K53GF
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K53GF, or KGF-53, is a low-power television station serving Phoenix, Arizona as a Spanish-language independent station. It provides over-the-air service on analog channel 53 from its transmitter on South Mountain. K53GF is owned by Spanish Independent Broadcast Network of Phoenix.
History
The station began with an original construction permit for K69FM channel 69, granted to Broadcasting Systems, Inc. of Phoenix on August 19, 1988. The station was licensed on January 11, 1990 with city of license of South Phoenix. Early programming is unknown. In February 1991, the station was sold to Polar Broadcasting of Arizona, a San Francisco, California-based company, who shortly thereafter applied to move the station to channel 67 and change the city of license to Phoenix. The station licensed its new facilities and its callsign was changed to K67FE in December 1992.In June 1996, Polar Broadcasting sold the station to Paxson Communications (now ION Media Networks and the station became part of Infomall TV Network, or inTV. Paxson Communications sold the station in August 1999 to Spanish Independent Broadcasting Network, who changed the programming to Spanish-language independent, rebroadcasting station KWHY-TV channel 22 of Los Angeles, California. The next year, needing to vacate the upper-700 MHz band (channels 60 - 69), the station applied for and was granted a permit to move to channel 53. The station was licensed in June 2002 as K53GF. Since then, the station has dropped the KWHY-TV rebroadcast and airs mostly movies and infomercials for local car companies.
In May 2005, K53GF received a request to vacate channel 53 from Aloha Partners, who were winners of the FCC auction for the spectrum now occupied by channel 54. With the DTV conversion still in process, there were no longer any suitable in-core channels for K53GF to move analog operations to. Instead, they have requested to operate as a low-power digital TV station (LPDTV) on channel 38. The FCC granted a construction permit in October 2005 to build LPDTV station K38IZ. In the meantime, Aloha Partners has been unable to launch its proposed service, and K53GF remains on the air on analog channel 53.
External links
| Broadcast television in the Phoenix / Flagstaff / Kingman market [(Nielsen DMA #14)] | ||
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| KNAZ 2 (NBC) - KTVK 3 (IND) - KPHO 5 (CBS) - KMOH 6 / KEJR 43 (IND) - KAZT 7 / KAZT 27 / K23BY / K55EH (IND) - KAET 8 (PBS) - KCFG 9 (A1) - KBBA 10 (CAM) - KSAZ 10 (FOX) - KDTP 11 (DS) - KPNX 12 (NBC) - KFPH 13 / KFPH 35 (TF) - KNXV 15 (ABC) - KPAZ 21 (TBN) - KTVP 22 (Almavision) - K25DM 25 (HSN) - KCOS 28 (LFN) - KCAB 28 (A1) - KTVW 33 (UNI) - KKAX 36 (A1) - KTAZ 39 (DS) - KPDF 41 (AZA) - KVPA 42 (LAT TV) - KPHE 44 (TV Inspiracion) - KUTP 45 (UPN/My Network TV) - KDTP 48 (TMD) - KPPX 51 (i) - K53GF 53 (IND) - K57HX 57 (HSN) - KPHZ 58 (JTV) - KASW 61 (The WB/The CW) |
| Spanish-Language Television Stations in the state of Arizona | |
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Telefutura affiliates: KFTU 3 / KFTU-LP 34 / K48GX ([[Template:Tucson TV|Douglas / Tucson]]) -
KFPH 13 / KFPH-CA 35 ([[Template:PHX TV|Flagstaff / Phoenix]]) -
K16FB (Globe) -
K21GC (Safford) Telemundo affiliates: KESE-LP 35 ([[Template:Imperial Valley TV|Yuma]]) - KHRR 40 ([[Template:Tucson TV|Tucson]]) - KDTP-CA 48 ([[Template:PHX TV|Phoenix]]) Univision affiliates: KTVW 33 / KTVW-CA 6 ([[Template:PHX TV|Phoenix / Flagstaff]]) - KUVE 46 / KUVE-CA 38 ([[Template:Tucson TV|Tucson]]) - KZOL-LP 15 (Safford) Azteca América affiliates: KUDF-LP 14 ([[Template:Tucson TV|Tucson]]) - KPDF-CA 41 ([[Template:PHX TV|Phoenix]]) Other stations: KYUM-LP 2 ([[Template:Imperial Valley TV|Yuma, TV A]]) - KMOH 6 / KEJR-LP 43 ([[Template:PHX TV|Kingman / Phoenix, Spanish independent]]) - KTVP-LP 22 ([[Template:PHX TV|Phoenix,]] Almavision) - KCOS-LP 28 ([[Template:PHX TV|Phoenix,]] La Familia Network) - K28FM ([[Template:Imperial Valley TV|Yuma, Más Musica]]) | |
| '''See also: [[Template:ABC Arizona|ABC]], [[Template:CBS Arizona|CBS]], [[Template:Fox Arizona|Fox]], [[Template:NBC Arizona|NBC]], [[Template:PBS Arizona|PBS]], [[Template:UPN Arizona|UPN]], [[Template:WB Arizona|WB]], and [[Template:Other Arizona Stations|Other English]] stations in Arizona | |
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