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KFPH-DT, virtual and UHF digital channel 13, is a UniMás owned-and-operated television station located in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. The station is owned by Univision Communications, as part of a duopoly with Phoenix-based Univision owned-and-operated station KTVW-DT (channel 33). The two stations share studio facilities located on 30th Street in southern Phoenix, and its transmitter is located atop South Mountain in Phoenix. As KFPH's broadcasting radius does not reach most of the Phoenix metropolitan area, the station's programming is simulcast on Class A low-power translator station (KFPH-CD ) (UHF digital channel 35) in Phoenix. It is also simulcast over KTVW-DT's second digital subchannel in order to reach the entire market; this signal can be seen on UHF channel 33.2 from a transmitter located atop South Mountain on the south side of Phoenix. In addition, the station is also relayed on translator stations (K16FB ) (channel 16) in Globe/Miami, Arizona and (K21GC ) (channel 21) in Safford. KFPH-TV and KFPH-CD are uniformly branded as "UniMás 35", after the Phoenix translator. On cable, KFPH is carried on Cox Communications channel 54, and is also carried by cable providers in Flagstaff, Sedona and Cottonwood. ==History== The original construction permit to build a station in Flagstaff on VHF channel 13 was granted to Minority Television of Flagstaff, Inc., on October 25, 1984. The station was to transmit from Mount Elden, located north of the city. However, the next year, the permit was sold to Michael C. Gelfand, M.D., and Del Ray Television Company, Inc.; after several permit extensions and expired permits, Del Ray licensed the station on March 11, 1992, under the call letters KKTM. The station's original transmitter was located on Mormon Mountain, about 20 miles (30 km) south of Flagstaff, having been granted permission to move there in 1989. The station first signed on the air on January 1, 1992 operating as an independent station; at one point, the station produced its own local newscast aimed at the Flagstaff area, although the program was produced on a very low budget and production standards that rivaled Public-access television. The station became a charter affiliate of The WB on January 11, 1995 and in correspondence, changed its call letters to KWBF. Channel 13 of Flagstaff, Inc. (part of Christian Networks, Inc.), acquired the station in 1996, with financing assistance from Paxson Communications (now Ion Media Networks). Channel 13 Flagstaff, Inc. also entered into a time brokerage agreement with Paxson Communications, in which the latter company would provide programming for the station; this agreement included an option for Paxson to acquire the station outright. Paxson exercised that option several months later, and bought the station in July 1996; KWBF then became an affiliate of Paxson's Infomail Television Network (inTV) infomercial service. On August 31, 1998, the station became a charter affiliate of Pax TV (now Ion Television) and the station's call letters were changed to KBPX. KBPX was originally to serve as the market's full-power Pax outlet, with its programming simulcast over a low-power repeater in Phoenix; in 2001, Paxson Communications built and signed on KPPX-TV (channel 51) in Tolleson, and moved Pax TV's programming there. The company sold KBPX to the Equity Broadcasting Corporation, which immediately changed the call letters to KDUO and affiliated the station with the home shopping service America's Collectibles Network (now Jewelry Television). The station was purchased by Univision Communications in November 2001, it then became a charter station of Univision's new secondary network TeleFutura (which was renamed UniMás in January 2013), when it launched on January 14, 2002; its call letters were then changed to KFPH (a "-TV" suffix was added to the callsign in 2004, which was changed to a "-DT" suffix in 2009, which the station elected to retain for its digital signal). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KFPH-DT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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