KUKC-LD
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| City | Kansas City, Missouri |
| Channels | |
| Branding | Univision Kansas City |
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| History | |
First air date | 1989[when?] |
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Former channel number(s) |
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| ValueVision / ShopNBC (1991–2005) | |
Call sign meaning | K Univision Kansas City |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 53843 |
| Class | LD |
| ERP | 15 kW |
| HAAT | 259.8 m (852 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°4′24″N 94°29′7″W / 39.07333°N 94.48528°W |
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Public license information | LMS |
| Website | www |
KUKC-LD, virtual and UHF digital channel 20, is a low-powered Univision-affiliated television station licensed to Kansas City, Missouri, United States and serving the Kansas City metropolitan area. The station is owned by Media Vista Group, LLC. KUKC-LD's offices and master control facilities are located on West 31st Street in the Westside South section of Kansas City, Missouri, and its transmitter is located near 27th Street in the city's Western Blue Township section. On cable, the station is available on Charter Spectrum channel 26 and AT&T U-verse channel 48.
KUKC has the distinction of being the only standalone Spanish-language television station in the Kansas City market (KSMO-TV (channel 62) carried MundoMax on its second digital subchannel before that network's shutdown in late November 2016), and is the only Univision network affiliate in the state of Missouri.
History
The station first signed on the air in 1989 as K29CF; it originally operated as an affiliate of the home shopping network ValueVision. To allow full-power outlet KCWB (channel 29, now KCWE) to sign on the air, the station relocated to UHF channel 48 in 1996, and changed its callsign to K48FS. It remained a ValueVision affiliate, however it also carried children's programming during the afternoon hours (such as The Flintstones and Mighty Max).
In 2004, the station was purchased by Equity Media Holdings. Shortly after it was finalized, in January 2005, the station became the market's Univision affiliate; reflecting this, its callsign was changed to KUKC-LP (for "Univision Kansas City").[2] On December 8, 2008, Equity Media Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection;[3] it then began to sell off its television station properties. KUKC was sold to SP Television on June 2, 2009.[4] The sale closed on August 17, 2009.[5] SP Television reached a deal to sell KUKC to Media Vista Group on December 21, 2012.[6]
Digital channel
| Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming[7] |
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| 20.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KUKC | Main KUKC-LD programming / Univision |
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KUKC-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-01-12. Retrieved 2006-09-21.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Larson, Erik (December 8, 2008). "Equity Media, U.S. TV Station Owner, Seeks Bankruptcy". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on October 23, 2012. Retrieved December 9, 2008.
- ^ "APPLICATION FOR CONSENT TO ASSIGN CONSTRUCTION PERMIT OR LICENSE FOR TV OR FM TRANSLATOR STATION OR LOW POWER TELEVISION STATION OR TO TRANSFER CONTROL OF ENTITY HOLDING TV OR FM TRANSLATOR OR LOW POWER TELEVISION STATION". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. June 15, 2009. Retrieved June 22, 2009.
- ^ "Consummation Notice". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. August 19, 2009. Retrieved August 25, 2009.
- ^ Seyler, Dave (January 16, 2013). "Fleet of Univision-affiliated LPTVs sold". Television Business Report. Retrieved January 20, 2013.
- ^ RabbitEars TV Query for KUKC
External links
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