| Greater Houston | |
|---|---|
| City of license | Missouri City, Texas |
| Channels | Digital: 34 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | RTV (34.2) AMGTV (34.4) |
| Owner | Mako Communications |
| Founded | August 6, 1980 |
| Call letters' meaning | K Una Vez Mas (former owner) |
| Former callsigns | KVIT-LP (2000-2007) K53CZ (1989-2000) K55CP (1980-1989) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 55 (1980-1989) 53 (1989) 36 (until 2003) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1980-2001) Home Shopping Network (circa 2006?) Azteca América (2007-2009) Telestai (Oct.-Nov. 2010) |
| Transmitter power | 4 kW (digital) |
| Class | Class A |
| Facility ID | 13200 |
KUVM-CD is a low-power Class A television station in the Houston area, licensed to Missouri City, Texas, and owned and operated by Mako Communications. It broadcasts in digital on UHF channel 34.
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The station began as a construction permit in Victoria, Texas, granted to Community Television of Victoria. Planned as a translator of San Antonio television station KWEX-TV, to broadcast on UHF channel 25,[1] the new station was almost immediately displaced by new full-service station KAVU-TV.[2] It was instead built on UHF channel 55 and was licensed as K55CP on November 30, 1981. Community Television sold the station to Number 1 TV, Inc. on April 13, 1983, but re-acquired the station on September 19, 1985. In December 1981, the station had applied to move to channel 53; the FCC granted the permit on June 30, 1988 and the station was licensed as K53CZ, channel 53, on December 29, 1989 and on channel 36 until 2003, when it was moved to channel 34 to make way for KHOU's interim digital signal.
In 2000, the station adopted the calls KVIT-LP[3]. In the mid-2000s, the station was relocated to DeWalt, a suburb of Houston. During this time, at least circa 2006, the station showed programming from the Home Shopping Network. The KVIT calls moved with the station, and remained until May 16, 2007, when its calls were changed to KUVM-CA[3].
KUVM picked up Azteca América programming from KAZH on July 1, 2007, after KAZH's owner, Pappas Telecasting, terminated its affiliation agreement with Azteca América.[4]
KUVM-CA ceased its analog signal October 22, 2009.[5] (Due to its low-power status, it was not required to end analog broadcasting when full-power analog broadcasting ended on June 12, 2009.) Azteca América programming shifted to channel 10, KUVM-LD (then K10PY-D), which began broadcasting in 2009 on channel 10, and moved to channel 40 on July 24, 2010.
A minor change in call sign to KUVM-CD was granted on April 26, 2010.[6]
On July 1, 2010, the FCC consented to the sale of the station to Mako Communications. [7]
KUVM-CD returned to the air from the Missouri City tower farm in July 2010. As of mid-October 2010, the only programming on two of the digital subchannels is a static image of the station logo. RTV was added to 34.2 on August 26, 2010, and the Mexican Telestai network was added to 34.1 on October 12, 2010, apparently running from an Internet stream. That feed proved unstable, and Telestai was dropped in November 2010.
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Programming |
|---|---|
| 34.1 | GBC World News |
| 34.2 | RTV |
| 34.3 | Infomercials |
| 34.4 | AMGTV |
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