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KTVW-DT (channel 33) is a
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in
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, United States, airing programming from the Spanish-language
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network. It is
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by
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alongside Flagstaff-licensed
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outlet
KFPH-DT KFPH-DT (channel 13), branded as UniMás Arizona, is a television station licensed to Flagstaff, Arizona, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language UniMás network to northern and central Arizona. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUni ...
, channel 13 (which KTVW-DT
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on its second
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). Both stations share studios on 30th Street in southern Phoenix, while KTVW-DT's transmitter is located atop South Mountain on the city's south side. The station's signal is relayed on two low-power
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: Class A station KTVW-CD (channel 6) in Flagstaff, and KDOS-LD (channel 50) in
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. KTVW is also rebroadcast on the second digital subchannel of KFPH, whose transmitter is located atop Mormon Mountain, about south of Flagstaff in the
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. In addition,
KUVE-DT KUVE-DT (channel 46) is a television station licensed to Green Valley, Arizona, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision network to the Tucson area. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Douglas-licensed UniM ...
(channel 46) in Green Valley and KUVE-CD (channel 42) in
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operate as semi-satellites of KTVW-DT, expanding the Univision signal into
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. As such, they
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all Univision programming as provided through their parent, and share a website with KTVW. However, the Tucson stations air separate commercial inserts and legal identifications. There is also a three-hour overnight segment on Monday mornings, in which the Tucson stations broadcast locally produced English-language programming in accordance with KUVE-CD's Class A license. Local newscasts, produced by KTVW and branded as ''Noticias 33'', are simulcast on KUVE and KUVE-CD. Although KUVE maintains its own studios on Forbes Boulevard in Tucson,
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and most internal operations are based at KTVW's facilities.


History

On March 12, 1976, the Legend of Cibola Television Company (reorganized before launch as the Seven Hills Television Company), owned by a series of principals of the Spanish International Network, filed for a construction permit for a new television station on channel 33 in Phoenix, which was granted on August 17, 1977. The original applicant had just one local stockholder, Julia Zozaya (who later built and owned KNNN-FM 99.9). Facilities were jointly constructed with another construction permit,
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; the two stations won approval to construct a new tower on South Mountain in 1978. KTVW-TV signed on as Arizona's first full-time
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television station on September 2, 1979. Previously, KPAZ-TV channel 21 had aired some Spanish-language programming from 1967 to 1977, but this was curtailed by financial woes and its sale to the
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. From the beginning, the plan was to build a translator for KTVW in Tucson: this launched November 1, 1980. While owned by SIN-aligned interests, it was not owned by the network proper until then-owner
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acquired it from Seven Hills in 1989. For 27 years, KTVW was the only full-power Spanish-language television station in Phoenix, which gave it considerable market dominance. In 2006, this came to an end when
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and the
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agreed to a trade that converted Phoenix's noncommercial channel 39 into commercial Telemundo outlet
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. KTVW-DT also operates the
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station for the Phoenix market on low-powered KFPH-CD (channel 35), which broadcasts on full-powered
KFPH-DT KFPH-DT (channel 13), branded as UniMás Arizona, is a television station licensed to Flagstaff, Arizona, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language UniMás network to northern and central Arizona. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUni ...
(channel 13) in Flagstaff (also a part of the Phoenix market), giving it "must-carry" broadcast station status on
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.


News operation

KTVW began producing local news in the early 1980s with a 10-minute local news update that aired at 10:30 p.m. before '' 24 Horas'' from Mexico City; this was replaced with a 6 p.m. newscast in 1984. KTVW presently broadcasts ten hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with one hour each day, consisting of two half-hour newscasts at 5 and 10 p.m. seven nights a week). The station does not have any on-air weather staffers of its own, instead weather segments during KTVW's newscasts are produced by
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KMEX-DT KMEX-DT (channel 34) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the western flagship station of the Spanish-language Univision network. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Ontario, Californ ...
. The station's local newscasts (currently known as ''Noticias Univision 33'') rank among the top-rated local news programs in the market, either English or Spanish. The station had the highest-rated newscast in Phoenix among the demographics of adults between the ages of 18-34 and 18-49 in 2004.


Technical information


Subchannels

The station's digital signal is
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Analog-to-digital conversion

KTVW shut down its analog signal, over
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channel 33, at 10:59 p.m. on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 34 to channel 33 for post-transition operations. Prior to the shutdown of its analog signal, the station's personnel gave information on how to connect and operate their digital converters, and then counting down the last 15 seconds.


Translators

Formerly, KTVW was on channels 17 and 52 in
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before the launch of its locally operated Univision affiliate
KUVE-DT KUVE-DT (channel 46) is a television station licensed to Green Valley, Arizona, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Univision network to the Tucson area. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Douglas-licensed UniM ...
38/46.


See also

* Telemundo/Daystar license swap


References


External links


Official website for KTVW "Univision 33"

Univision
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