KPHE-LP
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| Phoenix, Arizona | |
| Branding | Inspiracion 44 |
| Channels | 44 (UHF) analog |
| Affiliations | TV Inspiración |
| Owner | Lotus Communications Corporation |
| Founded | March 17, 1992 |
| Call letters meaning | PHoEnix |
| Former callsigns | K19DD |
| Former affiliations | Bloomberg News, Bohemia Visual Music |
| Transmitter Power | 10 kW |
| Height | 500 m |
| Facility ID | 30885 |
| Website | http://www.lotuscorp.com |
KPHE-LP is a low-power television station in Phoenix, Arizona, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 44 from its transmitter on South Mountain. Founded March 17, 1992, it is owned by Lotus Communications Corporation of Los Angeles, California and is an affiliate of TV Inspiración, a Spanish-language Christian network based in Dallas, Texas.
[edit] History
On March 17, 1992, the FCC granted an original construction permit to build low-power television station K19DD on UHF channel 19 to serve Phoenix and the East Valley. The station was owned by Scottsdale publisher Harlan L. Jacobsen, with transmitter location on Usery Mountain in east Mesa. K19DD was granted an initial license on July 13, 1995, as an affiliate of the Bloomberg Television network. In June 1998, Jacobsen was granted a construction permit to operate an experimental broadcast station using the facilities of K19DD to broadcast in digital format.
In September 1999, Jacobsen sold the station to US Interactive LLC, who soon afterward, changed its call letters to KPHE-LP. In December 2000, the station became part of a pilot program to study the feasibility of using low-power UHF television stations to deliver wireless data services to subscribers [1] [2]. The Digital Data Services Act Pilot Project ran from December 2000 through 2002, during which time, KPHE-LP was unavailable as an over-the-air analog broadcast station.
After the pilot project was complete, KPHE programming consisted of a camera focused on a fish tank. Viewers could watch the fish while music played in the background. [3] That changed in October 2003, when Valley residents Jeff Crawford and Jennifer Harris Crawford leased the station from US Interactive and took over its operations. The Crawfords had been operating a music video service called Bohemia AfterDark since 1982, and launched Bohemia Visual Music (BVM), a 24/7 music video channel, carried exclusively on KPHE channel 19.
In January 2004, Bohemia Visual Music brokered the sale of KPHE-LP from US Interactive to Lotus Communications Corporation.[citation needed] The sale was finalized in March, and the station continued to be operated by the Crawfords as Bohemia Visual Music. In March 2006, the station moved from channel 19 to channel 44, moved broadcast facilities from Usery Mountain to the South Mountain antenna farm, and upgraded their broadcast signal in preparation for future digital broadcasting.
Lotus Communications decided to go in a different direction in July 2006, and replaced Bohemia Visual Music programming with TV Inspiración, a Spanish-language Christian programming service.
[edit] Programming
As an affiliate of TV Inspiración, KPHE airs Spanish-language Christian programming. Initially, the station was different from most Christian TV stations in that their programming was made up not of preaching and instruction, but almost entirely of music videos, including footage of worship services that had been shot live. In time, the station began adding talk shows and other Bible-based instruction.
[edit] External links
- Old KPHE/BVM website (2004 - before move to channel 44)
- Bohemia Visual Music My Space site
- Lotus Communications Corp
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KPHE-LP
| Broadcast television in the Phoenix / Flagstaff / Kingman market (Nielsen DMA #13) | ||
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KNAZ 2 (NBC) - KTVK 3 (Ind) - KPHO 5 (CBS) - KMOH 6 / KEJR-LP 43 (Ind) - KNJO-LP 6 (A1) - KAZT 7 / 27 (Ind) - KAET 8 (PBS) - KCFG 9 (A1) - KBBA-LP 10 (CAM) - KSAZ 10 (Fox) - KDTP 11 / 48 (DS) - KPNX 12 (NBC) - KFPH 13 / 35 (TFU) - KNXV 15 (ABC) - KZOL-LP 15 (UNI) - K18DD / K23FZ (3ABN / ShopNBC) - K19FD 19 (HOPE) - KPAZ 21 (TBN) - K21GC 21 (TFU) - K21GE 21 (3ABN) - KTVP-LP 22 (Almavision) - K25AL 25 (TBN) - K25DM 25 (HSN) - K25HD 25 / K27EC 27 (CTVN) - KCAB-LP 28 (A1) - KCOS-LP 28 (ID) - KQBN-LP 28 (Silent) - KTVW 33 / 6 (UNI) - K36DU 36 (Worship) - KKAX-LP 36 (A1) - KVSW-LP 38 (A1) - KTAZ 39 (TEL) - KPDF-CA 41 (AZA) - KVPA-LP 42 (LAT) - KPHE-LP 44 (TV Inspiracion) - KLHU-CA 45 (Ind) - KUTP 45 (MNTV) - KPPX 51 (i) - K53GF 53 (Ind) - K57HX 57 (HSN) - KDTP-LP 58 (JTV) - KASW 61 (The CW) |
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| Defunct television channels | ||
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Telefutura affiliates: KFTU 3 / 34 (Douglas / Tucson) - KFPH 13 / 35 (Flagstaff / Phoenix) - K21GC 21 (Safford) |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, Religious, and Other English stations in Arizona | |
