KUKC-LD (channel 14) is a
low-power television station in
Kansas City, Missouri
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, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language network
Univision
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. The station is owned by Bridge Media Networks, baked by entrepreneur
Manoj Bhargava. KUKC-LD's offices and
master control facilities are located on West 31st Street in the
Westside South section of Kansas City, Missouri, and its transmitter is located near 27th Street in the city's
Western Blue Township section.
Until 2018 when
KGKC-LD started carrying
Telemundo, KUKC had the distinction of being the only standalone
Spanish-language
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television station in the Kansas City market (
KSMO-TV (channel 62) carried
MundoMax on its second
digital subchannel before that network's shutdown in late November 2016), but remains the only Univision network affiliate in the state of Missouri.
History
The station first signed on the air in 1989 as K29CF; it originally operated as an affiliate of the
home shopping network
ValueVision. To allow full-power outlet KCWB (channel 29, now
KCWE) to sign on the air, the station relocated to UHF channel 48 in 1996, and changed its callsign to K48FS. It remained a ValueVision affiliate, however it also carried children's programming during the afternoon hours (such as ''
The Flintstones
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'' and ''
Mighty Max'').
In 2004, the station was purchased by
Equity Media Holdings. Shortly after it was finalized, in January 2005, the station became the market's Univision affiliate; reflecting this, its callsign was changed to KUKC-LP (for "Univision Kansas City"). On December 8, 2008, Equity Media Holdings filed for
Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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protection;
it then began to sell off its television station properties. KUKC was sold to SP Television on June 2, 2009.
The sale closed on August 17, 2009.
SP Television reached a deal to sell KUKC to Media Vista Group on December 21, 2012.
On September 18, 2023, it was announced that KUKC-LD and sister station
WUMN-LD in
Minneapolis
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would be sold to Bridge News LLC, led by investor
Manoj Bhargava, for $2.25 million; the sale does not include the stations' Univision affiliations.
The sale was completed on March 1, 2024.
Subchannels
The station's signal is
multiplexed:
References
External links
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Television channels and stations established in 1989
Television stations in the Kansas City metropolitan area
Univision affiliates