KWEX-DT

KWEX-DT

San Antonio, Texas
Branding	Univision 41
Channels	Digital: 41 (UHF) Virtual: 41 (PSIP)
Subchannels	41.1 Univision HD
Affiliations	Univision
Owner	Univision Communications, Inc. (KWEX License Partnership, LP)
First air date	June 10, 1955
Sister station(s)	KNIC-DT
Former callsigns	KCOR-TV (1955-1961) KUAL-TV (1961-1962) KWEX (1962-1979) KWEX-TV (1979-2009)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 41 (UHF, 1955-2009) Digital: 39 (UHF, until 2009)
Former affiliations	Spanish independent (1955-1962) SIN (1962-1987)
Transmitter power	580 kW
Height	432 m
Facility ID	35881
Transmitter coordinates	29°17′39.4″N 98°15′31.8″W
Website	Univision 41

KWEX-DT, channel 41, 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 began as KCOR-TV in 1955, named after its radio sister station, which itself was named for Raoul CORtez, the owner and pioneer of the first full-time Spanish-language radio and television stations in the United States by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). 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.

News operation

Newscasts

Weeknights

• Noticias 41 Univision a las 5 p.m. - 5–5:30 p.m.
• Noticias 41 Univision Solo a las Diez - 10–10:30 p.m.

Weekends

• Noticias 41 Univision Fin de Semana a las 5 p.m. - 5–5:30 p.m.
• Noticias 41 Univision Fin de Semana a las Diez - 10–10:30 p.m.

News team

Anchors

• Brenda Jimenez - weeknights at 5 p.m.; also reporter
• Arantxa Loizaga - weeknights at 10 p.m.; also reporter
• Anabel Monge - weekends at 5 and 10 p.m.; also weeknight reporter
• Jorge Nuñez - weeknights at 5 and 10 p.m.; also reporter

Weather

• Keyhla Calderon Lugo - lead weather anchor; weeknights at 5 and 10 p.m., also reporter
• Monica Yoas - meteorologist; weekends at 5 and 10 p.m., also reporter

Sports

• Rafael Carderera - sports anchor; nightly at 5 and 10 p.m.

Reporters

• Antonio Guillen - general assignment reporter
• Monica Navarro - health reporter

External links

• Univision 41 website
• Brief history
• History of the Spanish International Network
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KWEX-DT
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KWEX-TV