KWEX-TV

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KWEX-TV
San Antonio, Texas
Branding	Univisión 41
Channels	41 (UHF) analog, 39 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	Univisión
Owner	Univisión
Founded	June 10, 1955
Former callsigns	KCOR-TV KUAL-TV
Former affiliations	Independent
Transmitter Power	5,000 kW Analog 400 kW Digital 375 kW Digital STA
Website	Located on univision.com (long address)

KWEX-TV is the local Univisión owned and operated station in San Antonio, Texas. The station is the first commercially-based Spanish language television station in the United States.

Contents 1 History 2 News Team 3 Weather 4 External links

[edit] History

KWEX-TV channel 41 began as KCOR-TV in 1955, named after its radio sister station, which itself was named for Raoul CORtez, the owner and pioneer of the first full time spanish language radio and television stations in the United States. KWEX-TV was also the first UHF channel in south Texas. In 1961, after years of losing money with KCOR-TV, Mr. Cortez sold the station to his son-in-law, Emilio Nicolas, Sr., Renold Anselmo, Emilio Azcarraga Vidaurreta, Julian Kaufman and Frank Fouce, Sr. Emilio Nicolas, Sr. worked side by side with Cortez since the stations inception, not only running the station, but producing many of its variety shows. Nicolas made the station a financial success and in 1962 Nicolas and his partners built their second station in Los Angeles, KMEX-TV channel 34. Thus the first Spanish language television network began to form.

[edit] News Team

• Jorge Nunez (5pm co-anchor 10pm reporter)
• Martha Flores (5pm co-anchor)
• Antonio Guillen (5pm reporter 10pm Anchor)
• Monica Navarro (5pm reporter weekend Anchor)
• Sports (currently vacant)

[edit] Weather

• Norberto Hernandez (5&10 weekday weather)
• Keyhla Calderon Lugo (5&10 weekend weather)

[edit] External links

• Univision 41 website
• Brief history
• History of the Spanish International Network
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KWEX

Broadcast television in the San Antonio market  (Nielsen DMA #37)
KCWX 2 (The CW) - WOAI 4 (NBC) - KENS 5 (CBS) - KLRN 9 (PBS) - KSAT 12 (ABC) - K14LM 14 (3ABN) - KNIC 17 (TFU) - KHCE 23 (TBN) - KPXL 26 (ION) - KABB 29 (Fox) - KVDF-CA 31 (AZA) - KNIC-CA 34 (Silent) - KMYS 35 (MNTV) (The Tube on DT2) - KWEX 41 (UNI) - KQVE-LP 46 (DS) - K52EA 52 (Multimedios) - KVDA 60 (TEL)
See also, Broadcast television in Del Rio / Eagle Pass

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