Telemundo Station Group
Telemundo Station Group is the division of NBCUniversal Owned TV Stations (NBCUniversal), a subsidiary of Comcast that oversees their Telemundo owned-and-operated television stations. The NBC owned-and-operated stations are held in the separate NBC Owned Television Stations division.
| Division | |
| Industry | Broadcast television |
| Parent | NBCUniversal Owned TV Stations (NBCUniversal TV and Streaming) |
| Divisions | 25 TV stations |
| Website | nbcstations |
History
Telemundo was formed as NetSpan in 1984 by the owners of WNJU in Linden, New Jersey (serving the New York City area) and KSTS in San Jose, California. These stations joined KVEA in Los Angeles in 1985.[1] The following year, KVEA's part-owner, Reliance Group Holdings, purchased John Blair & Co., which owned WKAQ-TV in San Juan, Puerto Rico, branded on air as Telemundo, and WSCV in Fort Lauderdale–Miami-West Palm Beach. In late 1986, Reliance took control over WNJU and KSTS.
In 1987, Reliance merged all these stations into the Telemundo Group.[2] The new corporation quickly went public, and in 1987, Reliance decided to rebrand NetSpan as Telemundo. Later that year, it purchased KTMD in Houston and KVDA in San Antonio.
In 1997, Liberty Media and Sony Pictures Entertainment purchased a majority interest in Telemundo from Reliance Capital Group.[3] NBC would then purchase Telemundo from Sony and Liberty Media in 2001.[4]
In July 2013, NBC Owned Television Stations and Telemundo's O&Os stations were brought together under a newly formed division, NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations, under NBC TV Station president Valari Staab.[5]
Stations
| City of license / Market | Station | Channel TV (RF) |
Owned since | Secondary owned networks[6] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phoenix | KTAZ | 39 (39) | 2002 | TeleX |
| Tucson, Arizona | KHRR | 40 (40) | 2002 | TeleX, LX |
| Fresno, California | KNSO | 51 (11) | 2003 | |
| Corona/Los Angeles | KVEA[n1 1] | 52 (39) | 1985 | TelX |
| Sacramento, California | KCSO-LD ^^[n1 2] | 34 (3) | 2019 | TeleX, LX |
| KMUM-CD[n1 2] (repeater of KCSO-LD) |
33 (31) | 2019 | ||
| KMMW-LD[n1 2] (repeater of KCSO-LD) |
33 (28) | 2019 | ||
| Poway/San Diego | KUAN-LD | 48 (17) | 2017 | TELX |
| San Jose/San Francisco | KSTS[n1 1] | 48 (49) | 1984 | TELX, LX |
| Salinas/Monterey | K15CU-D[n1 3][n1 4] | 15 (15) | 1990 | Cozi, LX, TELX |
| Denver | KDEN-TV | 25 (29) | 2006 | Cozi, LX, TELX |
| Hartford | WRDM-CD[n1 5] | 50 (19) | 2018 | TELX |
| Washington, D.C. | WZDC-CD[n1 5] | 25 (25) | 2018 | TELX |
| Fort Myers | WWDT-CD[n1 5] | 43 (43) | 2018 | LX (soon) |
| Miami | WSCV[n1 1] | 51 (30) | 1987 | TELX |
| Orlando | WTMO-CD[n1 5] | 31 (31) | 2018 | TELX, LX (soon) |
| Tampa | WRMD-CD | 49 (49) | 2018 | TELX, LX |
| Chicago | WSNS-TV[n1 6] ‡‡ | 44 (45) | 1996 | TELX |
| Merrimack, New Hampshire/Boston, Massachusetts | WNEU | 60 (34) | 2002 | LX |
| Springfield, Massachusetts | WDMR-LD[n1 5] | 14 (23) | 2018 | TELX, LX |
| Las Vegas | KBLR | 39 (40) | 2005 | TELX, COZI, LX |
| Linden, New Jersey/New York, New York | WNJU[n1 1] | 47 (36) | 1984 | TeleX |
| Atlantic City, New Jersey/Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | WWSI | 49 (62) | 2013 | TeleX |
| Raleigh, North Carolina | WRTD-CD[n1 5] | 54 (15) | 2018 | |
| San Juan, Puerto Rico | WKAQ-TV[n1 3][n1 7] | 2 (28) | 1987 | NBC, LX (soon) |
| Providence, Rhode Island | WRIW-CD[n1 5] | 50 (36) | 2018 | |
| WYCN-LD[n1 3][n1 8] | 8 (36) | 2016 | TELX, COZI, LX (soon) | |
| Dallas/Fort Worth | KXTX-TV | 39 (40) | 2001 | TeleX |
| Houston | KTMD[n1 3] | 47 (48) | 1987 | TeleX, Cozi, LX |
| Las Cruces, New Mexico/El Paso, Texas | KTDO[n1 5] | 48 (47) | 2018 | TeleX, LX |
| Rio Grande City, Texas | KTLM | 40 (40) | 2013 | TeleX, Cozi, LX |
| San Antonio | KVDA[n1 3] | 60 (38) | 1989 | TeleX, Cozi, LX |
| Salt Lake City | KTMW[n1 2] | 20 (20) | 2019 | TeleX, LX |
| KULX-CD[n1 2] (repeater of KTMW) |
10 (14) | 2019 | ||
| KEJT-CD (repeater of KTMW) |
50 (21) | 1993 | ||
| Richmond, Virginia | WZTD-LD[n1 5] | 45 (45) | 2018 | LX (soon) |
- Original "NetSpan" station (predecessor network to what would become Telemundo)
- a station owned by Serestar Communications before its sale to NBC Universal's Telemundo Station Group in 2019
- a station built and signed on by Telemundo
- Though traditionally owned by Telemundo as a translator of KSTS, since 2014 this station has carried Cozi TV in English on its primary channel and no longer carries Telemundo programming.
- Indicates a station owned by ZGS Communications before its sale to NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group in 2018
- This station was jointly owned by Ensaness Communications from 1996 to 2003.
- Since 2014, WKAQ-TV also carries a mainly WNBC-sourced NBC affiliate, NBC Puerto Rico, in English on their DT3 channel.
- This station was originally owned by Telemundo as its Boston station, W32AY, from 1995 to 2001. It was acquired by NBCUniversal in 2016 and served as the primary station for NBC Boston from 2017 to 2019 before being moved to Providence.
References
- Felix Gutierrez (June 1, 1986). "Spanish Media in L.A. on Upswing". Los Angeles Times. Times Mirror Company. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
- "TELEMUNDO - The Museum of Broadcast Communications". Museum of Broadcast Communications. Retrieved April 27, 2010.
- Marla Matzer (November 25, 1997). "Telemundo Agrees to Be Acquired by Sony, Liberty". Los Angeles Times. Times Mirror Company. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
- "NBC speaks Spanish". CNN Money. Time Warner. October 11, 2001. Retrieved November 7, 2015.
- "NBC's Owned Stations Reorganize". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
- "Stations for Owner - NBC". RabbitEars.info. Retrieved June 3, 2020.