KPDF-CA

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KPDF-CA
station_
station_slogan = Es tu casa
station_branding = Azteca America Phoenix
analog = 41 (UHF)
digital =
other_chs =
affiliations = Azteca America
founded = June 14, 1995
location = Phoenix, Arizona
callsign_meaning = Phoenix XHDF (TV Azteca flagship)
former_callsigns = KPSW-CA, KPSW-LP, K41EN, K69HJ (CP only)
owner = Una Vez Mas Holdings, LLC
former_affiliations = ACN, Home Shopping Español
effective_radiated_power = 45.9 kW
HAAT = 471 m
class = Class A
facility_id = 73764
homepage = http://www.uvmtv.com
notes = When the station first affiliated with Azteca America in 2003, there was some confusion over the station's call letters and channel number. Azteca America announced that the new affiliate would be KPSW channel 43, and several publications followed their lead. Channel 43, K43GV, was owned by the same companies, Television Apogeo, then Una Vez Mas, but that station aired Telemundo programming.

KPDF-CA is a low-power Class A television station in Phoenix, Arizona, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 41 as an Azteca America affiliate. The station is owned by Una Vez Mas Holdings, LLC of Dallas, Texas, and is carried on several cable systems in the Phoenix area.

History

KPDF-CA began as an original construction permit for station K69HJ, issued on June 14, 1995 to World Television, a subsidiary of Venture Technologies Group, LLC. In October 1997, the FCC granted the station a modification to its permit to construct facilities on channel 41, with new callsign K41EN. The station was licensed on October 20, 1999 and shortly thereafter, took the call letters KPSW-LP.

The station's license was converted to Class A in October 2001, and in May 2002, Venture Technologies sold KPSW-CA, along with stations KPHZ (now KTAZ) and KPHZ-LP (now KDTP-LP), to NBC Telemundo. The following December, NBC Telemundo acquired stations KHRR and KDRX-CA (now KDPH-LP) from Television Apogeo, a company owned by Roy Disney. As part of payment for the stations, NBC Telemundo transferred KPSW-CA to Television Apogeo. In August 2003, the FCC approved the sale of KPSW-CA to Una Vez Mas, and in January 2004, the sale was consummated and KPSW-CA became KPDF-CA.

On February 19, 2009, which is the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KPDF-CA will be required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal (called a "flash-cut").

Programming

The station was an affiliate of Home Shopping Español (HSE), likely from sign-on in 1999 until HSE was shut down in 2002. The station is also listed as an ACN affiliate (now Jewelry TV); presumably for the last half of 2002 and the first half 2003. In July 2003, the station became an Azteca America affiliate.

Newscast

In early 2007, KPDF will start a local newscast, which will be produced in Davenport, Iowa by the Independent News Network. The station plans on having at least one reporter on duty in the Phoenix area filing news reports for the new news program. [http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6374560.html?display=News&referra]

ee also

*KQBN-LP and KDFQ-LP, co-owned LPTV stations in the Sun City and Prescott areas carrying Azteca America

External links

* [http://www.uvmtv.com Una Vez Mas]

References

*TVQ|KPDF
* [http://www.stationindex.com/tv/callsign/KPDF-CA Station Index: KPDF-CA]
* [http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/Auth_Files/591294.pdf Station license from the FCC (document always shows current licensee)]
* [http://research.backchannelmedia.com/station/show/KPDFCA Backchannel Media DRTV Research: "KPDF-CA"]
* [http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2004/07/26/story4.html Phoenix Business Journal: "Mexican TV network now in Phoenix" (misidentifies station as channel 43)]
* [http://www.azcentral.com/ent/tv/articles/1111novelas.html AZCentral.com: "World staying tuned to Mexican telenovelas"]
* [http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2006/07/17/story7.html Phoenix Business Journal: "Spanish-language TV outlets boost power, viewers"]