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KVDA
San Antonio, Texas
Branding	Telemundo 60 Noticiero 60
Channels	Analog: 60 (UHF) Digital: 38 (UHF)
Affiliations	Telemundo
Owner	NBC Universal, Inc. (NBC Telemundo License Company)
First air date	September 10, 1989
Transmitter Power	5000 kW (analog) 1000 kW (digital)
Height	456 m (analog) 414 m (digital)
Facility ID	64969
Transmitter Coordinates	29°17′39.4″N, 98°15′31.8″W

KVDA is the local Telemundo affiliate in San Antonio, Texas, USA owned by NBC Universal.

Contents 1 History 2 Noticiero 60 3 Digital Television 4 Former Noteciero 60 staff (pre-2007) 5 External links

[edit] History

KVDA signed on September 10th, 1989 as a Telemundo affiliate from its 1989 to the present.

KVDA a full-service television station, owned and operated by NBC Universal and serves the San Antonio television market. as the Telemundo station. The station broadcasts in analog on UHF channel 60 and in digital on UHF channel 38. KVDA is a television station and runs programming from the Telemundo network and is a full-power television station that operates with 5000 kw of power.

[edit] Noticiero 60

Noticiero 60 was the name of KVDA's newscast that begin in 1992 which competed with KWEX's news broadcast until 2007 when budget cuts announced by Telemundo's parent company NBC-Universal, this newscast was replaced in early 2007 by a regional newscast based out of the new Production Center in Dallas, which houses newscasts of sister station KXTX.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Digital Television

The station's digital channel :

Digital channels

Channel	Programming
60.1 / 38.1	Main Telemundo programming / Telemundo in High-Definition

In 2009, KVDA will be leaving analog channel 60 and will be on digital channel 38 when the analog shutdown on February 17,2009

[edit] Former Noteciero 60 staff (pre-2007)

• Dan Garcia (now News Director at KAUZ, Wichita Falls, TX)
• Sarah Lora (now working as market leader for Burson-Marsteller office in Puerto Rico)was senior anchor for KVDA/KFWD
• Victor Landa
• Angel Covarrbias
• Jorge Galvez
• Danny Martinez
• Jaime Parra
• Johnny Pounce
• Patrick Ayarzagoitia
• Mike Guerrero
• Helen Pena
• Jesse P. Perez
• Raul Saenz
• Carlos Leos
• James Peluffo
• Pablo Montez
• Roger Topping
• Nancy Lozano
• Phillip Benavidez
• Fabian Magaloni
• Albert Flores (was at KENS, now retired)
• J.J Saenz
• Frank Fleenor
• Adan Garza
• Ana Abud
• Connie Larios
• Alejandrina Rosales
• Claudia Solis
• Enrique Martinez

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for KVDA
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KVDA-TV

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