KUDF-LP, virtual and

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channel 14, is a low-powered

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- affiliated

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, United States. The station is owned by LM Media Group, Inc. It is carried on the major cable television systems in Tucson.

History

An original

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for a low-power television station on channel 14 was granted to K. Sandoval Burke, one of the two co-owners of Hispanic Broadcasters of Tucson, on February 28, 1989. The station, K14HR "KHR-TV", signed on April 1 as Tucson's first

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affiliate and first locally programmed Spanish-language station. The station was profitable within eight months, ahead of projections. Hispanic Broadcasters, owned by Burke and Jay S. Zucker, also owned the low-power Telemundo station in Phoenix, K64DR. In 1991, Jay Zucker purchased the license of silent KPOL (channel 40) out of bankruptcy for $45,000. On July 1, 1992, channel 40 returned to the air as

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, K14HR's full-power replacement. On January 1, 1993, with Telemundo now on channel 40, channel 14 relaunched as an English-language station carrying FamilyNet programming and branded as "KFAM". KFAM aired such shows as

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, kids shows, other religious shows, sports specials, and pet shows. The station had no cable carriage, and shows soon moved to stations that were on cable: "Shepherd's Chapel", for instance, moved to KTTU (channel 18, now a

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affiliate). In April 1996, Zucker relaunched "KFAM" as KQBN-LP "Qué Bien", aiming to target upper-income Hispanic households. The station was described as "like CNN in the daytime and HBO in primetime", showing news from Telenoticias (now

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) in the day, uncut Spanish-language movies in the evening, and novelas at other times. Among launch programs included the soap opera ''Las aguas mansas'' between the newscasts from 8 to 9pm. In 1999, Hispanic Broadcasters sold itself to the Apogee Companies; by this time, KQBN-LP was entirely rebroadcasting programming from

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, the state network of the neighboring Mexican state of

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. In January 2004,

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bought the station from Apogee and changed the call letters to KUDF-LP, intending to switch to Azteca America. However, the station went silent and was not seen on air until November 2005, when it began broadcasting Azteca America programming. LM Media Group bought KUDF-LP in 2012 for $810,000. The LM represents Mexican businessman Roberto Lemmen Meyer.

KQBN call letters on other stations

Although Una Vez Más replaced the call letters when they took control of operations in January 2004, KQBN-LP has since been assigned to two other Una Vez Más stations – channel 43 in

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took the call letters in March 2005, then when they sold the station the following November, Una Vez Mas transferred the KQBN-LP call letters to channel 28 in Prescott.

Digital channels

The station's signal is

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References

External links

Una Vez Mas official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kudf-Lp UDF-LP UDF-LP Low-power television stations in the United States