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| City | Alvin, Texas |
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| Branding | UniMás 67 |
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| KXLN-DT,KAMA-FM,KLTN,KOVE-FM,KESS | |
| History | |
First air date | January 27, 1986 (1986-01-27) |
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Call sign meaning | Telefutura Houston |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 60537 |
| ERP | 1,000kW |
| HAAT | 579 m (1,900 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 29°34′16″N95°30′38″W / 29.57111°N 95.51056°W /29.57111; -95.51056 |
| Translator(s) | KXLN-DT 45.2Rosenberg |
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| Website | UniMás |
KFTH-DT (channel 67) is atelevision station licensed toAlvin, Texas, United States, serving as theHouston-area outlet for the Spanish-language networkUniMás. It isowned and operated byTelevisaUnivision alongsideRosenberg-licensedUnivision stationKXLN-DT (channel 45). The two stations share studios near theSouthwest Freeway (adjacent to theI-610/I-69 interchange) on Houston's southwest side; KFTH's transmitter is located nearMissouri City, in unincorporated northeasternFort Bend County. KFTH's main subchannel is also broadcast by KXLN-DT from its transmitter.
Channel 67 was put on the air by Four Star Broadcasting as KTHT, greater Houston's fourthindependent station, on January 27, 1986. Its owners sold it to theHome Shopping Network later that year, and it broadcast home shopping programming from November 1986 to January 2002 as KHSH. Univision acquired the group of former HSN-owned stations, USA Broadcasting, and used it to launch Telefutura in January 2002.
In April 1982, theFederal Communications Commission assigned channel 67 toAlvin, Texas, at the petition of David Eugene Brown.[2] Four groups applied for the channel, with Four Star Broadcasting winning theconstruction permit in a settlement approved in November 1983.[3] The winning applicant was a consortium of state legislatorHarold Dutton, Boston-based investor Don Moore, andWarburg Pincus[4]—and managed by Jack Moffitt, who arrived in Alvin fromWUAB inCleveland.[5]
KTHT (whosecall sign had no meaning[6]) signed on the air on January 27, 1986.[7] Operating as the Houston market's fourthindependent station, it had studios in Alvin and an advertising sales office near theAstrodome[4] and broadcast primarily older and cheaper syndicated programs and movies. The existing three independents in Houston—KTXH,KRIV, andKHTV—had bought up enough children's programs that no such shows appeared on channel 67's lineup.[8]
In September, less than nine months after starting up, Four Star agreed to sell KTHT to theHome Shopping Network (HSN) for $15 million as its seventh broadcast TV station.[9] The station began airing 24-hour home shopping programming on November 13[10] and changed its call sign to KHSH, incorporating an H and S for "home shopping", on January 23, 1987.[11]
Barry Diller acquired Silver King Broadcasting, HSN's stations division (later renamedUSA Broadcasting), in 1995 with plans to eventually roll out a new format, "CityVision", on the stations in the portfolio. However, after the format failed to take off where it was introduced and the company registered operating losses of $62 million in 2000, Diller opted to sell the stations to Univision in 2001.[12] KHSH changed its call sign to KFTH on January 14, 2002, when it became part of Univision's new secondary network,Telefutura.[13] Telefutura rebranded as UniMás in 2013.[14]
On April 4, 2011, sister station KXLN debuted a weekday morning news program for KFTH, calledVive La Mañana. Like the newscasts on KXLN, it was broadcast inhigh definition, and was produced out of the station's current news set. Dallas–Fort Worth sister stationKUVN-DT used the same brands for their newscasts that are simulcast on sister stationKSTR-DT;Vive La Mañana featured a different graphics and music package that is shared by both stations. The program was canceled in March 2015.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 67.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KFTH-DT | UniMás |
| 67.2 | 480i | 4:3 | GetTV | Get |
| 67.3 | 16:9 | GRIT | Grit | |
| 67.4 | HSN | HSN | ||
| 67.5 | 720p | KXLN-HD | Univision (KXLN-DT) | |
| 67.6 | 480i | 4:3 | BT2 | Infomercials |
| 20.3 | 480i | 16:9 | QVC-2 | QVC2 (KTXH) |
KFTH-TV ended regular programming on its analog signal, overUHF channel 67, on June 12, 2009, as part of thefederally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 36, usingvirtual channel 67.[16][17]
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