KTVS-LP

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KTVS-LP
KTVS logo
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Slogan TV for the Southwest
Channels Analog: 36 (UHF)
Affiliations Independent
Owner Alpha Omega Broadcasting
(Alpha Omega Broadcasting of Albuquerque Inc.)
Founded October 31, 1986
Call letters’ meaning TV for the Southwest
Former callsigns K59DB
Former affiliations Telemundo (1988-1997)
Transmitter Power 30 kW
Height 1568 m
Facility ID 13791
Website www.kazq32.org/KTVS/ktvs.html

KTVS-LP is a low-power television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 36 as an independent broadcaster. Founded October 31, 1986, the station is owned by Alpha Omega Broadcasting.

KTVS airs mostly old shows and movies and religious programs. Regional sports programming had also once aired on KTVS. This channel is not carried on local cable systems and its over-the-air signal is quite weak and often has audio problems.

[edit] History

This station began broadcasting in 1988 as K59DB (often identified as KDB) on channel 59. It was the first Telemundo affiliate in the area. By 1997 KTEL-LP had picked up the Telemundo affiliation. KDB had continued as a Spanish-language independent airing mostly music videos and sports programs. By 1999, Continental Broadcasting had sold KDB along with one FM and two AM radio stations to Clear Channel. The format continued until late 2000 when Clear Channel had shut down KDB. The station was later sold to Alpha-Omega Broadcasting. In 2002 KDB 59 went back on the air simulcasting programming from KAZQ-TV 32 and in 2003 it would move to channel 36 as KTVS-LP. By October it would begin airing programming separate from KAZQ.


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