KUPT-LD,

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s 2 and 16 ( UHF digital channel 32), is a low-power

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- affiliated

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, United States. Owned by the

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subsidiary of

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, it is

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(channel 2),

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(channel 15), and

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 33). KUPT-LD's transmitter is located at

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History

KUPT-LD has been on the air since late August 2014 airing both Movies! and

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. In early February 2015, H&I was added and became the main channel but in May it moved to channel 16.3 with Movies! returning to 16.1. On February 2, 2016, GetTV moved to

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affiliate

KRQE KRQE (channel 13) is a television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, affiliated with CBS and Fox. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, it is sister to Santa Fe–licensed ''de facto'' CW owned-and-operated station KWBQ (channel 19) an ...

's second

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, and then later to

KASY-TV KASY-TV (channel 50) is a television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting alongside Santa Fe–licensed ''de facto'' CW owned-and-operated station KWBQ, channel 1 ...

channel 50.3 on January 14, 2017. On January 18, 2017, Ramar Communications took over the operations of

a full powered station and former

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network affiliate. Telemundo has replaced Fox on channel 2.1 while H&I was shown on channel 29.1 and Movies! on 33.1. Since then KUPT-LD has continued to air these channels as duplicates, however it now serves to provide additional Spanish-language programming remapped to 2.2. The FCC spectrum auction which concluded on April 13, 2017 removes part of the UHF spectrum from channels 38-51 for television broadcast. KTFQ-TV was assigned the channel 16 position moving over from channel 42 as part of a spectrum repacking. This displaced KUPT-LD which had to move to a different channel number to continue broadcasting. In 2019 it moved to digital channel 32 while remapping to virtual channels 2 & 16.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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References

External links

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