KFTR-TV

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KFTR-TV
Ontario, California/Los Angeles, California
Branding	Telefutura 46
Channels	46 (UHF) analog, 29 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	TeleFutura
Owner	Univision
Founded	July 1, 1972
Call letters meaning	K TeleFuTuRa
Former callsigns	KBSA, KIHS, KHSC
Former affiliations	Independent HSN (1986-2002)
Transmitter Power	2291 kW/956 m (analog) 400 kW/956 m (digital)
Website	TeleFutura

KFTR-TV, "Telefutura 46 Los Angeles" is an Univisión owned and operated television station in the Los Angeles area, and is the West Coast flagship station of the Telefutura network, its second Spanish language 24-hour network founded in January, 2002. KFTR is licensed to Ontario and serves the Los Angeles area as a sister station to KMEX. Significant programs include sports, particularly boxing and soccer, productions from Mexico and Venezuela and major motion pictures dubbed in Spanish.

Channel 46 began broadcasting in 1972 as KBSA, licensed to Guasti, a community known for vineyards near Ontario. The station originally broadcast as an independent, showing mostly film features. In 1973, the station was the original home of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, then hosted by Paul Crouch and Jim Bakker. When Trinity left KBSA for KLXA, the station was acquired by Berean Bible Ministries and continued to broadcast Christian programming. The sale of KBSA was pending to Hispanic Broadcasters (the station was already broadcasting some programs in Spanish) when KBSA left the air in 1977.

It returned to the air in 1984 as KIHS, a short-lived religious channel. Then owned by HBI Acquisition, the station affiliated with Santa Fe Communications and showed Catholic based programming. In 1986, KIHS started showing movies and sports programming, but was sold later that year to Silver King, and then emerged in 1986 as KHSC-TV, a full-power affiliate of the Home Shopping Network. By 1998, HSN's owners USA Broadcasting had decided to switch all of their over-the-air HSN affiliates to a general entertainment format and was looking to sell the stations to The Walt Disney Company, which would have made Channel 46 a sister to ABC's west coast flagship KABC-TV. However, Univision bought the stations, switching most of them to its second network TeleFutura, including Channel 46 (redubbed KFTR-TV).

There were rumors that Tribune Broadcasting would buy KFTR from Univision, essentially creating a duopoly in Los Angeles with CW affiliate KTLA-TV (channel 5). This did not happen, and with Tribune re-evaluating all its properties, selling instead of buying assets, this is not likely to happen in the near future.

[edit] Technical information

• Frequency: Channel 46
• Name: TeleFutura 46
• Radius: 73 miles (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties)
• Start of Operation: 1972
• Transmitter Location: Los Angeles, California (34° 13' 36.00" N Latitude, 118° 3' 59.00" W Longitude)
• Transmitter Power: 2291 kW

[edit] External link

• TeleFutura web page section of univision.com
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KFTR-TV

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Broadcast television in the Los Angeles market (Nielsen DMA #2)

KCBS 2 (CBS) - KNBC 4 (NBC), (WX Plus on DT2) - KTLA 5 (The CW, The Tube on DT2) - KSFV-LP 6 (Ind/Spanish/Religious) - KABC 7 (ABC, News on DT2, AccuWX TV on DT3) - KCAL 9 (Ind/CBS) - KTTV 11 (Fox) - KCOP 13 (MNTV) - KSCI 18 (Ind) - KWHY 22 (Ind/Spanish) - KVCR 24 (PBS) - KBLM-LP 25 (Ind/Spanish) - KNET-LP 25 (Ind/Infomercials) - KNLA-LP 27 (Ind/Spanish) - KZSW-LP 27 (Ind/Inland Empire Local News) - KCET 28 (PBS, Kids on DT2) - KPXN 30 (ION) - KMEX 34 (UNI) - KPAL-LP 38 (Ind) - KSKJ-CA 38 / KSKP-CA 25 (Ind) - KTBN 40 (TBN) - KXLA 44 (Ind) - KLAU-LP 45 (Ind/Infomercials) - KFTR 46 (TFU) - KOCE 50 (PBS, Kids on DT2, Orange Cty. on DT3) - KVEA 52 (TEL) - KAZA 54 (AZA) - KDOC 56 (Ind) - K57KF 57 (Almavision) - KJLA 57 / KSMV-LP 33 / KSGA-LP 64 (Ind) - KLCS 58 (PBS, Kids on DT2, Create! on DT3, Annenberg/CPB on DT4) - KRCA 62 (Ind) - KBEH 63 (MTV3) - KHIZ 64 (A1) - KHTV-LP 67 (HSN)
Local digital television channels KVMD 23 (Ind/A1)
Local cable television channels FSN West - FSN Prime Ticket
Past broadcast stations KKOG 16 (IND) - KVST / KEEF 68 (non-commercial)
See also Broadcast television in the San Diego / Tijuana, Imperial Valley / Yuma / El Centro, and Central Coast markets

Telefutura Network Affiliates in the state of California
KTFB-CA 4 / KBTF-CA 31 (Bakersfield) - KEVC-CA 5 (Indio) - K10OG 10 (Lompoc) - K17GD 17 (Paso Robles) - K28FK 28 (San Luis Obispo) - KDJT-CA 33 (Salinas-Monterey) - K35ER 35 (Santa Maria) - KDTF-LP 36 (San Diego) - KTSB-LP 43 (Santa Barbara) - KFTR 46 (Ontario) - KAJB 54 (Calipatria) - KTFF 61 (Porterville) - KTFK 64 (Stockton) - KFSF 66 (Vallejo)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, Telemundo, Univision, Independent, Other Spanish Network, Religious, Home Shopping and Other stations in California