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K25DM is a low-powered broadcast television station located in Phoenix, Arizona. It transmits on Channel 25 from Shaw Butte in North Phoenix, and currently airs programs from the Home Shopping Network, but will soon become a Spanish-language family-entertainment station under new owners Latin America Broadcasting. K25DM has a repeater KVPA-LP on channel 42, also in Phoenix.

History

K25DM signed on the air in 1990 as a full time repeater of Channel America, which aired old movies and '50s TV shows in the public domain as well as cheaply-acquired syndicated programming such as Hot Seat with Wally George. Channel America's programming lineup was never stable, and by the summer of 1993, K25DM piped in the MuchMusic network from Canada.

Not too long after adding MuchMusic, K25DM used its airwaves to distribute the Playboy Channel to those willing to subscribe during the evening hours using old over-the-air subscription television equipment to scramble it. With the channel lacking cable television distribution, this did not go over well, and by November 1993, they were broadcasting the now-defunct Video Catalog Channel, a Tennessee-based television auction network.

From then on, K25DM seemed to change shopping services every year or two from Video Catalog Channel, to Panda America Shopping Network (1995), followed by ACN (1997), ValueVision/ShopNBC (1999), and finally HSN (2001).

Its original owners finally sold the station to a new Spanish-Language broadcast group called Latin America Broadcasting in 2005. At this time, it still airs HSN programming, but that will soon change to a new Spanish-language network called "LAT TV."

External links

• LAT TV
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