KSMS-TV

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KSMS-TV
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HAAT707.3 m (2,321 ft)
Transmitter coordinates36°45′22.8″N 121°30′8.7″W / 36.756333°N 121.502417°W / 36.756333; -121.502417
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KSMS-TV (channel 67) is a

channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using KDJT-CD's spectrum from an antenna atop Fremont Peak
.

History

KSMS's logo prior to January 1, 2013

KSMS-TV was founded by Bill Schuyler on September 1, 1986.

television market
without a Spanish-language television station. Knowing that Schuyler had a permit to build a station in the market, a former manager of KCBA encouraged Schuyler to seize the opportunity to create a new station to serve the Hispanic community as an affiliate of the Spanish International Network (the predecessor of Univision).

Schuyler assembled a team of four television professionals and challenge them to develop the new station before KCBA's relaunch. The multiple tasks of creating a new station from the ground up were divided among the four individuals. The group found an old building on Garden Road, which coincidentally had been the first home of KMST-TV (now KION-TV), which Schuyler had started in 1969 and sold a decade later.[3] After negotiating the lease, the remodeling of the old building started immediately. A studio was built in the first floor, along with a small production area, a sound booth and the master control area. After much searching for a suitable transmitter, one was found and installed along with an antenna, atop of Fremont Peak, overlooking the Salinas Valley. Production and broadcasting equipment was purchased and installed, support personnel hired, a small news team was assembled and the station went on the air on time.

News operation

KSMS operates its 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts, each running about 30 minutes each, totaling 10 hours per week. KSMS does not broadcast any local news on weekends. KSMS currently competes with the recent addition of rival

Cowles Publishing Company. KSMS also covers national news and news from Latin America. KSMS started its newscasts in November 1987, a few days after Fidel M. Soto joined the station.[4]
Soto is currently the longest tenured personality since KSMS's inception.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

multiplexed
:

Subchannels of KSMS-TV[5]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
67.1 1080i
16:9
 KSMS-HD Univision
67.3 480i
4:3
 LATV LATV

In June 2010, KSMS began broadcasting in

16:9 HDTV ratio in time for the 2010 FIFA World Cup
.

Analog-to-digital conversion

KSMS-TV shut down its analog signal, over

UHF channel 67, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 31,[6] using virtual channel
67.

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KSMS-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ Alvarez, Fred (September 3, 1986). "KSMS-Channel 67 begins Spanish-language programming". The Californian. p. 16. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
  3. ^ Alvarez, Fred (November 21, 1986). "Spanish station has big plans". The Californian. p. 2A. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
  4. ^ Talentos - Fidel M. Soto (in Spanish)
  5. ^ RabbitEars TV Query for KSMS
  6. ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.

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