KREZ-TV

KREZ TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Durango, Colorado, United States, affiliated with CBS and Fox. It is a satellite of Albuquerque, New Mexico–based KRQE (channel 13), which is owned by Nexstar Media Group. KREZ TV's offices are located on Turner Drive in Durango, and its transmitter is located atop Smelter Mountain; its parent station maintains studios on Broadcast Plaza in Albuquerque. KBIM TV (channel 10) in Roswell, New Mexico, also serves as a satellite of KRQE. These satellite operations provide additional news bureaus for KRQE and sell advertising time to local sponsors.

The station began operations on September 15, 1963, as KJFL TV, a free standing local independent station owned by Jeter Telecasting; it went off the air after its facilities were destroyed in a February 1964 fire, and the station was sold, rebuilt and returned to the air on September 9, 1965, as KREZ TV, a satellite of CBS affiliate KREX TV (channel 5) in Grand Junction, Colorado. KREZ operated as such for nearly 30 years (with many attempts at regional news along the way) before being sold to Davenport, Iowa based Lee Enterprises and becoming a KRQE satellite in 1995. In 1998, Lee Enterprises rebranded the combination of KRQE, KREZ TV, and KBIM TV as "CBS Southwest" and revamped the Durango and Roswell stations' news services to produce inserts into KRQE's early evening newscasts. Two years later, Lee would exit broadcasting and sell KRQE, KREZ TV, KBIM TV, and most of its other television properties to Emmis Communications; in 2005, Emmis, in its own exit from television, sold its New Mexico outlets to LIN TV Corporation. A deal to sell KREZ to Native American Broadcasting, LLC was reached in April 2011; upon the sale's completion, KREZ was to become a full scale independent station (with plans for extensive local programming), and change its call letters to KSWZ TV. However, the sale was never finalized, and KREZ remains a KRQE satellite. On March 21, 2014, it was announced that Media General would acquire LIN. The merger was completed on December 19. Just over a year later, on January 27, 2016, it was announced that the Nexstar Broadcasting Group would buy Media General for $4.6 billion. After selling then Fox affiliate KASA TV to Ramar Communications, KRQE and its satellites became part of "Nexstar Media Group." The sale was completed on January 17, 2017, reuniting KREZ with former parent station KREX.

KREZ TV shut down 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. The station's digital signal remained on its pre transition UHF channel 15, using virtual channel 6.