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41 (

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channel 22), is a low-powered, Class A Canal de la Fe- affiliated

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, United States. The station is owned by

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, and is carried on several cable systems in the Phoenix area.

History

KPDF-CD began as an original construction permit for station K69HJ, issued on June 14, 1995, to World Television, a subsidiary of

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. In October 1997, the

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granted the station a modification to its permit to construct facilities on channel 41, with new callsign K41EN. The station was licensed on October 20, 1999, and shortly thereafter, took the call letters KPSW-LP. The station was an affiliate of Home Shopping Español (HSE), likely from sign-on in 1999 until HSE was shut down in 2002. The station is also listed as an ACN affiliate (now

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); presumably for the last half of 2002 and the first half 2003. In July 2003, the station became an

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affiliate. The station's license was converted to Class A in October 2001, and in May 2002, Venture Technologies sold KPSW-CA, along with stations KPHZ (now

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) and KPHZ-LP (now

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), to

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. The following December, Telemundo acquired stations

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and KDRX-CA (later

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) from Television Apogeo, a company owned by Roy Disney. As part of payment for the stations, Telemundo transferred KPSW-CA to Television Apogeo. In August 2003, the

approved the sale of KPSW-CA to Una Vez Mas, and in January 2004, the sale was consummated and KPSW-CA became KPDF-CA. As a low power TV station, KPDF-CA continued broadcasting in analog after June 12, 2009, which was the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations. Viewing this station required either a pass through converter box, a splitter, or use of cable or satellite. On June 4, 2010, KPDF-CA

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its signal from analog to digital. The station was licensed for digital operation on May 28, 2015.

News operation

In early 2007, KPDF was to start a local newscast, which will be produced in

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by the

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. The station planned on having at least one reporter on duty in the Phoenix area filing news reports for the new news program. http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6374560.html?display=News&referra

Digital television

Digital channels

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