{{Short description|Television station in Phoenix, Arizona}} {{Redirect|KTVW|the former KTVW in Tacoma, Washington|KCPQ}}{{Distinguish|KWTV-DT|WKTV|WTVK}}{{more citations needed|date=April 2009}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox television station | callsign = KTVW-DT | city = | logo = KTVW Univision AZ 2026.svg | logo_size = 220px | branding = {{ubl|{{lang|es|italic=no|Univision Arizona}}|{{lang|es|italic=no|UniMás Arizona}} (33.2)|{{lang|es|Noticias N+ Univision Arizona}} (newscasts)}} | digital = 33 (UHF) | virtual = 33 | translators = {{ubl|KFPH-DT 13.2 Flagstaff|''for others, see {{section link||Translators}}''}} | affiliations = {{ubl|'''33.1:''' Univision|'''33.2:''' UniMás|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}} | owner = TelevisaUnivision | licensee = KTVW License Partnership, G.P. | location = Phoenix, Arizona | country = United States | airdate = {{start date|1979|9|2}} | last_airdate = | callsign_meaning = | sister_stations = KFPH-DT, KHOT-FM, KOMR, KQMR, KHOV | former_callsigns = KTVW-TV (1979–2009) | former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 33 (UHF, 1979–2009)|'''Digital:''' 34 (UHF, until 2009)}} | former_affiliations = SIN (1979–1987) | erp = 470 kW | haat = {{convert|510|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} | facility_id = 35705 | coordinates = {{coord|33|20|0|N|112|3|49|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|display=inline, title}} | licensing_authority = FCC | website = {{URL|https://www.univision.com/local/arizona-ktvw|UnivisionArizona.com}} }}
'''KTVW-DT''' (channel 33) is a television station in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, serving as the local outlet for the Spanish-language network Univision. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Flagstaff-licensed UniMás outlet KFPH-DT, channel 13 (which KTVW-DT simulcasts on its second digital subchannel). The two stations share studios on 30th Street in southern Phoenix; KTVW-DT's transmitter is located atop South Mountain on the city's south side.
The station's signal is relayed on two low-power translators: Class A station '''KTVW-CD''' (channel 27) in Flagstaff, and '''KDOS-LD''' (channel 19) in Globe. KTVW is also rebroadcast on the second digital subchannel of KFPH, whose transmitter is located atop Mormon Mountain, about {{convert|20|mi|km}} south of Flagstaff in the Coconino National Forest.
In addition, '''KUVE-DT''' (channel 46) in Green Valley and '''KUVE-CD''' (channel 42) in Tucson operate as semi-satellites of KTVW-DT, expanding the Univision signal into Southern Arizona. As such, they simulcast all Univision programming as provided through their parent, and share a website with KTVW. However, the Tucson stations air separate commercial inserts and legal identifications. There is also a three-hour overnight block on Monday mornings from 2 to 5 a.m. in which the Tucson stations broadcast locally produced English-language programming in accordance with KUVE-CD's Class A license.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tvschedule.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCSGrid.do?stnNum=35156&channel=1019&aid=tvschedule|title=Zap2it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tvschedule.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCSGrid.do?stnNum=53080&channel=1005&aid=tvschedule|title=Zap2it}}</ref> Local newscasts, produced by KTVW and branded as {{lang|es|Noticias 33}}, are simulcast on KUVE and KUVE-CD. Although KUVE maintains its own studios on Forbes Boulevard in Tucson, master control and most internal operations are based at KTVW's facilities.
==History== 200px|thumb|left|Former logo, used until December 31, 2012. On March 12, 1976, the Legend of Cibola Television Company (reorganized before launch as the Seven Hills Television Company), owned by a series of principals of the Spanish International Network, filed for a construction permit for a new television station on channel 33 in Phoenix, which was granted on August 17, 1977.<ref name="hc">{{Cite web|url= https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=85705 |title= History Cards for KTVW-DT|publisher=Federal Communications Commission}} (Guide to reading History Cards)<!--Converted from {{FCC letter}}--></ref> The original applicant had just one local stockholder, Julia Zozaya (who later built and owned KNNN-FM 99.9).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86424221/permit-sought-for-spanish-tv-station/|work=The Arizona Republic|date=April 7, 1976|title=Permit sought for Spanish TV station|page=A-12}}</ref> Facilities were jointly constructed with another construction permit, KNXV-TV; the two stations won approval to construct a new tower on South Mountain in 1978.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68804934/|title=Parks board approves plans for new transmission tower on South Mountain|page=B-7|first=Jerry|last=Hickey|work=The Arizona Republic}}</ref>
thumb|left|The entrance to Univision KTVW Channel 33's studios in South Phoenix KTVW-TV signed on as Arizona's first full-time Spanish-language television station on September 2, 1979.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33724106/channel-33-brings-spanish-accent-to/|access-date=October 3, 2021|title=Channel 33 brings Spanish accent to Valley TV|first=Thomas|last=Goldthwaite|work=The Arizona Republic|date=September 4, 1979|page=B-6}}</ref> Previously, KPAZ-TV channel 21 had aired some Spanish-language programming from 1967 to 1977, but this was curtailed by financial woes and its sale to the Trinity Broadcasting Network. From the beginning, the plan was to build a translator for KTVW in Tucson: this launched November 1, 1980.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58184742/tucson-to-get-spanish-tv-outlet-nov-1/|title=Tucson to get Spanish TV outlet Nov. 1|first=Sherry|last=Stern|work=The Arizona Daily Star|pages=1A, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58184749/ 8A]|date=October 23, 1980}}</ref> While owned by SIN-aligned interests, it was not owned by the network proper until then-owner Hallmark Cards acquired it from Seven Hills in 1989.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86425982/hallmark-adds-to-tv-chain/|title=Hallmark adds to TV chain|work=The Kansas City Star|date=January 11, 1989|page=9A}}</ref>
For 27 years, KTVW was the only full-power Spanish-language television station in Phoenix, which gave it considerable market dominance. In 2006, this came to an end when NBCUniversal and the Daystar Television Network agreed to a trade that converted Phoenix's noncommercial channel 39 into commercial Telemundo outlet KTAZ.
KTVW-DT also operates the UniMás station for the Phoenix market on low-powered KFPH-CD (channel 35), which broadcasts on full-power KFPH-DT (channel 13) in Flagstaff (also a part of the Phoenix market), giving it "must-carry" broadcast station status on satellite providers DirecTV and Dish Network.
==News operation== KTVW began producing local news in the early 1980s with a 10-minute local news update that aired at 10:30 p.m. before ''24 Horas'' from Mexico City; this was replaced with a 6 p.m. newscast in 1984.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28882262/channel-33-enters-competition-with-6-pm/|access-date=October 3, 2021|date=November 12, 1984|first=Bud|last=Wilkinson|work=The Arizona Republic|page=B11|title=Channel 33 enters competition with 6 p.m. daily newscast}}</ref>
KTVW presently broadcasts ten hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with one hour each day, consisting of two half-hour newscasts at 5 and 10 p.m. seven nights a week). The station does not have any on-air weather staffers of its own, instead weather segments during KTVW's newscasts are produced by Houston sister station KXLN-DT.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}} The station's local newscasts (currently known as {{lang|es|Noticias Univision 33}}) rank among the top-rated local news programs in the market, either English or Spanish. The station had the highest-rated newscast in Phoenix among the demographics of adults between the ages of 18–34 and 18–49 in 2004.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hernandez|first=Ruben|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2004/08/16/story4.html|title=Univision's top spot scrutinized by mainstream stations|work=Phoenix Business Journal|date=August 13, 2004|access-date=February 26, 2007}}</ref>
==Technical information==
===Subchannels=== The station's signal is multiplexed: {| class="wikitable" |+ Subchannels of KTVW-DT<ref name="rei">{{Cite web|url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KTVW-DT#station|title=RabbitEars query for KTVW-DT|website=RabbitEars|language=en|access-date=May 5, 2023}}</ref> ! scope = "col" | Channel ! scope = "col" | Res. ! scope = "col" | Short name ! scope = "col" | Programming |- ! scope = "row" | 33.1 | rowspan=2| 720p || KTVW-DT || Univision |- style="background-color: #E6FFF7;" ! scope = "row" | 33.2 | UniMas || UniMás (KFPH-DT) |- ! scope = "row" | 33.3 | rowspan=5| 480i || HSN || HSN |- style="background-color: #F2D1DE;" ! scope = "row" | 33.4 | Confess || Confess 14px|alt-MPEG-4 video|link=MPEG-4 Part 2 |- style="background-color: #F2D1DE;" ! scope = "row" | 33.5 | ShopLC || Shop LC 14px|alt=MPEG-4 video|link=MPEG-4 Part 2 |- style="background-color: #F2D1DE;" ! scope = "row" | 33.6 | BT2 || Infomercials (4:3) 14px|alt=MPEG-4 video|link=MPEG-4 Part 2 |- style="background-color: #F2D1DE;" ! scope = "row" | 33.7 | MSGold || MovieSphere Gold 14px|alt=MPEG-4 video|link=MPEG-4 Part 2 |- style="background-color:#DFEBF6; border-top: 2px solid #003399;" ! scope = "row" | 35.1 | 720p || KFPH-CD || UniMás (KFPH-CD) |} {{legend|#E6FFF7|Simulcast of subchannels of another station}} {{legend|#F2D1DE|Subchannel broadcast with MPEG-4 video}} {{legend|#DFEBF6|Broadcast on behalf of another station}}
===Analog-to-digital conversion=== KTVW shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 33, at 10:59 p.m. on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 34 to channel 33 for post-transition operations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds |access-date=March 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 }}</ref> Prior to the shutdown of its analog signal, the station's personnel gave information on how to connect and operate their digital converters, and then counting down the last 15 seconds.
===Translators=== *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|29464|3=KTVW-CD}}''' 27 Flagstaff–Doney Park *'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|129078|3=KDOS-LD}}''' 19 Globe
Formerly, KTVW was on channels 17 and 52 in Tucson before the launch of its locally operated Univision affiliate KUVE-DT 38/46.
==See also== *Telemundo/Daystar license swap
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Official website|https://www.univision.com/local/arizona-ktvw}}
{{PHX TV}} {{Arizona Spanish TV}} {{Univision Communications}}
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