KTEL-LP
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KTEL-LP is a Spanish-language low-power television station
Television station
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 in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque is the largest city in the state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande. The city population was 545,852 as of the 2010 Census and ranks as the 32nd-largest city in the U.S. As...

, broadcasting locally in analog
NTSC
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 on UHF
Ultra high frequency
Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres...

 channel 47 as an affiliate of Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....

. Founded November 28, 1994, the station is owned by Ramar Communications. The station formerly transmitted on UHF channel 53, but has now changed frequencies and broadcasts on channel 47. Transmission on channel 53 ceased in early December 2007. The station call letters have not changed.

Ramar also owns KRTN-LD channel 39 a low-powered digital station licensed in Albuquerque, but also owns KRTN-TV in Durango, Colorado.

Stations

KTEL-LP is currently broadcasting in analog. KTEL and KRTN broadcast in digital.
Station City of license
City of license
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Channels
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First air date ERP
Effective radiated power
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HAAT
Height above average terrain
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Facility ID
Facility ID
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Transmitter Coordinates
KTEL-LP Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque is the largest city in the state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande. The city population was 545,852 as of the 2010 Census and ranks as the 32nd-largest city in the U.S. As...

47 (UHF
Ultra high frequency
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)
1997 68.2 kW 1215 m 55059 35°12′51"N 106°27′4"W
KTEL-TV Carlsbad, New Mexico
Carlsbad, New Mexico
Carlsbad is a city in and the county seat of Eddy County, New Mexico, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 26,138. Carlsbad is the center of the designated micropolitan area of Carlsbad-Artesia, which has a total population of 55,435...

25 (UHF
Ultra high frequency
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)
2000 50 kW 120 m 83707 32°26′9.9"N 104°11′16.5"W
KRTN-TV Durango, Colorado
Durango, Colorado
The City of Durango is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of La Plata County, Colorado, United States. The United States Census Bureau said that the city population was 16,887 in 2010 census.-History:...

33 (UHF
Ultra high frequency
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)
March 29, 2001 50 kW 122 m 82613 37°15′47"N 107°53′47.7"W

In addition, KTEL-LP programming is broadcast on the following low-power repeater stations in New Mexico
New Mexico
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:
  • Las Vegas
    Las Vegas, New Mexico
    Las Vegas is a city in San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. Once two separate municipalities both named Las Vegas, west Las Vegas and east Las Vegas , divided by the Gallinas River, retain distinct characters and separate, rival school districts. The population was 14,565 at the 2000...

     — K28IR
  • Taos
    Taos, New Mexico
    Taos is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico, incorporated in 1934. As of the 2000 census, its population was 4,700. Other nearby communities include Ranchos de Taos, Cañon, Taos Canyon, Ranchitos, and El Prado. The town is close to Taos Pueblo, the Native American...

     — K30HS
  • Santa Fe
    Santa Fe, New Mexico
    Santa Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 67,947 in the 2010 census...

     — K46GY

Digital television

Because they were granted original construction permit
Construction permit
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s after the FCC
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 finalized the DTV
Digital television
Digital television is the transmission of audio and video by digital signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV...

 allotment plan on April 21, 1997 , KTEL-TV and KRTN-TV did not receive companion channels for digital television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...

s. Instead, on or before June 12, 2009, which was the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KTEL-TV and KRTN-TV were required to turn off their analog signal
Analog signal
An analog or analogue signal is any continuous signal for which the time varying feature of the signal is a representation of some other time varying quantity, i.e., analogous to another time varying signal. It differs from a digital signal in terms of small fluctuations in the signal which are...

s and turn on their digital signal
Digital signal
A digital signal is a physical signal that is a representation of a sequence of discrete values , for example of an arbitrary bit stream, or of a digitized analog signal...

s (called a "flash-cut
Flash-cut
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").

KTEL-LP is still running in analog but has a construction permit to flash-cut to digital broadcasting on channel 47.

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