KFFV (channel 44) is a

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, United States, airing programming from

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. It is

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alongside Bellingham-licensed

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station

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, channel 12 (which KFFV

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s on its third

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). Both stations share studios on Third Avenue South in Seattle, while KFFV's transmitter is located on

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east of downtown.

History

Early years

The former KHCV

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were assigned by the

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(FCC) with a

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on October 2, 1989. The station signed on the air on January 1, 1999, on Channel 45 after many permit extensions.

Channel launches

During the week of August 11, 2006, KHCV started carrying

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on its analog channel 45 and on its digital channel 44.2. On December 20, 2006, Navarre's

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announced that the FUNimation channel would be broadcast on KHCV 44.3.FUNimation Channel in Seattle
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/ref> on its digital subchannels 44.3 and 44.4. 44.3 carried GNF "Game & Music" and 44.4 carried GNF "Movie".

Network changes

The analog broadcast (UHF 45) had been exclusively Azteca América, while the

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broadcast of this channel (Channel 15) is

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. On September 10, 2007, analog UHF channel 45 carried the same Jewelry TV content as digital UHF channel 44.1 and Comcast channel 15. On October 15, 2007, programming from AAT Television started broadcasting on digital channel 44.3. On April 19, 2008, America One content on channel 44.4 was replaced by

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; it was later replaced with MBC-D, a Korean television channel. On November 13, 2008, KHCV filed for a request for silent state for its analog signal. On September 28, 2009, KHCV became KPST. On December 22, 2009, KPST went silent. The station was evicted from its studios and its STL link couldn't be operated from the new location. KPST hoped to have the station up and running within a few weeks. The station resumed broadcasting on February 4, 2010. During that time, KPST aired only infomercials on its main channel, 24 hours a day.

As KFFV-TV

The call letters were changed to KFFV on November 15, 2010. The station was purchased at bankruptcy auction by OTA Broadcasting on June 30, 2011; the sale was completed on October 12. KFFV44

In January 2013,

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was added to channel 44.5. It was later replaced by Cozi TV. On March 12, 2015, KFFV's sister station

's main channel, MeTV, had "soft-launched" to sub-channel 44.6.

agreed to acquire KFFV and KVOS-TV, along with

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and

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, in a $23.2 million deal on October 18, 2017. The sale was closed on January 15, 2018, with KFFV and KVOS now under Weigel ownership. On January 17, 2018, Weigel terminated KFFV's carriage agreements with the networks aired under OTA ownership, and switched to a near-duplication of KVOS' services, with MeTV replacing Evine on channel 44.1, Movies! replacing Azteca América on 44.2, and AAT replaced by H&I on 44.3 (AAT moved to KUSE-LD4). Cozi returned to Seattle on two other Seattle area stations: low-powered TV station KYMU-LD in 2019 and on KIRO-TV's third digital subchannel in 2020.TV Listings: Watch your favorites (KIRO-TV)
''kiro7.com'' (Content provided via TitanTV) December 29, 2020 (same-day retrieval) Azteca and KBS World have yet to find new channel locations in Seattle.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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References

External links

* {{Weigel Broadcasting FFV MeTV affiliates Movies! affiliates Heroes & Icons affiliates Decades (TV network) affiliates Story Television affiliates OnTV4U affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1999 1999 establishments in Washington (state) Weigel Broadcasting