KXOF-CD (channel 31) is a
low-power,
Class A television station in
Laredo, Texas
Laredo ( ; ) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Webb County, Texas, Webb County, on the north bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, across from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Founded in 1755, Laredo grew from a villag ...
, United States, affiliated with the
Fox network. It is owned by
Entravision Communications
Entravision Communications Corporation is an American media company based in Santa Monica, California. Entravision primarily caters to the Spanish language in the United States, Spanish-speaking Hispanic and Latino Americans, Hispanic community ...
alongside
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 ...
affiliate
KLDO-TV (channel 27) and Class A
UniMás
UniMás (, stylized as ''UNIMÁS'', and originally known as TeleFutura from its launch on January 14, 2002, to January 6, 2013) is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television, free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. ...
affiliate
KETF-CD (channel 39). The three stations share studios on Monarch Drive in Laredo; KXOF-CD's transmitter is located on Shea Street north of downtown.
KXOF-CD and
Harlingen-based
KFXV (channel 60), which serves the
Rio Grande Valley to the southeast, use the same newscast called ''Fox News South Texas'' which is divided into two segments; Laredo news (originating from KXOF) and Rio Grande Valley news (originating from KFXV).
History
The station began on July 28, 1997, as K15EZ, an affiliate of
Enlace, a Spanish-language
religious
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network. It moved from channel 15 to channel 25 on June 29, 1999, as K25GN, and became an affiliate of
Pax on August 6, 1999. From October 4, 1999, to March 7, 2005, the station carried the call sign KZLD-LP. Entravision bought the station on March 8, 2005, simultaneously switching the station to a
Spanish-language
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Telefutura network as KETF-CA. In 2009, KETF-CA went off the air due to
XHBR transmitting digitally on channel 25.1. In June of that year, KETF-CA applied for a permit to start transmitting digitally on channel 31.1. In January 2010, the permit was granted. The station changed its call sign to KETF-CD on January 3, 2011.
KETF-CD and its sister station KXOF-CD swapped call signs on December 13, 2018.
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Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
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KXOF 31 WebsiteKXOF TV Schedule
1997 establishments in Texas
Entravision Communications stations
Fox Broadcasting Company affiliates
XOF-CD
MyNetworkTV affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1997
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