KSMS-TV
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| City | Monterey, California |
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| KDJT-CD | |
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Call sign meaning | Salinas, Monterey, Santa Cruz |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
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| ERP | 15 kW |
| HAAT | 707.3 m (2,321 ft) |
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| Website | noticiasmonterey |
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KSMS-TV (channel 67) is a television station licensed to Monterey, California, United States, serving the Monterey Bay area as an affiliate of the Spanish-language network Univision. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside Class A UniMás affiliate KDJT-CD (channel 33, licensed to both Salinas and Monterey). KSMS-TV and KDJT-CD share studios on Garden Court south of Monterey Regional Airport in Monterey; through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using KDJT-CD's spectrum from an antenna atop Fremont Peak.
History
KSMS-TV was founded by Bill Schuyler on September 1, 1986.[2] In the same year, KCBA, the only television station broadcasting in Spanish in the area, was sold to the Ackerley Group. Ackerley decided to make KCBA an English-language station affiliated with the then-emerging Fox network, which would have left the Salinas–Monterey–Santa Cruz television market without a Spanish-language television station. Knowing that Schuyler had a permit to build a station in the market, a former manager of KCBA encouraged Schuyler to seize the opportunity to create a new station to serve the Hispanic community as an affiliate of the Spanish International Network (the predecessor of Univision).
Schuyler assembled a team of four television professionals and challenge them to develop the new station before KCBA's relaunch. The multiple tasks of creating a new station from the ground up were divided among the four individuals. The group found an old building on Garden Road, which coincidentally had been the first home of KMST-TV (now KION-TV), which Schuyler had started in 1969 and sold a decade later.[3] After negotiating the lease, the remodeling of the old building started immediately. A studio was built in the first floor, along with a small production area, a sound booth and the master control area. After much searching for a suitable transmitter, one was found and installed along with an antenna, atop of Fremont Peak, overlooking the Salinas Valley. Production and broadcasting equipment was purchased and installed, support personnel hired, a small news team was assembled and the station went on the air on time.
News operation
KSMS operates its 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts, each running about 30 minutes each, totaling 10 hours per week. KSMS does not broadcast any local news on weekends. KSMS competed with Telemundo affiliate KMUV-LP, after newscasts were added in September 2009 under the ownership of the Cowles Publishing Company, until the newscasts were axed in September 2025.[4] KSMS also covers national news and news from Latin America. KSMS started its newscasts in November 1987, a few days after Fidel M. Soto joined the station.[5] Soto is currently the longest tenured personality since KSMS's inception.
Technical information
Subchannels
{{#section:KDJT-CD|subs}} In June 2010, KSMS began broadcasting in 16:9 HDTV ratio in time for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Analog-to-digital conversion
KSMS-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 67, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 31,[6] using virtual channel 67.
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Facility Technical Data for KSMS-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Alvarez, Fred (September 3, 1986). "KSMS-Channel 67 begins Spanish-language programming". The Californian. p. 16. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Alvarez, Fred (November 21, 1986). "Spanish station has big plans". The Californian. p. 2A. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cortez, Felix (September 24, 2025). "KION and Telemundo 23 shut down with 'no warning;' employees blindsided". KSBW. Retrieved October 3, 2025.
- ^ Talentos - Fidel M. Soto (in Spanish)
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."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
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