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| City | Albuquerque, New Mexico |
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| Branding | Univision Nuevo México |
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| Operator | Entravision Communications viaLMA |
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| History | |
| Founded | December 1, 1998 |
First air date | April 8, 1999 (1999-04-08) |
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Call sign meaning | "Luz" (Spanish word for light) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 57220 |
| ERP | 1,000kW |
| HAAT | 350 m (1,148 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°24′44″N106°43′34″W / 35.41222°N 106.72611°W /35.41222; -106.72611 |
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| Website | noticiasnewmexico |
KLUZ-TV (channel 14) is atelevision station inAlbuquerque, New Mexico, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-languageUnivision network to most of the state. It isowned byTelevisaUnivision, which maintains alocal marketing agreement (LMA) withEntravision Communications, owner ofUniMás affiliateKTFQ-TV (channel 41), for the provision of certain services. The two stations share studios on Broadbent Parkway in northeastern Albuquerque; KLUZ-TV's transmitter is located inRio Rancho.
Channel 14 signed on asKGSW on May 8, 1981. The call sign was derived from the station's original owners, Galaxy Communications and Southwest Television. Initially, KGSW carrieddrama shows,movies from the 1940s through the 1970s,sitcoms, andreligious shows. In the fall of 1983, the station added more sitcoms and began runningcartoons in the 7–9 a.m. and the 3–5 p.m. weekday slots.
In 1984, theProvidence Journal Company bought KGSW from the original owners. The station affiliated with theFox network when it launched on October 9, 1986. The station continued a general entertainment format with cartoons, sitcoms, and movies. KGSW also carried a news capsule titledFox 14 News Update. In the fall of 1992, after KKTO-TV (channel 2) went dark, Providence Journal acquired its programming and integrated it into KGSW's lineup. Shortly afterward, it acquired the KKTO license as well, and on April 5, 1993, KGSW moved to channel 2 and changed call letters toKASA-TV. The channel 14 license was then surrendered to theFederal Communications Commission (FCC) for cancellation.
In 1997,Paxson Communications was awarded aconstruction permit for a new station on channel 14; on April 8, 1999, it signed on as KAPX, airing programming from the family-oriented Pax TV (later i: Independent Television, nowIon Television) from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., along withinfomercials during the day and religious programming fromThe Worship Network during the overnight hours. Pax would subsequently cut its programming hours from 4 to 11 p.m., and later 5 to 11 p.m., due to financial problems at Paxson. The company then chose to sell some of its stations, including KAPX; in 2003, Univision bought the station, and that June relaunched channel 14 as Telefutura (now UniMás) affiliate KTFQ. The network was previously seen in Albuquerque onKTFA-LP (channel 48), which switched toHSN. Programming from The Worship Network continued to air overnights on KTFQ for several years afterward.
On December 4, 2017, as part of a multi-market realignment, the programming and call signs of KTFQ and sister station KLUZ-TV were swapped: KTFQ and its UniMás programming moved to the Entravision-owned facility using digital channel 42 and virtual channel 41, while Univision's digital channel 22 and virtual channel 14 facility became the new home of KLUZ-TV.[2]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 14.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KLUZ-TV | Univision |
| 14.2 | 480i | Quest | Quest | |
| 14.3 | H S N | HSN | ||
| 14.4 | CourtTV | Court TV | ||
| 14.5 | DABL | Dabl | ||
| 14.6 | Confess | Confess | ||
| 14.7 | BT2 | Infomercials | ||
| 14.8 | MovieSphere Gold |
Because it was granted an originalconstruction permit after theFCC finalized theDTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997,[4] KTFQ-TV did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, on June 12, 2009, which is the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, the station was required to turn off itsanalog signal and turn on itsdigital signal (called a "flash-cut"). KTFQ has been assigned channel 22 for its digital broadcast. Digital television receivers display the station'svirtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 14.
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