KVPA-LP

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KVPA-LP
Phoenix, Arizona
Channels	42 (UHF) analog
Affiliations	LAT TV
Owner	Latin America Broadcasting, Inc.
Founded	March 21, 1995
Former callsigns	K42FD, K24EI
Former affiliations	Shop at Home Network, Home Shopping Network
Transmitter Power	11 kW
Height	505 m
Website	www.lattv.com (English) www.lattv.com (Español)

KVPA-LP is a low-power television station broadcasting in analog on UHF channel 42 in Phoenix, Arizona, and owned by Latin America Broadcasting of Houston, Texas. The station carries programming from LAT TV, a Spanish-language network also owned by Latin America Broadcasting. KVPA-LP was a charter station for the network, which launched in May 2006.

[edit] History

An original construction permit for what is now KVPA-LP was granted to Broadcast Systems, Inc. on March 21, 1995 as K24EI in Phoenix, to broadcast on channel 24. The original transmitter location was on Usery Mountain in east Mesa, and the station was first licensed in November 15, 1996. Early programming is unknown, but it was likely the same as K25DM, also owned by Broadcasting Systems, Inc. Although it ran the same programming, K24EI was never a translator of K25DM [1] (see exhibit 2).

In November 2000, K24EI submitted an application to the FCC to move to channel 42, as Phoenix independent station KTVK was beginning to build its DTV facilities on channel 24. The application was approved, and in November 2002, the new facilities were licensed with call sign K42FD. About that time also, the station changed its programming to the Shop at Home Network.

In April 2005, the station's owners signed an agreement to sell KDMA Channel 25, Inc., the parent company of K42FD, to Latin America Broadcasting, Inc., with the intent of launching a new Spanish-language network called LAT TV. K42FD's sister station K25DM, was supposed to be part of that network, with K42FD retaining its Shop at Home programming initially, then eventually switching over. However, after the deal was consummated in July 2005, the new owners decided instead to launch LAT TV on K42FD. The station received new call letters KVPA-LP in December 2005, and at the same time, Latin America Broadcasting applied to move KVPA-LP's transmitter location to the South Mountain antenna farm. That application was granted in April 2006 and KVPA-LP went silent. It re-emerged in June 2006 with the new LAT TV programming.

On February 19, 2009, which is the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KVPA-LP will be required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal (called a "flash-cut").

[edit] External links

• LAT TV (English)
• LAT TV (Español)
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KVPA-LP