KTFK-DT

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KTFK-DT
kW
HAAT595 m (1,952 ft)
Transmitter coordinates38°14′24″N 121°30′7″W / 38.24000°N 121.50194°W / 38.24000; -121.50194
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Public license information
WebsiteUniMás

KTFK-DT (channel 64) is a

Cal Expo in Sacramento; KTFK's transmitter is located near Walnut Grove, California
.

History

The station first signed on the air on November 12, 1987, as KFTL, operating as an

.

Because of the lack of available programming from the syndication market that complies with Family Radio's programming philosophy, KFTL instead ran

Home Shopping Network
filling the remainder of the schedule.

In the late 1990s, it began running a few hours of public domain movies and sitcoms each day. Family Radio never grew into television as planned; as a result, the organization sold KFTL in 2003 to Univision Communications, which turned it into a Spanish-language station as an owned-and-operated station of Telefutura (which was relaunched as UniMás in January 2013). The station also modified its call letters to KTFK. As a result, KTFK became the fourth station in the Sacramento market overall to be owned and operated by its affiliated network.

Family Radio later bought a San Francisco low-power station, K30BI, which now carries the call letters KCNZ-CD. Initially, KCNZ-CD was reprogrammed and carried similar programming to that which aired on the former KFTL.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

multiplexed
:

Subchannels of KTFK-DT[2]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
19.2 720p
16:9
KUVS-HD Univision (KUVS-DT)
64.1 KTFK-DT UniMás
64.3 480i
4:3
getTV Get
64.4 16:9 GRIT Grit
64.5 ShopLC Shop LC
64.6 NVSN Nuestra Visión (soon)
58.3 480i 16:9 KQCA-D3 Estrella TV (KQCA-DT3)
  Simulcast of subchannels of another station
  Broadcast on behalf of another station

There is no 64.2 on this multiplex, as it is broadcast from KUVS-DT.

On September 27, 2021, a new digital network called Digi-TV was launched on KFTK's fifth subchannel (64.5).[3] It was short-lived as the network ceased operations on August 1, 2022.

Analog-to-digital conversion

KTFK-TV ended

UHF channel 64 on May 8, 2009, due to equipment failure, and informed the FCC there was insufficient time before the June 12 shutoff to do repairs.[4] Despite losing its analog transmitter, KTFK continued digital broadcasting on its transitional digital channel 62, until the June 12 cutoff. On June 13, 2009, it began broadcasting on its permanent DTV channel, UHF channel 26.[5]

As part of the analog-to-digital transition, KTFK-TV moved its broadcast location from an antenna on Mount Diablo, which it shared with KTNC-TV, to an antenna on the KXTV/KOVR candelabra in Walnut Grove. This move was necessary because transmissions from Mount Diablo can be received in both the San Francisco and Sacramento markets, and there were no channels remaining for KTFK to use that would be free of interference in both markets. Moving broadcasting to Walnut Grove prevented potential interference with San Francisco Bay Area stations.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for KTFK-DT". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ "Digital TV Market Listing for KTFK-DT". RabbitEars.info. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  3. ^ "What is Digi TV? Mysterious new broadcast network tied to foreign company surfaces". The Desk. September 8, 2021. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
  4. ^ "Sacramento, CA - OTA". June 4, 2023.
  5. ^ http://transition.fcc.gov/dtv/markets/signal-loss-report.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  6. ^ KTFK Statement in Support of Third Round DTV Channel Election