KAZR-CA

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KAZR-CA
Reno, Nevada
Branding	Azteca America Reno
Channels	46 (UHF) analog
Affiliations	Azteca America
Owner	Pappas Telecasting Reno License LLC
Founded	June 14, 1988
Call letters meaning	AZteca Reno
Former callsigns	KUVR-CA, KUVR-LP, K68FO (CP only), K47CO
Former affiliations	Univision
Transmitter Power	93.9 kW
Height	881 m
Class	Class A
Facility ID	34577
Website	www.pappastv.com/profile.php?id=10

KAZR-CA is a low-power Class A television station in Reno, Nevada, broadcasting locally in analog on channel 46 as an affiliate of Azteca America. Founded June 14, 1988, the station is owned by Pappas Telecasting.

[edit] History

The station began with an original construction permit granted on June 14, 1988 to Que Television Production Inc. to build low-power television station K47CO to serve the Reno area. Shortly after getting the permit, Que Television Production sold the station to K-Fun Television Inc. After several extensions of the construction permit, K-Fun Television sold the station to Kidd Communications. There were more extensions of the permit, but Kidd Communications completed the construction, and the station was granted its initial license on July 12, 1995. Initial programming for the station is unknown.

Less than one month after licensing, Pappas Telecasting acquired the station, eventually making it a Univision affiliate. In December 1996, the FCC granted Pappas Telecasting a permit to move the station to UHF channel 68. Callsign K68HO was reserved for the station to take effect upon licensing, but the calls were never used. Instead, the station took the call letters KUVR-LP in February 1998, reflecting their status as the Univision station for Reno. KUVR-LP moved to channel 68 in April 1999.

In November 2001, Pappas Telecasting dropped the Univision network for a fledgling Spanish-language network starting up in the US, controlled in part by Pappas. The new network was called Azteca America and was an offshoot of the Mexican broadcaster TV Azteca. Pappas also obtained a Class A license for KUVR-LP, granted March 25, 2002, giving the station a measure of protection during the switchover to digital television that was beginning. The station changed call letters once again, this time to KUVR-CA. Later in the year, the station was granted a license to operate channel 68, but couldn't stay there, since their new status as a Class A station required them to be within the "core spectrum", i.e., channels 2 - 51. They requested and were granted permission to move to UHF channel 46 in January 2003 and was licensed on channel 46 in December 5, 2005. In the midst of the move, the station changed call letters once again, this time to KAZR-CA to reflect their Azteca affiliation.

[edit] Programming

As a Class A station, KAZR-CA is required to air a certain amount of locally-produced programming. The station fulfills that requirement with a daily 30-minute local newscast at 6:00 PM, called Noticiero Azteca Reno. The newscast is repeated at 11:00 PM and 1:00 AM and is the only local Spanish-language newscast in northern Nevada.

[edit] External links

• KAZR-CA profile
• Pappas Telecasting Official site
• Azteca America Official site
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KAZR-CA