KTFD-TV
Denver, Colorado United States | |
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Channels | Digital: 28 (UHF) Virtual: 50 |
Branding | UniMás Denver |
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Ownership | |
Owner | Entravision Communications (Entravision Holdings, LLC) |
TV: KCEC Radio: KJMN, KMXA, KXPK | |
History | |
First air date | February 22, 1996 |
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Call sign meaning | TeleFutura Denver |
Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 24514 |
ERP | 400 kW |
HAAT | 236 m (774 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 39°43′58″N 105°14′10″W / 39.73278°N 105.23611°WCoordinates: 39°43′58″N 105°14′10″W / 39.73278°N 105.23611°W |
Links | |
Public license information | Profile LMS |
KTFD-TV, virtual channel 50 (UHF digital channel 28), is a UniMás-affiliated television station licensed to Denver, Colorado, United States. The station is owned by Entravision Communications, which also operates Boulder-licensed Univision-owned station KCEC (channel 14) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with the Univision Local Media subsidiary of Univision Communications. Both stations share studios on Mile High Stadium West Circle in Denver, while KTFD-TV's transmitter is located atop Lookout Mountain, near Golden.
History[]
The station first signed on the air on February 22, 1996 as KTVJ. Founded by Roberts Broadcasting, it originally aired programming from the Home Shopping Network. In January 2003, Roberts sold the station to Univision Communications. Two months later on March 10, 2003, the station changed its call sign to KTFD-TV (which was modified to KTFD-DT on June 23, 2009, in correspondence with the callsign modifications to the "-DT" suffix applied by all Univision-owned stations following the digital television transition), and became an owned-and-operated station of Univision's secondary network TeleFutura.
KTFD's signal was formerly relayed on low-power analog translator station KDVT-LP (channel 36) in Denver, which was owned by Entravision Communications. The translator was never converted to digital, and its license was canceled on September 13, 2017.[1]
On December 4, 2017, as part of a channel swap made by Entravision Communications, KTFD and sister station KCEC swapped channel numbers, with KTFD moving from digital channel 15 and virtual channel 14 to digital channel 26 and virtual channel 50.
On January 9, 2019, KTFD completed the migration to digital channel 28 from digital 26 as part of the FCC spectrum auction repack.
Technical information[]
Subchannels[]
The station's digital channel is multiplexed
Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming[2] |
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50.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KTFD | Main KTFD-TV programming / UniMás |
50.2 | 480i | LATV | LATV | |
50.3 | Stadium | Stadium[3] | ||
50.4 | 4:3 | Local Now |
Analog-to-digital conversion[]
KTFD-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 14, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 15.[4] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 14.
References[]
- ^ https://fccdata.org/?facid=24516&appid=595256&i=1
- ^ RabbitEars TV Query for KTFD
- ^ "Where to watch stadium" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-01-01.
- ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
External links[]
- Television channels and stations established in 1996
- 1996 establishments in Colorado
- Television stations in Denver
- UniMás network affiliates
- Bounce TV affiliates
- GetTV affiliates
- Court TV Mystery affiliates
- Spanish-language television stations in Colorado
- Entravision Communications stations