KMUV-LD (channel 23) is a low-power television station licensed to

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, United States. It is a

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affiliate

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(channel 46, also licensed to Monterey) which is owned by the

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. KMUV-LD's transmitter is located on

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; its parent station maintains studios on Moffett Street in Salinas immediately south of

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History

As KMUV-LP, the station was previously a

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affiliate; it switched to Telemundo by 2005, when Clear Channel Communications acquired the station. The KMUV call sign had previously been assigned to channel 31 in

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from 1974 until 1981; that station is now

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Sale to Cowles Publishing Company

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) entered into an agreement to spin off its entire television stations group to

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, a broadcasting holding company founded by the private equity firm

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. The sale was finalized on March 14, 2008. However, Newport Television could not keep KION-TV or KMUV-LP due to Providence Equity Partners' partial ownership of several media properties which serve parts of the market. KION and KMUV were sold to the

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, the owner of

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and

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. The sale was finalized on May 7, 2008. On that day, Cowles took over the LMA for KCBA from Newport Television.

Sale to News-Press & Gazette Company

On September 20, 2013,

announced that it would purchase KION-TV and KMUV-LP, as well as

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sister station KKFX-CA. NPG will also take over some of the operations of Santa Maria sister station

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, which Cowles will retain, under a

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(as NPG's holdings in the area already include

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in Santa Barbara). The sale was completed on December 13.

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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References

External links

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KMUV-LP/KION-TV/KKFX-CA Asset Purchase Agreement
* {{NPG CBS network affiliates Fox network affiliates Telemundo network affiliates Dabl affiliates Low-power television stations in the United States MUV-LD Television channels and stations established in 1989 1989 establishments in California MUV-LD News-Press & Gazette Company