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

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, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language network

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. It is owned by

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alongside

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affiliate

KLDO-TV KLDO-TV (channel 27) is a television station in Laredo, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language network Univision. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside two low-power, Class A stations: UniMás affiliate KETF-C ...

(channel 27) and Class A

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affiliate KXOF-CD (channel 31). The three stations share studios on Monarch Drive in Laredo; KETF-CD's transmitter is located on Shea Street north of downtown.

History

From 1999 to 2007 (under the ownership of the executors of Carlos Ortiz's estate, who were also the co-founders of La Familia Network and Fe-TV), it broadcast programming from

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24 hours a day, as KNEZ-LP. In March 2007, the station was acquired by Entravision Communications Corporation, owners of KLDO-TV and KETF-CD, with the intent to affiliate the station with the Fox network. In July 2007, Entravision changed the station's callsign to KXOF-CA and began to air Fox programming. With this change,

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Fox affiliate

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(which was carried on

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's Laredo system) was removed from the provider's lineup due to

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rules. On August 1, 2012, KXOF-CA turned off its analog signal and started broadcasting Fox in

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on virtual channel 39.1 and MundoFox in

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on 39.2. MundoFox, which rebranded to

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in 2015, folded on November 30, 2016. In February 2017, KXOF-CD began to carry

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on 39.2. Prior to this affiliation, Azteca América was carried solely through the network's national feed on Time Warner Cable. KETF-CD and sister station KXOF-CD swapped call letters on December 13, 2018, resulting in the Fox/MyNetworkTV affiliate retaining the KXOF-CD call letters and KETF-CD now being a dual UniMás/Azteca-affiliated station.RabbitEars TV Query for KXOF-CD
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Subchannels

The station's signal is

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References

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