KFTH-TV

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KFTH-TV

Alvin/Houston, Texas
Channels	67 (UHF) analog, 36 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	TeleFutura
Owner	Univisión
Founded	June 18, 1985
Call letters meaning	TeleFutura Houston
Former callsigns	KHSH (1987-2001) KTHT (1985-1987)
Former affiliations	Home Shopping Network (1987-2001) Independent (1985-1987)

KFTH-TV is a Spanish-language television station in Alvin, Texas, serving the Houston, Texas market as an affiliate of TeleFutura on channel 67. The station is owned by Univision, owners of TeleFutura.

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The station signed on in January 1986 as KTHT, under the ownership of 4 Star Broadcasting. It programmed a general entertainment format consisting of off-network drama shows, children's prorgramming, old movies, home shopping programming during the overnight hours, and major network programming not cleared by KTRK, KPRC or KHOU.

The station was unprofitable, and was sold to Silver King Broadcasting, which also owned the Home Shopping Network. The station changed its call letters to KHSH in November 1987, and began airing home shopping programming 24 hours a day.

There were plans to revert KHSH to a general entertainment station by 2001. However, Univision purchased the UHF stations owned by USA Broadcasting (which had been the parent company of Silver King since the mid-1990s). Most of those stations, including KHSH, were used to launch Univision's second network, Telefutura. As such, in January 2001, the station changed call letters to KFTH-TV, and became a Telefutura affiliate.

There were rumors that Tribune Company would buy KFTH-TV from Univision, essentially creating a duopoly in Houston with CW affiliate KHCW-TV (channel 39). As of 2006, this has not occurred.

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Query the FCC's TV station database for KFTH-TV

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Broadcast Television in the Houston market (Nielsen DMA #10)

KPRC 2 (NBC, WX Plus on DT2) - KUHT 8 (PBS) - KHOU 11 (CBS) - KTRK 13 (ABC, AccuWX TV on DT2) - KETH 14 (TBN) - KTXH 20 (MNTV) - KVQT 21 (Span. Rel.) - KLTJ 22 (DS) - KRIV 26 (Fox) - KCVH 30 (LAT TV) - KVIT 34 (Almavision) - KHCW 39 (The CW) - KHLM 43 (Multimedios) - KXLN 45 (UNI) - KTMD 47 (TEL) - KPXB 49 / KBPX 33 (ION) - KNWS 51 (Ind) - KTBU 55 (A1) - KAZH 57 / KHMV 28 / KVVV 53 (AZA) - KZJL 61 (Ind) - KFTH 67 (TFU)
Defunct television stations KVVV 16 (Ind)
Significantly Viewed Out-of-Market Broadcast Stations Reception may vary by geographical location KBTX 3 (CBS, Bryan)

Telefutura Network Affiliates in the state of Texas

KNIC 17 (Blanco/San Antonio) - KETF-CA 25 (Laredo) - KANG-CA 41 (San Angelo) - KCRP-CA 41 (Corpus Christi) - KSTR 49 (Irving) - KBVO-CA 51 (Austin) - KTFN 65 (El Paso) - KFTH 67 (Alvin)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetwork TV, NBC, PBS, Telemundo, Univision, Religious, Other English and Other Spanish stations in Texas

Univision Communications (a subsidiary of TPG Capital, L.P.)

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Television Networks: Galavisión | TeleFutura | Univision

Record Labels: Univision Records | Fonovisa | Disa Records

Other Television Stations: KUVI (MNTV affiliate) | WSTE (Independent)³

¹Univision owns the licenses. However these stations are operated by Entravision under a Local Marketing Agreement.

²Univision owns the license. However this station operates in a Joint Sales Agreement with Entravision.

³The station is locally owned. However thorugh WLII and WSUR-TV, Univision operates the station under a Local Marketing Agreement.

Annual Revenue: $2.9 billion USD (2006) | Employees: 4,233 | Stock Symbols: None, privately held. | Website: www.univision.net

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