KZJL


KZJL is a television station in Houston, Texas, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language network Estrella TV. It is owned and operated by MediaCo and is sister to four radio stations. KZJL's studios are located on Bering Drive on the city's southwest side, and its transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County.

History

The station first signed on the air on June 2, 1995, as an affiliate of home shopping network Shop at Home. In 2001, the station was purchased by Liberman Broadcasting and became a Spanish-language independent station; on September 14, 2009, KZJL became a charter owned-and-operated station of Liberman's Spanish-language broadcast network Estrella TV. Estrella Media was in turn absorbed into MediaCo in 2025.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:
ChannelRes.AspectShort nameProgramming
61.1720p16:9KZJL-HDEstrella TV
61.2720p16:9KZJL-2Estrella News
61.3480i16:9JTVJTV Español
61.4480i16:9SHOP-LCShop LC
61.5720p16:9POSI-TVPositiv
61.6480p16:9ConfessConfess

Analog-to-digital conversion

KZJL ended regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 61, on June 12, 2009, as part of federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 44, using virtual channel 61.