KDPH-LP

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KDPH-LP
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding =
analog = 48 (UHF)
digital =
other_chs =
affiliations = Daystar
founded = August 23, 1989
location = Phoenix, Arizona
callsign_meaning = Daystar PHoenix
former_callsigns = K48LK (2008)
KDTP-CA (2006-2008)
KDRX-CA (2003-2006)
KDRX-LP (1996-2003)
K64DR (1989-1996)
owner = Daystar Television Network
licensee = Community Television Educators, Inc.
former_affiliations = Telemundo
effective_radiated_power = 52.6 kilowatts
HAAT = 362 meters
class = TX
facility_id = 27272
homepage =

KDPH-LP is a low-power television station in Phoenix, Arizona, owned and operated by Community Television Educators, Inc., a board set up by Daystar to manage their non-commercial license in accordance with FCC regulations. The station operates in analog on UHF channel 48 with its transmitter atop South Mountain. It is carried in the Phoenix metro area by the Qwest Choice cable system in the basic tier, but is not carried by Cox Cable, as they have opted to carry the national Daystar feed on their digital tier. [cite web |url=http://www.qwest.com/residential/products/tv/PHOENIXchannels.pdf |title=Qwest Choice TV Channel Lineup - Phoenix |publisher=Qwest |accessdate=2008-01-16] [cite web |url=http://www.cox.com/arizona/cable_lineup.asp |title=Digital Cable Channel Lineup |publisher=Cox Communications |accessdate=2008-01-16]

History

An original construction permit for low-power television station K64DR, channel 64, was granted to Broadcasting Systems, Inc. on August 23, 1989. The station was quickly built and was licensed on October 31, just two months later. It was affiliated with Telemundo and aired very little local programming. In December 1990, the station was sold to Hispanic Broadcasters of Arizona, Inc., and in 1996, when LPTV stations were allowed to acquire four-letter calls, they changed their call letters to KDRX-LP, which incorporated their original assigned calls, K64DR. In October 1997, KDRX-LP added a Spanish-language newscast produced locally by English-language ABC affiliate KNXV. [cite web |url=http://ww2.scripps.com/shnews/janfeb2000/janfeb2000knxv.html |title=KNXV in Phoenix |publisher=Scripps |date=Jan/Feb 2000 |accessdate=2008-03-21] They would begin producing their own newscast a few years later.

The station was sold to Apogeo Television Phoenix LLC in 1999 and moved to channel 48 later that year, improving over-the-air reception. They became a Class A television station a year later when that class of station was approved by the FCC. The locally-produced newscast and the move to in-core channel 48 helped them to qualify for the new status, giving them primary station protection during the digital television conversion of full-service stations, and guaranteeing them an opportunity to upgrade to digital TV. In December 2002, NBC Telemundo acquired KDRX-LP, and a few months later, changed its call letters to KDRX-CA to reflect its Class A status.

By 2004, the station's owners determined that as an LPTV station, KDRX-CA was at a competitive disadvantage to Univision's KTVW. They filed an application with the FCC to move the license of full-power NBC Telemundo-owned KPHZ (now KTAZ) from Holbrook channel 11 to Phoenix channel 39. In exchange, Daystar-owned station KDTP would move from Phoenix channel 39 to Holbrook channel 11 and KDRX-CA would be transferred to Daystar in order to keep a Daystar Television Network outlet in Phoenix. It was an unusual request and complicated, involving not only a swap of licenses, but also non-commercial reservations in Phoenix and Holbrook, plus the 2 LPTV stations (KPHZ-LP - now KDTP-LP - would be added to the deal later), but in October 2005, the FCC agreed to the proposal. [cite web |url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-05-175A1.txt |title=Memorandum Opinion and Order |publisher=FCC |date=2005-10-13 |accessdate=2008-01-16] [cite web |author=|author=Yvonne Wingett |url=http://azbilingualed.org/News_2005a/stronger_signal_to_expand_reachoftelemundo.htm |title=Stronger signal to expand reach of Telemundo |work=The Arizona Republic |date=2005-10-29 |accessdate=2008-01-16]

In June 2006, the station's license was transferred to Community Television Educators, Inc., while the intellectual unit moved to KTAZ. Later that month, KDRX-CA's call letters changed to KDTP-CA, reflecting the station's new owner, Daystar. The station continued to air Telemundo programming pending completion of new facilities for KTAZ, but changed its programming to the Daystar Television Network in July 2006 when the construction was complete. Two days after the swap, during a heavy thunderstorm, KDTP-CA only displayed a DirecTV logo, indicating its programming is delivered by satellite.

On February 4 2008, KDTP-CA converted its Class A license back to a standard low-power license. No longer able to use the "-CA" suffix, and with "KDTP-LP" already belonging to its sister station on channel 58, the station changed its call sign to K48LK. The new call sign would be temporary, as the station then took the call letters KDPH-LP on March 1. [cite web |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=27272&Callsign=KDPH-LP |title=Call Sign History |publisher=FCC CDBS database |accessdate=2008-03-03] The station also has a construction permit to build a digital companion on UHF channel 46, which it has designated as KDTP-LD.

References

External links

* [http://www.daystar.com Daystar Television Network]
* [http://www.telemundo.com/index.html Yahoo Telemundo]
*TVQ|KDPH-LP
*TVQ|KDTP-LD