KUQI

This article is about the television station. For the association football player, see Shefki Kuqi.

KUQI

Corpus Christi, Texas
Branding	KUQI Fox 38 Corpus Christi (general) Fox 38 News (news)
Slogan	So Fox 38 (general) The Most Powerful Name in Local News (news)
Channels	Digital: 38 (UHF)
Affiliations	Fox RTV (DT2)
Owner	High Maintenance Broadcasting, LLC
First air date	January 15, 2008
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 38 (UHF, 2008-2009)
Former affiliations	independent (1/15/08-2/3/08)
Transmitter power	50 kW
Height	247 m
Facility ID	82910
Transmitter coordinates	27°45′31.8″N 97°36′26.3″W
Website	www.kuqitv.com

KUQI is a full-power broadcast television station in the Corpus Christi, Texas market. It airs digitally over UHF channel 38. It is the Fox affiliate for the area, replacing the affiliation previously held by low-power station K47DF. The station began operating on January 15, 2008 as an independent station; it assumed the Fox affiliation February 4, 2008, the day after Super Bowl XLII.

KUQI does not have a news department, but it simulcasts the 9 o'clock news from KRIV in Houston.

Ownership

KUQI is owned by Deidre Gillis, Lori Hoffmann and Vanisha Mallory of High Maintenance Broadcasting.

Transmission

Because KUQI is a high-power television station, its signal covers the Corpus Christi, Texas metropolitan area, as well as outlying towns as far as Raymondville and George West. The coverage area is far greater than that of K47DF. However, reception of KUQI in nearby towns, such as Kingsville and Bishop, was proven difficult the first few weeks on the air. The reason for this lack of signal is currently unknown and it has been resloved; as it is a new station, technical problems have been identified and the station's owners will address them accordingly.

In addition, most local cable companies have included KUQI in their cable line-up.

As of October 1, KUQI is broadcating Fox programming in HD and has plans to carry Mexicanal on 38.2

Digital television

Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997 [1], the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, on June 12, 2009 KUQI flash-cut its broadcasts from analog to digital.

Newscast

KUQI Tonight powered by Fox 26 (9 to 10 p.m.; simulcast of KRIV's 9 p.m. newscast)
Weeknights

• Anchors:
  • Melinda Spaulding
  • Don Teague
• Weather:
  • Dr. Jim Siebert
• Sports:
  • Mark Berman

Weekends

• Anchors: *Weekend Anchors Alternate under a single anchor format*
  • Ford Atkinson
  • Damali Keith
• Weather:
  • John Dawson
• Sports:
  • Keith Calkins

External links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for KUQI
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KUQI-TV
• Caller-Times: "Fox leaving KDF starting early next month"