KABE-CD (channel 39) is a low-power, Class A television station in

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, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language network

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. 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 ...

(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 Quest (American TV network), Quest. It is owned by TelevisaUnivision alongside two Class A television service, ...

(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 KUVI's second

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(45.2) from a separate transmitter atop Mount Adelaide.

History

K52DJ launched on July 31, 1989, as a

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

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affiliate KUZZ-TV (now KUVI-DT) 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

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on its second digital subchannel as part of an agreement between Scripps and Univision for areas where

KERO-TV KERO-TV (channel 23) is a television station in Bakersfield, California, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. The station's studios are located on 21st Street in Downtown Bakersfield, and its transmitter ...

's signal is not easily received.

Subchannel

The

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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

programming. The Court TV affiliation was dropped in 2021.

References

External links

* 1989 establishments in California ABE ABE-CD Television channels and stations established in 1989 ABE-CD Univision affiliates {{California-tv-station-stub