KPMR (channel 38) is a television station licensed to Santa Barbara, California, United States, serving the Central Coast of California as an affiliate of the Spanish-language network Univision. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside Santa Maria–licensed UniMás affiliate KTSB-CD (channel 35). The two stations share studios on Fairway Drive in Santa Maria north of Santa Maria Public Airport; KPMR's transmitter is located atop Broadcast Peak, between Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez in the Santa Ynez Mountains.
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| City | Santa Barbara, California |
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| Branding | Univision Costa Central |
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| History | |
First air date | April 1, 2001 |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 38 (UHF, 2001–2009) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 12144 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 930 m (3,051 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°31′27.9″N 119°57′38.5″W / 34.524417°N 119.960694°W |
| Translator(s) | K32LT-D (UHF) San Luis Obispo |
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Public license information | |
| Website | noticiasya |
History
editOn May 23, 1997, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a construction permit to Coast TV to build a full-service television station on channel 38 to serve Santa Barbara and California's Central Coast. Originally identified by its application identification, "840720 kg", the station took call letters KPMR in February 1998. Entravision Communications acquired the station from Coast TV in a deal finalized in January 2001, and applied for a license for the station a month later, bringing the station on the air under program test authority as a Univision affiliate. The FCC granted the license on April 12, 2002.
On June 15, 2015, the studios of KPMR and KTSB-CA were broken into by former station employee Pablo Quiroz Jr., destroying computers, cars, windows, and hard drives. He also documented his vandalism on Twitter during the spree.[2]
Programming
editKPMR airs Spanish-language programming such as telenovelas, comedies, movies, sports and news, as well as Univision network programming. Local programming includes a newscast originally called Noticias Costa Central, and recently rebranded as Noticias A Su Lado, which airs nightly at 6 and 11 p.m.[3]
Competing news stations in the area announced that KPMR's news department would be shut down on December 30, 2011;[4] however, the station continues to air local newscasts.[5] The station also continues to operate as a Univision affiliate.
Technical information
editSubchannels
editThe station's digital signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 38.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KPMR-DT | Univision |
| 38.2 | 480i | ION | Ion Television | |
| 38.3 | KTSBDT2 | UniMás (KTSB-CD) | ||
| 38.4 | Comet | Comet | ||
| 38.5 | Grit | Grit |
The FCC granted KPMR a construction permit in March 2001 to build companion digital facilities to broadcast on channel 21 with 1000 kW ERP. After two extensions of the construction permit, the station applied for and was granted Special Temporary Authority (STA) to build reduced-power facilities in October 2003. After several extensions of the STA, KPMR-DT applied for a license for its full-power digital facilities in July 2006. The station has elected to remain on channel 21 after the end of the DTV transition.
Analog-to-digital conversion
editKPMR shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 38, on February 17, 2009, the original target date on which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 21,[7] using virtual channel 38.
KPMR also broadcasts sister station KTSB-CD as a digital subchannel.
References
edit- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KPMR". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "KPMR Entravision Vandalism - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
- ^ "KPMR-TV Univision Launches Local Spanish-Language Newscast 'Noticias Univision Costa Central'". Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved October 31, 2006.
- ^ "No Chance to Save Spanish-Broadcasting Station KPMR". KCOY-TV. Archived from the original on May 17, 2012. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
- ^ "Noticias Locales". Archived from the original on May 11, 2012. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
- ^ RabbitEars TV Query for KPMR
- ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
External links
edit- Official website
- Facility details for Facility ID 29885 (K32LT-D) in the FCC Licensing and Management System