KFTR-TV

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KFTR-TV, "Telefutura 46 Los Angeles" is an Univisión owned and operated television station in the Los Angeles area, and is the West Coast flagship station of the Telefutura network, their new Spanish 24-hour network founded in January, 2002. KFTR is licensed to Ontario and serves the Los Angeles area. It is a sister station to KMEX and provides additional programming choices to Hispanic viewers. Significant programs include sports, particularly boxing and soccer, productions from Mexico and Venezuela and nightly major Hollywood movies, dubbed in Spanish.

Channel 46's beginnings erratically date back to 1972 as KBSA Guasti, a community known for vineyards near Ontario. The station originally broadcast as an independent showing mostly film features. In 1973, the station was the original home of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, then hosted by Paul Crouch and Jim Bakker. When Trinity left KBSA for KLXA, the station was acquired by Berean Bible Ministries and continued to broadcast Christian programming. The sale of KBSA was pending to Hispanic Broadcasters (the station was already broacasting some programs in Spanish) when KBSA left the air in 1977.

It returned to the air in 1984 as KIHS, a short-lived religious channel. Then owned by the HBI Acquisition, the station affiliated with Sante Fe Communications and showed Catholic based programming. In 1986, KIHS started showing movies and sports programming, but was sold later that year to Silver King, and then emerged in 1986 as KHSC-TV a full-power affiliate of the Home Shopping Network. By 1998, HSN's owners USA Broadcasting had decided to switch all of their over-the-air HSN affiliates to a general entertainment format and was looking to sell the stations to The Walt Disney Company, which would have made Channel 46 a sister to ABC's west coast flagship KABC-TV. However, Univision bought the stations, switching most of them to its second network TeleFutura, including Channel 46 (redubbed KFTR-TV).

There were rumors that Tribune Broadcasting would buy KFTR from Univision, essentially creating a duopoly in Los Angeles with CW affiliate KTLA-TV (channel 5). As of 2006, this has not occurred.

Technical information

• Frequency: Channel 46
• Name: TeleFutura 46
• Radius: 73 miles (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties)
• Start of Operation: 1972
• Transmitter Location: Los Angeles, California (34° 13' 36.00" N Latitude, 118° 3' 59.00" W Longitude)
• Transmitter Power: 2291 kW

External link

• [TeleFutura web page section of univision.com]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for KFTR-TV]

Broadcast television in the Los Angeles market  [(Nielsen DMA #2)]
KCBS 2 (CBS) - KNBC 4 (NBC) - KTLA 5 (The WB/The CW) (The Tube on DT5) - KSFV 6 (Almavision) - KABC 7 (ABC) - KCAL 9 (Ind) - KTTV 11 (Fox) - KCOP 13 (UPN/MNTV) - KSCI 18 (Ind) - KWHY 22 (Ind) - KVCR 24 (PBS) - KNET 25 (Almavision) - KNLA 27 (Ind) - KCET 28 (PBS) - KPXN 30 (i) - KMEX 34 (UNI) - KTBN 40 (TBN) - KXLA 44 (Ind) - KLAU 45 (Almavision) - KFTR 46 (TFU) - KOCE 50 (PBS) - KVEA 52 (TEL) - KAZA 54 (AZA) - KDOC 56 (Ind) - KJLA 57 / KSMV-LP 33 / KSGA-LP 64 (Ind) - KLCS 58 (PBS) - KRCA 62 (Ind) - KBEH 63 (Ind) - KHIZ 64 (Ind) - KHTV 67 (HSN) - KTAV 69 (Almavision)
Local cable television channels FSN West - FSN Prime Ticket
Past broadcast stations KVST / KEEF 68 (non-commercial)

Telefutura Network Affiliates in the state of California
KEVC-CA 5 ([[Template:Coachella Valley TV|Indio]]) -  KTSB-LP 29 ([[Template:Central Coast TV|Santa Barbara]]) -  KDTF-LP 36 ([[Template:San Diego TV|San Diego]]) -  KFTR 46 ([[Template:LA TV|Ontario]]) -  KAJB 54 ([[Template:Imperial Valley TV|Calipatria]]) -  KTFF 61 ([[Template:Fresno TV|Porterville]]) -  KTFK 64 ([[Template:Sacramento TV|Stockton]]) -  KFSF 66 ([[Template:SF TV|Vallejo]])
See also: [[Template:ABC California|ABC]], [[Template:CBS California|CBS]], [[Template:Fox California|Fox]], [[Template:NBC California|NBC]], [[Template:PBS California|PBS]], [[Template:UPN California|UPN]], [[Template:WB California|WB]], [[Template:Telemundo California|Telemundo]], [[Template:Univision California|Univision]], [[Template:California Independent Stations|Independent]], [[Template:Other California Spanish Network Stations|Other Spanish Network]], [[Template:California Religious Stations|Religious]], [[Template:California Home Shopping Stations|Home Shopping]] and [[Template:Other California Stations|Other]] stations in California

 

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