KTFD-TV

KTFD-TV, virtual channel 50 (UHF digital channel 28), is a UniMás-affiliated television station licensed to Denver, Colorado, United States. The station is owned by Entravision Communications, which also operates Boulder-licensed Univision-owned station KCEC (channel 14) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with the Univision Local Media subsidiary of Univision Communications. The two stations share studios on Mile High Stadium West Circle in Denver; KTFD-TV's transmitter is located atop Lookout Mountain, near Golden.

"KDVT" redirects here. For the airport serving Phoenix, Arizona, assigned the ICAO code KDVT, see Phoenix Deer Valley Airport.
KTFD-TV
Denver, Colorado
United States
ChannelsDigital: 28 (UHF)
Virtual: 50 (PSIP)
BrandingUniMás Denver
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
OwnerEntravision Communications
(Entravision Holdings, LLC)
TV: KCEC
Radio: KJMN, KMXA, KXPK
History
First air date
February 22, 1996 (1996-02-22)
Former call signs
  • KTVJ (1996–2003)
  • KTFD-DT (2009–2017)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 14 (UHF, 1996–2009)
  • Digital:
  • 15 (UHF, until 2017)
  • 26 (UHF, 2017–2019)
  • Virtual:
  • 14 (PSIP, until 2017)
  • Translator:
    KDVT-LP 36 (UHF) Denver
Call sign meaning
TeleFutura Denver
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID24514
ERP400 kW
HAAT236 m (774 ft)
Transmitter coordinates39°43′58″N 105°14′10″W
Links
Public license information
Profile
[http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?list=0&facid=24514 24514 LMS]
Websitewww.somosnoticiascolorado.com/unimas

History

The station first signed on the air on February 22, 1996 as KTVJ. Founded by Roberts Broadcasting, it originally operated as an independent station. In January 2003, Roberts sold the station to Univision Communications. Two months later on March 10, 2003, the station changed its call sign to KTFD-TV (which was modified to KTFD-DT on June 23, 2009, in correspondence with the callsign modifications to the "-DT" suffix applied by all Univision-owned stations following the digital television transition), and became an owned-and-operated station of Univision's secondary network TeleFutura.

KTFD's signal was formerly relayed on low-power analog translator station KDVT-LP (channel 36) in Denver, which was owned by Entravision Communications. The translator was never converted to digital, and its license was canceled on September 13, 2017.[1]

On December 4, 2017, as part of a channel swap made by Entravision Communications, KTFD and sister station KCEC swapped channel numbers, with KTFD moving to digital channel 26 and virtual channel 50.

On January 9, 2019, KTFD completed the migration to digital channel 28 from digital 26 as part of the FCC spectrum auction repack.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[2]
50.11080i16:9KTFDMain KTFD-TV programming / UniMás
50.2480i4:3LATVLATV
50.3StadiumStadium[3]

Analog-to-digital conversion

KTFD-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 14, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 15.[4] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 14.

References
  1. https://fccdata.org/?facid=24516&appid=595256&i=1
  2. RabbitEars TV Query for KTFD
  3. "Where to watch stadium" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-01-01.
  4. "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
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