KYAZ
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Katy/Houston, Texas United States | |
|---|---|
| City | Katy, Texas[1] |
| Branding | Azteca Houston |
| Slogan | Tu Casa .mw-parser-output span.small-textfont-size:85% (Spanish: Your Home) |
| Channels | Digital: 47 (UHF) (to move to 25 (UHF)) Virtual: 51 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Translators | KTJA-LP 51 Victoria (license canceled, dark) KYAZ-LP 41 Midland–Odessa |
| Affiliations | Azteca América (O&O) |
| Owner | HC2 Holdings (HC2 Network, Inc.) |
| First air date | November 3, 1993 (1993-11-03)[2] |
| Call letters' meaning | Y-AZteca America |
| Former callsigns | KNWS-TV (1993–2010)[3] |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 51 (UHF, 1993–2009) Digital: 52 (UHF, 2002–2009) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1993–2010) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW 625 kW (CP)[4] |
| Height | 597 m (1,959 ft) 595 m (1,952 ft) (CP)[4] |
| Facility ID | 31870[1] |
| Transmitter coordinates | 29°33′44″N 95°30′35″W / 29.56222°N 95.50972°W / 29.56222; -95.50972Coordinates: 29°33′44″N 95°30′35″W / 29.56222°N 95.50972°W / 29.56222; -95.50972[4] |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: | Profile CDBS |
KYAZ, virtual channel 51 (UHF digital channel 47),[1] is an Azteca América owned-and-operated television station serving Houston, Texas, United States that is licensed to Katy. The station is owned by HC2 Holdings. KYAZ's studios are located at One Arena Place on Bissonnet Street on Houston's southwest side, and its transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County. The station is also available on Comcast Xfinity channel 2 and AT&T U-verse channel 51, and in high definition on Xfinity channel 616.
Contents
1 History
1.1 As an independent station
1.2 Sale to Una Vez Más
2 Digital television
2.1 Digital channels
2.2 Analog-to-digital conversion
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
History
As an independent station
The station first signed on the air on November 3, 1993 as KNWS-TV, a 24-hour all-news station that was owned by Johnson Broadcasting.[2] The all-news format featured special segments, and pre-recorded newscasts that were looped, then updated, throughout the day. Throughout 1995, the station simulcast live coverage of the O.J. Simpson murder trial from KTLA in Los Angeles.
KNWS began cutting back on its news programming in November 1996; following a canceled sale to home shopping operator Global Broadcasting Systems in 1997,[5][6] the station abandoned its all-news format entirely on January 1, 1998 and became a traditional independent station, broadcasting syndicated classic television series and movies,[7] as well as Houston Astros baseball games (many of the games were also simulcast on sister station KLDT in Lake Dallas, Texas). It also maintained local news updates, using the remains of the station's old newsroom. During this time, the station adopted the slogan "TV 51 Has The Shows You Know". By 2000, however, some of the programming had been dropped in favor of infomercials, a trend that would continue over the next decade. The Astros remained on KNWS until 2008, when the team's game telecasts moved to KTXH (channel 20).
Some NBC shows that KPRC-TV (channel 2) declined to air also aired on KNWS. Two such NBC programs were the daytime talk show, Leeza, which briefly aired on KNWS in 1998, and the soap opera, Passions, which also briefly aired on the station in 2001. In 1996, KNWS carried NBC Sports coverage of Notre Dame football home games as well as the Breeders' Cup. In 2000, KNWS carried Game 6 of the 2000 American League Championship Series (coincidentally, the last MLB game aired by NBC to date).
During the non-stop coverage of 2005's Hurricane Rita on Houston's news-producing stations, KNWS carried CBS network programs, on behalf of its local affiliate, KHOU (channel 11), which pre-empted them in order to run special coverage of the storm. KNWS repeated this pattern during Hurricane Ike.
Prior to the Una Vez Más sale, KNWS had made plans to add the Retro Television Network on a digital subchannel,[8] but due to the bankruptcy filing, that plan was scrapped. Instead, reflecting the pending sale to Una Vez Más, an Azteca América subchannel was added to the station's digital signal as channel 51.2 on April 25, 2010. RTV ended up on KUVM-CD, a Mako Communications station, and the previous affiliate of Azteca América in Houston.
Sale to Una Vez Más
Johnson Broadcasting filed for bankruptcy protection in October 2008. One year later, impatient creditors asked the bankruptcy court to allow the sale of KNWS and KLDT. Una Vez Más Holdings, LLC emerged as the leading bidder.[9][10] The sale to Una Vez Más was approved by the bankruptcy court on December 29, 2009,[11] and finally received FCC approval on September 27, 2010 after the Commission rejected a petition to deny the sale made by Spanish Broadcasting System.[12] The new owners reserved the KAZH call letters,[13] but changed them instead to KYAZ.[3]
KYAZ began simulcasting Azteca América on subchannels 51.1 and 51.2 on December 29, 2010, the same day its new call letters were approved.[10]Cold Case Files was acquired by KUBE-TV (channel 57), and weekly episodes of Cheaters moved to KIAH (channel 39). The weekly Heart of the Nation Catholic Mass also moved to KUBE-TV. It is unknown if more of channel 51's former meager programming inventory relocated to other stations.
In 2014, Una Vez Mas' TV assets (including KYAZ) were then sold to Northstar Media, LLC. In turn, HC2 Holdings acquired Northstar Media in addition to Azteca América on November 29, 2017, making KYAZ an Azteca owned-and-operated station.[14]
Digital television
Digital channels
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming[15][16] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KYAZ-1 | Azteca América |
| 51.2 | 480i | 4:3 | Advent | Advent (in Spanish) |
| 51.3 | SGN-TV | Saigon Network Television (in Vietnamese) | ||
| 51.4 | NTD-TV | New Tang Dynasty Television (in Chinese) | ||
| 51.5 | QVCplus | QVC2 | ||
| 51.6 | VietGM | Global Mall TV (in Vietnamese) | ||
| 51.7 | Evine | Evine |
Analog-to-digital conversion
KYAZ-TV (as KNWS) discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 51, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[17] The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 52, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to UHF channel 47,[18][19] using PSIP to display KYAZ's virtual channel as 51 on digital television receivers.
See also
KAZD (Lake Dallas, Texas)
References
^ abc "Station Search Details". Federal Communications Commission. June 16, 2009. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
^ ab Hodges, Ann (November 3, 1993). "City gets local news TV station". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved August 31, 2012.
^ ab "Call Sign History". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
^ abc "TV Query Results". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved August 12, 2017.
^ McDaniel, Mike (April 24, 1997). "Channel 51 to be sold for $40 million". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved August 31, 2012.
^ McDaniel, Mike (May 22, 1997). "Channel 51 may not be sold after all". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved August 31, 2012.
^ McDaniel, Mike (November 18, 1997). "Channel 51 plans to change format". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved August 31, 2012.
^ "RTN Adds KLDT Dallas; U.S. Clearance Tops 65%". TV Newscheck. May 4, 2009.
^ "Creditors pushing sale of Houston TV station". Houston Chronicle. October 21, 2009.
^ ab Barron, David (2010-12-31). "Houston's Channel 51 switches to Spanish format". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2010-12-31.
^ "Court Approves KNWS, KLDT Sale: Johnson Broadcasting stations sold to Una Vez Mas Holdings". Broadcasting & Cable. December 29, 2009.
^ "FCC approves challenged Texas TV transaction". Radio Business Report/Television Business Report. September 27, 2010. Archived from the original on December 24, 2010. Retrieved September 27, 2010.
^ "Media Bureau Call Sign Actions". Federal Communications Commission. October 6, 2010. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
^ Azteca America Acquired by HC2 Holdings Unit - Broadcasting & Cable (accessed March 19, 2018)
^ RabbitEars TV Query for KYAZ
^ "KYAZ Channel 51 Television". Station Index. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
^ List of Digital Full-Power Stations Archived 2013-08-29 at the Wayback Machine.
^ CDBS Print
^ Consumer Watch: Stations have more DTV work to do, Houston Chronicle, February 6, 2009.
External links
Azteca America Houston - Official Facebook page- Station Profile on UVM's Official website
Azteca América Official website (in Spanish)- Query the FCC's TV station database for KYAZ
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KYAZ-TV