KPNZ
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Ogden/Salt Lake City, Utah United States |
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| City | Ogden, Utah |
| Branding | Estrella TV KPNZ 24 |
| Channels |
Digital: 24 (UHF) Virtual: 24 () |
| Affiliations | Estrella TV |
| Owner |
Liberman Broadcasting (KRCA License, LLC) |
| First air date | December 6, 1998 |
| Call letters' meaning | UPN (former affiliation) |
| Former callsigns | KAZG (1998–2000) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 24 (UHF, 1998–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Independent (1998–2000, 2006–2009) UPN (2001–2006) |
| Transmitter power | 450 kW |
| Height | 1229 m |
| Facility ID | 77512 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°39′33″N 112°12′7″W / 40.65917°N 112.20194°WCoordinates: 40°39′33″N 112°12′7″W / 40.65917°N 112.20194°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.estrellatv.com |
KPNZ, virtual and UHF digital channel 24), is an Estrella TV owned-and-operated television station serving Salt Lake City, Utah, United States that is licensed to Ogden. The station is owned by Liberman Broadcasting. KPNZ maintains studio facilities located on North Wright Brothers Drive in the northwestern section of Salt Lake City, and its transmitter located on Farnsworth Peak in the Oquirrh Mountains, southwest of Salt Lake City.
The station first signed on the air on December 6, 1998 as KAZG, originally operating as an independent station. It became the Salt Lake City market's UPN affiliate, after the network disaffiliated from KJZZ-TV (channel 14) in January 2001. This change came about due to several factors, most notably a disagreement over affiliate compensation, pre-emption terms, and what KJZZ ownership saw as the lack of financial viability of urban-themed programming in the Salt Lake City market. In October 2000, KJZZ made national headlines when it demanded the right to back out of its UPN contract if UPN increased its "urban/ethnic programming" to more than two hours per week. UPN responded by moving their programming to KAZG, which then changed its call letters to KPNZ. In August 2001, the station moved its operations from its original studio facility in Ogden to the International Center in Salt Lake City.
On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner and CBS Corporation announced that the two companies would shut down The WB and UPN and combine the networks' respective programming to create a new "fifth" network called The CW. Later that year, KPNZ stopped using UPN branding on its website, referring to the station as "Utah's 24". On June 5, 2006, KPNZ removed UPN programming from its schedule in retaliation for being passed over by both The CW (which went to former WB affiliate KUWB, channel 30, now KUCW) and another new netlet, News Corporation's MyNetworkTV (which at the time went to KJZZ-TV, channel 14, which has since reverted to independent status).
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