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| Branding | Telemundo Valle Central |
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| Affiliations | 13.1:Telemundo |
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| KGET-TV | |
| History | |
| Founded | October 24, 1991 |
First air date | May 22, 1997; 27 years ago (1997-05-22) |
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Call sign meaning | Kern County |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 18750 |
| Class | LD |
| ERP | 3kW |
| HAAT | 376.5 m (1,235 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°26′17.1″N118°44′26.3″W / 35.438083°N 118.740639°W /35.438083; -118.740639 |
| Translator(s) | KGET-TV 17.3 Bakersfield |
| Links | |
Public license information | LMS |
| Website | www |
KKEY-LD (channel 13) is alow-power television station inBakersfield, California, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language networkTelemundo. It is owned byNexstar Media Group alongsideNBC affiliate/CW+owned-and-operated stationKGET-TV (channel 17). The two stations share studios on L Street in downtown Bakersfield; KKEY-LP's transmitter is located atop Mount Adelaide.
In addition to its own digital signal, KKEY-LD issimulcast instandard definition on KGET-TV's third digital subchannel (17.3) from the same transmitter site.
The station was formerly known as K14IK and carried a low-power signal on UHF channel 14. In 2003, it moved to VHF channel 11 and was renamed KKEY-LP and became a Telemundo affiliate that same year. Previously, Telemundo programming was piped throughLos Angeles'KVEA on cable providers. On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel Communications (nowiHeartMedia) entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group toNewport Television, a broadcasting holding company established by the private equity firmProvidence Equity Partners.[2] This deal closed on March 14, 2008. However, due to Providence Equity Partners' partial ownership stake in rivalSpanish-language networkUnivision, the owner ofMyNetworkTV affiliateKUVI-TV (channel 45), KKEY-LP was sold along with KGET-TV and five other stations (CBS affiliateKGPE inFresno,KTVX andKUCW inSalt Lake City,WOAI-TV inSan Antonio, andWTEV-TV inJacksonville) to High Plains Broadcasting. However, due to KKEY-LP's low-power status, it was excluded along with KTVX from the deal, which was finalized on September 15, 2008. Newport Television continued to operate KGET through ashared services agreement.
Newport agreed to sell KKEY-LP and KGET-TV, as well as KGPE in Fresno, toNexstar Broadcasting Group on November 5, 2012.[3] The sale was completed on February 19, 2013.[4]
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 13.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KKEY-TV | Telemundo |
The analog signal went off the air on July 31, 2009, and for a year KKEY only existed as a subchannel of KGET and was even rebranded "Telemundo 17.3". On July 23, 2010, the analog signal on channel 11 came back on the air—just nine days before the station's analog license was to be canceled by theFederal Communications Commission (FCC). In April 2014, the analog signal on channel 11 went off the air and a high-definition digital signal went on the air on channel 13.
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