KVMD
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| Twentynine Palms, California | |
| Channels | 53 (UHF) (not on air, license pending) analog, 23 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | America One/Jewelry TV, KJLA-TV on DT2, KXLA-TV on DT3 |
| Owner | Ronald Ulloa |
| Founded | September 1996 (on analog ch. 31) |
| Transmitter Power | 150 kW (digital) |
| Website | www.kvmd-tv.com |
KVMD is a digital-only independent television station licensed to Twentynine Palms, California, USA. The broadcast signal covers most of the Inland Empire on digital UHF channel 23; it is also carried on DIRECTV and Dish Network at channel 31 (its historical analog channel) on both systems in the Los Angeles market.
Most programming consists of infomercials, home shopping shows, and some low-budget programming from America One. Every morning from 7 am to noon, KVMD has a block of evangelical Christian shows that air in Spanish.
The station broadcasts digitally, with subchannel DT2 carrying the Asian-language programming of KXLA and DT3 carrying the programming of KJLA, including more paid programming and Jewelry TV. KVMD's owner, Ronald Ulloa, is also president and majority owner of KXLA, and his brother Walter Ulloa owns KJLA. KVMD's programming is also carried on KXLA's digital signal on 44.2, and on KJLA's digital signal on 57.3.
KVMD carries Big West Conference basketball games and the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes of minor league baseball's California League.
KVMD's transmitter is located in the San Bernardino Mountains north of Banning, California.
[edit] History
KVMD signed on in September 1996 on analog channel 31. While its analog signal was rather weak and could not generally be received beyond Twentynine Palms and Yucca Valley, it sought and obtained carriage on many cable television systems throughout Southern California, as well as satellite TV, due to its fortuitous location in the outskirts of the Los Angeles DMA and FCC must-carry rules. On July 29, 2002, its digital signal went on the air on channel 23. This signal is much stronger, potentially reaching 80 times as many viewers over the air as its analog signal, and reaching most of the Inland Empire. It also reaches a good portion of Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties, but overlaps the signals of KTBN-TV Santa Ana/Los Angeles and XETV-TV Tijuana/San Diego, which also broadcast digitally on channel 23, thus making reception difficult in many of these areas. That issue in the Los Angeles market will remedy itself in the near future. KTBN-TV has requested permission from the FCC to change its digital broadcast channel from 23 to 33. On June 1, 2003, KVMD became the first station in the country to shut off its analog channel and go digital-only, in support of the government-mandated digital transition.
While the FCC database shows that the station currently has an application pending for analog channel 53 with a much stronger signal (5,000 kilowatts), it appears to date back to 2000, prior to the digital transition, and it is unlikely that the application will ever be granted, since the FCC has announced that no television channels above 51 will be used for broadcast after the digital transition is complete [1].
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KVMD
- "L.A. DTV Spat Could be a Test Case", Multichannel News, December 16, 2002
- 2006 FCC petition requesting mandatory carriage under "must-carry" rules
| Broadcast television in the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs / Indio / Twentynine Palms) market (Nielsen DMA #149) | ||
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KCWQ-LP 2 (The CW) - KVER-CA 4 / KVES-LP 28 (UNI) - KEVC-CA 5 (TFU) - K06MB 6 (GALA) - KVPS-LP 8 (MTV3) - K09XW 9 (PBS) - KYAV-LP 12 (AZA) - KUNA-LP 15 (TEL) - KODG-LP 17 (Ind) - K19DH 19 (FN) - K21DO 21 (3ABN) - KDFX-CA 33 (Fox) - KMIR 36 (NBC) - KPSP-LP 38 (CBS) - K40ID 40 (TBN) - KESQ 42 (ABC) - KDPX-LP 45 (ION) - KPSE-LP 50 (MNTV) |
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| Independent Television Stations in the state of California | |
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KBTV-CA 8 (Sacramento) - KCAL 9 (Los Angeles) - KSCI 18 (Long Beach) - KBBV-CA 19 (Bakersfield) - KBWB 20 (San Francisco) - KWHY 22 (Los Angeles) - KBSV 23 (Ceres) - KVMD 23 (Twentynine Palms) - KTSF 26 (San Francisco) - KNLA-LP 27 (Los Angeles) - KMTP 32 (San Francisco) - KICU 36 (San Jose) - KCNS 38 (San Francisco) - KBOP-CA 43 (San Diego) - KXLA 44 (Rancho Palos Verdes) - KFTY 50 (Santa Rosa) - KUSI 51 (San Diego) - KDOC 56 (Anaheim) - KJLA 57 (Ventura) - KRCA 62 (Riverside) - KBEH 63 (Oxnard) |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Other Spanish Network, Religious, Home Shopping and Other stations in California | |
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