KZJL (channel 61) is a television station in Houston, Texas, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language network Estrella TV. It is owned 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 3, 1995, as an affiliate of home shopping network Shop at Home. In 2001, the station was purchased by Liberman Broadcasting (which was renamed Estrella Media on February 3, 2020, following a corporate reorganization of the company under private equity firm HPS Investment Partners, LLC) 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 on November 10, 2025.
Technical information Subchannels The station's signal is multiplexed: +Subchannels of KZJL Subchannel Short name Programming 61.1 720p KZJL-HD Estrella TV 61.2 KZJL-2 Estrella News 61.3 480i JTV Jewelry TV Español 61.4 SHOP-LC Shop LC 61.5 720p POSI-TV Positiv 61.6 480p Confess Confess
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.List of Digital Full-Power Stations The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 44, using virtual channel 61.
References
External links Estrella TV official website