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KNIC-DT

UniMás TV station in Blanco, Texas

KNIC-DT

Blanco/San Antonio, Texas United States
City	Blanco, Texas
Channels	Digital: 18 (UHF) Virtual: 17 (PSIP)
Branding	UniMás 17
Programming
Affiliations	17.1: UniMás (O&O) 17.2: Univision 17.3: Court TV Mystery 17.4: Laff
Ownership
Owner	Univision Communications (UniMas Partnership San Antonio)
Sister stations	TV: KWEX-DT Radio: KBBT, KXTN, KMYO, KROM, KVBH
History
Founded	July 13, 2005
First air date	September 28, 2006 (17 years ago) (2006-09-28)
Former call signs	KNIC-TV (2006–2009)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 17 (UHF, 2006–2009)
Call sign meaning	NIColas Communications (former owner of former station on channel 17, KNIC-CD)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	125710
ERP	1,000 kW
HAAT	200 m (656 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	29°41′48″N 98°30′45″W / 29.69667°N 98.51250°W / 29.69667; -98.51250
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	UniMás

KNIC-DT, virtual channel 17 (UHF digital channel 18), is a UniMás owned-and-operated television station serving San Antonio, Texas, United States that is licensedtoBlanco. The station is owned by the Univision Local Media subsidiary of Univision Communications, as part of a duopoly with San Antonio-licensed Univision owned-and-operated station KWEX-DT (channel 41). The two stations share studios on Network Boulevard in Northwest San Antonio; KNIC's transmitter is located on Hogan Drive in Timberwood Park. Although Blanco is geographically within the Austin market, that city has its own UniMás station, KTFO-CD.

Oncable, KNIC-DT is available on Charter Spectrum channel 19, and Grande Communications and AT&T U-verse channel 17.

History

KNIC-DT's history traces back to the March 1991 sign-on of K17BY, a low-power television station that San Antonio-based Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) was issued a construction permit to build on March 23, 1988; operating on UHF channel 17, Clear Channel sold the station in March 1991 to Nicolas Communications. In November 1997, the station changed its calls to KNIC-LP (in reference to its owners); Nicolas Communications sold KNIC-CA in November 2001 (the station received approval to upgrade its license to Class A status that same month) to Univision Communications, a sale that was completed in January 2002; that month, it became a charter affiliate of Univision's secondary network, TeleFutura (which relaunched as UniMás on January 7, 2013).

Univision had applied for a license to build a full-power television station in 2000 on UHF channel 52 in Blanco; after the Federal Communications Commission awarded Univision the license at auction, Univision requested that the FCC move the allocation to UHF channel 17; the request was granted in February 2003.^[2] KNIC-TV was founded on July 13, 2005. The formal application for KNIC-TV called for Univision to either move KNIC-CA to another channel, or to shut it down outright,^[3] KNIC-CA moved to channel 34 under special temporary authorization, before it ceased operations on September 28, 2006. KNIC-DT was one of the few television stations to have been built and signed on by Univision Communications.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion

Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997 [1], the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. KNIC-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 17, on June 12, 2009. The station "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 18,^[5] using PSIP to display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 17.

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