KABE-CD (channel 39) is a low-power,

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in Bakersfield, California, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language

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network. It is

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alongside Class A

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outlet

KBTF-CD KBTF-CD (channel 31) is a low-power, Class A television station in Bakersfield, California, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language UniMás network. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Class A Univision outlet KABE-C ...

(channel 31) and

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affiliate

KUVI-DT KUVI-DT (channel 45) is a television station in Bakersfield, California, United States, affiliated with the digital multicast network Twist. It is owned by TelevisaUnivision alongside two Class A stations: Univision owned-and-operated station KA ...

(channel 45). The three stations share studios on Truxtun Avenue in the western section of Bakersfield; KABE-CD's transmitter is located atop Mount Adelaide. In addition to its own digital signal, KABE-CD is

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in high definition on the second digital subchannel of KUVI (virtual channel 45.2, UHF channel 26.2) from a separate transmitter atop Mount Adelaide.

History

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's Univision station

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. It was renamed KSUV-LP and moved to channel 39 in 1998 after Univision purchased

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affiliate KUZZ-TV (now

) from

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. It was renamed to KBTF-LP in 2002 during the launch of TeleFutura (now

). It was renamed to KABE-LP in 2004 after a callsign swap with the original KABE-CA (channel 31, now

). In 2013, the station obtained Class A status. In 2019, KABE started airing Court TV on its second digital subchannel as part of an agreement between Scripps and Univision for areas where

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's signal is not easily received.

Technical information

Subchannel

The True Crime affiliation was dropped on September 25, 2017, two weeks after KUVI obtained the affiliation; the 39.2 subchannel went dark until 2019, when it returned to the air with Court TV programming. The Court TV affiliation was dropped in 2021.

References

External links

* * Univision network affiliates Court TV affiliates ABE-CD Television channels and stations established in 1989 1989 establishments in California ABE-CD Low-power television stations in the United States {{California-tv-station-stub