KMOH-TV

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KMOH-TV / KEJR-LP
Kingman / Phoenix, Arizona
Branding	KEJR 43 Phoenix
Channels	6 / 43 (VHF) analog, 19 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	MTV Tr3s
Owner	Bela Broadcasting
Founded	April 8, 1985 / June 5, 1992
Call letters meaning	MOHave County
Former callsigns	KMOH: None KEJR: KQBN-LP, K43GV, K31DI
Former affiliations	Independent (Spanish), NBC, The WB, AIN, Network One KEJR (pre-2005): Almavision, Telemundo, Independent
Transmitter Power	100 kW / 9 kW (analog) 24.7 kW (digital)
Height	592 m / 504 m (analog) 584 m (digital)
Facility ID	24753 / 55207
Website	www.kejr43.com

KMOH-TV is a full-service television station in Kingman, Arizona, providing over-the-air service to Kingman, Bullhead City/Laughlin, and surrounding Mohave County. It broadcasts in analog on VHF channel 6 and in digital on UHF channel 19 from its transmitter on Black Mountain near Oatman. KMOH is an affiliate of MTV Tr3s.

KEJR-LP is a low-power television station in Phoenix, Arizona, rebroadcasting the signal of KMOH in analog on UHF channel 43 from its transmitter on South Mountain in Phoenix.

Both stations are owned by Bela Broadcasting of Miami, Florida and brand themselves using the KEJR call letters.

Contents 1 History 1.1 KEJR-LP history pre-2005 2 Programming 3 External links

[edit] History

KMOH-TV began with an original construction permit granted to Standard Life Insurance Company on April 8, 1985, transmission specs unknown. A 1986 modification to the construction permit specified Black Mountain as the transmitter location with 100 kW effective radiated power. Standard Life Insurance Company licensed the station on June 1, 1998, then transferred control of it to Grand Canyon Television Company in December.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, KMOH was an English-language, independent television station, with its own local newscast. It was listed as an American Independent Network (AIN) affiliate in July 1996 [1] and has also been listed as a Network One (N1) affiliate, date unknown [2]. In late 1996, it became an affiliate of The WB Television Network, then in May 1997, the Gannett Company bought the station from Grand Canyon Television Company and changed it to a satellite station of NBC affiliate KPNX channel 12 of Phoenix.

In August, 2004, Bela Broadcasting, looking to expand the reach of their family-oriented Spanish-language format, acquired KMOH from Gannett, making the station a Spanish-language Independent, airing mostly the same content as KBEH of Oxnard, California, but not on the same schedule. From Kingman, they hoped to put signals into the Phoenix and Las Vegas markets [3], both with large Hispanic populations, and while it cannot be verified as a reason for buying KMOH, a full-service station in the Phoenix media market, it is clear that Bela Broadcasting desired must-carry cable coverage in Phoenix as well. With KMOH no longer a rebroadcaster of KPNX, Cox Communications petitioned the FCC to allow it to exclude the station from must-carry provisions in its 16 Phoenix-area communities, since, while it is part of the Phoenix market, it is 165 miles away and did not put a signal into Phoenix. KMOH fought the exclusion, but lost, in large part due to their lack of local programming directed at Phoenix, and also in part due to not having any signal in Phoenix [4]. In November 2005 Bela Broadcasting acquired KQBN-LP (now KEJR-LP) channel 43 from Una Vez Mas, and made it a translator station of KMOH-TV, giving the station a signal in Phoenix. As Phoenix is the much larger market, however, both stations are branded as KEJR 43 Phoenix instead of the reverse.

On November 27, 2006, Bela dropped the Spanish independent format from all of their stations and made them affiliates of MTV Tr3s.

[edit] KEJR-LP history pre-2005

KEJR-LP had its own history prior to being acquired by Bela Broadcasting in 2005. It began with an original construction permit for K31DI UHF channel 31, granted to Raul Infante, Jr. on June 5, 1992, and licensed on August 22, 1995. The original transmitter site was in Sun City. Early programming is unknown.

In June 1998, Infante sold the station to Hispanic Television of Phoenix, who in turn sold it to Television Apogeo de Phoenix in October. In 1999, the FCC granted full-service station KSAZ-TV permission to build their digital television station on channel 31, and K31DI was forced to move to another channel. Television Apogeo took the station silent in March 2000, but returned to air in October, when they were granted Special Temporary Authority to operate on channel 43. Television Apogeo licensed the station on channel 43 with new call letters K43GV in December 2001. By this time, it was simulcasting Telemundo programming from KDRX-CA (now KDTP-CA).

Una Vez Mas acquired the station in January 2004 and applied to move the transmitter location from Sun City to South Mountain in Phoenix. The permit was granted and the new facilities were licensed in October 2005. Meanwhile, they resurrected a set of call letters they had used in Tucson, and renamed the station KQBN-LP in March 2005. They also replaced the Telemundo programming with Spanish-language Christian network Almavision.

Even before the station was licensed at its new South Mountain transmitter site, Una Vez Mas sold the station to Bela Broadcasting, with the transaction finalized in November, 2005. Upon taking ownership, Bela again changed the call letters, this time to KEJR-LP, and made the station a translator for KMOH-TV.

[edit] Programming

KMOH and KEJR air the entire MTV Tr3s schedule, except for one hour on Sunday afternoons, where they retained the local public affairs show, El 6 Para Ti'.

[edit] External links

• KEJR official site
• MTV Tr3s
• Multichannel News article about the switch to MTV Tr3s
• FCC ruling in Cox must-carry case (PDF)
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KMOH-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KEJR-LP