Azteca Utah

AZTECA BROADCASTING CORP.

KSVN-CA is a low-power Class A television station in Ogden, Utah, broadcasting locally in digital on channel 25 as an affiliate of Azteca America. It is also broadcasting digitally on channel 39 in Salt Lake City. Founded March 28, 1995, the station is owned by Azteca Broadcasting Company. Unlike many low-powered stations, it is seen on Channel 98 through Comcast cable in the Salt Lake City area in addition to its low powered signal.

History

The station began with an original construction permit issued to Rolando Collantes on March 28, 1995 to build a low-power station on UHF channel 21 to serve the Ogden, Utah, area. Station K21ET was licensed on March 1, 1996, with programming mostly from the Univision network. (Univision was later replaced with another network.) A month later, the station took the call letters KSVN-LP. In 1999, Collantes formed a new company, Azteca Broadcasting Company, and moved the station's license under the new entity. In September 2000, facing displacement from channel 21, the station moved to channel 49 and in December 2000, upgraded to a Class A license. They changed their call letters to KSVN-CA a month later. On October 16, 1995, Collantes was issued a construction permit to build a low-power translator station on UHF channel 66 to serve Salt Lake City. The station, given callsign K66FN, was also licensed on March 1, 1996. In July 2006, the station applied for permission to move to UHF channel 39. As of January 19, 2010, K66FN is off air on channel 66 and has begun broadcasting digitally on channel 39.;

June 12, 2009, was the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations in the United States, and does not apply to low power stations. Therefore, KSVN-CA has been able to convert to digital broadcasts on their own schedule. As of January 2010, KSVN's Salt Lake City translator (K66FN) has completed a construction permit to broadcast a digital signal. The main station has also applied to broadcast digitally on channel 25.1 (UHF). The new callsign is to be KSVN-LD.[1] K66FN, which served the Salt Lake City area, has been replaced by new digital channel 39.1 (K39JS-D)(UHF).