KUVE-DT

KUVE-DT

Green Valley / Tucson, Arizona United States
City	Green Valley
Branding	Univision Arizona UniMás Arizona (DT2)
Channels	Digital: 46 (UHF) & KFTU-DT 36.2 (UHF) Virtual: 46 (PSIP) & 3.2 (PSIP)
Subchannels	46.1 Univision 46.2 UniMás 46.3 getTV 46.4 Escape
Translators	KUVE-CD 42 (UHF) Tucson
Affiliations	Univision (O&O) (2003–present)
Owner	Univision Communications, Inc. (Univision Television Group, Inc.)
First air date	January 5, 2001 (2001-01-05)
Sister station(s)	KFTU-DT
Former callsigns	KXGR (2001-2003)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 46 (UHF, 2001–2008) Digital: 47 (UHF, until 2009)
Former affiliations	Pax TV (2001–2003)
Transmitter power	70.8 kW 5 kW (KFTU-DT2)
Height	1113 m 685 m (KFTU-DT2)
Facility ID	63927 81441 (KFTU-DT2)
Transmitter coordinates	32°24′54.8″N 110°42′55.9″W / 32.415222°N 110.715528°W / 32.415222; -110.715528 31°28′55″N 109°57′34″W / 31.48194°N 109.95944°W / 31.48194; -109.95944 (KFTU-DT2)
Licensing authority	FCC
Public license information:	Profile CDBS

KUVE-DT, virtual and UHF digital channel 46, is a Univision owned-and-operated television station serving Tucson, Arizona, United States, that is licensed to Green Valley. Owned by Univision Communications, the station is operated as part of a duopoly with Douglas-licensed UniMás owned-and-operated station KFTU-DT (channel 3) the station maintains transmitter facilities located atop Mount Bigelow. KUVE has one low-power Class A translator station: KUVE-CD (virtual and UHF digital channel 42), licensed to Tucson, that maintains transmitter facilities located atop the Tucson Mountains. KUVE-CD serves the northwest parts of the metropolitan area shielded from the primary station by Mount Lemmon. KUVE-DT is also rebroadcast on the second digital subchannel of KFTU-DT, which maintains transmitter facilities located on Juniper Flats Road northwest of Bisbee.

History

On October 31, 1988, the FCC granted a permit to Sungilt Corporation to construct a full-service television station on UHF channel 46 to serve Green Valley and surrounding area. The station at first was identified by its application ID, 830311KN, and did not receive call letters until nearly two years later, in September 1990, when it took the call letters KXGR. After twelve years, five expired construction permits and two transmitter location changes, the station applied for its license on December 21, 2000 and signed on as a Pax TV affiliate on January 5, 2001, pursuant to Program Test Authority. However, at the completion of the first day of program testing, the station's transmitter failed, and it was unable to return to the airwaves until June 1, and then, only at low power for a minimum of two hours a day. After ten days, the station was again forced to go dark, and after being threatened with license cancellation, KXGR advised the FCC on November 28, 2001 that they had resumed program testing.^[1] The station was finally licensed on June 2, 2003.

In January 2002, shortly after resuming program testing, Sungilt agreed to sell the station to Univision, which had been serving Tucson with KUVE-LP, a low-power translator of Phoenix station KTVW-TV. The sale was approved by the FCC in September 2003 and completed in November. The new owners changed the station's call sign to KUVE-TV, to match the low-power station's calls.

Former logo, used until December 31, 2012.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station digital channel is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion

KUVE discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 46, on September 18, 2008, citing a lack of space at its transmitter site to accommodate the analog transmitter, its an issue that cannot be rectified as the transmitter building lies on United States Forest Service land; additionally, winter weather conditions rendered it impossible to perform work after October.^[3] The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 47 to channel 46.

Programming

KUVE-DT broadcasts an identical schedule to KTVW, including their newscast, Noticias 33, although the stations maintain separate broadcast facilities. However, a 3-hour overnight segment of locally-produced programming is seen on KUVE on Monday mornings, to comply with KUVE-CD's Class A license.^[4]

References

External links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for KUVE-DT
• Query TV Fool's coverage map for KUVE-DT
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KUVE-CD
• Query TV Fool's coverage map for KUVE-CD
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KUVE-DT