the Pax affiliation and to maintain an association with Bonneville-owned KSL-TV (channel 5).{{cite web |url=http://www.kcsg.com/about |title=About Us |work=KCSG.com |access-date=June 18, 2009}}

Broadcast West began to make changes to KCSG that would establish its identity as a Southern Utah station. In 2003, the company founded the region's first television news department for the station. Before, the only local news program available to residents of Cedar City and St. George came from Salt Lake City area stations. In June 2005, with Pax TV preparing to adopt a more general entertainment format, KCSG switched its affiliation to America One, continuing to offer family-focused programming. The station made news in September 2005, when it began offering its news programs in Spanish, as well as in English, attempting to serve the region's growing Hispanic population.{{cite web|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20050921/ai_n15361707 |title=St. George station's news popular in English, Spanish |last=Perkins|first=Nancy |work=Deseret Morning News |date=September 21, 2005 |access-date=September 19, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090330090421/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20050921/ai_n15361707 |archive-date=March 30, 2009 }} The Broadcast West partnership was dissolved on October 18, 2005, and a new company, Southwest Media, owned by Stephen Wade, became the licensee.{{cite web |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getattachment_exh.cgi?exhibit_id=423916 |title=License Renewal: Public Inspection File attachment |publisher=FCC CDBS database |date=May 31, 2006 |access-date=September 19, 2007}}

On August 18, 2008, KCSG replaced Salt Lake City's KJZZ-TV (also on channel 14) as Utah's MyNetworkTV affiliate.{{cite web |url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6580119.html?rssid=193 |title=KCSG Salt Lake City Grabs MNT Affiliation |work=Broadcasting & Cable |last=Malone|first=Michael |date=July 21, 2008 |access-date=July 22, 2008}} The station added programming from the Retro Television Network, which was previously carried in the market by KUSG and KCBU, in 2009.{{cite news|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/articles/2009/07/23/daily.5/|title=New Deals Put RTV Near 89% Coverage|last=Miller|first=Mark K.|date=July 23, 2009|work=TVNewsCheck|access-date=March 28, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503101410/http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2009/07/23/34128/new-deals-put-rtv-near-89-coverage?nocookies|archive-date=May 3, 2012}} For a time, starting on September 20, 2010, KCSG was one of two MyNetworkTV affiliates serving the geographically large Utah media market, along with KUSG; the affiliation was subsequently ceded completely to the renamed KMYU (channel 12).

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On September 5, 2011, KCSG switched its primary affiliation to classic television network MeTV.[http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/15039755/article-Memorable-Television--ME-TV--Comes-to-KCSG-Telelvision-September-5th?instance=home_first_stories (ME-TV) Comes to KCSG Television September 5th] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928214456/http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/15039755/article-Memorable-Television--ME-TV--Comes-to-KCSG-Telelvision-September-5th?instance=home_first_stories |date=September 28, 2011 }} Retrieved August 11, 2011[http://mainstreetbusinessjournal.com/articleview.php?articlesid=5847&volume=14&issue=21 KCSG Launches Classic Television Station] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330221926/http://mainstreetbusinessjournal.com/articleview.php?articlesid=5847&volume=14&issue=21 |date=March 30, 2012 }} On July 26, 2012, KCSG added FamilyNet to Baja Broadband channel 87.[http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/19583023/article-Family-Net-Television-Joins-KCSG Family Net Television Joins KCSG] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115215622/http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/19583023/article-Family-Net-Television-Joins-KCSG |date=November 15, 2012 }} Retrieved July 26, 2012 FamilyNet is limited to cable and satellite viewing because of programming restrictions placed on it by the network. Otherwise, FamilyNet would have been added to digital subchannel 14.4.

On September 29, 2014, KCSG switched its affiliation from MeTV to Heroes & Icons, a new network owned by MeTV's parent company (and KCSG's future owner), Weigel Broadcasting, as its first non-owned affiliate. The network mainly carries a format of crime shows and westerns targeted to men from the MeTV acquisition library. MeTV is still available throughout the state via KTVX-DT2.

On July 19, 2017, Weigel (through TV-49, Inc., the licensee of WMLW-TV in Racine, Wisconsin) agreed to acquire the station for $1.1 million.[http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1761834&Service=DT&Form_id=314&Facility_id=59494 Application for consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License - Federal Communications Commission] The sale will convert KCSG in a H&I owned-and-operated station, though the possibility of Weigel's other networks being contained to it is also possible. It would also be Weigel's first purchase of any station outside of a state along Lake Michigan, as all of its properties are in Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana. The sale closed on December 5,{{cite web|url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101773695&formid=905&fac_num=59494|title=Consummation Notice|date=December 5, 2017|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=December 9, 2017}} with the St. George-related channel contracts voided the week before in order to make it a station only carrying H&I and Decades for the moment.

On July 16, 2020, it was announced that low-power stations KUTA-LD and KQTI-LD would be sold to Weigel Broadcasting for $375,000.{{cite web|url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101819121&formid=345&fac_num=127064|title=Application for Transfer of Control of a Corporate Licensee or Permittee, or for Assignment of License or Permit of TV or FM Translator Station or Low Power Television Station|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|date=July 16, 2020|access-date=July 21, 2020}} Weigel intends to use the stations as relays of KCSG for northern Utah and the Salt Lake City metropolitan area.[https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101819121&qnum=5150©num=1&exhcnum=1 Document]fcc.go {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412063937/https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101819121&qnum=5150©num=1&exhcnum=1 |date=April 12, 2023 }} The sale was completed on September 17.[http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1821149&Service=LD&Form_id=905&Facility_id=127064 "Consummation Notice"], CDBS Public Access, Federal Communications Commission, September 21, 2020, Retrieved September 21, 2020.

KCSG was the first television station in southern Utah to produce local newscasts for the region. Until KCSG started its news department, St. George residents received local newscasts from stations in Salt Lake City; indeed, KCSG itself simulcast KSL-TV's morning newscast for a time under Bonneville ownership.{{cite web|url=http://www.kcsg.com/pgprog.htm |title=Programming |work=KCSG Television |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000127054209/http://kcsg.com/pgprog.htm |archive-date=January 27, 2000 |access-date=March 28, 2010 |url-status=dead }} The station's news operation began in 2003 with a five-minute newscast; this subsequently expanded to half-hour newscasts at 5:30 and 9 p.m. KCSG discontinued its newscasts on February 19, 2010; the station still broadcasts news updates and still places news stories on its website.{{cite web |url=http://www.kcsg.com/news/local/84843647.html |title=KCSG Television Announces News Format Change |publisher=KCSG |date=February 20, 2010 |access-date=February 20, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201164057/http://www.kcsg.com/news/local/84843647.html |archive-date=February 1, 2014 }}{{cite web |url=http://media.www.dixiesunlink.com/media/storage/paper1365/news/2010/02/22/DscNews/Kcsg-Nightly.News.Goes.Dark-3878103.shtml |title=KCSG nightly news goes dark |publisher=Casie Forbes, Editor for the Dixie Sun |date=February 22, 2010 |access-date=February 22, 2010 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200618/http://media.www.dixiesunlink.com/media/storage/paper1365/news/2010/02/22/DscNews/Kcsg-Nightly.News.Goes.Dark-3878103.shtml |url-status=dead }}

After a six-month hiatus, full-scale newscasts were reinstated on August 23, 2010, with the early evening newscast now airing at 6:30 p.m., in addition to the 9 p.m. newscast. KCSG previously announced a partnership with Dixie State College of Utah.{{cite web| url = http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/9003363/article-Dixie-State-College-and-KCSG-Television-Announce-Partnership| title = Dixie State College and KCSG Television Announce Partnership| year = 2010| access-date = August 30, 2010| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101127064600/http://kcsg.com/view/full_story/9003363/article-Dixie-State-College-and-KCSG-Television-Announce-Partnership| archive-date = November 27, 2010}} In late August 2011, KCSG began rebroadcasting the first half-hour of KSL-TV's 6 p.m. newscast at 7 p.m., and its 6:30 p.m. newscast re-airs at 9 p.m. Both newscasts are titled KSL Live 5 News on KCSG.

On August 4, 2011, Utah State University announced that it had partnered with KCSG to show select football and men's and women's basketball games on the station.{{cite news|title=Utah State Football and Basketball Games Will Be Broadcast on KCSG Television Beginning This Fall|url=http://www.utahstateaggies.com/genrel/080411aaa.html|date=August 4, 2011|access-date=August 4, 2011}}{{cite news|title=KCSG Television to Broadcast USU Aggie Football and Basketball|url=http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/14936120/article-KCSG-Television-to-Broadcast-USU-Aggie-Football-and-Basketball-----?instance=1|date=August 4, 2011|access-date=August 4, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928214536/http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/14936120/article-KCSG-Television-to-Broadcast-USU-Aggie-Football-and-Basketball-----?instance=1|archive-date=September 28, 2011}}

The St. George Marathon, the City of St. George First Night and the Huntsman World Senior Games are broadcast on KCSG.

The stations' signals are multiplexed:

KCSG shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 4, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf List of Digital Full-Power Stations] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |date=August 29, 2013 }} The station's digital signal broadcasts on its pre-transition UHF channel 14, using virtual channel 8.

• Beaver: K25PF-D
• Delta–Oak City: K25PF-D
• Fillmore–Meadow: K25JJ-D
• Garrison: K30PI-D
• Leamington: K16MT-D
• Logan: K08QL-D
• Logan: K22MH-D
• Minersville: K17HX-D
• Parowan–Enoch: K25PD-D
• St. George: K16DS-D
• St. George: K27MQ-D

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