KFPH-TV
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KFPH-DT is a full-service television station
in Flagstaff, Arizona
, providing over-the-air service to Flagstaff and the Verde Valley
as a Telefutura
affiliate. The station broadcasts in digital
on VHF
channel 13, is carried by cable television systems in Flagstaff, Sedona
and Cottonwood
, and is available over-the-air by translator stations in Globe
and Safford
.
KFPH-CA is a low-power Class A
television station in Phoenix, Arizona
, rebroadcasting the signal of KFPH-DT in digital on UHF channel 35 and in standard definition digital on sister station KTVW-TV
's secondary subchannel
33.2. The station is carried on most Phoenix-area cable systems as channel 54.
Both stations are owned by Univision
, KFPH-DT under licensee Telefutura Partnership of Flagstaff, and KFPH-CA under Telefutura Partnership of Phoenix. The stations brand as Telefutura 35, identifying by the over-the-air channel number from the Class A translator in Phoenix.
north of the city. However, the next year, the permit was sold to Michael C. Gelfand, M.D. and Del Ray Television Company, Inc., and after several permit extensions and expired permits, Del Ray licensed the station on March 11, 1992 with call letters KKTM. The station's transmitter was located on Mormon Mountain, about 20 miles (30 km) south of Flagstaff, having been granted permission to move there in 1989. KKTM was an independent station
that even produced its own newscast covering Flagstaff at one point, albeit with a very low budget and production standards that rivaled Public-access television
.
The station changed its call letters to KWBF after becoming a WB
affiliate in 1995, but the affiliation was short-lived, as Channel 13 of Flagstaff, Inc., part of Christian Networks, Inc., acquired the station in 1996, with financing assistance from Paxson Communications (now ION Media Networks
). Also part of the deal was a time brokerage agreement, under which Paxson Communications would provide programming for the station, and an option for Paxson to acquire the station outright. Paxson exercised that option several months later, and in July 1996, bought the station for its new Infomall Television Network (inTV) service. In 1998, the inTV service was replaced by the new PAX TV Network (now ION Television) and the station's call letters were changed to KBPX to reflect the new network. It was the first PAX TV station in Arizona. KBPX was originally to be the full-service PAX TV outlet, with an LPTV repeater in Phoenix, but in 2001, when Paxson Communications received an allocation for and built KPPX
, a full-service PAX TV station licensed to Tolleson, Arizona
, they sold KBPX to Equity Broadcasting
, who immediately changed the call letters to KDUO and replaced PAX programming with ACN
home shopping.
In 2002, Univision bought the station and changed its call letters once again, this time to KFPH, to reflect the station's new programming as part of Univision's new TeleFutura network. The -TV suffix was added to the callsign in 2004; after the DTV transition
in 2009, the station elected to retain the -DT suffix for its digital service.
KFPH-TV shut down its analog channel 13 transmitter on September 18, 2008, citing a lack of space at its transmitter site to accommodate the analog transmitter, its former digital channel 27 transmitter, and the digital channel 13 transmitter that it has used since the DTV transition in 2009
; additionally, winter weather conditions rendered it impossible to perform work during the last 90 days before the conclusion of the analog-to-digital transition.
's ACTS-TV television service, and later the SBC's FamilyNet
service. The transmitter was first located at the church, but was moved to South Mountain in 1988. In December 1998, North Phoenix Baptist sold the station to Daystar
, who changed the call letters to KDTP-LP. In 2000, Daystar was awarded a permit to construct full-service station KDTP
on channel 39 and began to look for a buyer for KDTP-LP. Also in 2000, Daystar obtained permission to move KDTP-LP to UHF channel 35 and to upgrade the license to Class A.
In February 2001, Daystar entered into an agreement to sell the station to Equity Broadcasting
. The two parties finalized the sale in May 2001, and the station became an affiliate of ACN home shopping. Three months later, the station licensed its move to channel 35 as a Class A station, and took the call letters KOND-LP.
In November 2001, Univision bought the station, along with Flagstaff full-service station KDUO (now KFPH-DT) channel 13. In February 2002, KOND-LP changed the call letters to KFPH-CA, matching the KFPH call letters that were introduced on the Flagstaff station. Also in the same month, Univision's second network, Telefutura, signed on and KFPH-CA became part of the new network. It is one of three Class A Spanish-language broadcasters in the Phoenix market (KPDF-CA
and KCOS-LP
are the others).
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
in Flagstaff, Arizona
Flagstaff, Arizona
Flagstaff is a city located in northern Arizona, in the southwestern United States. In 2010, the city's population was 65,870. The population of the Metropolitan Statistical Area was at 134,421 in 2010. It is the county seat of Coconino County...
, providing over-the-air service to Flagstaff and the Verde Valley
Verde Valley
The Verde Valley is a valley in central Arizona in the United States of America. The Verde River runs through it. It is overlooked by Mingus Mountain and the Mogollon Rim.- History :The first notice of this region appears in the report of one Espejo,...
as a Telefutura
TeleFutura
TeleFutura is a U.S. Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by Univision with headquarters in Miami, Florida.-Overview:TeleFutura Is America’s #2 Spanish-Language Network in prime time...
affiliate. The station broadcasts in digital
ATSC
ATSC standards are a set of standards developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee for digital television transmission over terrestrial, cable, and satellite networks....
on VHF
Very high frequency
Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency...
channel 13, is carried by cable television systems in Flagstaff, Sedona
Sedona, Arizona
Sedona is a city that straddles the county line between Coconino and Yavapai counties in the northern Verde Valley region of the U.S. state of Arizona...
and Cottonwood
Cottonwood, Arizona
Cottonwood is a city in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 11,171.-Geography:Cottonwood is located at ....
, and is available over-the-air by translator stations in Globe
Globe, Arizona
Globe has an arid climate, characterized by hot summers and moderate to warm winters. Globe's arid climate is somewhat tempered by its elevation, however, leading to slightly cooler temperatures and slightly more precipitation than Phoenix or Yuma....
and Safford
Safford, Arizona
- History :Safford was founded by Joshua Eaton Bailey, Hiram Kennedy and Edward Tuttle, who came from Gila Bend, in southwestern Arizona. They left Gila Bend in the winter of 1873-74; their work on canals and dams having been destroyed by high water the previous summer...
.
KFPH-CA is a low-power Class A
Class A television service
The class A television service is a system for regulating some low-power television stations in the United States. Class A stations are denoted by the broadcast callsign suffix "-CA" or "-CD" , although very many analog -CA stations have a digital companion channel that was assigned the -LD...
television station in Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...
, rebroadcasting the signal of KFPH-DT in digital on UHF channel 35 and in standard definition digital on sister station KTVW-TV
KTVW-TV
KTVW-DT is a Univision-owned and operated station located in Phoenix, Arizona. It broadcasts in digital on UHF channel 33 from its transmitter atop South Mountain in Phoenix. Its signal is repeated on several low-power translator stations in northern and eastern Arizona and is carried on all...
's secondary subchannel
Digital subchannel
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a means to transmit more than one independent program at the same time from the same digital radio or digital television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual...
33.2. The station is carried on most Phoenix-area cable systems as channel 54.
Both stations are owned by Univision
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...
, KFPH-DT under licensee Telefutura Partnership of Flagstaff, and KFPH-CA under Telefutura Partnership of Phoenix. The stations brand as Telefutura 35, identifying by the over-the-air channel number from the Class A translator in Phoenix.
History
Station KFPH-DT began as an original construction permit granted to Minority Television of Flagstaff, Inc. on October 25, 1984. The station was to transmit from Mount EldenMount Elden
Mount Elden, or Elden Mountain, is located in central Coconino County northeast of Flagstaff, Arizona. It takes its name from one of the region's earliest Anglo settlers, John Elden, who, along with his family, established a homestead on the mountain’s lower slopes and grazed sheep on the open...
north of the city. However, the next year, the permit was sold to Michael C. Gelfand, M.D. and Del Ray Television Company, Inc., and after several permit extensions and expired permits, Del Ray licensed the station on March 11, 1992 with call letters KKTM. The station's transmitter was located on Mormon Mountain, about 20 miles (30 km) south of Flagstaff, having been granted permission to move there in 1989. KKTM was an independent station
Independent station
An independent station is in the category of television terminology used to describe a television station broadcasting in the United States or Canada that is not affiliated with any television network....
that even produced its own newscast covering Flagstaff at one point, albeit with a very low budget and production standards that rivaled Public-access television
Public-access television
Public-access television is a form of non-commercial mass media where ordinary people can create content television programming which is cablecast through cable TV specialty channels...
.
The station changed its call letters to KWBF after becoming a WB
The WB Television Network
The WB Television Network is a former television network in the United States that was launched on January 11, 1995 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and Tribune Broadcasting. On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros...
affiliate in 1995, but the affiliation was short-lived, as Channel 13 of Flagstaff, Inc., part of Christian Networks, Inc., acquired the station in 1996, with financing assistance from Paxson Communications (now ION Media Networks
ION Media Networks
ION Media Networks is an American television broadcasting company that owns and operates over 60 television stations in most major American markets. It is now a privately owned company.-History:...
). Also part of the deal was a time brokerage agreement, under which Paxson Communications would provide programming for the station, and an option for Paxson to acquire the station outright. Paxson exercised that option several months later, and in July 1996, bought the station for its new Infomall Television Network (inTV) service. In 1998, the inTV service was replaced by the new PAX TV Network (now ION Television) and the station's call letters were changed to KBPX to reflect the new network. It was the first PAX TV station in Arizona. KBPX was originally to be the full-service PAX TV outlet, with an LPTV repeater in Phoenix, but in 2001, when Paxson Communications received an allocation for and built KPPX
KPPX
KPPX-TV is a full-service television station licensed to Tolleson, Arizona, and serving the Phoenix metropolitan area from its transmitter on South Mountain. It broadcasts exclusively in digital on UHF channel 51, having completed the conversion to DTV on February 17, 2009...
, a full-service PAX TV station licensed to Tolleson, Arizona
Tolleson, Arizona
Tolleson is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 6,812.-Geography:Tolleson is located at ....
, they sold KBPX to Equity Broadcasting
Equity Broadcasting
Equity Media Holdings was a broadcasting company based in Little Rock, Arkansas that owned and operated television stations across the United States. Prior to March 30, 2007, the company was known as Equity Broadcasting, which is now used for its broadcast station subisdary...
, who immediately changed the call letters to KDUO and replaced PAX programming with ACN
Jewelry Television
Jewelry Television is an American television network, similar to the Home Shopping Network. It was formerly called "America's Collectibles Network" . The privately-held company was founded in 1993 and broadcasts high definition programming 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to over 80 million unique...
home shopping.
In 2002, Univision bought the station and changed its call letters once again, this time to KFPH, to reflect the station's new programming as part of Univision's new TeleFutura network. The -TV suffix was added to the callsign in 2004; after the DTV transition
DTV transition in the United States
The DTV transition in the United States was the switchover from analog to exclusively digital broadcasting of free over-the-air television programming...
in 2009, the station elected to retain the -DT suffix for its digital service.
KFPH-TV shut down its analog channel 13 transmitter on September 18, 2008, citing a lack of space at its transmitter site to accommodate the analog transmitter, its former digital channel 27 transmitter, and the digital channel 13 transmitter that it has used since the DTV transition in 2009
DTV transition in the United States
The DTV transition in the United States was the switchover from analog to exclusively digital broadcasting of free over-the-air television programming...
; additionally, winter weather conditions rendered it impossible to perform work during the last 90 days before the conclusion of the analog-to-digital transition.
KFPH-CA history prior to 2001
Before 2001, KFPH-CA was owned separately from KFPH-DT and had its own history. On December 16, 1986, North Phoenix Baptist Church obtained an original construction permit to build K39BI, a low-power station on UHF channel 39 in Phoenix. They licensed the station on July 31, 1987, originally as an affiliate of the Southern Baptist ConventionSouthern Baptist Convention
The Southern Baptist Convention is a United States-based Christian denomination. It is the world's largest Baptist denomination and the largest Protestant body in the United States, with over 16 million members...
's ACTS-TV television service, and later the SBC's FamilyNet
FamilyNet
FamilyNet is a broadcast television network owned by ComStar Media Fund and based in Atlanta, Georgia. The network was founded in 1979 as the National Christian Network, and took the name FamilyNet in 1988 under the ownership of Jerry Falwell. The channel was acquired by InTouch Ministries in...
service. The transmitter was first located at the church, but was moved to South Mountain in 1988. In December 1998, North Phoenix Baptist sold the station to Daystar
Daystar Television Network
The Daystar Television Network is an American evangelical Christian television religious broadcasting network headquartered near Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in Bedford, Texas...
, who changed the call letters to KDTP-LP. In 2000, Daystar was awarded a permit to construct full-service station KDTP
KDTP
This article is about the full-service Daystar station on channel 11 in Holbrook, Arizona. See KDPH-LP for the Daystar station on channel 48 in Phoenix and KDTP-LP for the JTV station on channel 58 in Phoenix....
on channel 39 and began to look for a buyer for KDTP-LP. Also in 2000, Daystar obtained permission to move KDTP-LP to UHF channel 35 and to upgrade the license to Class A.
In February 2001, Daystar entered into an agreement to sell the station to Equity Broadcasting
Equity Broadcasting
Equity Media Holdings was a broadcasting company based in Little Rock, Arkansas that owned and operated television stations across the United States. Prior to March 30, 2007, the company was known as Equity Broadcasting, which is now used for its broadcast station subisdary...
. The two parties finalized the sale in May 2001, and the station became an affiliate of ACN home shopping. Three months later, the station licensed its move to channel 35 as a Class A station, and took the call letters KOND-LP.
In November 2001, Univision bought the station, along with Flagstaff full-service station KDUO (now KFPH-DT) channel 13. In February 2002, KOND-LP changed the call letters to KFPH-CA, matching the KFPH call letters that were introduced on the Flagstaff station. Also in the same month, Univision's second network, Telefutura, signed on and KFPH-CA became part of the new network. It is one of three Class A Spanish-language broadcasters in the Phoenix market (KPDF-CA
KPDF-CA
KPDF-CA is a low-power Class A television station in Phoenix, Arizona, broadcasting locally in digital on UHF channel 41 as an Azteca America affiliate...
and KCOS-LP
KCOS-LP
KCOS-LP is an low-power broadcast television station located in Phoenix, Arizona. It broadcasts in analog on UHF channel 28 from the Usery Mountains in Mesa. KCOS-LP is owned by Aracelis Ortiz Corporation of Harlingen, Texas...
are the others).
Newscast Titles
- KKTM News (December 31, 1991–1992)
- Action News 13 (1992–1994)
- NewsChannel 13 (1994–1995)
- WB 13 News (1995–1996)
- First Edition News (1996–1998)
- PAX 13 News (1998–2001)
Translators
The following stations rebroadcast the signal of KFPH-DT:- KFPH-CA 35.1 Phoenix, ArizonaPhoenix, ArizonaPhoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...
- K16FB 16 GlobeGlobe, ArizonaGlobe has an arid climate, characterized by hot summers and moderate to warm winters. Globe's arid climate is somewhat tempered by its elevation, however, leading to slightly cooler temperatures and slightly more precipitation than Phoenix or Yuma....
/Miami, ArizonaMiami, ArizonaMiami is a town in Gila County, Arizona, United States. Miami is a classic Western copper boomtown, though the copper mines are largely dormant now... - K21GC 21 Safford, ArizonaSafford, Arizona- History :Safford was founded by Joshua Eaton Bailey, Hiram Kennedy and Edward Tuttle, who came from Gila Bend, in southwestern Arizona. They left Gila Bend in the winter of 1873-74; their work on canals and dams having been destroyed by high water the previous summer...