KNIC-DT (channel 17) is a

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licensed to

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, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language

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network to the

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area. It is owned and operated by

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alongside

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outlet

KWEX-DT KWEX-DT (channel 41) is a television station in San Antonio, Texas, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision network. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Blanco-licensed UniMás outlet KNIC-DT (channel 17). ...

(channel 41). Both stations share studios on Network Boulevard in Northwest San Antonio, while KNIC's transmitter is located on Hogan Drive in Timberwood Park. Although Blanco is geographically within the

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market, that city has its own UniMás station, KTFO-CD.

History

KNIC-DT's history traces back to the March 1991 sign-on of K17BY, a low-power television station that San Antonio-based Clear Channel Communications (now

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) was issued a

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to build on March 23, 1988; operating on UHF channel 17, Clear Channel sold the station in March 1991 to Nicolas Communications. In November 1997, the station changed its calls to KNIC-LP (in reference to its owners); Nicolas Communications sold KNIC-CA in November 2001 (the station received approval to upgrade its license to Class A status that same month) to Univision Communications, a sale that was completed in January 2002; that month, it became a charter affiliate of Univision's secondary network, TeleFutura (which relaunched as UniMás on January 7, 2013). Univision had applied for a

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to build a full-power television station in 2000 on UHF channel 52 in Blanco; after the

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awarded Univision the license at auction, Univision requested that the FCC move the allocation to UHF channel 17; the request was granted in February 2003. KNIC-TV was founded on July 13, 2005. The formal application for KNIC-TV called for Univision to either move KNIC-CA to another channel, or to shut it down outright, KNIC-CA moved to channel 34 under special temporary authorization, before it ceased operations on September 28, 2006. KNIC-DT was one of the few television stations to have been built and signed on by Univision Communications.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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Analog-to-digital conversion

Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 199

the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital

. KNIC-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over Ultra high frequency, UHF channel 17, on June 12, 2009. The station "

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" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 18, using PSIP to display the station's

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as its former UHF analog channel 17.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Knic-Dt Television channels and stations established in 2006 UniMás network affiliates Ion Mystery affiliates Laff (TV network) affiliates KNIC-DT Spanish-language television stations in Texas 2006 establishments in Texas