KUVM-CA

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KUVM-CA
city = Dewalt, Texas
station_
station_slogan = |Mas Cerca De Ti (more closer to you) station_branding = Azteca America Houston: Canal 34| analog = 34 (UHF)
digital = 40 (UHF) (CP)
affiliations = Azteca America
founded = August 6 1980
location = Greater Houston
callsign_meaning = K Una Vez Mas
former_callsigns = KVIT-LP (2000-2007)
K53CZ (1989-2000)
K55CP (1980-1989)
owner = Una Vez Mas Holdings, LLC
licensee = Club Communications
former_affiliations = Almavision (to June 2006)
Home Shopping Network (6/2006-6/2007)
effective_radiated_power = 40 kW (analog)
to be 4 kW (digital)
class = Class A
website = | [http://www.almavision.com.com almavision.com]

KUVM-CA is a low-power Class A television station in the Houston area, licensed to Dewalt, Texas, and owned and operated by Una Vez Mas Holdings, LLC. Affiliated with Azteca America, it broadcasts in analog on UHF channel 34 and has a construction permit to build digital facilities on UHF channel 40.

History

The station began as a construction permit in Victoria, Texas, granted to Community Television of Victoria. Planned as a translator of San Antonio television station KWEX-TV, to broadcast on UHF channel 25, [cite web| url=http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/comment.pl?Application_id=19864&File_number=BPTT-19800428IM| title=K55CP original construction permit details| publisher=Federal Communications Commission.| accessdate=2007-05-23] the new station was almost immediately displaced by new full-service station KAVU-TV. [cite web| url=http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=25816| title=KAVU original construction permit summary| publisher=Federal Communications Commission.| accessdate=2007-05-23] It was instead built on UHF channel 55 and was licensed as K55CP on November 30 1981. Community Television sold the station to Number 1 TV, Inc. on April 13 1983, but re-acquired the station on September 19 1985. In December 1981, the station had applied to move to channel 53; the FCC granted the permit on June 30 1988 and the station was licensed as K53CZ, channel 53, on December 29 1989.

In 2000, the station adopted the calls KVIT-LP. In the mid-2000s, the station was relocated to DeWalt, a suburb of Houston. The KVIT calls moved with the station, and remained until May 16, 2007, when its calls were changed to KUVM-CA.

KUVM was an Almavision affiliate until June 2006, when the station left the air. The station resumed broadcasting in April 2007, airing a test pattern. On July 1 2007, KUVM replaced KAZH as the Azteca America affiliate for Houston; [cite news| url=http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2007/05/07/daily50.html| title=Azteca America finds new Houston home| publisher=Houston Business Journal| date=2007-05-09| accessdate=2007-05-23] [cite news| url=http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-09-2007/0004584682&EDATE=| title=New Azteca America Affiliated Station in Houston to Air on July 1, 2007| publisher=PRNewswire| date=2007-05-09| accessdate=2007-05-23] one week before the switchover, KUVM aired a promo loop, promoting the station as the new home for Azteca America. [cite news| url=http://www.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,74474.0.html| title=Houston's Channel 34 preps for Azteca move| publisher=Radio-Info| date=2007-06-23| accessdate=2007-06-25] However, unlike KAZH, whose signal covers almost the entire market, KUVM's signal covers only the immediate city of Houston, from a directional antenna at Missouri City. The station is now carried on Comcast's Houston cable system on digital cable channel 74 [cite news| url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/4929128.html| title=Spanish stations splitting
publisher=Houston Chronicle| date=2007-06-28| accessdate=2007-07-02] , providing reception outside of the signal footprint.

References

External links

*TVQ|KUVM-CA