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| City | Poway, California |
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| History | |
First air date | 1980; 45 years ago (1980) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 35609 |
| ERP | 387kW |
| HAAT | 577 m (1,893 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°41′48.7″N116°56′9.2″W / 32.696861°N 116.935889°W /32.696861; -116.935889 |
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Public license information | LMS |
| Website | www |
KUAN-LD (channel 48, cable channel 20) is atelevision station licensed toPoway, California, United States, serving as theSan Diego–area outlet for the Spanish-language networkTelemundo. It isowned and operated byNBCUniversal'sTelemundo Station Group alongsideNBC stationKNSD (channel 39). The two stations share studios on Granite Ridge Drive in theSerra Mesa section of San Diego. Despite KUAN-LD legally holding alow-power license, it transmits using KNSD's full-power spectrum from anantenna southeast ofSpring Valley. This ensures complete reception across the San Diegotelevision market.
KUAN is known on-air asTelemundo 20; as with KNSD's main branding, it is derived from its channel 20 cable position onCharter Spectrum,Cox Communications andAT&T U-verse.
The station signed on in 1980 as K48AL, originally operating as atranslator ofLos Angeles–based multiculturalindependentKSCI for the San Diego market, airing onlow-poweranalog channel 48. It flash-cut to digital channel 36 on June 20, 2016.[2]
In January 2017, NBC announced that it was hiring people for KNSD with the intention of launching a new Telemundo O&O station in San Diego, replacingTijuana,Mexico-based stationXHAS-TDT (whose affiliation expired at the end of June 2017).[3][4] The new Telemundo affiliate, branded as "Telemundo 20", launched on July 1 on KNSD's digital 39.20 subchannel.[5][6] As withKGTV's formerAzteca América affiliation using their 10.15 subchannel (which XHAS would take over), the unusual numbering was to connect to Telemundo's channel 20 cable position onCox Communications and other pay TV providers in the area, which was transferred from XHAS. Additionally, KNSD launchedTeleXitos, a Spanish equivalent toCozi TV, on channel 39.21 the same day.
On September 12, 2017, NBCUniversal acquired KUAN from NRJ TV, LLC, the owner of KSCI, for $650,000;[7] the sale was completed on December 20, 2017.[8] Concurrently, KUAN entered into achannel-sharing agreement with KNSD. This was done with the separate KUAN-LD transmitter ending service, and 39.20 and 39.21 becoming identified with KUAN-LD instead and re-numbered to KUAN's channel 48.[9]
KUAN broadcasts 12 hours of locally produced newscasts each week. Newscasts were launched on July 3, 2017. KUAN is one of the 11 Telemundo owned and operated stations that do not produce midday newscasts.
KNSD and KUAN-LD transmit fromSan Miguel Mountain.[1]
| License | Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| KNSD | 39.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KNSD-DT | NBC |
| 39.2 | 480i | COZI-TV | Cozi TV | ||
| 39.3 | CRIMES | NBC True CRMZ | |||
| 39.4 | OXYGEN | Oxygen | |||
| KUAN-LD | 48.1 | 1080i | KUAN-LD | Telemundo | |
| 48.2 | 480i | TELX-LD | TeleXitos |
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