KTFD-TV (channel 50) is a television station in Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language UniMás network. It is owned by Entravision Communications, which provides certain services to Boulder, Colorado, Boulder-licensed Univision-owned-and-operated station, owned station KCEC (TV), KCEC (channel 14) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with TelevisaUnivision. Both stations share studios on Empower Field at Mile High, Mile High Stadium West Circle in Denver, while KTFD-TV's transmitter is located atop Lookout Mountain Park, Lookout Mountain, near Golden, Colorado, Golden.

History

The station first signed on the air on February 22, 1996 as KTVJ. Founded by Roberts Broadcasting, it originally aired programming from the HSN, Home Shopping Network. In January 2003, Roberts sold the station to Univision Communications. Two months later on March 10, 2003, the station changed its call sign to KTFD-TV (which was modified to KTFD-DT on June 23, 2009, in correspondence with the callsign modifications to the "-DT" suffix applied by all Univision-owned stations following the digital television transition in the United States, digital television transition), and became an owned-and-operated station of Univision's secondary network TeleFutura. KTFD's signal was formerly relayed on low-power broadcasting#Television, low-power analog television, analog Broadcast relay station#Broadcast translators, translator station KDVT-LP (channel 36) in Denver, which was owned by Entravision Communications. The translator was never converted to digital, and its license was canceled on September 13, 2017. On December 4, 2017, as part of a channel swap made by Entravision Communications, KTFD and sister station KCEC swapped channel numbers, with KTFD moving from digital channel 15 and virtual channel 14 to digital channel 26 and virtual channel 50. On January 9, 2019, KTFD completed the migration to digital channel 28 from digital 26 as part of the FCC spectrum auction repack.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital channel is Multiplex (TV), multiplexed

Analog-to-digital conversion

KTFD-TV shut down its analog signal, over Ultra high frequency, UHF channel 14, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television 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 15. Through the use of Program and System Information Protocol, PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 14.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ktfd-Dt Television channels and stations established in 1996 1996 establishments in Colorado Television stations in Denver, TFD-TV UniMás network affiliates Bounce TV affiliates GetTV affiliates Ion Mystery affiliates Spanish-language television stations in Colorado, TFD-TV Entravision Communications stations