KFPH-DT

KFPH-DT

Flagstaff–Phoenix, Arizona United States
City	Flagstaff, Arizona
Channels	Digital:13 (VHF) Virtual:13
Branding	UniMás Arizona
Programming
Affiliations	13.1:UniMás 13.2:Univision for others, see§ Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	TelevisaUnivision (UniMas Partnership of Flagstaff)
Sister stations	KTVW-DT,KHOT-FM,KOMR
History
First air date	December 31, 1991(1991-12-31)
Former call signs	KKTM (1992–1995) KWBF (1995–1998) KBPX (1998–2001) KDUO (2001–2002) KFPH (2002–2003) KFPH-TV (2004–2009)
Former channel number(s)	Analog:13 (VHF, 1992–2008) Digital:27 (UHF,2002–2009)
Former affiliations	Independent(1992–1995) The WB(1995–1996) inTV (1996–1998) Pax TV(1998–2001) ACN(2001–2002)
Call signmeaning	"Telefutura Phoenix"
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	41517
ERP	33kW
HAAT	475.5 m (1,560 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	34°58′5.8″N111°30′36.1″W
Translator(s)	KTVW-DT33.2/35.1 (UHF) Phoenix
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	UniMás

KFPH-DT(channel 13), brandedUniMás Arizona,is atelevision stationlicensed toFlagstaff, Arizona,United States, broadcasting the Spanish-languageUniMásnetwork to northern and central Arizona. It isowned and operatedbyTelevisaUnivisionalongsidePhoenix-basedUnivisionoutletKTVW-DT(channel 33). In Flagstaff, Univision maintains offices on Fourth Street, though most operations are run from its Phoenix studios. The KFPH-DT transmitter is located atop Mormon Mountain, about 20 miles (32 km) south of Flagstaff in theCoconino National Forest.

In Phoenix, KFPH-DT is rebroadcast throughKFPH-CD(channel 35). That station converted to anATSC 3.0station in 2018, though its subchannels were distributed onto other Phoenix stations for transmission. The UniMás subchannel is carried on KTVW-DT's transmitter.

Channel 13 in Flagstaff received a construction permit in October 1984, but seven years and a sale passed before the station began broadcasting as KKTM on December 31, 1991. KKTM operated as a localindependent stationfor the Flagstaff area and became an affiliate ofThe WBin 1995 as KWBF. However, the sale of the station to an affiliate ofPaxson Communications Corporationin 1996 heralded its conversion to infomercial programming and, beginning in 1998, the company's newPaxtelevision network as KBPX. KBPX was paired with a translator to provide the network in Phoenix untilKPPX-TV(channel 51) was completed in 1999. Two years later, Pax sold KBPX toEquity Broadcasting Corporation,which briefly programmed home shopping programming until Univision purchased the station as part of its then-new Telefutura network, today's UniMás.

History

In 1984, two groups—Minority Television of Flagstaff and Ware Communications—filed forconstruction permitsto build a new television station on channel 13 in Flagstaff.Minority Television was granted the construction permit on October 27, and the station took the call sign KKTM. A year later, Michael Gelfand, a doctor fromBethesda, Maryland,acquired the construction permit from Minority Television principal Katherine T. Mansfield.

Construction work began in August 1991.Meanwhile, to make way for KKTM to begin testing, a translator for Phoenix stationKTSP-TVmoved to the UHF band.Studio space was also secured in the Greenlaw Village shopping center on Fourth Street.

KKTM began broadcasting at half power from Mormon Mountain on December 31, 1991. Most of its programming came from two services primarily used by low-power stations,Channel Americaand Main Street TV.The station also produced several local programs, including a newscast and a country music show taped at Flagstaff's Redwood Inn.The newscast ceased production in June 1994.

KKTM became a charter affiliate ofThe WBwhen it launched on January 11, 1995, and changed its call sign to KWBF.However, Gelfand decided he did not have sufficient resources to support the station economically; in September, he agreed to sell KWBF for $1.4 million to Christian Network, Inc., an affiliated company toPaxson Communications Corporationthat had been co-founded byBud Paxson.Christian Network then transferred its stations to Paxson Communications in May 1996.

Paxson Communications launched itsPax TVnetwork on August 31, 1998. The station began airing the new service and was given the new call sign of KBPX; the network's intended Phoenix station,KPPX-TV,was not ready to launch.However, a translator on channel 67 rebroadcast the station in Phoenix.KPPX-TV ultimately debuted on February 15, 1999.

In March 2001, Paxson Communications sold two of its stations—KBPX andWPXSinMount Vernon, Illinois—toEquity Broadcasting CorporationofLittle Rock, Arkansas,for $17.75 million; Paxson retained the KBPX call letters.The call sign was changed to KDUO on June 21, 2001, and the station switched to broadcasting thehome shoppingservice America's Collectibles Network (nowJewelry Television). Equity also owned KOND-LP (channel 35), a Phoenix low-power station that began broadcasting KDUO's programming. Nearly immediately, Equity sold KDUO along withKBGFinDouglas, Arizona,and three low-power TV stations to Univision for $19.1 million in August.The newly acquired stations became Telefutura's stations in Arizona, with KDUO changing call signs to KFPH.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal ismultiplexed:

Subchannels of KFPH-DT

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
13.1	720p	16:9	KFPH-DT	Main KFPH-DT programming /UniMás
13.2			KTVW-HD	Univision(KTVW-DT)
13.3	480i	4:3	getTV	Get
13.4			MYSTERY	Ion Mystery

Simulcast of subchannels of another station

Analog-to-digital conversion

KFPH-TV shut down its analog signal, overVHFchannel 13, on September 18, 2008, citing a lack of space at its transmitter site to accommodate the analog transmitter, its digital channel 27 transmitter, and the new digital channel 13 transmitter; additionally, winter weather conditions rendered it impossible to perform work during the last 90 days before the conclusion of the digital transition.The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transitionUHFchannel 27 to VHF channel 13.