KHRR

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KHRR
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Tucson, Arizona
Branding Telemundo 40
Channels Analog: 40 (UHF)

Digital: 42 (UHF)
Translators K28EY Douglas
Affiliations Telemundo
Owner NBC Universal, Inc.
(NBC Telemundo License Company)
First air date July 1, 1992
Transmitter Power 1550 kW (analog)
12.7 kW (digital)
Height 619 m (analog)
597.6 m (digital)
Facility ID 30601
Transmitter Coordinates 32°14′55.7″N, 111°7′0.3″W (analog)
32°14′56.6″N, 111°7′0.4″W (digital)

KHRR is a full-service television station, owned and operated by NBC Universal, and serving Tucson, Arizona as the Telemundo station. The station broadcasts in analog on UHF channel 40 and in digital on UHF channel 42, with 1550 kW ERP on its analog and 12.7 kW on its digital signal. KHRR is also rebroadcast in Douglas, Arizona on UHF channel 28.

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[edit] History

Channel 40 was originally used by English-language independent station. They were known as KPOL, signing on th the winter of 1985. The station ran cartoons, drama shows, old movies, westerns, and religious programs. At the same time Channel 18 KDTU (now KTTU) signed on with a general entertainment format as well. The market was simply too small to support both stations so Channel 40 filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in 1988 and went dark in 1989.

In 1991, local Tucson businessman Jay Zucker purchased the dormant KPOL license out of bankruptcy, and on July 1, 1992, channel 40 signed on as KHRR with Telemundo programming. Zucker owned the station until 1998, when he sold it to The Apogee Companies, who maintained the Telemundo affiliation.

KHRR became a Telemundo O&O in 2002, along with KDRX-CA (now KDPH-LP). A different sale also included now-sister KNSO. The two stations maintained a sister relationship with each other until a station swap in 2006 in Phoenix caused NBC Universal ownership and Telemundo programming to move to KTAZ. The two stations shared their newscasts and programming schedule, but were based out of their respective cities of license.

As of 2007, under a restructuring plan by its parent company NBC Universal called "NBCU 2.0", the KHRR & KTAZ newscasts now originate from the Telemundo News Hub in Dallas, as do various news operations in the West.

[edit] Digital television

In their Sixth Report and Order, dated April 3, 1997, proposing a digital television table of allotments, the FCC allocated UHF channel 41 for the KHRR-DT operations.[1] However, by February 1998, the DTV Table of Allotments had been changed to specify channel 42 for KHRR-DT.[2] KHRR applied for DTV facilities to broadcast at 303 kW in October 1999, and eventually amended the ERP to 411.5 kW in February 2002.[3][4] In May 2003, in order to meet an FCC deadline for having a digital television station operational, KHRR requested a Special Temporary Authorization (STA) to operate at 12.7 kW, which the FCC granted the following month.[5] After delays due to coordination with the Mexican government, interference issues, and the sale of the station from the Apogee Companies to NBC Telemundo, by June 2006, the station was still operating under their STA facilities, the STA having been extended several times. Having to meet another FCC deadline to have fully operational facilities by June 30, 2006, KHRR requested to make their STA facilities permanent.[6] The FCC granted the request on July 10, 2006, and the next day, KHRR applied for a license to cover their facilities, from which they were already broadcasting. The FCC granted the license on January 31, 2007.[7]

At the end of the digital television transition, scheduled for February 17, 2009, KHRR has elected to move their digital operations to UHF channel 40, where their analog operations have resided.[8]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Proposed DTV Table of Allotments (PDF). FCC Sixth Report and Order, Appendix B p. 12. Federal Communications Commission (1997-04-03). Retrieved on 2007-03-24.
  2. ^ 1998 Initial DTV Table of Allotments (PDF). Memorandum Opinion and Order on Reconsideration of the Sixth Report and Order, Appendix B p.19. Federal Communications Commission (1998-02-17). Retrieved on March 24, 2007.
  3. ^ Original DTV application. Federal Communications Commission (1999-10-28). Retrieved on March 24, 2007.
  4. ^ Amended DTV application. Federal Communications Commission (2002-02-21). Retrieved on March 24, 2007.
  5. ^ Amended STA request (PDF) p. 6. Federal Communications Commission (2003-08-29). Retrieved on March 24, 2007.
  6. ^ Application to make STA facilities permanent. Federal Communications Corporation (2006-06-26). Retrieved on March 24, 2007.
  7. ^ DTV license application. Federal Communications Commission (2006-07-11). Retrieved on March 24, 2007.
  8. ^ DTV channel election. Federal Communications Commission (2005-02-09). Retrieved on March 24, 2007.

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