KFTH-DT
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| HAAT | 579 m (1,900 ft) |
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| Transmitter coordinates | 29°34′16″N 95°30′38″W / 29.57111°N 95.51056°W |
| Translator(s) | KXLN-DT 45.2 (30.2 UHF) Rosenberg |
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Public license information | |
| Website | UniMás |
KFTH-DT (channel 67) is a
In addition to its own digital signal, KFTH is simulcast in high definition on KXLN's second digital subchannel (45.2) from a separate transmitter near Missouri City.
History
The station first signed on the air on January 27, 1986, as KTHT, under the ownership of 4 Star Broadcasting. Operating as an
The station was unprofitable, and was subsequently sold to Silver King Broadcasting, the broadcasting arm of the
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
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
Subchannels
The station's signal is
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 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) |
Analog-to-digital conversion
KFTH-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over
References
- ^ "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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