Gray planned to operate the station through joint sales and shared services agreements, making KJCT a sister station to KKCO. On August 2, 2013, News Press & Gazette announced the sale of KJCT's license assets to Excalibur Broadcasting and its non-license assets to Gray Television Excalibur is owned by former Gray executive, Don Ray. However, despite The CW being available locally, Denver's KWGN-TV, which has been on cable for decades in Grand Junction, is still available through two low-powered repeaters in the area. In late 2008, KJCT's third digital subcarrier became western Colorado's affiliate for The CW. In 2006, News-Press & Gazette Company announced the purchase of KJCT along with KRDO-TV and KRDO radio from Pikes Peak Broadcasting. "8 Live," the station's first live microwave newsvan, came into service in 1984. KJCT was the first Western Colorado television station with modern electronic news gathering technology. In the late 1990s, KJCT chief engineer Roger Hightower modernized KJCT into one of the first true digital facilities in Colorado, and severed the electronic umbilical cord with KRDO. The station had full production facilities in Grand Junction however, much of the programming was fed via hundreds of miles of microwave links from KRDO. However, cable viewers could watch the full ABC schedule on Denver's KBTV (channel 9, now KUSA). Before KJCT's sign-on, all three major networks had been shoehorned on KREX-TV. It was owned by the Pikes Peak Broadcasting Company as a semi-satellite of fellow ABC affiliate KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs. The KJCT-LP intellectual unit originated on October 22, 1979, when KJCT (channel 8) signed on as the first television station in Western Colorado since KREX-TV (channel 5) in 1954. KJCT-LP's signal is relayed on K28AD-D in Montrose, which has operated from Storm King Mountain since it launched in September 1982, along with digital translators across central and northwestern Colorado. The two stations share studios on Blichmann Avenue in Grand Junction KJCT-LP's transmitter is located at the Mesa Point Electronics Site on the Grand Mesa (southeast of I-70). Owned by Gray Television, it is a sister station to dual NBC/ Telemundo affiliate KKCO (channel 11). KJCT-LP (channel 8) is a low-power television station in Grand Junction, Colorado, United States, serving Colorado's Western Slope region as an affiliate of ABC and The CW Plus.
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