KUPT-LD (channels 2 and 16) is a

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, United States. Owned by the

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subsidiary of

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, it is

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KASA-TV (channel 2), KTEL-CD (channel 15), and KRTN-LD (channel 33). KUPT-LD's transmitter is located at

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History

KUPT-LD has been on the air since late August 2014 airing both Movies! and

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. In early February 2015, H&I was added and became the main channel but in May it moved to channel 16.3 with Movies! returning to 16.1. On February 2, 2016, GetTV moved to

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affiliate

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's second

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, and then later to

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channel 50.3 on January 14, 2017. On January 18, 2017, Ramar Communications took over the operations of KASA-TV a full powered station and former

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network affiliate. Telemundo has replaced Fox on channel 2.1 while H&I was shown on channel 29.1 and Movies! on 33.1. Since then KUPT-LD has continued to air these channels as duplicates, however it now serves to provide additional Spanish-language programming remapped to 2.2. The FCC spectrum auction which concluded on April 13, 2017, removes part of the UHF spectrum from channels 38–51 for television broadcast. KTFQ-TV was assigned the channel 16 position moving over from channel 42 as part of a spectrum repacking. This displaced KUPT-LD which had to move to a different channel number to continue broadcasting. In 2019, it moved to digital channel 32 while remapping to virtual channels 2 and 16.

Subchannels

The station's signal is

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References

2014 establishments in New Mexico Cozi TV affiliates UPT-LD Mass media in Albuquerque, New Mexico Movies! affiliates Roar (TV network) affiliates Telemundo Station Group Television channels and stations established in 2014 TeleXitos affiliates {{NewMexico-tv-station-stub