member television station in el paso texas . for the unrelated religious television station in phoenix arizona see kcos lp . kcos is also the icao airport code for colorado springs airport . kcos el paso texas united states branding kcos channels digital 13 vhf virtual 13 psip subchannels 13.1 pbs 13.2 el paso community college tv 1 13.3 create 2 13.4 local 15 affiliations pbs owner el paso public television foundation first air date august 18 1978 call letters meaning trans pecos coverage area former channel number s analog 7 vhf 1978 1981 13 vhf 1981 2009 digital 30 uhf 2009 transmitter power 27 kw height 259 m facility id 19117 transmitter coordinates 31 47 15 n 106 28 47 w 31.78750 n 106.47972 w 31.78750 ; 106.47972 kcos licensing authority fcc public license information profile cdbs website www.kcostv.org kcos virtual and vhf digital channel 13 is a pbs member television station located in el paso texas . the station is owned by nonprofit agency the el paso public television foundation . kcos maintains studio facilities located on viscount boulevard northeast of i 10 in northwest el paso and its transmitter is located atop the franklin mountains on the el paso city limits . on cable the station is available on time warner cable channel 12 . contents 1 history 2 digital television 2.1 digital channels 2.2 analog to digital conversion 3 external links 4 references history edit the station first signed on the air on august 18 1978 originally broadcasting on vhf channel 7 . it was the first english language television station to sign on since kvia tv channel 7 debuted 22 years earlier in september 1956 . prior to kcos s debut el paso was the largest city in the united states that did not have a pbs member station . some viewers in the market were able to receive las cruces based krwg tv channel 22 however that station was unreceiveable in most of the market due to the presence of the franklin mountains which impaired krwg s signal coverage deep into the market . pbs arranged for nbc affiliate ktsm tv channel 9 to carry sesame street in the market from the show s 1969 debut until kcos s sign on this was a common practice in other markets throughout the country that similarly lacked access to public television . until kcos signed on in 1978 cable providers in the el paso market carried krwg and imported out of market pbs station knme in albuquerque . on july 10 1981 kcos switched channel positions with kvia the city s abc affiliate and moved to vhf channel 13 . this was done to give kvia a greater broadcast signal range on parity with ktsm tv and cbs affiliate kdbc tv channel 4 . digital television edit digital channels edit channel video aspect psip short name programming 3 13.1 1080i 16 9 kcos hd main kcos programming pbs 13.2 480i 4 3 kcos dt el paso community college tv 1 13.3 create 2 13.4 local 15 analog to digital conversion edit kcos shut down its analog signal over vhf channel 13 at 11 30 p.m. on june 12 2009 the official date in which full power television stations in the united states transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate . the station s digital signal relocated from its pre transition uhf channel 30 to vhf channel 13 for post transition operations . 4 external links edit kcos official website query the fcc s tv station database for kcos biafn s media web database information on kcos tv references edit a b epcc tv . retrieved november 14 2013 . a b create tv . retrieved november 14 2013 . rabbitears tv query for kcos dtv tentative channel designations for the first and the second rounds pdf . retrieved 2012 03 24 . v t e television stations in the el paso las cruces ju rez area local stations kdbc 4.1 cbs 4.2 mntv this tv 4.3 me tv kvia 7.1 abc 7.2 cw 7.3 stormtrack 24 7 7.4 k42dj aza ktsm 9.1 nbc 9.2 estrella tv 9.3 escape 9.4 laff kcos 13.1 pbs 13.2 epcc tv 13.3 create kfox 14.1 fox 14.2 comet 14.3 grit k26kj d 25.1 multimedios televisi n hd 25.2 teleritmo kint 26.1 uni 26.2 unim s sd 26.3 latv ksce 38.1 religious ind 38.2 spanish religious ind 38.3 unknown 38.4 scriptures ktfn 65.1 unim s hd las cruces kcwf ca 4.1 cbs 4.2 mntv 4.3 me tv k41ky d 7.1 abc 7.2 cw 7.3 stormtrack 24 7 7.4 k42dj aza k54gr 9.1 nbc 9.2 estrella tv 9.3 escape 9.4 laff krwg 22.1 pbs 22.2 world 22.3 v me klcp 30.1 glc k42dj 42.1 aza ktdo 48.1 tmd 48.2 inmi ciudad ju rez xhjci 2.1 televisa regional hd xhctcj 3.1 imagen xej 5.1 gala tv 5.2 spanish independent hd xhcje 11.1 azteca 13 hd 11.2 proyecto 40 hd xhcjh 20.1 azteca 7 hd xepm 32.1 canal de las estrellas hd 32.2 canal de las estrellas sd xhij 44.1 canal 44 44.2 alternativo 44 44.3 una voz con todos 44.4 milenio televisi n xhjub 56.1 canal 5 hd texas broadcast television areas by city abilene sweetwater amarillo texas panhandle austin hill country beaumont port arthur corpus christi dallas fort worth north texas ciudad acu a del rio eagle pass el paso west texas houston laredo lubbock south plains midland odessa permian basin rio 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