Everything about Ktsb-lp totally explained
KTSB-LP is a low-power
Class A television station in
Santa Barbara, California, broadcasting locally in
analog on
UHF channel 43 as an affiliate of
Telefutura. Founded
September 28,
1995, the station is owned and operated by
Entravision Communications and shares facilities with
Univision affiliate and sister station
KPMR. Although its callsign doesn't have a -CA suffix, KTSB-LP is a Class A television station. It broadcasts from Gibraltar Peak overlooking Santa Barbara and employs a network of four translator stations to extend its signal into
San Luis Obispo County. It is also seen on sister station
KPMR's digital signal on channel 38.2 / 21.2 in
Santa Barbara.
History
The
FCC granted a construction permit on
September 28,
1995 to build a low-power television station on UHF channel 43 to serve Santa Barbara. Melissa Harnett was the originally owner of the station, which was given the callsign
K43FA. Harnett licensed the station on
July 10,
1997. In June 1998, following the allotment of channel 43 to
Los Angeles independent television station KCAL for their digital facilities, Harnett attempted to move the station to a location about 15 mi (25 km) away, change the channel assignment to UHF 29 and to increase the power to the maximum 150 kW. The application would eventually be dismissed by the FCC. In October 1998, Harnett agreed to sell the station to JB Broadcasting Inc. The sale was approved by the FCC in April 1999 and consummated the following July. JB Broadcasting applied to upgrade the station's license to Class A and shortly after, agreed to sell the station to
Univision. The sale was approved in October 2001 and finalized in December and the station was granted a Class A license on
October 9,
2002. About the same time, Univision agreed to sell the station to Entravision Communications and the deal was finalized in November 2002.
Programming
KTSB-LP features programs from the Telefutura network, plus adds local and children's programming to fulfil its Class A license. A half-hour of the KMPR news, followed by a half-hour of other local programming from KPMR, aired three days a week, gives the station its necessary three hours weekly of locally-produced proramming. The Telefutura network schedule features long blocks of movies, some of which are dubbed from English into Spanish.
Translators
Four translator stations extend the reach of
KTSB-LP: station
K10OG in
Lompoc,
K17GD (formerly
K21EX) in
Paso Robles,
K28FK in
San Luis Obispo, California, and
K35ER in
Santa Maria. As all four markets are contiguous with each other, as well as with Santa Barbara, under FCC rules, all of the stations have become Class A stations.
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