KUPB (channel 18) is a

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licensed to Midland, Texas, United States, serving the Permian Basin area as an affiliate of the Spanish-language

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network. The station is owned by

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, and has studios on Younger Road in Midland; its transmitter is located on University Boulevard in West Odessa.

History

The station commenced broadcasting on

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channel 18 on May 14, 2001. KUPB moved to

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on June 12, 2009 at 9:00 a.m., " flash-cutting" to digital channel 18 after a temporary (3 minutes) signal outage. (KUPB was granted a construction permit after the

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finalized the

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allotment plan on April 21, 1997; as a result, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station.) KUPB moved to high definition (

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) at 10 a.m. on May 3, 2010. In 2013, KUPB added a secondary station, KUPB-DT2, and began airing ZUUS Latino on 18.2. In 2014, it removed ZUUS Latino and replaced it with

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. In 2018, KUPB added two additional subchannels that broadcast English programming.

News operation

''Noticias 18'' was launched on November 5, 2007 to provide news for the viewers in the Permian Basin. KUPB had been airing two-minute newsbriefs since August 2003. On October 13, 2008, the name of the newscast was changed to ''Noticias Univision Oeste de Texas'' and began to be simulcast on

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sister station KEUS-LP. In 2015, Entravision transferred production of KUPB's newscasts to

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sister station

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Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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References

External links

* Television channels and stations established in 2001 2001 establishments in Texas UPB Spanish-language television stations in Texas Entravision Communications stations {{Texas-tv-station-stub