KUPB (channel 18) is a
television station
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licensed to
Midland, Texas
Midland is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Midland County with small portions extending into Martin County. The population was 132,524 as of the 2020 census. Located in the Permian Basin in West Texas, Midland is a ...
, United States, serving the
Permian Basin area as an affiliate of the Spanish-language network
Univision
Univision () is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television, free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the L ...
. The station is owned by
Entravision Communications
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, and has studios on Younger Road in Midland; its transmitter is located on University Boulevard in
West Odessa.
History
The station commenced broadcasting on
analog channel 18 on May 14, 2001. KUPB moved to
digital broadcasting
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on June 12, 2009, at 9 a.m., "
flash-cutting" to digital channel 18 after a temporary (3 minutes) signal outage. KUPB moved to
high definition (
1080i
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) at 10 a.m. on May 3, 2010.
In 2013, KUPB added a secondary station, KUPB-DT2, and began airing ZUUS Latino on 18.2. In 2014, it removed ZUUS Latino and replaced it with
LATV
LATV (; originally pronounced on-air as from 2007 to 2014 and, since 2014, serving as a backronym for its on-air slogan, "Latino Alternative Television") is an American bilingual broadcast television network, digital publisher and media company ...
.
In 2018, KUPB added two additional subchannels that broadcast English programming.
News operation
was launched on November 5, 2007, to provide news for the viewers in the Permian Basin. KUPB had been airing two-minute newsbriefs since August 2003. On October 13, 2008, the name of the newscast was changed to and began to be simulcast on
San Angelo sister station
KEUS-LP. In 2015, Entravision transferred production of KUPB's newscasts to
El Paso
El Paso (; ; or ) is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States. The 2020 United States census, 2020 population of the city from the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the List of ...
sister station
KINT-TV
KINT-TV (channel 26) is a television station in El Paso, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language network Univision. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside UniMás affiliate KTFN (channel 65). The two stations sha ...
.
Subchannels
The station's signal is
multiplexed
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:
Notes
References
External links
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2001 establishments in Texas
Court TV affiliates
Entravision Communications stations
LATV affiliates
Spanish-language television stations in Texas
Television channels and stations established in 2001
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