KVPA-LP
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KVPA-LP is a low-power television station broadcasting on analog channel 42 in Phoenix, Arizona, and owned by Latin America Broadcasting of Houston, Texas. The station carries programming from LAT TV, a Spanish-language network also owned by Latin America Broadcasting. KVPA-LP was a charter station for the network, which launched in May 2006.
History
An original construction permit for what is now KVPA-LP was granted to Broadcast Systems, Inc. in March 1995 as K24EI in Phoenix, to broadcast on channel 24. The original transmitter location was on Usery Mountain in east Mesa, and the station was first licensed in November 1996. Early programming is unknown, but it was likely the same as K25DM, also owned by Broadcasting Systems, Inc. Although it ran the same programming, K24EI was never a translator of K25DM [link] (see exhibit 2).In November 2000, K24EI submitted an application to the FCC to move to channel 42, as Phoenix independent station KTVK was beginning to build its DTV facilities on channel 24. The application was approved, and in November 2002, the new facilities were licensed with call sign K42FD. About that time also, the station changed its programming to the Shop at Home Network.
In April 2005, the station's owners signed an agreement to sell KDMA Channel 25, Inc., the parent company of K42FD, to Latin America Broadcasting, Inc., with the intent of launching a new Spanish-language network called LAT TV. K42FD's sister station K25DM, was supposed to be part of that network, with K42FD retaining its Shop at Home programming initially, then eventually switching over. However, after the deal was consummated in July 2005, the new owners decided instead to launch LAT TV on K42FD. The station received new call letters KVPA-LP in December 2005, and at the same time, Latin America Broadcasting applied to move KVPA-LP's transmitter location to the South Mountain antenna farm. That application was granted in April 2006 and KVPA-LP went silent. It re-emerged in June 2006 with the new LAT TV programming.
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 () -
KFPH 13 / KFPH-CA 35 () -
K16FB (Globe) -
K21GC (Safford) Telemundo affiliates: KESE-LP 35 () - KHRR 40 () - KDTP-CA 48 () Univision affiliates: KTVW 33 / KTVW-CA 6 () - KUVE 46 / KUVE-CA 38 () - KZOL-LP 15 (Safford) Azteca América affiliates: KUDF-LP 14 () - KPDF-CA 41 () Other stations: KYUM-LP 2 () - KMOH 6 / KEJR-LP 43 () - KTVP-LP 22 ( Almavision) - KCOS-LP 28 ( La Familia Network) - K28FM () | |
| '''See also: , , , , , , , and stations in Arizona | |
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