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| City | Stockton, California |
| Channels | |
| Branding | UniMás 64 |
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| KUVS-DT, KEZT-CD | |
| History | |
First air date | November 12, 1987 (37 years ago) (1987-11-12) |
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Call sign meaning | Telefutura K |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 20871 |
| ERP | 850kW |
| HAAT | 595 m (1,952 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°14′24″N121°30′7″W / 38.24000°N 121.50194°W /38.24000; -121.50194 |
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| Website | UniMás |
KTFK-DT (channel 64) is atelevision station licensed toStockton, California, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-languageUniMás network to theSacramento area. It isowned and operated byTelevisaUnivision alongsideModesto-licensedUnivision outletKUVS-DT, channel 19 (and its Sacramento-basedtranslatorKEZT-CD, channel 23). The two stations share studios onArden Way nearCal Expo in Sacramento; KTFK's transmitter is located nearWalnut Grove, California.
The station first signed on the air on November 12, 1987, as KFTL, operating as anindependent station; it was founded and owned byFamily Radio, anon-profit organization headed byHarold Camping that ran traditionalnon-commercialChristian radio stations and over the years taught conservativeCalvinistic reformedChristian theology.
Because of the lack of available programming from the syndication market that complies with Family Radio's programming philosophy, KFTL instead ranreligious programming about six hours a day, with programming from theHome Shopping Network filling the remainder of the schedule.
In the late 1990s, it began running a few hours ofpublic domainmovies andsitcoms each day. Family Radio never grew into television as planned; as a result, the organization sold KFTL in 2003 to Univision Communications, which turned it into aSpanish-language station as an owned-and-operated station of Telefutura (which was relaunched as UniMás in January 2013). The station also modified its call letters to KTFK. As a result, KTFK became the fourth station in the Sacramento market overall to be owned and operated by its affiliated network.
Family Radio later bought a San Francisco low-power station, K30BI, which now carries the call lettersKCNZ-CD. Initially, KCNZ-CD was reprogrammed and carried similar programming to that which aired on the former KFTL.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 19.2 | 720p | 16:9 | KUVS-HD | Univision (KUVS-DT) |
| 64.1 | KTFK-DT | UniMás | ||
| 64.3 | 480i | 4:3 | getTV | Get |
| 64.4 | 16:9 | GRIT | Grit | |
| 64.5 | ShopLC | Shop LC | ||
| 58.3 | 480i | 16:9 | KQCA-D3 | Estrella TV (KQCA-DT3) |
There is no 64.2 on this multiplex, as it is broadcast from KUVS-DT.
On September 27, 2021, a new digital network calledDigi-TV was launched on KFTK's fifth subchannel (64.5).[3] It was short-lived as the network ceased operations on August 1, 2022.
KTFK-TV endedtransmission ofanalog television overUHF channel 64 on May 8, 2009, due to equipment failure, and informed the FCC there was insufficient time before the June 12shutoff to do repairs.[4] Despite losing its analog transmitter, KTFK continued digital broadcasting on its transitional digital channel 62, until the June 12 cutoff. On June 13, 2009, it began broadcasting on its permanentDTV channel, UHF channel 26.[5]
As part of the analog-to-digital transition, KTFK-TV moved its broadcast location from an antenna onMount Diablo, which it shared withKTNC-TV, to an antenna on theKXTV/KOVRcandelabra in Walnut Grove. This move was necessary because transmissions from Mount Diablo can be received in both theSan Francisco andSacramentomarkets, and there were no channels remaining for KTFK to use that would be free of interference in both markets. Moving broadcasting to Walnut Grove prevented potential interference withSan Francisco Bay Area stations.[6]
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