KUNP
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| La Grande, Oregon | |
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| Branding | Univision Portland |
| Channels | Digital: 16 (UHF) |
| Translators | KUNP-LP 47 Portland KABH-CA 15 Bend |
| Affiliations | Univision |
| Owner | Fisher Communications, Inc. (Fisher Radio Regional Group) |
| Founded | August 6, 1999 |
| First air date | December 2001 |
| Call letters' meaning | UNivision Portland |
| Sister station(s) | KATU |
| Former callsigns | KBPD (2001-2002) KPOU (2002-2006) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 16 (UHF, 2001-2009) |
| Transmitter power | 50 kW |
| Height | 773 m |
| Facility ID | 81447 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 45°18′35″N 117°43′57″W / 45.30972°N 117.7325°W |
| Website | www.kunptv.com |
KUNP "Univision Portland" is a full-power broadcast television in the Pacific Northwestern United States. As an affiliate of the Univision Spanish television network, the station serves the greater Portland and Bend, Oregon metropolitan areas. The station also serves Salem and Vancouver, Washington.
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[edit] Technical Information
The station is licensed to the northeastern Oregon town of La Grande, Oregon and broadcasts in digital on UHF channel 16. It operates with an Effective Radiated Power of 50 kilowatts. Because of its physical geographical location of its facilities and transmitters, KUNP relies on its two translators, KUNP-LP, licensed to Portland and broadcasts on UHF channel 47, operating with an ERP of 93.6 kilowatts and KABH-CA, licensed to Bend and broadcasts on UHF channel 15, operating with an ERP of 84 kilowatts. That station serves the greater Bend area. Both KUNP and KUNP-LP are owned and operated by Fisher Communications. As for KABH, the station is jointly owned by WatchTV, Inc. and its crosstown Portland HSN affiliate station KORK-CA, but is operated by Fisher under a Local Marketing Agreement. It also relies on cable and satellite coverage across Western and Central Oregon.
[edit] History
The station was founded on August 6, 1999. It is unknown at this time whether or not the station actually took to the air at the time. But when it did began broadcasting, it began with the KBPD call letters, it would later begin use of the KPOU callsign on May 14, 2002. The call letters changed again—this time to the current KUNP on December 15, 2006. KABH was founded on June 1, 1992 as K15DO but didn't take to the air until November 3, 1993.
It was formerly owned by Equity Broadcasting until the station was acquired by Fisher Communications on November 3, 2006 along with KUNS-TV in Seattle, Washington. Fisher would associate the two stations with its already owned ABC affiliates KATU and KOMO-TV.
At one point, KUNP also had KKEI-CA as another translator prior to the Fisher acquisition. That station now serves Portland as a Telemundo affiliate. Ironically enough, that station is also owned by WatchTV, Inc.
[edit] Availability on Cable and Satellite
"Must-carry" regulations imposed by the FCC require most cable television systems across northwest Oregon to carry KUNP on their lineups. But even with the station's affiliation with Univision, the station is not available on all cable systems, as many of these cable systems are still under carriage agreements for the national cable feed for the network, which allows them control of several minutes throughout the day of local commercial time that would not be available if they instead carried KUNP; Equity traditionally depended completely on must-carry to bring their stations to cable systems and the same was the case with KUNP before the sale of the station to Fisher. Some do not carry the network at all due to a low Spanish-speaking population in their local areas. It is likely in the future that retransmission consent agreements will be made which fold in required carriage of KUNS with that of KATU in order to expand the station's carriage.
[edit] Logos
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KUNP's online logo as of 2007.
[edit] Digital Switchover
Since KUNP was not on-air by the April 21, 1997 deadline for the FCC's DTV allotment plan, the station was not granted a companion digital signal. Therefore, on or before June 12, 2009, the station was required to turn off its analog signal and turn on a new digital signal—which also uses channel 16. This is called a "flash-cut". KUNP-LP and KABH have not yet filed their digital conversions since low-power stations are awaiting FCC rules and procedures. KABH will relocate on channel 17.[1]
[edit] External links
- KUNP-TV, Portland, Oregon
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KUNP
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KABH-CA
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KUNP-TV
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