KTFQ-TV

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KTFQ-TV

Albuquerque–Santa Fe, New Mexico United States
City	Albuquerque, New Mexico
Channels	Digital: 16 (UHF) Virtual: 41
Branding	UniMás Nuevo México
Programming
Affiliations	41.1: UniMás 41.2: LATV 41.3: HSN 41.4: TBD
Ownership
Owner	Entravision Communications (Entravision Holdings, LLC)
Sister stations	KLUZ-TV
History
First air date	April 8, 1999 (1999-04-08)
Former call signs	KAPX (1999–2003) KTFQ (2003) KTFQ-TV (2004–2009) KTFQ-DT (2009–2017)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 14 (UHF, 1999–2009) Digital: 22 (UHF, 2008–2017) 42 (UHF, 2017–2019) Virtual: 14 (PSIP, 2008–2017)
Former affiliations	Independent (1981–1986) Fox (1986–1993) Dark (1993–1999) Pax TV (1999–2003) TeleFutura (2003–2013)
Call sign meaning	Telefutura Albuquerque
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	35084
ERP	350 kW
HAAT	1,255 m (4,117 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	35°12′41.1″N 106°26′58″W / 35.211417°N 106.44944°W / 35.211417; -106.44944
Links
Public license information	Profile LMS
Website	UniMás

KTFQ-TV, virtual channel 41 (UHF digital channel 16), is a UniMás-affiliated television station licensed to Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, and also serving the state capital of Santa Fe. The station is owned by Santa Monica, California–based Entravision Communications, which also operates Univision-owned station KLUZ-TV (channel 14) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with the Univision Local Media subsidiary of TelevisaUnivision USA. Both stations share studios on Broadbent Parkway in northeastern Albuquerque, while KTFQ-TV's transmitter is located on Sandia Crest.

History[]

In 1997, Paxson Communications was awarded a construction permit for a new station on channel 14, which was previously used by KGSW-TV from 1981 to 1993; on April 8, 1999, it signed on as KAPX, airing programming from the family-oriented Pax TV (later i: Independent Television, now Ion Television) from 11 a.m. and 11 p.m., along with infomercials during the day and The Worship Network during the overnight hours. Pax would subsequently cut its programming hours from 4 to 11 p.m., and later 5 to 11 p.m., due to financial problems at Paxson. The company then chose to sell some of its stations, including KAPX; in 2003, Univision bought the station, and that June relaunched channel 14 as Telefutura (now UniMás) affiliate KTFQ. The network was previously seen in Albuquerque on KTFA-LP (channel 48), which switched to HSN. Programming from The Worship Network continued to air overnights on KTFQ for several years afterward.

On December 4, 2017, as part of a channel swap made by Entravision Communications, KTFQ and sister station KLUZ swapped channel numbers, with KTFQ moving from digital channel 22 and virtual channel 14 to digital channel 42 and virtual channel 41.

Technical information[]

Subchannels[]

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion[]

Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997.^[2] The station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, on June 12, 2009, which is the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KTFQ-TV was required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal (called a "flash-cut"). KTFQ has been assigned channel 22 for its digital broadcast. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 14.

References[]

External links[]

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