KOHC-CD,

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45 (

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channel 31), is a low-powered, Class A

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- owned-and-operated

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. The station is owned by HC2 Station Group, Inc. KOHC-CD maintains studios located near Northwest 38th Street and MacArthur Boulevard in Warr Acres, and its transmitter is located near Southeast 104th Street and South Bryant Avenue in south Oklahoma City (on the city limits of

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). The station is available on

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channel 22/438 and

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channel 38.

History

The station first signed on the air on August 29, 1986, broadcasting on VHF channel 7; it initially operated as an

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, and was known to carry ethnic-oriented programs during the station's first seven years on the air, including those that catered to

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audiences and

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speakers. In 2000, the station moved to UHF channel 38. KOHC affiliated with Azteca América in late 2007 and adopted an all-

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format. The station relocated to channel 45 in 2009. On August 13, 2012, KOHC-CD changed its primary affiliation to upstart Spanish language network

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, relegating Azteca América programming to a second

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and eliminating

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and

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from its digital signal, which in effect resulted in the station being affiliated only with Spanish language broadcast networks (besides Azteca and MundoFox, the two additional subchannels that remained after the removal of the Retro TV and AMGTV subchannels were

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and TeLe-Romántica). In January 2013, MundoFox was moved to digital channel 45.2, while the Azteca América affiliation reverted to the station's main channel.

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is

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References

External links

* OHC-CD Spanish-language television stations in Oklahoma Television channels and stations established in 1986 Azteca América network affiliates Low-power television stations in the United States {{OklahomaCity-stub