KATA-CD was a Class A digital television station affiliated with

Shop LC Shop LC, formerly known as Liquidation Channel and The Jewelry Channel, is an American cable television network based in Austin, Texas, which mainly specializes in selling jewelry. The network is a subsidiary of the Indian-based Vaibhav Global ...

, owned and operated by London Broadcasting, LLC. It broadcast on Channel 50 and was licensed to

Mesquite, Texas Mesquite is a suburban city located east of the city of Dallas, Texas, in the United States. Most of the city is located in Dallas County, though a small portion extends into Kaufman County. As of 2019 census estimates, the population was 140 ...

. KATA was available through

Charter Communications Charter Communications, Inc., is an American telecommunications and mass media company with services branded as Spectrum. With over 32 million customers in 41 states, it is the second-largest cable operator in the United States by subscribers, ...

(Channel 93) and Verizon Fios (Channel 24).

Digital programming

''This station's digital channel was multiplexed:''

Analog-to-digital conversion

On June 4, 2009, KATA-CA ceased analog broadcasting and switched over to digital. The station's call sign was changed to KATA-CD on July 8, 2009.

History

The station began its broadcasting activities on Channel 60 as a repeater for former FamilyNet affiliate K46EV (now

KJJM-LD KJJM-LD, virtual channel 34 ( VHF digital channel 12), is a low-powered HSN- affiliated television station licensed to Dallas and Mesquite, Texas, United States and serving the Dallas– Fort Worth Metroplex. It is owned and operated by HC2 Hol ...

) until it picked up a new affiliate with the former America's Voice network until that network's end in 2000. On October 3, 2005, KATA was made a Class A Station, moved its broadcasts to channel 50, and switched affiliates to the English version of

Almavision Almavision is an American television network broadcasting Christian programming in Spanish with affiliates across North and Central America. The network is carried via satellite on Echostar and SatMex 5, their slogan is "''Television Cristiana.. ...

. After a few missteps, the English network was dropped. In early 2006, KATA became a flagship station for the Mexico-based

Multimedios Televisión Canal 6 (alternately known as Multimedios Televisión) is a network of Spanish language television stations primarily concentrated in northeastern Mexico and the southwestern United States. The system is part of Grupo Multimedios. The flagship sta ...

network. KATA went off the air briefly in late 2007. In February 2008, however, it returned to the airwaves as an MTV

Tr3́s MTV Tres (taken from the Spanish word for the number three ''tres'', stylized as tr3s, with an acute accent over the '3') is an American owned by Paramount Media Networks, a subsidiary of Paramount Global. The channel is targeted toward biling ...

affiliate. Sometime in 2012, Tr3́s was replaced by LATV. In June 2013, KATA-CD was sold to Landover 5 LLC as part of a larger deal involving 51 other low-power television stations. It was announced on April 13, 2017, that KATA-CD would be one of many stations ceasing operations as part of the FCC's latest Spectrum repack sometime in late 2018.FCC Broadcast Television Spectrum Incentive Auction — Auction 1001 Winning Bids
/ref> Mako Communications surrendered KATA-CD's license to the FCC for cancellation on September 5, 2017, in exchange for $19,602,242.

References

External links

* {{Other Texas Spanish Language Stations Spanish-language television stations in Texas Television channels and stations established in 1995 Low-power television stations in the United States ATA-CD 1995 establishments in Texas Defunct television stations in the United States Television channels and stations disestablished in 2017 2017 disestablishments in Texas ATA-CD