KSMS-TV
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| City | Monterey, California |
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| KDJT-CD | |
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First air date | September 1, 1986 |
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| SIN (1986–1987) | |
Call signmeaning | Salinas, Monterey, Santa Cruz |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 35611 |
| ERP | 15kW |
| HAAT | 707.3 m (2,321 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°45′22.8″N121°30′8.7″W/ 36.756333°N 121.502417°W |
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| Website | noticiasya |
KSMS-TV(channel 67) is atelevision stationlicensed toMonterey, California,United States, serving theMonterey Bayarea as an affiliate of the Spanish-language networkUnivision.It is owned byEntravision CommunicationsalongsideClass AUniMásaffiliateKDJT-CD(channel 33, licensed to bothSalinasand Monterey). KSMS-TV and KDJT-CD share studios on Garden Court south ofMonterey Regional Airportin Monterey; through achannel sharingagreement, the two stations transmit using KDJT-CD's spectrum from an antenna atopFremont Peak.
History[edit]
KSMS-TV was founded by Bill Schuyler on September 1, 1986.[2]In the same year,KCBA,the only television station broadcasting inSpanishin the area, was sold to theAckerley Group.Ackerley decided to make KCBA anEnglish-languagestation affiliated with the then-emerging Fox network, which would have left the Salinas–Monterey–Santa Cruztelevision marketwithout a Spanish-language television station. Knowing that Schuyler had a permit to build a station in the market, a former manager of KCBA encouraged Schuyler to seize the opportunity to create a new station to serve the Hispanic community as an affiliate of the Spanish International Network (the predecessor of Univision).
Schuyler assembled a team of four television professionals and challenge them to develop the new station before KCBA's relaunch. The multiple tasks of creating a new station from the ground up were divided among the four individuals. The group found an old building on Garden Road, which coincidentally had been the first home of KMST-TV (nowKION-TV), which Schuyler had started in 1969 and sold a decade later.[3]After negotiating the lease, the remodeling of the old building started immediately. A studio was built in the first floor, along with a small production area, a sound booth and the master control area. After much searching for a suitable transmitter, one was found and installed along with an antenna, atop of Fremont Peak, overlooking the Salinas Valley. Production and broadcasting equipment was purchased and installed, support personnel hired, a small news team was assembled and the station went on the air on time.
News operation[edit]
KSMS operates its 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts, each running about 30 minutes each, totaling 10 hours per week. KSMS does not broadcast any local news on weekends. KSMS currently competes with the recent addition of rivalKMUV-LP,after KMUV-LP's newscasts were added in September 2009 under its current ownership by theCowles Publishing Company.KSMS also covers national news and news from Latin America. KSMS started its newscasts in November 1987, a few days after Fidel M. Soto joined the station.[4]Soto is currently the longest tenured personality since KSMS's inception.
Technical information[edit]
Subchannels[edit]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 67.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KSMS-HD | Univision |
| 67.3 | 480i | 4:3 | LATV | LATV |
In June 2010, KSMS began broadcasting in16:9HDTV ratio in time for the2010 FIFA World Cup.
Analog-to-digital conversion[edit]
KSMS-TV shut down its analog signal, overUHFchannel 67, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcastsunder federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 31,[6]usingvirtual channel67.
References[edit]
- ^"Facility Technical Data for KSMS-TV".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
- ^Alvarez, Fred (September 3, 1986)."KSMS-Channel 67 begins Spanish-language programming".The Californian.p. 16.RetrievedOctober 19,2020.
- ^Alvarez, Fred (November 21, 1986)."Spanish station has big plans".The Californian.p. 2A.RetrievedOctober 19,2020.
- ^Talentos - Fidel M. Soto(in Spanish)
- ^RabbitEars TV Query for KSMS
- ^"DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on August 29, 2013.RetrievedMarch 24,2012.
External links[edit]
- Official website(in Spanish)