KTVS-LD is a low-power 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...

 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 digital

ATSC

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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 36 as an independent broadcaster

Independent station

An independent station is in the category of television terminology used to describe a television station broadcasting in the United States or Canada that is not affiliated with any television network....

. Founded October 31, 1986, the station is owned by Alpha Omega Broadcasting.

KTVS airs mostly old shows and movies and religious programs. Regional sports programming had also once aired on KTVS. This channel is not carried on local cable systems.

History

This station began broadcasting in 1988 as K59DB (often identified as KDB) on channel 59. It was the first 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....

 affiliate in the area. By 1997 KTEL-LP

KTEL-LP

KTEL-LP is a Spanish-language low-power television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 47 as an affiliate of Telemundo. Founded November 28, 1994, the station is owned by Ramar Communications. The station formerly transmitted on UHF channel 53, but has...

 had picked up the Telemundo affiliation. KDB had continued as a Spanish-language independent airing mostly music videos and sports programs. By 1999, Continental Broadcasting had sold KDB along with one FM and two AM radio stations to Clear Channel

Clear channel

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. The format continued until late 2000 when Clear Channel had shut down KDB. The station was later sold to Alpha-Omega Broadcasting. In 2002 KDB 59 went back on the air simulcasting programming from KAZQ-TV

KAZQ

KAZQ is a full-service television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, affiliated with religious broadcasting networks LeSEA and 3ABN. Owned by Alpha Omega Broadcasting, the station broadcasts locally in digital on UHF channel 17 on a non-commercial educational license...

 32 and in 2003 it would move to channel 36 as KTVS-LP. By October it would begin airing programming separate from KAZQ.

Digital TV

KTVS was viewed on KAZQ-DT subchannel 32.3 for a while. KTVS had "flash cut" to digital on channel 36 at 15kW in August 2009.

Digital Broadcast

Channel	Programming
36.1	Main Programming
36.2	Almavision Almavision Almavision is an American television network broadcasting Christian programming in Spanish with affiliates across North and Central America. The network is carried via satellite on Echostar and SatMex 5, their slogan is "Television Cristiana...a la manera de Dios. " Almavision is an American...

External links

• KTVS official webpage