KFPH-DT

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KFPH-DT

Flagstaff/Phoenix, Arizona United States
City	Flagstaff, Arizona
Channels	Digital: 13 (VHF) Virtual: 13
Branding	UniMás Arizona Univision Arizona (on DT2)
Programming
Affiliations	13.1: UniMás 13.2: Univision 13.3: GetTV 13.4: Court TV Mystery
Ownership
Owner	Univision Communications (UniMas Partnership of Flagstaff)
Sister stations	KTVW-DT, KHOT-FM, KOMR
History
First air date	January 1, 1992 (29 years ago) (1992-01-01)
Former call signs	KKTM (1992–1995) KWBF (1995–1998) KBPX (1998–2001) KDUO (2001–2002) KFPH (2002–2003) KFPH-TV (2004–2009)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 13 (VHF, 1992–2008) Digital: 27 (UHF, 2002–2009)
Former affiliations	Independent (1992–1995) The WB (1995–1996) inTV (1996–1998) Pax TV (1998–2001) ACN (2001–2002)
Call sign meaning	"Telefutura Phoenix"
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	41517
ERP	33 kW
HAAT	475.5 m (1,560 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	34°58′5.8″N 111°30′36.1″W / 34.968278°N 111.510028°W / 34.968278; -111.510028Coordinates: 34°58′5.8″N 111°30′36.1″W / 34.968278°N 111.510028°W / 34.968278; -111.510028
Translator(s)	KTVW-DT 33.2 (UHF) Phoenix
Links
Public license information	Profile LMS
Website	UniMás

KFPH-DT, virtual and VHF digital channel 13, branded as UniMás Arizona, is a UniMás owned-and-operated television station licensed to Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. Owned by the Univision Local Media subsidiary of Univision Communications, it is part of a duopoly with Phoenix-licensed Univision owned-and-operated station KTVW-DT (channel 33). Both stations share studios on 30th Street in southern Phoenix, while KFPH's transmitter is located atop Mormon Mountain, about 20 miles (32 km) south of Flagstaff in the Coconino National Forest.

As KFPH's broadcasting radius does not reach most of the Phoenix metropolitan area, the station's programming is simulcast in high definition on KTVW-DT's second digital subchannel in order to reach the entire market; this signal can be seen on virtual and UHF channel 33.2 from a transmitter atop South Mountain on the south side of Phoenix. The station had been simulcast on Class A low-power translator station KFPH-CD (channel 35) in Phoenix; that station converted to an ATSC 3.0 station in 2018, though its subchannels were distributed onto other Phoenix stations for transmission.

History[]

The original construction permit to build a station in Flagstaff on VHF channel 13 was granted to Minority Television of Flagstaff, Inc., on October 25, 1984. The station was to transmit from Mount Elden, located north of the city. However, the next year, the permit was sold to Michael C. Gelfand, M.D., and Del Ray Television Company, Inc.; after several permit extensions and expired permits, Del Ray licensed the station on March 11, 1992, under the call letters KKTM. The station's original transmitter was located on Mormon Mountain, having been granted permission to move there in 1989. The station first signed on the air on January 1, 1992 operating as an independent station; at one point, the station produced its own local newscast aimed at the Flagstaff area, although the program was produced on a very low budget and production standards that rivaled public-access television.

The station became a charter affiliate of The WB on January 11, 1995 and in correspondence, changed its call letters to KWBF. Channel 13 of Flagstaff, Inc. (part of Christian Networks, Inc.), acquired the station in 1996, with financing assistance from Paxson Communications (now Ion Media Networks). Channel 13 Flagstaff, Inc. also entered into a time brokerage agreement with Paxson Communications, in which the latter company would provide programming for the station; this agreement included an option for Paxson to acquire the station outright. Paxson exercised that option several months later, and bought the station in July 1996; KWBF then became an affiliate of Paxson's Infomall Television Network (inTV) infomercial service. On August 31, 1998, the station became a charter affiliate of Pax TV (now Ion Television) and the station's call letters were changed to KBPX. KBPX was originally to serve as the market's full-power Pax outlet, with its programming simulcast over a low-power repeater in Phoenix; in 2001, Paxson Communications built and signed on KPPX-TV (channel 51) in Tolleson, and moved Pax TV's programming there. The company sold KBPX to the Equity Broadcasting Corporation, which immediately changed the call letters to KDUO and affiliated the station with the home shopping service America's Collectibles Network (now Jewelry Television). Equity also acquired KDTP-LP channel 35 in Phoenix and changed it to KOND-LP, creating a pair.

The station was purchased by Univision Communications in November 2001, it then became a charter station of Univision's new secondary network TeleFutura (which was renamed UniMás in January 2013), when it launched on January 14, 2002; its call letters were then changed to KFPH (a "-TV" suffix was added to the callsign in 2004, which was changed to a "-DT" suffix in 2009, which the station elected to retain for its digital signal).

Former KFPH logo, used from January 14, 2002 to January 7, 2013.

Technical information[]

Subchannels[]

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion[]

KFPH-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 13, on September 18, 2008, citing a lack of space at its transmitter site to accommodate the analog transmitter, its digital channel 27 transmitter, and the new digital channel 13 transmitter; additionally, winter weather conditions rendered it impossible to perform work during the last 90 days before the conclusion of the digital transition.^[2] The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 27 to VHF channel 13.^[3]

References[]

External links[]

• BIAfn's Media Web Database — Information on KFPH-DT