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| Affiliations | Defunct |
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| History | |
First air date | August 24, 1956 |
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Former channel number(s) | Analog: 6 (VHF, 1956–2009) |
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| Technical information | |
| ERP | 15 kW |
| HAAT | 378 ft (115 m) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°47′38.3″N 104°12′30.4″W / 32.793972°N 104.208444°W |
KOCT (channel 6) was a television station in Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States, which operated from 1956 to 2012.
Originally established as KAVE-TV, an independent local station for Carlsbad, in 1956, it was the regional affiliate of CBS for the next decade. The construction of the higher-power KBIM-TV at Roswell in 1966 caused KOCT to lose its CBS affiliation; at that time, it was sold and began a 46-year history as a satellite of three ABC affiliates in succession: KVKM-TV in Monahans, Texas; KELP-TV/KVIA-TV in El Paso, Texas; and KOAT-TV in Albuquerque. Only once in that time, from 1982 to 1984, did the station produce significant local programming in Carlsbad. The call sign was changed to KVIO-TV in 1987 and to KOCT in 1993. In 2012, KOAT surrendered the full-power KOCT license and replaced it with a translator license because doing so allowed it to cease maintaining a separate public file in Carlsbad.