KLHU-CA
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KLHU-CA channel 45 is a low-power Class A
television station
serving Lake Havasu City, Arizona
. It is an independent station
owned locally by Jensen Media Group. The station broadcasts from its transmitter located on Goat Hill approximately five miles north of Lake Havasu City and is carried on the local cable television system.
designated as "LPTV", a class of service that had recently been created by the FCC
to allow low-power stations to originate programming. Its transmitter was located in an industrial park within the city limits northwest of downtown. The station was licensed on March 5, 1984.
In August 1993, London Bridge Broadcasting sold the station to Jeffrey Holmes, who in turn sold the station to James Husted (later part of TV 45 Productions Inc.) in July 1995. Under TV 45 Productions, the station upgraded its license to Class A status and changed its call letters to KLHU-CA in 2001, and moved its transmitter to the Goat Hill location in 2002.
KLHU-CA was sold in February 2004, to Jensen Investments FLP of Seattle, Washington. The purchase originally included a Time Brokerage Agreement, which stipulated that the station would broadcast in the English language and would not rebroadcast the over-the-air signal of any other station. In March 2005, Mark Jensen, Managing Partner of Jensen Investments, transferred the business to Lake Havasu City, where it operates as Jensen Media Group.
requirements with a syndicated children's television show called "Critter Gitters" that airs weekdays after school and on Saturday morning. The station broadcasts an overnight movie, which it repeats in the early afternoon, and has an evening block of sporting events Mondays-Thursdays, some of it also locally-produced.
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
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...
serving Lake Havasu City, Arizona
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 41,938 people, 17,911 households, and 12,716 families residing in the city. The population density was 974.4 people per square mile . There were 23,018 housing units at an average density of 534.8 per square mile...
. It is 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....
owned locally by Jensen Media Group. The station broadcasts from its transmitter located on Goat Hill approximately five miles north of Lake Havasu City and is carried on the local cable television system.
History
London Bridge Broadcasting, a local company, was awarded an original construction permit on March 18, 1982 to build a low-power television station to serve Lake Havasu City and surrounding area. Given the call sign K45AJ, it was the first station in ArizonaArizona
Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...
designated as "LPTV", a class of service that had recently been created by the FCC
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
to allow low-power stations to originate programming. Its transmitter was located in an industrial park within the city limits northwest of downtown. The station was licensed on March 5, 1984.
In August 1993, London Bridge Broadcasting sold the station to Jeffrey Holmes, who in turn sold the station to James Husted (later part of TV 45 Productions Inc.) in July 1995. Under TV 45 Productions, the station upgraded its license to Class A status and changed its call letters to KLHU-CA in 2001, and moved its transmitter to the Goat Hill location in 2002.
KLHU-CA was sold in February 2004, to Jensen Investments FLP of Seattle, Washington. The purchase originally included a Time Brokerage Agreement, which stipulated that the station would broadcast in the English language and would not rebroadcast the over-the-air signal of any other station. In March 2005, Mark Jensen, Managing Partner of Jensen Investments, transferred the business to Lake Havasu City, where it operates as Jensen Media Group.
Programming
As an independent Class A station, KLHU has no network programming commitments, but is required to offer a certain amount of locally-produced programming each week. The station well meets its local content requirement, airing its own 90-minute local newscast, called Havasu 45 N.E.W.S. (News Events Weather Sports), three times each weekday. The station televises City Council meetings live, and offers local and state issues-oriented programming. They meet E/IE/I
E/I, which stands for "educational and informative," refers to a type of children's television programming shown in the United States. The Federal Communications Commission requires that every full-service Terrestrial television station in the U.S. show at least three hours of these television...
requirements with a syndicated children's television show called "Critter Gitters" that airs weekdays after school and on Saturday morning. The station broadcasts an overnight movie, which it repeats in the early afternoon, and has an evening block of sporting events Mondays-Thursdays, some of it also locally-produced.