KFTH-DT

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KFTH-DT
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CityAlvin, Texas
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BrandingUniMás 67 Houston
Programming
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Ownership
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KXLN-DT, KAMA-FM, KLTN, KOVE-FM, KESS
History
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Former call signs
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  • KTHT (1986–1987)
  • KHSH (1987–1992)
  • KHSH-TV (1992–2002)
  • KFTH (2002–2003)
  • KFTH-TV (2004–2009)
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  • Analog: 67 (UHF, 1986–2009)
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Call sign meaning
Telefutura Houston
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
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60537
ERP1,000 kW
HAAT579 m (1,900 ft)
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Translator(s)KXLN-DT 45.2 Rosenberg
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WebsiteUniMás

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Univision building in Houston

KFTH-DT (channel 67) is a television station licensed to Alvin, Texas, United States, serving as the Houston-area outlet for the Spanish-language network UniMás. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Rosenberg-licensed Univision station KXLN-DT (channel 45). The two stations share studios near the Southwest Freeway (adjacent to the I-610/I-69 interchange) on Houston's southwest side; KFTH's transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County. KFTH's main subchannel is also broadcast by KXLN-DT from its transmitter.

Channel 67 was put on the air by Four Star Broadcasting as KTHT, greater Houston's fourth independent station, on January 27, 1986. Its owners sold it to the Home Shopping Network later that year, and it broadcast home shopping programming from November 1986 to January 2002 as KHSH. Univision acquired the group of former HSN-owned stations, USA Broadcasting, and used it to launch Telefutura in January 2002.

History

In April 1982, the Federal Communications Commission assigned channel 67 to Alvin, Texas, at the petition of David Eugene Brown.[2] Four groups applied for the channel, with Four Star Broadcasting winning the construction permit in a settlement approved in November 1983.[3] The winning applicant was a consortium of state legislator Harold Dutton, Boston-based investor Don Moore, and Warburg Pincus[4]Template:R/superscript—and managed by Jack Moffitt, who arrived in Alvin from WUAB in Cleveland.[5]

KTHT (whose call sign had no meaning[6]) signed on the air on January 27, 1986.[7] Operating as the Houston market's fourth independent station, it had studios in Alvin and an advertising sales office near the Astrodome[4] and broadcast primarily older and cheaper syndicated programs and movies. The existing three independents in Houston—KTXH, KRIV, and KHTV—had bought up enough children's programs that no such shows appeared on channel 67's lineup.[8]

In September, less than nine months after starting up, Four Star agreed to sell KTHT to the Home Shopping Network (HSN) for $15 million as its seventh broadcast TV station.[9] The station began airing 24-hour home shopping programming on November 13[10] and changed its call sign to KHSH (Home Shopping Houston) on January 23, 1987.[11] In 1992, KHSH added the -TV suffix to its call sign.

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Former logo, used from January 14, 2002, to January 7, 2013.

Barry Diller acquired Silver King Broadcasting, HSN's stations division (later renamed USA Broadcasting), in 1995 with plans to eventually roll out a new format, "CityVision", on the stations in the portfolio. However, after the format failed to take off where it was introduced and the company registered operating losses of $62 million in 2000, Diller opted to sell the stations to Univision in 2001.[12] KHSH-TV changed its call sign to KFTH on January 14, 2002, when it became part of Univision's new secondary network, Telefutura.[13] Telefutura rebranded as UniMás in 2013.[14]

Newscasts

On April 4, 2011, sister station KXLN debuted a weekday morning news program for KFTH, called Vive La Mañana. Like the newscasts on KXLN, it was broadcast in high definition, and was produced out of the station's current news set. Dallas–Fort Worth sister station KUVN-DT used the same brands for their newscasts that are simulcast on sister station KSTR-DT; Vive La Mañana featured a different graphics and music package that is shared by both stations. The program was canceled in March 2015.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KFTH-DT[15]
Channel Res. Short name Programming
67.1 720p KFTH-DT UniMás
67.2 480i GetTV Great (4:3)
67.3 GRIT Grit
67.4 HSN HSN
67.5 720p KXLN-HD Univision (KXLN-DT)
67.6 480i BT2 Infomercials MPEG-4 video
20.3 480i QVC-2 QVC2 (KTXH)

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  Simulcast of subchannels of another station

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  Broadcast on behalf of another station

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  Subchannel broadcast with MPEG-4 video

Analog-to-digital conversion

KFTH-TV ended regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 67, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 36, using virtual channel 67.[16][17]

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Facility Technical Data for KFTH-DT". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Station break: FCC assigns Ch. 67 to Alvin". The Houston Post. Houston, Texas. April 3, 1982. p. 16C. Retrieved November 20, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."For the Record: In Contest". Broadcasting. December 12, 1983. p. 120. Template:Pq.
  4. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Frank, Jay (January 4, 1986). "Halley's won't be the only 'Superstar' of '86". The Houston Post. Houston, Texas. p. 5D. Retrieved November 20, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Watson, Keith (July 30, 1985). "Channel 67 aims for general TV audience". The Houston Post. Houston, Texas. p. 4D. Retrieved November 20, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hoffman, Ken (July 22, 1986). "What do those 4-letter words stand for?". The Houston Post. Houston, Texas. p. 4E. Retrieved November 15, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hoffman, Ken (January 27, 1986). "Channel 67 plans to make (air)waves today". The Houston Post. Houston, Texas. p. 8A. Retrieved November 15, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Grace, Bob (January 26, 1986). "Ch. 67 hits airwaves this week". The Houston Chronicle. Houston, Texas. pp. TV Chronilog 6, 7. Retrieved November 20, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Channel 67 deal is HSN's 7th TV station purchase". The Houston Chronicle. Houston, Texas. September 11, 1986. p. 3:2. Retrieved November 20, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Freeman, Diane (November 14, 1986). "24-hour home shopping format Buyout of Channel 67 complete". The Houston Post. Houston, Texas. pp. 1C, 2C. Retrieved November 20, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."KTHT call letters change". The Houston Chronicle. Houston, Texas. January 14, 1987. p. 3:2. Retrieved November 20, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McClellan, Steve (December 11, 2000). "Univision speaks Barry's lingo: $1.1B" (PDF). Broadcasting & Cable. pp. 18–19. Template:Pq. Retrieved September 7, 2021.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.McDaniel, Mike (January 10, 2002). "New Spanish network goes on air Monday". The Houston Chronicle. Houston, Texas. pp. 1D, 4D. Retrieved November 20, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Malone, Michael (May 7, 2019). "UniMas Rebranding to Live Entertainment Destination". Broadcasting & Cable. Archived from the original on May 7, 2019. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."TV Query for KFTH". RabbitEars. Archived from the original on January 4, 2014. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. May 23, 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved August 29, 2021.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Consumer Watch: Stations have more DTV work to do". Houston Chronicle. February 6, 2009. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011.

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