Gila River Broadcasting Corporation
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| Channels for KGRQ-LD | |
| Channels for KGRF-LD | |
| Branding | GRBC |
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| Affiliations | First Nations Experience |
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| History | |
| Founded | December 2014 |
First air date | April 6, 2015 |
Call sign meaning | Gila River |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
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| Class | LD |
| ERP | 15 kW |
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| Website | grbc |
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 two 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 3.0 (Next Gen TV) format. These two stations were initially broadcasting in ATSC 3.0 format and formulated for Evoca subscription based content delivery platform until Evoca ceased operations in late 2022.