KEGS (TV)

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KEGS, channel 7, is a television station in Goldfield, Nevada, that served both the Reno and Las Vegas markets by way of translators KRRI-LP channel 25 in Reno, Nevada and KEGS-LP channel 30 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Like many stations that were owned by Equity Broadcasting, the stations were operated remotely by satellite; their programming could be seen free-to-air on Galaxy 18^[1].

The Las Vegas station was founded on January 12, 1993 as K63FD, and later gained the call sign KTVY-LP in 1997. In April 2002, the Goldfield station signed on as KTVY-TV, matching the station in Las Vegas. Finally, in late May 2005, both stations changed their call sign to the current KEGS.

Until May 30, 2007, KEGS was affiliated with ImaginAsian. On that day, the station switched to the Retro Television Network (RTN).^[2]

On January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity Media Holdings Corporation and RTN interrupted the programming on many RTN affiliates.^[3] As a result, Luken Communications, L.L.C.(who had purchased RTN in June 2008), restored a national RTN feed from its headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with individual customized feeds to non-Equity-owned affiliates to follow on a piecemeal basis. As a result, KEGS lost its' RTN affiliation immediately, though Luken vows to find a new affiliate for RTN in the Las Vegas market.^[4] Viewers in the Reno area can still watch RTN on the digital subchannel of local FOX affiliate KRXI-TV.

At auction on April 16, 2009, KEGS-LP was sold to Mako Communications, while KRRI-LP was sold to NGEN Solutions.^[5] The full-service KEGS signal remained for sale, but is now off the air because of the digital transition.^[6]

Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997 ^[7], the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, at the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KEGS would have been required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal (called a "flash-cut").

As of December 2008^[update], this station is scheduled to go dark in 2009. According to the station's DTV status report, "On December 8, 2008, the licensee's parent corporation filed a petition for bankruptcy relief under chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy code... This station must obtain post-petition financing and court approval before digital facilities may be constructed. The station will cease analogue broadcasting on February 17, 2009, regardless of whether digital facilities are operational by that date. The station will file authority to remain silent if so required by the FCC."^[8]

While the DTV Delay Act extends this deadline to June 12, 2009, Equity has applied for an extension of the digital construction permit in order to retain the broadcast license after the station goes silent.

Equity Broadcasting had a construction permit to construct a digital companion station to KEGS-LP on channel 24 in Las Vegas; that station, as a low-power broadcasting operation, was not required to cease analogue transmission in 2009.

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