KUVE-DT (channel 46) is a
television station
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licensed to
Green Valley, Arizona
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Geography
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, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language
Univision
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network to the
Tucson
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area. It is
owned and operated
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by
TelevisaUnivision
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alongside
Douglas
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-licensed
UniMás
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outlet
KFTU-DT
KFTU-DT (channel 3) is a television station licensed to Douglas, Arizona, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language UniMás network to the Tucson area. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Green Valley–licensed Univ ...
(channel 3). Both stations share studios on Forbes Boulevard in Tucson, while KUVE-DT's transmitter is located atop
Mount Bigelow.
KUVE operates a
low-power Class A translator
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station: KUVE-CD (channel 42), licensed to Tucson. This station's transmitter is located atop the
Tucson Mountains
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, serving the northwest parts of the metropolitan area shielded from the primary station by
Mount Lemmon
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. KUVE-DT is also rebroadcast on the second
digital subchannel
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of KFTU-DT, whose transmitter is located on Juniper Flats Road northwest of
Bisbee. Likewise, KFTU is rebroadcast on KUVE's second digital subchannel.
Although identifying as a separate station in its own right, KUVE is considered a
semi-satellite
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of
KTVW-DT
KTVW-DT (channel 33) is a television station in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, airing programming from the Spanish-language Univision network. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Flagstaff-licensed UniMás outlet KFPH-DT ...
(channel 33) in
Phoenix
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. It airs separate commercials and
legal identifications but otherwise simulcasts all of KTVW's Univision programming and statewide newscasts produced in Phoenix. There is also a three-hour overnight segment of locally produced English-language programming on KUVE on Monday mornings, to comply with KUVE-CD's Class A license.
History
KTVW began broadcasting to the Tucson area on November 1, 1980, when it built a translator on channel 40. K40AC was displaced from the channel by the launch of
KPOL-TV in 1985, moving to channel 52. The call letters were changed to KUVE-LP in 1998.
Meanwhile, in 1983, four groups applied for Green Valley's channel 46, with their applications being designated for comparative hearing. Sungilt Corporation got the nod and the construction permit on October 31, 1988, and the permit took the call letters KXGR in 1990. After
Paxson Communications Corporation announced plans to operate and acquire KXGR alongside stations in
Fayetteville, North Carolina
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Fayetteville has received the All-America C ...
, and
Charleston, West Virginia
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, it was identified as an intended affiliate of
Paxnet, but the station failed to materialize; by the time of the network's August 1998 launch, it was tabbed to start in the second quarter of 1999.
After twelve years, five expired construction permits and two transmitter location changes, KXGR applied for its license to cover on December 21, 2000, and signed on as a Pax affiliate on January 5, 2001, under program test authority. However, at the completion of the first day of program testing, the station's transmitter failed, and it was unable to return to the airwaves until June 1, and then, only at low power for a minimum of two hours a day. After ten days, the station was again forced to go dark, and after being threatened with license cancellation, KXGR advised the FCC on November 28, 2001 that they had resumed program testing. The station was finally licensed on June 2, 2003.
Sungilt made two attempts to sell the station. Donald E. Ledwig agreed to buy KXGR for $15 million in early 2001, with $1 million of that going to Paxson.
The deal never received approval and fell apart after one year. In January 2002, shortly after resuming program testing, Sungilt agreed to sell the station to Univision. The sale was approved by the FCC in September 2003 and completed in November. The new owners changed the station's call sign to KUVE-TV, to match the low-power station's call sign.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station digital signal is
multiplexed
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:
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Analog-to-digital conversion
KUVE discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over
UHF
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channel 46, on September 18, 2008. The station cited a lack of space at its transmitter site to accommodate both the analog and digital transmitters, an issue that could not be rectified as the transmitter building lies on
United States Forest Service
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land; additionally, winter weather conditions rendered it impossible to perform work after October.
The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 47 to channel 46.
References
External links
*Information on KUVE-CD: ,
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Television channels and stations established in 2001
2001 establishments in Arizona
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