KNIC-DT
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| Blanco/San Antonio, Texas United States | |
|---|---|
| City | Blanco, Texas |
| Branding | UniMás 17 |
| Channels |
Digital: 18 (UHF) Virtual: 17 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | |
| Affiliations | UniMás (O&O) |
| Owner |
Univision Communications (UniMas Partnership San Antonio) |
| Founded | July 13, 2005 |
| First air date | September 28, 2006 |
| Call letters' meaning | from former station on channel 17, KNIC-CD |
| Sister station(s) |
TV: KWEX-DT Radio: KBBT, KCOR, KMYO, KROM, KXTN-FM |
| Former callsigns | KNIC-TV (2006–2009) |
| Former channel number(s) |
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| Former affiliations | TeleFutura (2006–2013) |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 200 m (656 ft) |
| Facility ID | 125710 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 29°41′48″N 98°30′45″W / 29.69667°N 98.51250°WCoordinates: 29°41′48″N 98°30′45″W / 29.69667°N 98.51250°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | UniMás |
KNIC-DT, virtual channel 17 (UHF digital channel 18), is a UniMás owned-and-operated television station serving San Antonio, Texas, United States that is licensed to Blanco. The station is owned by the Univision Local Media subsidiary of Univision Communications, as part of a duopoly with San Antonio-licensed Univision owned-and-operated station KWEX-DT (channel 41). The two stations share studios on Durango Boulevard in the Southtown district of downtown San Antonio; KNIC's transmitter is located on Hogan Drive in Timberwood Park. Although Blanco is geographically within the Austin market, that city has its own UniMás station, KTFO-CD.
On cable, KNIC-DT is available on Charter Spectrum channel 19, and Grande Communications and AT&T U-verse channel 17.
History
KNIC-DT's history traces back to the March 1991 sign-on of K17BY, a low-power television station that San Antonio-based Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) was issued a construction permit to build on March 23, 1988; operating on UHF channel 17, Clear Channel sold the station in March 1991 to Nicolas Communications. In November 1997, the station changed its calls to KNIC-LP (in reference to its owners); Nicolas Communications sold KNIC-CA in November 2001 (the station received approval to upgrade its license to Class A status that same month) to Univision Communications, a sale that was completed in January 2002; that month, it became a charter affiliate of Univision's secondary network, TeleFutura (which relaunched as UniMás on February 7, 2013).
Univision had applied for a license to build a full-power television station in 2000 on UHF channel 52 in Blanco; after the Federal Communications Commission awarded Univision the license at auction, Univision requested that the FCC move the allocation to UHF channel 17; the request was granted in February 2003.[1] KNIC-TV was founded on July 13, 2005. The formal application for KNIC-TV called for Univision to either move KNIC-CA to another channel, or to shut it down outright,[2] KNIC-CA moved to channel 34 under special temporary authorization, before it ceased operations on September 28, 2006. KNIC-DT was one of the few television stations to have been built and signed on by Univision Communications.
Digital television
Digital channels
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
| Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming[3] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KNIC-DT | Main KNIC-DT programming / UniMás |
| 17.3 | 480i | ESCAPE | Escape | |
| 17.4 | 4:3 | LAFF | Laff | |
Analog-to-digital conversion
Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997 , the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. KNIC-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 17, on June 12, 2009. The station "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 18,[4] using PSIP to display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 17.
References
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-08-26. Retrieved 2006-12-15.
- ↑ http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getattachment_exh.cgi?exhibit_id=256547%5Bpermanent+dead+link%5D
- ↑ "RabbitEars.Info". www.rabbitears.info. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
- ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.