Branding Univision Arizona
UniMás Arizona (on DT2) Slogan La que nos une
(The one that Unites us) Channels Digital: 33 (UHF)
Virtual: 33 (PSIP) Translators KDOS-LD 29 (UHF) Globe
KTVW-CD 27 (UHF) Flagstaff Affiliations .1: Univision (O&O)
.2: UniMás
.3: Grit
.4: Bounce TV Owner Univision Communications
(KTVW License Partnership, GP) | ||
KTVW-DT, virtual and UHF digital channel 33, is a Univision owned-and-operated television station located in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. The station is owned by Univision Communications, as part of a duopoly with Flagstaff-licensed UniMás owned-and-operated station KFPH-DT (channel 13). The two stations share studio facilities located on 30th Street in southern Phoenix, and its transmitter is located atop South Mountain on the city's south side. Its signal is relayed on two low-power translator stations: KTVW-CD (UHF digital channel 27, virtual channel 6) in Flagstaff, Arizona, and KDOS-LD (UHF digital channel 29, virtual channel 50) in Globe.
Contents
- History
- Digital channels
- Analog to digital conversion
- News operation
- Current on air staff
- Translators
- References
In addition, KUVE-DT (channel 46) in Green Valley and KUVE-CD (channel 42) in Tucson operate as satellite stations of KTVW-DT, rebroadcasting KTVW's entire schedule with the exception of a three-hour overnight segment on Monday mornings, in which the Tucson stations broadcast locally produced programming in accordance with KUVE-CD's Class A license.
History
KTVW-TV was granted an original construction permit on September 15, 1977 and applied for its license on September 4, 1979, two days before it first signed on the air as Arizona's first full-time Spanish-language television station on September 2. From the day it signed on, KTVW-TV has been owned and operated by the same company: the Spanish International Network (or SIN), which became Univision in 1987. Prior to being used by channel 33 in Phoenix, the KTVW call letters were once allocated to channel 13 in Tacoma, Washington, (now Tribune Broadcasting-owned Fox affiliate KCPQ). Channel 33 was the only full-powered Spanish-language station in the Phoenix metropolitan area from its sign-on until July 2006, when Telemundo station KTAZ began operations in Phoenix after a license transfer with KDTP. This head start has solidified its dominance in Spanish-language television in Phoenix.
KTVW-DT also operates the UniMás station for the Phoenix market on low-powered KFPH-CD (channel 35), which broadcasts on full-powered KFPH-DT (channel 13) in Flagstaff (also a part of the Phoenix market), giving it "must-carry" broadcast station status on satellite providers DirecTV and Dish Network.
Digital channels
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
KTVW shut down its analog signal, over UHF 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.
News operation
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 Los Angeles sister station KMEX-TV. 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.
Current on-air staff
Translators
KTVW-DT's signal is relayed on the following translator stations:
Formerly, KTVW was on channels 17 and 52 (KATE) in Tucson before the launch of its locally operated Univision affiliate KUVE 38/46.