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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,KQBU-FM | |
| History | |
First air date | January 27, 1986 (39 years ago) (1986-01-27) |
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Call sign meaning | Telefutura Houston |
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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, inunincorporated northeasternFort Bend County.
In addition to its own digital signal, KFTH issimulcast inhigh definition on KXLN's seconddigital subchannel (45.2) from a separate transmitter near Missouri City.
The station first signed on the air on January 27, 1986, as KTHT, under the ownership of 4 Star Broadcasting. Operating as anindependent station, it programmed a general entertainment format consisting of off-networkdrama series,children's programming, classicmovies,game shows,home shopping programming during the overnight hours, and network programs not cleared byABC affiliateKTRK-TV (channel 13),NBC affiliateKPRC-TV (channel 2) orCBS affiliateKHOU (channel 11). It had also broadcastVietnamese programs during the weekend.
The station was unprofitable, and was subsequently sold to Silver King Broadcasting, the broadcasting arm of theHome Shopping Network, in 1987. The station changed its call letters to KHSH on January 23 of that year, and began airing home shopping programming 24 hours a day.
There were plans to revert KHSH into a general entertainment independent station by 2001, under the local programming-infused "City Vision" format developed byUSA Broadcasting (which assumed control of the Silver King stations in the mid-1990s), in which the station would have mixed locally produced programming, alongside first-run and off-network syndicated programs (including those produced by USA Broadcasting sister companyStudios USA) and had already been adopted by its stations in cities such asAtlanta,Dallas–Fort Worth andMiami. Those plans changed in 2000, when USA Broadcasting announced that it would sell off its television station group.The Walt Disney Company made a bid to acquire the group (which had it purchased the USA stations, would have created a duopoly locally between KHSH and KTRK-TV), but was outbid bySpanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications. Once the purchase was finalized in 2001, most of the former USA stations, including KHSH, were used as charterowned-and-operated stations of Univision's new secondary broadcast network, Telefutura (which rebranded as UniMás on January 7, 2013) when it launched on January 14, 2002. On that date, the station changed its call letters to KFTH-TV.
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; KFTH is expected to broadcast KXLN's newscasts should KXLN interrupt programming.
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) | |
| 20.3 | 480i | 16:9 | TheGrio | TheGrio (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.[3] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 36,[4][5] usingvirtual channel 67.
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