K14RK-D,
virtual channel
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14 (
UHF
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digital
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channel 14), is a
low-powered television station
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licensed
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to
Phoenix, Arizona
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, United States. The station is owned by Good News Broadcasting Network, Inc. Its transmitter is located on South Mountain.
History
The station began with an original
construction permit
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for K69FM (channel 69), granted to Broadcasting Systems of Phoenix on August 19, 1988. The station was licensed on January 11, 1990, with city of license of South Phoenix. Early programming is unknown. In February 1991, the station was sold to Polar Broadcasting of Arizona, a
San Francisco, California
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-based company, who shortly thereafter applied to move the station to channel 67 and change the city of license to Phoenix. The station licensed its new facilities and its callsign was changed to K67FE in December 1992.
In June 1996, Polar Broadcasting sold the station to Paxson Communications (now
Ion Media Networks
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and the station became part of Infomall TV Network, or inTV. Paxson Communications sold the station in August 1999 to Spanish Independent Broadcasting Network, who changed the programming to
Spanish
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independent
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, rebroadcasting
KWHY-TV
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(channel 22) of
Los Angeles
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, California. The next year, needing to vacate the upper-700 MHz band (channels 60 - 69), the station applied for and was granted a permit to move to channel 53. The station was licensed in June 2002 as K53GF. Since then, the station has dropped the KWHY-TV rebroadcast and operates as an independent station, airing mostly
movie
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s and
infomercial
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s for local
car dealer
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s.
In May 2005, K53GF received a request to vacate channel 53 from
Aloha Partners, who were winners of the
FCC
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auction for the spectrum now occupied by channel 54. However, with the
DTV conversion still in process, there were no suitable in-core channels to which K53GF could move their analog operations. Instead, they requested to operate as a low-power digital TV station (LPDTV) on channel 38 and the FCC granted a construction permit in October 2005 to build LPDTV station K38IZ-D. In the meantime, Aloha Partners has not launched its proposed service to Public Safety, and K53GF remained on the air on analog channel 53 until May 2010. Aloha Partners and its channel 54/59 spectrum were acquired on February 4, 2008, by
AT&T Mobility
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.
On October 27, 2008, the station filed for special temporary authorization (STA) to continue broadcasting the analog signal until 2009. The station began digital operation under program test authority on October 30, 2008.
Digital channels
The station's signal is
multiplexed
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:
Programming
K38IZ-D airs a mix of locally produced shows,
public domain
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movies and paid programming in Spanish. On 38.2 the station broadcasts the
Tuff TV
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Tuff TV carried a m ...
network under the brand ''IZ Tuff'', on 38.3 the station broadcasts classic 1970s/1980s music videos under the brand ''IZ Videos'' and on 38.4 the station broadcasts
ZUUS Country
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under the brand ''IZ ZCTN''. In April 2015, the station added
This TV
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Broadcast Networks, LLC, part of the Allen Media Group division of Entertainment Studios. Originally fo ...
programming on channel 38.5, and became the sole affiliate when
independent station
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KTVK
KTVK (channel 3) is an independent television station in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. It is owned by Gray Television alongside CBS affiliate KPHO-TV (channel 5) and low-power LATV affiliate KPHE-LD (channel 44). KTVK and KPHO-TV share s ...
(channel 3) dropped This TV on April 13.
This TV was dropped on June 1, 2017, in favor of
The Action Channel.
From February 2, 2009 – January 21, 2012, the station broadcast
public domain
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movies in English on 38.2 under the brand ''IZ Classics'', and on 38.4 the station broadcast religious programming and music videos under the brand ''IZ Hope''.
References
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