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KFTH-DT (channel 67) is a television station licensed to Alvin, Texas, United States, serving as the Houston-area outlet for the Spanish-language network UniMás. It is owned and operatedbyTelevisaUnivision alongside Rosenberg-licensed Univision station KXLN-DT (channel 45). The two stations share studios near the Southwest Freeway (adjacent to the I-610/I-69 interchange) on Houston's southwest side; KFTH's transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County.

KFTH-DT
  • United States
  • CityAlvin, Texas
    Channels
  • Virtual: 67
  • BrandingUniMás 67
    Programming
    Affiliations
  • 67.5: Univision
  • for others, see § Subchannels
  • Ownership
    Owner
  • (UniMas Houston LLC)
  • Sister stations

    KXLN-DT, KAMA-FM, KLTN, KOVE-FM, KQBU-FM
    History

    First air date

    January 27, 1986 (38 years ago) (1986-01-27)

    Former call signs

    • KTHT (1986–1987)
  • KHSH (1987–1992)
  • KHSH-TV (1992–2002)
  • KFTH (2002–2003)
  • KFTH-TV (2004–2009)
  • Former channel number(s)

    • Analog: 67 (UHF, 1986–2009)

    Former affiliations

  • HSN (1987–2002)
  • Call sign meaning

    Telefutura Houston
    Technical information[1]

    Licensing authority

    FCC
    Facility ID60537
    ERP1,000 kW
    HAAT579 m (1,900 ft)
    Transmitter coordinates29°34′16N 95°30′38W / 29.57111°N 95.51056°W / 29.57111; -95.51056
    Translator(s)KXLN-DT 45.2 (30.2 UHF) Rosenberg
    Links

    Public license information

  • LMS
  • WebsiteUniMás
    Univision building in Houston

    In addition to its own digital signal, KFTH is simulcastinhigh definition on KXLN's second digital subchannel (45.2) from a separate transmitter near Missouri City.

    History

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    The station first signed on the air on January 27, 1986, as KTHT, under the ownership of 4 Star Broadcasting. Operating as an independent station, it programmed a general entertainment format consisting of off-network drama series, children's programming, classic movies, game shows, home shopping programming during the overnight hours, and network programs not cleared by ABC affiliate KTRK-TV (channel 13), NBC affiliate KPRC-TV (channel 2) or CBS affiliate KHOU (channel 11). It had also broadcast Vietnamese programs during the weekend.

     
    Former logo, used from January 14, 2002, to January 7, 2013.

    The station was unprofitable, and was subsequently sold to Silver King Broadcasting, the broadcasting arm of the Home 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 by USA 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 company Studios USA) and had already been adopted by its stations in cities such as Atlanta, Dallas–Fort Worth and Miami. 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 by Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications. Once the purchase was finalized in 2001, most of the former USA stations, including KHSH, were used as charter owned-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.

    Newscasts

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    On April 4, 2011, sister station KXLN debuted a weekday morning news program for KFTH, called Vive La Mañana. Like the newscasts on KXLN, it was broadcast in high definition, and was produced out of the station's current news set. Dallas–Fort Worth sister station KUVN-DT used the same brands for their newscasts that are simulcast on sister station KSTR-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.

    Technical information

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    Subchannels

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    The station's signal is multiplexed:

    Subchannels of KFTH-DT[2]
    Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
    67.1 720p 16:9 KFTH-DT Main KFTH-DT programming / 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-DT3)
      Simulcast of subchannels of another station
      Broadcast on behalf of another station

    Analog-to-digital conversion

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    KFTH-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 67, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[3] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 36,[4][5] using virtual channel 67.

    References

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    1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KFTH-DT". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  • ^ "RabbitEars TV Query for KFTH". Archived from the original on January 4, 2014. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
  • ^ List of Digital Full-Power Stations Archived August 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  • ^ Consumer Watch: Stations have more DTV work to do Archived June 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Houston Chronicle, February 6, 2009.
  • ^ CDBS Print

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