K25DM

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K25DM
Phoenix, Arizona
Branding	KDMA
Channels	25 (UHF) analog
Affiliations	Home Shopping Network
Owner	Latin America Broadcasting
Founded	July 10, 1990
Former affiliations	Channel America, MuchMusic Canada, Video Catalog Channel, Panda America Shopping Network, ACN, ValueVision/ShopNBC
Transmitter Power	9.8 kW
Height	335 m
Facility ID	7085

K25DM is a low-power broadcast television station located in Phoenix, Arizona. It transmits on channel 25 from Shaw Butte in North Phoenix, and currently airs programs from the Home Shopping Network (HSN). The station is owned by Latin America Broadcasting of Houston, Texas and is often identified by pseudo call letters KDMA.

[edit] History

An original construction permit was granted on July 10, 1990 to Broadcast Systems Inc. of Phoenix to build low-power television station K25DM on channel 25. Its transmitter was located in Deer Valley near Phoenix Deer Valley Airport. The station was quickly built and signed on the air on October 26, 1990 as a full-time affiliate of Channel America. K25DM moved its transmitter location to the current Shaw Butte site in early 1993 and upgraded to the current broadcast parameters in late 1994.

After nearly fifteen years operating the station, its owners sold K25DM and sister station K42FD (now KVPA-LP) to a new broadcast group called Latin America Broadcasting in August 2005.

[edit] Programming

While the station's ownership and facilities have been relatively steady, its programming history has been much more diverse. As an affiliate of Channel America, K25DM aired old movies and '50s TV shows in the public domain as well as low-cost syndicated programming such as Hot Seat with Wally George. However, Channel America's programming lineup was never stable, and by the middle of 1993, K25DM was piping in the MuchMusic network from Canada.

Not long afterward, K25DM added subscription-only programming from the Playboy Channel during the evening hours, using old over-the-air subscription television equipment to scramble the signal. The station lacked cable television distribution however, and the subscription service was not successful. By November 1993, K25DM had changed programming again, to the now-defunct Video Catalog Channel, a Knoxville, Tennessee-based television auction network.

A rapid succession of shopping services followed, as the station moved from Video Catalog Channel to Panda America Shopping Network (1995), followed by ACN (1997), ValueVision/ShopNBC (1999), and finally HSN (2001).

With the sale of the station, K25DM was poised to change programming again, this time to the Latin America Broadcasting's Spanish-language network, LAT TV, launched in May 2006. However, while sister station KVPA-LP had switched to LAT TV, K25DM remained an HSN affiliate, and Latin America Broadcasting had not announced any plans to change its programming.

[edit] External links

• Home Shopping Network
• LAT TV (English)
• LAT TV (Español)
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K25DM