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| KFPH-DT,KHOT-FM,KOMR,KQMR,KHOV | |
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First air date | September 2, 1979 (46 years ago) (1979-09-02) |
Former call signs | KTVW-TV (1979–2009) |
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| SIN (1979–1987) | |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 35705 |
| ERP | 470kW |
| HAAT | 510 m (1,673 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 33°20′0″N112°3′49″W / 33.33333°N 112.06361°W /33.33333; -112.06361 |
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| Website | UnivisionArizona.com |
KTVW-DT (channel 33) is atelevision station inPhoenix, Arizona, United States, serving as the local outlet for the Spanish-language networkUnivision. It isowned and operated byTelevisaUnivision alongsideFlagstaff-licensedUniMás outletKFPH-DT, channel 13 (which KTVW-DTsimulcasts on its seconddigital subchannel). The two stations share studios on 30th Street in southern Phoenix; KTVW-DT's transmitter is located atopSouth Mountain on the city's south side.
The station's signal is relayed on twolow-powertranslators:Class A stationKTVW-CD (channel 27) in Flagstaff, andKDOS-LD (channel 19) inGlobe. KTVW is also rebroadcast on the second digital subchannel of KFPH, whose transmitter is located atop Mormon Mountain, about 20 miles (32 km) south of Flagstaff in theCoconino National Forest.
In addition,KUVE-DT (channel 46) inGreen Valley andKUVE-CD (channel 42) inTucson operate assemi-satellites of KTVW-DT, expanding the Univision signal intoSouthern Arizona. As such, theysimulcast all Univision programming as provided through their parent, and share a website with KTVW. However, the Tucson stations air separate commercial inserts andlegal identifications. There is also a three-hour overnight block on Monday mornings, in which the Tucson stations broadcast locally produced English-language programming in accordance with KUVE-CD's Class A license.[2][3] Local newscasts, produced by KTVW and branded asNoticias 33, are simulcast on KUVE and KUVE-CD. Although KUVE maintains its own studios on Forbes Boulevard in Tucson,master control and most internal operations are based at KTVW's facilities.
On March 12, 1976, the Legend of Cibola Television Company (reorganized before launch as the Seven Hills Television Company), owned by a series of principals of the Spanish International Network, filed for a construction permit for a new television station on channel 33 in Phoenix, which was granted on August 17, 1977.[4] The original applicant had just one local stockholder, Julia Zozaya (who later built and ownedKNNN-FM 99.9).[5] Facilities were jointly constructed with another construction permit,KNXV-TV; the two stations won approval to construct a new tower on South Mountain in 1978.[6]
KTVW-TV signed on as Arizona's first full-timeSpanish-language television station on September 2, 1979.[7] Previously,KPAZ-TV channel 21 had aired some Spanish-language programming from 1967 to 1977, but this was curtailed by financial woes and its sale to theTrinity Broadcasting Network. From the beginning, the plan was to build a translator for KTVW in Tucson: this launched November 1, 1980.[8] While owned by SIN-aligned interests, it was not owned by the network proper until then-ownerHallmark Cards acquired it from Seven Hills in 1989.[9]
For 27 years, KTVW was the only full-power Spanish-language television station in Phoenix, which gave it considerable market dominance. In 2006, this came to an end whenNBCUniversal and theDaystar Television Network agreed to a trade that converted Phoenix's noncommercial channel 39 into commercialTelemundo outletKTAZ.
KTVW-DT also operates theUniMás station for the Phoenix market on low-powered KFPH-CD (channel 35), which broadcasts on full-powerKFPH-DT (channel 13) in Flagstaff (also a part of the Phoenix market), giving it "must-carry" broadcast station status onsatellite providersDirecTV andDish Network.
KTVW began producing local news in the early 1980s with a 10-minute local news update that aired at 10:30 p.m. before24 Horas from Mexico City; this was replaced with a 6 p.m. newscast in 1984.[10]
KTVW presently broadcasts ten hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with one hour each day, consisting of two half-hour newscasts at 5 and 10 p.m. seven nights a week). The station does not have any on-air weather staffers of its own, instead weather segments during KTVW's newscasts are produced byHoustonsister stationKXLN-DT.[citation needed] The station's local newscasts (currently known asNoticias Univision 33) rank among the top-rated local news programs in the market, either English or Spanish. The station had the highest-rated newscast in Phoenix among the demographics of adults between the ages of 18–34 and 18–49 in 2004.[11]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 33.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KTVW-DT | Univision |
| 33.2 | UniMas | UniMás (KFPH-DT) | ||
| 33.3 | 480i | HSN-OTA | HSN | |
| 33.4 | Confess | Confess | ||
| 33.5 | ShopLC | Shop LC | ||
| 33.6 | 4:3 | BT2 | Infomercials | |
| 33.7 | 16:9 | MSGold | MovieSphere Gold | |
| 35.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KFPH-CD | UniMás (KFPH-CD) |
KTVW shut down its analog signal, overUHF channel 33, at 10:59 p.m. 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 34 to channel 33 for post-transition operations.[13] Prior to the shutdown of its analog signal, the station's personnel gave information on how to connect and operate their digital converters, and then counting down the last 15 seconds.
Formerly, KTVW was on channels 17 and 52 inTucson before the launch of its locally operated Univision affiliateKUVE-DT 38/46.
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