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KVPA-LP is a low-power television station broadcasting in analog on UHF channel 42 in Phoenix, Arizona, and owned by Latin America Broadcasting of Houston, Texas. The station is currently off the air due to the shutdown of the parent company's broadcast network, LAT TV. [1]
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An original construction permit for what is now KVPA-LP was granted to Broadcast Systems, Inc. on March 21, 1995 as K24EI in Phoenix, to broadcast on channel 24. The original transmitter location was on Usery Mountain in east Mesa, and the station was first licensed in November 15, 1996. Early programming is unknown, but it was likely the same as K25DM, also owned by Broadcasting Systems, Inc. Although it ran the same programming, K24EI was never a translator of K25DM [2] (see exhibit 2).
In November 2000, K24EI submitted an application to the FCC to move to channel 42, as Phoenix independent station KTVK was beginning to build its DTV facilities on channel 24. The application was approved, and in November 2002, the new facilities were licensed with call sign K42FD. About that time also, the station changed its programming to the Shop at Home Network.
In April 2005, the station's owners signed an agreement to sell KDMA Channel 25, Inc., the parent company of K42FD, to Latin America Broadcasting, Inc., with the intent of launching a new Spanish-language network called LAT TV. K42FD's sister station K25DM, was supposed to be part of that network, with K42FD retaining its Shop at Home programming initially, then eventually switching over. However, after the deal was consummated in July 2005, the new owners decided instead to launch LAT TV on K42FD. The station received new call letters KVPA-LP in December 2005, and at the same time, Latin America Broadcasting applied to move KVPA-LP's transmitter location to the South Mountain antenna farm. That application was granted in April 2006 and KVPA-LP went silent. It re-emerged in June 2006 with the new LAT TV programming. LAT TV closed its doors in mid-May 2008, and KVPA-LP shut down alongside that decision. It is unknown whether or not the license will be sold or turned in to the FCC.
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Broadcast television in the Phoenix market (Nielsen DMA #12) |
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Local over-the-air television stations
KTVK 3 (Ind) - KPHO 5 (CBS) - KAET 8 (PBS, Create on DT2, World on DT3, KBAQ on DT4) - KSAZ 10 (Fox) - KPNX 12 (NBC, WX Plus on DT2) - KNXV 15 (ABC, GoAz.tv on DT2) - KPAZ 21 (TBN, TCC on DT2, JCTV on DT3, Enlace on DT4, Smile on DT5) - KTVP-LP 22 (Almavision) - K25DM 25 (My2Fish) - KCOS-LP 28 (LFN) - KTVW 33 (UNI, KFPH-CA on DT2) - KFPH-CA 35 (TFU) - KTAZ 39 (TEL) - KPDF-CA 41 (AZA) - KVPA-LP 42 (silent) - KEJR-LP 43 (MTV3) - KPHE-LP 44 (Multimedios) - KUTP 45 (MNTV) - KDPH-LP 48 (DS) - KPPX 51 (ION, qubo on DT2, ION Life on DT3, Worship on DT4) - K53GF 53 (Ind) - K57HX 57 (HSN) - KDTP-LP 58 (JTV) - KASW 61 (CW)
Local digital-only television station
KAZT-CA 27 (Ind)
Outlying area stations
KNAZ 2 (NBC) - KMOH 6 (MTV3) - KNJO-LP 6 (A1) - KTVW-CA 6 (UNI) - KAZT 7 (Ind) - KCFG 9 (A1) - KBBA-LP 10 (silent) - KWKM-LP 10 (A1) - KDTP 11 (DS) - KWSJ-LP 12 (A1) - KFPH 13 (TFU) - K18DD 18 (3ABN / ShopNBC) - K19FD 19 (HOPE) - K21GE 21 (3ABN) - K25AL 25 (TBN) - K25HD 25 / K27EC 27 (CTVN) - KCAB-LP 28 (A1) - KQBN-LP 28 (AZA) - K36DU 36 (Worship) - KKAX-LP 36 (A1) - KLHU-CA 45 (Ind) - KDFQ-LP 47 (AZA)
Defunct television stations
KTFL 4 (FN) - KVSW-LP 38 (A1)
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