{{Infobox television station | callsign = KOAA-TV | city = Pueblo, Colorado | logo = KOAA News 5 logo.png | branding = KOAA 5 (general)KOAA News 5 (newscasts) | digital = 25 (UHF) | virtual = 5 | affiliations = 5.1: NBCfor others, see | translators = see below| network = | country = United States | founded = | airdate = | last_airdate = | location = Pueblo/Colorado Springs, Colorado | callsign_meaning = KOA-TV (now KCNC-TV in Denver—former sister station) | former_callsigns = KCSJ-TV (1953–1961) | former_channel_numbers = Analog:5 (VHF, 1953–2009)Digital:42 (UHF, until 2020) | owner = E. W. Scripps Company | licensee = Scripps Broadcasting Holdings LLC | sister_stations = KMGH-TV, KZCS-LD | former_affiliations = | erp = 1,000 kW | haat = | facility_id = 59014 | coordinates = | licensing_authority = FCC | website = }} KOAA-TV (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Pueblo, Colorado, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Colorado Springs area. It is owned by E.W. Scripps Company alongside low-power Ion Mystery owned-and-operated station KZCS-LD (channel 18). KOAA-TV's main studios and business offices are located on 7th Avenue in Pueblo, with a satellite studio and news bureau in the Tech Center office complex in Colorado Springs; its transmitter is located on Cheyenne Mountain. KOAA-TV operates a low-power digital translator, K30JM-D (channel 30) in Colorado Springs, whose transmitter is also located on Cheyenne Mountain. History The station signed on for the first time on June 30, 1953, as KCSJ-TV, owned by the Star-Chieftain Publishing Corporation, owners of Pueblo's two major newspapers, the morning Pueblo Chieftain and evening Pueblo Star-Journal, along with KCSJ radio. It is Colorado's second-oldest station outside of Denver. During the 1950s, KCSJ-TV was one of two full-time NBC affiliates serving Southern Colorado—the other being KRDO-TV (channel 13) in Colorado Springs, about to the north. In 1960, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) collapsed all of southern Colorado into a single television market. At this point, KCSJ-TV became the area's sole NBC affiliate with KRDO-TV switching to ABC. In 1961, Star-Chieftain sold KCSJ-TV to Metropolitan Broadcasting, owners of KOA-AM-FM-TV in Denver. KCSJ-TV then became KOAA-TV, but remained a free-standing station programmed separately from Denver's KOA-TV (now KCNC-TV). The two stations did, however, occasionally do cross-promotion, and both were NBC affiliates (its Denver sister station is now a CBS O&O). With much wealthier ownership, KOAA was able to add