KTFF-DT

Porterville–Fresno, California United States
City	Porterville, California
Channels	Digital: 23 (UHF) Virtual: 61
Branding	UniMás 61 Fresno
Programming
Affiliations	61.1:UniMás 61.2:Univision (KFTV-DT) for others, see§ Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	TelevisaUnivision (UniMas FresnoLLC)
Sister stations	KFTV-DT
History
First air date	May 6, 1992 (1992-05-06)
Former call signs	KKAK (1992–1994) KKAG (1994–1998) KPXF (1998–2003) KTFF (2003) KTFF-TV (2004–2009)
Former channel numbers	Analog: 61 (UHF, 1992–2009) Digital: 48 (UHF, 2003–2018)
Former affiliations	Independent (1992–1998) Pax TV (1998–2003) The Worship Network (overnight, 2003–?)
Call sign meaning	Telefutura Fresno
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	35512
ERP	330kW
HAAT	811 m (2,661 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	36°17′13.5″N118°50′19″W / 36.287083°N 118.83861°W /36.287083; -118.83861
Translator(s)	KTFF-LD 41 Fresno KFTV-DT 21.6Hanford
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.univision.com/unimas

KTFF-DT (channel 61) is atelevision station licensed toPorterville, California, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-languageUniMás network to theFresno area. It isowned and operated byTelevisaUnivision alongsideHanford-licensedUnivision outletKFTV-DT (channel 21). The two stations share studios at the Univision Fresno Broadcast Center on Univision Plaza near the corner of North Palm and West Herndon avenues in northwestern Fresno; KTFF's transmitter is located on Blue Ridge in rural northwesternTulare County.

The station's programming is relayed to the northern half of themarket onlow-powertranslator stationKTFF-LD (channel 41) in Fresno, with transmitter onBald Mountain nearMeadow Lakes. It is alsosimulcast inhigh-definition on KFTV-DT's sixth digital subchannel (channel 21.6) from a separate transmitter on Bald Mountain.

The station first signed on the air on May 6, 1992, as KKAK; originally operating as anindependent station, it aired a mix ofinfomercials,religious andhome shopping programs. The station changed its call letters to KKAG in 1994. In 1998, KKAG was sold to Paxson Communications (nowIon Media Networks). On August 31 of that year, the station became an owned-and-operated station of Paxson's family-oriented television networkPax TV upon its launch, and changed its call letters to KPXF. In 2003, Paxson sold KPXF toUnivision Communications, creating a duopoly with Univision O&O KFTV (channel 21); after the sale was finalized, the station's calls were changed to KTFF, it also became an owned-and-operated station of Univision's secondary network TeleFutura (which relaunched as UniMás on February 7, 2013).

Univision subsequently purchasedShop at Home affiliate KAJA-LP (channel 68, now on channel 41) from Cocola Broadcasting to become a fill-in translator for KTFF, adopting the KTFF-LD call letters (ironically, the KAJA calls are currently used as a brand name forlow-power stationK68DJ inCorpus Christi, Texas, which also broadcasts on UHF channel 68).

In 2007, theFederal Communications Commission (FCC) issued an order concerning KTFF and former owner Paxson Communications, denying a review of the sale of KTFF to Univision; it also implemented a deal with Christian Network, Inc. (CNI), parent company ofThe Worship Network (which formerly carried its programming on Pax TV's stations as both an overnight block and later as a dedicated subchannel service), giving the religious broadcaster the right to program KTFF seven days a week from 1 to 6 a.m. In addition, the station was required to provide a digital channel for CNI's exclusive use (so long as certain conditions are met), after KTFF signed on its digital signal, if it used two or more subchannel slots.^{[citation needed]} However, as of 2014^[update], KTFF broadcasts UniMás programming full-time,^[2] though the date the station stopped carrying The Worship Network is unknown. It is also unknown if the discontinuance is tied to Pax's successor,Ion Television, ending carriage of The Worship Network in 2010.^[3]

The station's signal ismultiplexed:

Subchannels of KTFF-DT^[4]

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
61.1	720p	16:9	KTFF-DT	UniMás
61.2			KFTV-HD	Univision (KFTV-DT)
61.3	480i		Quest	Quest
61.4			ShopLC	MovieSphere Gold
61.5			Nosey	Nosey
61.6		4:3	BT2	Infomercials

• KTFF-LD 31Fresno

KTFF-TV shut down its analog signal, overUHF channel 61, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 48,^[5] usingvirtual channel 61.

KTFF-DT is one of nearly 1,000 television stations that were required to change their digital channel allocation in the spectrum auction repack in late 2017 or early 2018. KTFF was to reallocate its digital signal to UHF channel 23 in phase one of the repack.^[6] The FCC licensed the station to broadcast on channel 23 on December 20, 2018.

• 1992 establishments in California
• MovieSphere Gold affiliates
• Porterville, California
• Quest (American TV network) affiliates
• Spanish-language television stations in California
• TelevisaUnivision
• Television channels and stations established in 1992
• Television stations in Fresno, California
• UniMás affiliates

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