Gila River Broadcasting Corporation

Gila River Broadcasting Corporation
Channels
Programming
AffiliationsFirst Nations Experience
Ownership
Owner
History
FoundedDecember 2014
First air date
April 6, 2015 (9 years ago) (2015-04-06)
Call sign meaning
Gila River
Technical information
ERP15 kW
Transmitter coordinates33°09′38.5″N 111°48′41″W / 33.160694°N 111.81139°W / 33.160694; -111.81139
Links
Websitegrbc.tv

The Gila River Broadcasting Corporation (GRBC) is a television network serving the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) in south-central Arizona, United States. It is owned by the Community through tribal enterprise Gila River Telecommunications.

GRBC broadcasts on four low-power UHF stations near the Community's major population centers: KGRQ-LD (channel 21, previously channel 29) at Stotonic Village and KGRF-LD (channel 21, previously channel 19) at Maricopa Village. Both stations use virtual channel 29.

In addition, Gila River Telecommunications owns two additional stations licensed to the Community, KGRX-LD and KGRY-LD (channels 19 and 28). These stations, broadcasting from South Mountain and built in 2021, carry GRBC programming, with one in ATSC 1.0 format, and the other in ATSC 3 format. These two stations were initially broadcasting in ATSC 3.0 (Next Gen TV) format and formulated for Evoca subscription based content delivery platform until Evoca ceased operations in late 2022.