KUPB

KUPB
Midland–Odessa, Texas
United States
City Midland, Texas
Branding Univision 18
Slogan Siempre contigo
(Yours Always)
Channels Digital: 18 (UHF)
Virtual: 18 (PSIP)
Subchannels 18.1 Univision
18.2 LATV
18.3 Comet
18.4 Charge!
Affiliations Univision
Owner Entravision Communications
(Entravision Holdings, LLC)
First air date May 14, 2001 (2001-05-14)
Call letters' meaning Univision Permian Basin
Sister station(s) KANG-LP, KEUS-LD
Former channel number(s) Analog:
18 (UHF, 2001–2009)
Transmitter power 1000 kW
Height 281 m (922 ft)
Facility ID 86263
Transmitter coordinates 31°50′19.4″N 102°32′0.6″W / 31.838722°N 102.533500°W / 31.838722; -102.533500
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.univision18.com

KUPB, virtual and UHF digital channel 18, is a Univision-affiliated television station licensed to Midland, Texas, United States and serving the Permian Basin area. The station is owned by Entravision Communications. KUPB's studios are located on Younger Road in Midland, and its transmitter is located on University Boulevard in West Odessa.

History

The station commenced broadcasting on analog channel 18 on May 14, 2001. KUPB moved to digital broadcasting on June 12, 2009 at 9:00 a.m., "flash-cutting" to digital channel 18 after a temporary (3 minutes) signal outage. (KUPB was granted a construction permit after the Federal Communications Commission finalized the digital television allotment plan on April 21, 1997;[1] as a result, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station.)[2] KUPB moved to high definition (1080i) at 10 a.m. on May 3, 2010.

In 2013, KUPB added a secondary station, KUPB-DT2, and began airing ZUUS Latino on 18.2. In 2014, it removed ZUUS Latino and replaced it with LATV.

In 2018 KUPB added two additional secondary stations that broadcast English programming.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[3]
18.11080i16:9KUPB-DTMain KUPB programming / Univision
18.2480i4:3LATV
18.3Comet
18.4Charge!

News operation

KUPB's logo prior to January 1, 2013

Noticias 18 was launched on November 5, 2007 to provide news for the viewers in the Permian Basin. KUPB had been airing two-minute newsbriefs since August 2003. On October 13, 2008, the name of the newscast was changed to Noticias Oeste de Texas. In 2015, Entravision transferred production of KUPB's newscasts to El Paso sister station KINT-TV.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Final Digital TV (DTV) Channel Plan from FCC97-115
  2. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  3. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KUPB
  4. ↑ Villafañe, Veronica (November 3, 2015). "Entravision cancels KLUZ local newscast production, lays off staff". Media Moves. Retrieved March 12, 2018. Earlier this year, Entravision also shipped production of its Univision Midland/Odessa newscast to El Paso.


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