KWEX-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KWEX-TV
city =
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding = Univision 41
analog = 41 (UHF)
digital = 39 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = Univision
network =
founded =
airdate = June 10, 1955
location = San Antonio, Texas
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns = KCOR-TV (1955-1961)
KUAL-TV (1961-1962)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Univision Communications, Inc.
licensee = KWEX License Partnership, LP
sister_stations = KNIC-TV
former_affiliations = Spanish independent (1955-1962)
SIN (1962-1987)
effective_radiated_power = 5000 kW (analog)
400 kW (digital)
HAAT = 432 m (analog)
414 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 35881
coordinates = coord|29|17|39.4|N|98|15|31.8|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.univision.com/content/channel.jhtml?chid=9711&schid=9712 Univision 41]

KWEX-TV is the local Univisión owned and operated station in San Antonio, Texas. The station is the first commercially-based Spanish language television station in the United States.

History

KWEX-TV channel 41 began as KCOR-TV in 1955, named after its radio sister station, which itself was named for Raoul "COR"tez, the owner and pioneer of the first full time spanish language radio and television stations in the United States. KWEX-TV was also the first UHF channel in south Texas. In 1961, after years of losing money with KCOR-TV, Mr. Cortez sold the station to his son-in-law, Emilio Nicolas, Sr., Renold Anselmo, Emilio Azcarraga Vidaurreta, Julian Kaufman and Frank Fouce, Sr. Emilio Nicolas, Sr. worked side by side with Cortez since the stations inception, not only running the station, but producing many of its variety shows. Nicolas made the station a financial success and in 1962 Nicolas and his partners built their second station in Los Angeles, KMEX-TV channel 34. Thus the first Spanish language television network began to form.

Newscasts

* Noticias 41 Univision a las 5 PM (Mondays thru Fridays 5:00 PM-5:30 PM)
* Noticias 41 Univision Solo a las Diez (Mondays thru Fridays 10:00 PM-10:30 PM)
* Noticias 41 Univision Fin de Semana (Saturdays and Sundays 5:00 PM-5:30 PM & 10:00 PM-10:30 PM)

News Team

Anchors
* Jorge Nunez:Weekday Evening Anchor/Reporter
* Brenda Jimenez:Weekday Evening Anchor/Reporter
* Antonio Guillen:Reporter
* Monica Navarro:Weekend Anchor/Reporter
* Arantxa Loizaga:Reporter
* Anabel Monge:Reporter

Weather
*Keyhla Calderon Lugo:Weekday Weather Anchor/Reporter
*Monica Yoas: Meteorologist, Weekend Weather Anchor/Reporter

Sports
*Jaime Becerril:Sports Anchor/Accion Deportiva Extra Sunday nights at 10:15P.M

External links

* [http://www.univision.com/content/channel.jhtml?chid=9711&schid=9712 Univision 41 website]
* [http://www.marketingymedios.com/marketingymedios/market_profile/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000902243 Brief history]
* [http://www.sintv.org/ History of the Spanish International Network]
*TVQ|KWEX
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