KOCT
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{{Infobox television station
| name = KOCT
| location = Carlsbad, New Mexico
| country = United States
| digital = 19 (UHF)
| virtual = 6
| affiliations = Defunct
| owner = Hearst Television
| licensee = KOAT Hearst Television Inc.
| airdate = {{Start date|1956|8|24}}
| last_airdate = {{ubl|{{End date|2012|7|18}}|({{age in years and days|1956|8|24|2012|7|18}})}}
| erp = 15 kW
| haat = {{cvt|378|ft|m}}
| coordinates = {{Coord|32|47|38.3|N|104|12|30.4|W}}
| former_callsigns = {{ubl|KAVE-TV (1956–1987)|KVIO-TV (1987–1993)}}
| former_affiliations = {{ubl|CBS (1956–1966)|ABC (satellite of KVKM-TV in Monahans, TX, 1966–1969)|ABC (satellite of KELP-TV/KVIA-TV in El Paso, TX, 1969–1993)|ABC (satellite of KOAT-TV in Albuquerque, 1993–2012)}}
| former_channel_numbers = Analog: 6 (VHF, 1956–2009)
}}
KOCT (channel 6) was a television station in Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States, which operated from 1956 to 2012.
Originally established as KAVE-TV, an independent local station for Carlsbad, in 1956, it was the regional affiliate of CBS for the next decade. The construction of the higher-power KBIM-TV at Roswell in 1966 caused KOCT to lose its CBS affiliation; at that time, it was sold and began a 46-year history as a satellite of three ABC affiliates in succession: KVKM-TV in Monahans, Texas; KELP-TV/KVIA-TV in El Paso, Texas; and KOAT-TV in Albuquerque. Only once in that time, from 1982 to 1984, did the station produce significant local programming in Carlsbad. The call sign was changed to KVIO-TV in 1987 and to KOCT in 1993. In 2012, KOAT surrendered the full-power KOCT license and replaced it with a translator license because doing so allowed it to cease maintaining a separate public file in Carlsbad.
KAVE-TV, Carlsbad's local station
On May 16, 1955, the Carlsbad Broadcasting Corporation, owner of Carlsbad radio station KAVE (1240 AM),{{efn|This station was deleted in 1974 for failure to file a renewal application.{{cite news |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1974/1974-11-18-BC.pdf |work=Broadcasting |date=November 18, 1974 |page=76 |title=For the Record |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-date=October 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008204230/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1974/1974-11-18-BC.pdf |url-status=live }} The frequency is now occupied by KAMQ, which began broadcasting on June 25, 1979.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112929270/from-my-viewpoint-august-playboy-featur/ |date=July 1, 1979 |page=C-12 |first=Ned |last=Cantwell |title=From My Viewpoint: August PLAYBOY Features Carlsbad |newspaper=Carlsbad Current-Argus |location= |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-date=January 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110051347/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112929270/from-my-viewpoint-august-playboy/ |url-status=live }}}} applied to the Federal Communications Commission for a construction permit to build a television station on channel 6 in Carlsbad.{{cite web |url=https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=84411 |title=FCC History Cards for KOCT |publisher=Federal Communications Commission |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112023651/https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=84411 |url-status=live }} Carlsbad Broadcasting had been planning for three years to build a TV station and had purchased a site on "C" Mountain in 1950.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112919910/tv-permit-filed-by-carlsbad-bc/ |date=May 20, 1955 |page=1 |title=TV Permit Filed By Carlsbad BC |newspaper=Carlsbad Current-Argus |location= |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112023650/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112919910/tv-permit-filed-by-carlsbad-bc/ |url-status=live }} The FCC granted the permit in June,{{r|hc}} though before the station was built, negotiations were concluded to sell KAVE radio and the television station permit to Voice of the Caverns, a company of the Battison family consisting of Nancy Hewitt and John Battison, so that Carlsbad Broadcasting Corporation president Val Lawrence could dedicate himself to managing KROD-TV in El Paso.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112921163/negotiations-underway-for-kave-purchase/ |date=August 18, 1955 |page=1 |title=Negotiations Underway For KAVE Purchase |newspaper=Carlsbad Current-Argus |location= |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112023654/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112921163/negotiations-underway-for-kave-purchase/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112921240/approval-for-sale-of-carlsbad-radio-stat/ |date=September 21, 1955 |page=25 |agency=Associated Press |title=Approval for Sale Of Carlsbad Radio Station Is Asked |newspaper=The Albuquerque Tribune |location= |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-date=January 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110051347/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112921240/approval-for-sale-of-carlsbad-radio/ |url-status=live }} The English-born John Battison, who first visited the U.S. while on leave from Canada as a fighter pilot with the Royal Air Force, had moved permanently to America in 1945 and worked in the television industry and as an author and professor on television topics. He also was a founding manager of CHCT-TV in Calgary.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112921404/southwestern-trip-netted-john-battison-t/ |date=December 1, 1955 |page=11 |title=Southwestern Trip Netted John Battison TV Station |newspaper=Carlsbad Current-Argus |location= |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-date=January 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110051347/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112921404/southwestern-trip-netted-john-battison/ |url-status=live }}
The Battisons built KAVE-TV and signed it on the air on August 24, 1956, as a CBS affiliate; Battison suffered a light electrical burn while starting the station up for the first time.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112921312/kave-tv-station-goes-on-the-air/ |date=August 26, 1956 |page=4 |title=KAVE-TV Station Goes On The Air |newspaper=Carlsbad Current-Argus |location= |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112023653/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112921312/kave-tv-station-goes-on-the-air/ |url-status=live }} Less than two years later, they sold KAVE radio and television to Ed Talbott, the chief engineer of KROD radio in El Paso and a minority stockholder in Voice of the Caverns.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112921559/sale-of-kave-tv-and-radio-awaits-fcc-app/ |date=January 9, 1958 |page=1 |title=Sale Of KAVE-TV And Radio Awaits FCC Approval |newspaper=Carlsbad Current-Argus |location= |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-date=January 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110051348/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112921559/sale-of-kave-tv-and-radio-awaits-fcc/ |url-status=live }}{{r|hc}} However, into the 1960s, KAVE remained unconnected to live network programming. When John Deme, a Connecticut radio station owner, purchased the KAVE stations from Talbott's widow{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112922006/everyday-events/ |date=January 21, 1963 |page=4-A |first=W. J. |last=Hooten |title=Everyday Events |newspaper=El Paso Times |location= |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112023653/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112922006/everyday-events/ |url-status=live }} in 1963, he promised a push to provide live programming to Carlsbad viewers, which then needed cable service to receive the Albuquerque stations.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112921776/kave-tv-is-sold-for-250000/ |date=February 27, 1963 |page=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112921796/kave-tv/ 3] |title=KAVE-TV Is Sold For $250,000 |newspaper=Carlsbad Current-Argus |location=Carlsbad, New Mexico |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112023651/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112921776/kave-tv-is-sold-for-250000/ |url-status=live }} This materialized in May 1964 with FCC approval to build a microwave relay between Carlsbad and El Paso.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112922180/kave-tv-microwave-approved/ |date=May 24, 1964 |page=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112922222/microwave-approved/ 3] |title=KAVE-TV Microwave Approved |newspaper=Carlsbad Current-Argus |location= |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112023651/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112922180/kave-tv-microwave-approved/ |url-status=live }}
Walton and Marsh years
In 1966, Deme sold KAVE radio and television to separate, but related owners. The manager of radio station KVKM in Monahans, Texas, Ross Rucker, acquired KAVE radio for $118,000. At the same time, John B. Walton, whose Walton Stations group owned KVKM and its television adjunct KVKM-TV, spent $325,000 to purchase KAVE-TV.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112675147/for-118000-carlsbad-tv-station-sold/ |date=September 8, 1966 |page=1 |title=For $118,000: Carlsbad TV Station Sold |newspaper=Carlsbad Current-Argus |location=Carlsbad, New Mexico |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221107063632/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112675147/for-118000-carlsbad-tv-station-sold/ |url-status=live }} By November, local programming had disappeared from KAVE-TV,{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112727331/election-tv-program-due/ |date=November 3, 1966 |page=1 |title=Election TV Program Due |newspaper=Carlsbad Current-Argus |location=Carlsbad, New Mexico |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112023654/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112727331/election-tv-program-due/ |url-status=live }} and the station was rebroadcasting KVKM-TV. This continued until 1969, when Walton sold the Monahans station and switched KAVE-TV's program source to another ABC affiliate he owned, El Paso's KELP-TV.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112675135/sale-to-grayson-gets-fcc-okay/ |date=February 13, 1969 |page=10-A |title=Sale To Grayson Gets FCC Okay |newspaper=Lubbock Avalanche-Journal |location=Lubbock, Texas |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221107063634/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112675135/sale-to-grayson-gets-fcc-okay/ |url-status=live }}
Walton sold KELP-TV and KAVE-TV to Marsh Media in 1976, and the parent station was renamed KVIA-TV.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112674093/el-paso-television-station-bought-by-mar/ |date=April 14, 1976 |page=12 |title=El Paso Television Station Bought By Marsh Media |newspaper=El Paso Times |location= |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-date=January 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110050206/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112674093/el-paso-television-station-bought-by/ |url-status=live }} Marsh invested significantly in the Carlsbad facility by increasing its effective radiated power to 100,000 watts in 1977, an improvement that had first been sought in 1965 but was later cut back.{{r|hc}}
Under Marsh, KAVE-TV made its most significant attempt at local programming since 1966. In 1982, Marsh invested a reported $1 million to set up a local operation in Carlsbad to originate regional news coverage for southeastern New Mexico.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112674768/citys-own-tv-station-in-the-works/ |date=April 16, 1982 |page=1 |title=City's Own TV Station In The Works |newspaper=Carlsbad Current-Argus |location=Carlsbad, New Mexico |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221107192331/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112674768/citys-own-tv-station-in-the-works/ |url-status=live }} On September 2, KAVE-TV began airing its own evening newscast.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112674827/on-the-air/ |date=September 2, 1982 |page=3 |title=On The Air |newspaper=Carlsbad Current-Argus |location=Carlsbad, New Mexico |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221107192329/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112674827/on-the-air/ |url-status=live }} However, Marsh admitted that it had overestimated the regional economy when it conducted a round of layoffs at KAVE-TV the next year, reducing its full-time staff from 22 to 16.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112674946/kave-tv-cuts-staff/ |date=July 8, 1983 |page=3 |title=KAVE-TV Cuts Staff |newspaper=Carlsbad Current-Argus |location=Carlsbad, New Mexico |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221107192331/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112674946/kave-tv-cuts-staff/ |url-status=live }} That year, the station switched from broadcasting on Mountain Time to Central Time,{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112676242/the-new-fall-season-on-kave-tv-is-now/ |date=September 25, 1983 |page=2 |title=The New Fall Season On KAVE-TV Is Now On CENTRAL TIME! |newspaper=Carlsbad Current-Argus |location=Carlsbad, New Mexico |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221107192334/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112676242/the-new-fall-season-on-kave-tv-is-now/ |url-status=live }} which at the time was used by the other southeastern New Mexico TV stations, KBIM-TV and KSWS-TV.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112697238/kbim-switching-news-show-hours/ |date=August 7, 1986 |first=Colleen |last=Rae |page=3 |title=KBIM Switching News Show Hours |newspaper=Carlsbad Current-Argus |location= |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221107192334/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112697238/kbim-switching-news-show-hours/ |url-status=live }} This had the effect of moving the Carlsbad newscasts, known as Newscenter 6, to 5:30 and 9 p.m. However, Marsh folded the local operation in July 1984, with a company spokesman stating that it "did not prove to be economically feasible".{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112674869/kave-tv-pulling-out/ |date=July 3, 1984 |page=1 |first=Jay |last=Klee |title=KAVE-TV Pulling Out |newspaper=Carlsbad Current-Argus |location=Carlsbad, New Mexico |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221107192332/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112674869/kave-tv-pulling-out/ |url-status=live }} In 1987, the station changed its call sign to KVIO-TV.{{cite news |page=106 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1987/BC-1987-10-12.pdf |work=Broadcasting |date=October 12, 1987 |title=Call Letter Grants |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-date=December 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206043659/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1987/BC-1987-10-12.pdf |url-status=live }}
As a satellite of KOAT-TV
Six years later, Marsh sold it to Pulitzer Broadcasting, then-owner of fellow ABC affiliate KOAT-TV in Albuquerque, which changed its call letters to KOCT and converted it into a satellite of KOAT-TV.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112674704/koat-buys-kvio-tv-in-carlsbad/ |date=May 29, 1993 |page=B7 |first=Rick |last=Nathanson |title=KOAT Buys KVIO-TV In Carlsbad |newspaper=Albuquerque Journal |location= |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-date=November 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221107063635/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112674704/koat-buys-kvio-tv-in-carlsbad/ |url-status=live }} Two years prior, KOAT-TV had opened a news bureau in Roswell and began feeding its existing translators and regional cable systems a version of KOAT with local news, weather, and advertising inserts.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112876542/koat-tv-ready-to-open-news-bureau-in-ros/ |date=September 11, 1991 |page=B6 |first=Rick |last=Nathanson |title=KOAT-TV Ready To Open News Bureau in Roswell |newspaper=Albuquerque Journal |location= |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 11, 2022 |archive-date=January 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110045803/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112876542/koat-tv-ready-to-open-news-bureau-in/ |url-status=live }}
The move allowed KOAT-TV to cement itself as the only source of ABC programming in the region.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112876501/koat-expands-with-purchase-of/ |date=October 29, 1992 |page=B2 |first=Rick |last=Nathanson |title=KOAT Expands With Purchase of Carlsbad's KVIO |newspaper=Albuquerque Journal |location=Albuquerque, New Mexico |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112034731/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112876501/koat-expands-with-purchase-of/ |url-status=live }} This was important because of a series of developments in the 1980s. In 1985, Roswell's NBC station, KSWS-TV, was acquired by Albuquerque's KOB and became KOBR. New Mexico Broadcasting Company, the parent of Albuquerque CBS affiliate KGGM-TV, purchased KBIM-TV in 1989. That acquisition led to the dissolution of Roswell as a separate television market by both Arbitron and Nielsen.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112875472/albuquerque-television-market-jumps-to/ |date=December 30, 1989 |page=C7 |first=Rick |last=Nathanson |title=Albuquerque Television Market Jumps to 51st in Nation |newspaper=Albuquerque Journal |location=Albuquerque, New Mexico |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112034733/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112875472/albuquerque-television-market-jumps-to/ |url-status=live }}
Eddy County officials filed complaints with the FCC in 2003 after U.S. Cable, the local cable television company, informed the Eddy County Commission that KOAT's equipment was responsible for frequent signal outages from the KOCT transmitter. KOAT's general manager, Mary Lynn Roper, denied that it was responsible for the issue, noting that no complaints were lodged against reception of KASA-TV, whose signal was carried to the area on the same microwave path.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112926498/koat-official-stunned-by-county-decisi/ |date=March 25, 2003 |page=1A, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112926480/koat/ 10A] |title=KOAT official 'stunned' by county decision |first=Stella |last=Davis |newspaper=Carlsbad Current-Argus |location= |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-date=January 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110051348/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112926498/koat-official-stunned-by-county/ |url-status=live }}
KOCT terminated regular programming on 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.{{cite web|title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds|url=https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=June 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf|archive-date=August 29, 2013}}{{cite web|title=APPENDIX B: ALL FULL-POWER TELEVISION STATIONS BY DMA, INDICATING THOSE TERMINATING ANALOG SERVICE BEFORE ON OR FEBRUARY 17, 2009.|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-09-221A5.pdf|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=August 29, 2013}} As part of the SAFER Act, KOCT kept its analog signal on the air until July 12 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of public service announcements from the National Association of Broadcasters.{{cite web|url=https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-291375A1.pdf|title=UPDATED List of Participants in the Analog Nightlight Program|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|date=June 12, 2009|access-date=June 3, 2024}}
While maintaining the KOCT transmission facility, Hearst informed the FCC on July 18, 2012, that it would discontinue the operations of KOCT and KOVT in Silver City, converting both to translators.{{cite web |last=Harding |first=Kevin R. |title=In Re: BLCDT-20090616ABK |url=https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=35198 |format=PDF |date=August 1, 2012 |work=Consolidated Database System |publisher=Federal Communications Commission |access-date=August 9, 2012 |archive-date=April 19, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130419074019/http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=35198 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |last=Harding |first=Kevin R. |title=In Re: BLCDT-20090616ABR |url=https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=35199 |format=PDF |date=August 1, 2012 |work=Consolidated Database System |publisher=Federal Communications Commission |access-date=August 9, 2012 |archive-date=April 8, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130408111909/http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=35199 |url-status=live }} The move was made to eliminate the need to maintain the KOCT and KOVT public files in their respective cities due to FCC regulations which went into effect on that date.{{cite web |title=Request for Waiver of Filing Freeze |url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101422997&qnum=5000©num=1&exhcnum=2 |format=PDF |date=July 7, 2011 |work=Consolidated Database System |publisher=Federal Communications Commission |access-date=August 12, 2012 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304104535/https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101422997&qnum=5000©num=1&exhcnum=2 |url-status=dead }}
The existing KOAT translator reusing the KOCT facility, K19JZ-D, occupied a channel that remained allocated for a potential full-service TV station at Carlsbad. In 2022, the FCC auctioned dozens of unused television channel allotments, including channel 19 at Carlsbad; TV-49, Inc., a subsidiary of Weigel Broadcasting, won the bidding with a $471,000 offer.{{cite news |url=https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-announces-winning-bidders-auction-112 |title=FCC Announces Winning Bidders for Auction 112 |date=June 23, 2022 |publisher=Federal Communications Commission |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112050842/https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-announces-winning-bidders-auction-112 |url-status=live }} In September 2023, K19JZ-D moved to channel 18.{{cite news|url=https://www.koat.com/article/eddy-county-carlsbad-artesia-viewers-rescan-tv/45179151|work=KOAT|date=September 17, 2023|title=A notice to over-the-air viewers in Eddy County|access-date=September 25, 2023}}
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