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KUNP, UHF digital channel 16, is a Univision-affiliated television station serving Portland, Oregon, United States, and that is licensed to La Grande. The station also serves the Bend and Salem, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, metropolitan areas. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a duopoly with ABC affiliate KATU (channel 2). The two stations share studios and offices located in northeastern Portland. KUNP's transmitter is located near Cove. Because of the location of its transmitter facilities, KUNP relies on a translator station to relay its signal: KUNP-LD (UHF channel 47) in Portland, operating with an effective radiated power of 15 kilowatts. It also previously relayed its signal via KABH-LP (UHF channel 15) in Bend, operating with an effective radiated power of 84 kilowatts. KABH was jointly owned by (WatchTV, Inc. ) alongside its crosstown Portland HSN affiliate KORK-CA, but was operated by Sinclair under a local marketing agreement. KABH's license was cancelled by the FCC on March 19, 2015 for failure to file a license renewal application. It also relies on cable and satellite coverage across Western and Central Oregon. ==History== The station was founded on August 6, 1999, and formally signed on the air in December 2001 as KBPD; it changed its call letters to KPOU on May 14, 2002. The call letters changed again to the current KUNP on December 15, 2006. KABH-LP was founded on June 1, 1992 as K15DO, but did not take to the air until November 3, 1993. KUNP was originally owned by Equity Broadcasting Corporation; it was acquired by Fisher Communications on November 3, 2006, along with KUNS-TV in Seattle. Fisher would associate the two stations with the ABC affiliates it already owned in those markets, KATU and KOMO-TV. At one point, KUNP also had KKEI-CA as another translator prior to the Fisher acquisition. That station now serves Portland as a Telemundo affiliate. That station is also owned by WatchTV, Inc., owner of the now-defunct KABH-LP. On August 21, 2012, Fisher Communications signed an affiliation agreement with MundoFox, a Spanish-language competitor to Univision that was owned as a joint venture between Fox International Channels and Colombian broadcaster RCN TV, for KUNP and Seattle sister station KUNS to be carried on both stations as digital subchannels starting in late September.〔(Fisher Adds MundoFox In Seattle, Portland ), ''TVNewsCheck'', August 21, 2012.〕 On April 11, 2013, Fisher announced that it would sell its television and radio station properties, including KUNP, to the Sinclair Broadcast Group. The deal was completed on August 8, 2013. MundoFox would eventually rebrand as MundoMax in 2015. 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「KUNP」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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