KDTP-LP,
UHF
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analog
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channel 48, was a
low-powered Daystar-
affiliated
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television station
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in
Phoenix, Arizona
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, United States. The station was owned by Community Television Educators, Inc.
History
The original
construction permit
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for low-power television station K58DV was granted to Atrium Broadcasting Company (later
Venture Technologies Group, LLC) on August 21, 1990, with the
transmitter
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to be located on South Mountain in Phoenix. The
FCC
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granted the license on September 29, 1992. Originally, K58DV aired programming from
The Box, a music video channel based in the
UK. In February 1996, the station took the call letters KPHZ-LP.
In 2000, the station changed its programming to America's Collectibles Network, or ACN (now Jewelry Television). In September 2002, Venture Technologies Group sold KPHZ-LP to
NBC
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Telemundo
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, along with stations KPHZ and KPSW-CA (now
KTAZ and
KPDF-CD
KPDF-CD, virtual channel 41 (UHF digital channel 22), is a low-powered, Class A Canal de la Fe-affiliated television station in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. The station is owned by HC2 Holdings, and is carried on several cable systems in ...
, respectively). In June 2006, as part of the
Telemundo/Daystar license swap, NBC Telemundo sold KPHZ-LP to Daystar, along with station KDRX-CA (now
KDPH-LP). In August 2006, Daystar changed the station's call letters to KDTP-LP.
The station's license was cancelled by the
Federal Communications Commission
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on March 17, 2016.
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