Gila River Broadcasting Corporation

Gila River Broadcasting Corporation

Gila River Indian Community
Channels	Digital: KGRQ-LD 29 (UHF), Stotonic Village KGRY-LD 21 (UHF), Blackwater KGRF-LD 19 (UHF), Maricopa Village Virtual: 19 (all stations)
Owner	Gila River Indian Community (Gila River Telecommunications, Inc.)
First air date	December 2014
Call letters' meaning	Gila River
Transmitter power	15 kW (KGRQ, KGRF) 7 kW (KGRY)
Transmitter coordinates
Website	grbc.tv

The Gila River Broadcasting Corporation is a television network serving the Gila River Indian Community in south-central Arizona. It is owned by the Community through tribal enterprise Gila River Telecommunications.

GRBC broadcasts on three transmitters near the Community's major population centers: KGRQ-LD 29 at Stotonic Village, KGRY-LD channel 21 at Blackwater and KGRF-LD channel 19 at Maricopa Village. All transmitters use PSIP to display as channel 19.

History

GRBC launched in December 2014, two and a half years after the GRIC filed for the new television stations with the FCC. However, when Gila River Telecommunications was founded in 1989, a television station was planned but found to be cost-prohibitive. Its official launch occurred on April 6, 2015.

Programming includes public service announcements and tribal content. Local programming including news and children's shows is planned.

Master control for GRBC is located at the Gila River Telecommunications facility on the northern edge of the Community, with a Chandler postal address.

External links

• Official website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KGRQ
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KGRY
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KGRF