KTEL-CD,
virtual channel 47 and
UHF digital
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channel 15, is a
low-power,
Class A Telemundo
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owned-and-operated television station
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licensed
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to
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque ( ; ), ; kee, Arawageeki; tow, Vakêêke; zun, Alo:ke:k'ya; apj, Gołgéeki'yé. abbreviated ABQ, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Its nicknames, The Duke City and Burque, both reference its founding in ...
. Founded November 28, 1994; the station is owned by the
Telemundo Station Group
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subsidiary of
NBCUniversal
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NBCUniversal is primari ...
. It also owns
KRTN-LD
KRTN-LD, virtual channel 39 ( UHF digital channel 18), is a low-power MeTV- affiliated television station licensed to Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. Owned by the Telemundo Station Group subsidiary of NBCUniversal, it is sister to Tele ...
(channel 39) a low-powered digital station licensed in Albuquerque, but also owns KRTN-TV in Durango, Colorado. Both stations are affiliated with the
MeTV
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network.
KTEL-TV (UHF digital channel 25) is the full-powered satellite station based in
Carlsbad, New Mexico
Carlsbad ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Eddy County, New Mexico, Eddy County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the city population was 32,238. Carlsbad is centered at the intersection of U.S. R ...
broadcasting on digital channel 25.
Stations
KTEL-CD and KTEL-TV both broadcast in digital. KTEL-CD broadcasts on virtual and RF channel 15, while KTEL-TV broadcasts on channel 25.
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History
KTEL-CD signed on in late 1997 on UHF channel 15 as an affiliate of Telemundo. Telemundo had previously aired in Albuquerque on K59DB (now
KTVS-LD
KTVS-LD, virtual channel 36 ( UHF digital channel 23), is a low-powered TheGrio TV- affiliated television station licensed to Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. Founded on October 31, 1986, the station is owned by Alpha Omega Broadcast ...
) channel 59 since about 1988. It moved to UHF channel 53 in early 1999 just before full-powered station KAPX (now
KTFQ
KTFQ-TV (channel 41) is a television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language UniMás network to most of the state. It is owned by Entravision Communications, which provides certain services to Univisi ...
) signed on channel 14. The station transmitted on UHF channel 53 from 1999 to 2007. KTEL-LP changed frequencies and broadcasts to channel 47 since channel 53 was part of the UHF band (Ch. 52–69) that the FCC had auctioned off from television broadcasts following the digital TV transition. Transmission on channel 53 ceased in early December 2007. The station call letters had not changed. KTEL-LP changed its call sign to KTEL-CA on March 19, 2015, and again on May 7, 2015 to the current KTEL-CD.
KTEL-TV in Carlsbad, New Mexico signed on in 2000 as a full-powered satellite for KTEL-LP. KTEL also had a full-powered satellite in Durango, Colorado from 2001 to 2011 on KTLL channel 33. That station is now KRTN-TV a satellite for
KRTN-LD
KRTN-LD, virtual channel 39 ( UHF digital channel 18), is a low-power MeTV- affiliated television station licensed to Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. Owned by the Telemundo Station Group subsidiary of NBCUniversal, it is sister to Tele ...
a MeTV affiliate and rebroadcasts KTEL on digital channel 47.1.
Santa Fe was previously covered by translator K46GY on UHF channel 46 which broadcast at 150 kW from a directional antenna from atop Sandia Crest pointed towards the area. The translator was previously K52BS channel 52 from 1989 to 2003.
In July 2016, Ramar purchased
KASA-TV
KASA-TV (channel 2), branded on-air as , is a television station licensed to Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, serving the Albuquerque area and most of the state as an owned-and-operated station of the Spanish-language Telemundo network. KASA ...
from
Media General
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for $2.5 million. On January 18, 2017; Ramar moved Telemundo to channel 2.1 which gives the network a full-powered signal in Albuquerque and makes it more competitive with Univision affiliate
KLUZ
KLUZ-TV (channel 14) is a television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision network to most of the state. It is owned-and-operated station, owned by TelevisaUnivision, which maintains a local ...
. KTEL-TV will remain a satellite of KASA.
On July 30, 2021, NBCUniversal announced it was buying KASA and its repeater stations for $12.5 million. In the short term NBC announced it was entering a transitional services agreement
Gray Television
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, which had purchased
Fox
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affiliate
KJTV-TV
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and other Ramar television assets in
Lubbock
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is the 10th-most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of government of Lubbock County. With a population of 260,993 in 2021, the city is also the 85th-most populous in the United States. The city is in the northwe ...
,
Texas
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earlier in 2021. The deal will give NBCU Telemundo 31 stations and marks the end of 23 years of Ramar's ownership of the Telemundo affiliation in the city.
Digital television
The channel line-up for KTEL-CD are currently all duplicates of programming aired on other NBC Telemundo owned stations in the market. Virtual channels 47.1 (MeTV) and 47.2 (
Start TV
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) are broadcast from the full-powered signal of KASA-TV,
KTEL-TV
Because it was granted an original
construction permit
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after the
FCC
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finalized the
DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997,
Final Digital TV (DTV) Channel Plan
/ref> KTEL-TV did not receive a companion channel for digital television station
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s. Instead, on or before June 12, 2009, which was the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KTEL-TV was required to turn off its analog signal
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and turn on its digital signal
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s (called a "flash-cut
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").
KTEL-LP continued running in analog but had a construction permit to flash-cut to digital broadcasting on channel 47. On August 11, 2014 Ramar Communications was granted construction permits to build new stations to replace KTEL-LP on UHF channel 15 and Santa Fe translator K46GY on UHF channel 16. Analog broadcasts on both stations ceased on September 3, 2014. At the end of September both stations went on the air testing their digital signals. Both stations have antenna patterns to cover both the Albuquerque and Santa Fe areas. Channel 16 has changed to KUPT-LD
KUPT-LD, virtual channels 2 and 16 ( UHF digital channel 32), is a low-power Movies!- affiliated television station licensed to Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. Owned by the Telemundo Station Group subsidiary of NBCUniversal, it is si ...
and now adds a new station to the Albuquerque TV market as well as giving Ramar a third station to its local cluster alongside KTEL-LD and KRTN-LD.
KRTN-LD has broadcast KTEL programming in digital from May 2009 until April 2017 displayed as channel 47.1.
References
External links
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*LyngSat page for AMC-5
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