KUVS-TV

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KUVS
Sacramento, California
Branding	Univision 19 Noticas 19
Channels	19 (UHF) analog, 18 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	Univision
Owner	Univision
Founded	August 15,1966
Call letters meaning	KUniVision Sacramento
Website	www.univision19.com

KUVS Univision 19 is the Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto, California owned and operated station of the Spanish-language Univision television network. The station is licensed to Modesto, California on UHF channel 19, as per the station's founding. Its call letters stand for "UniVision Sacramento".

Contents 1 History 2 Newscasts 2.1 Other Station Personnel 3 Local Programs 3.1 Voz Y Voto 3.2 Sabor Latino 4 External links

[edit] History

Univision 19 signed on the air on August 15, 1966 as KLOC-TV. The station was founded by country and western performer Chester Smith, who also owned what then was KLOC-AM 920 in Ceres, California. His company, Sainte Partners II, L.P. presently owns KCSO-LP in Sacramento as well as stations in Chico/Redding, Eureka, Salinas/Monterey/Santa Cruz and Medford, Oregon.

Initially, KLOC was a general entertainment station, and was one of the handful of stations that carried the one month of programming from the United Network in May, 1967. About a year after its sign on, the syndicators providing KLOC's programming raised their prices to that of a Sacramento-licensed station (they had been paying the lower prices of an unrated market), and Smith resorted to simulcasting the co-owned radio station in the daytime, including a camera in the radio studio to show the disc jockey when he was talking, and Spanish-language telenovelas in the evening, when the radio station signed off. By the 1970's, the radio simulcast was ended and KLOC-TV's broadcast day was split into two parts, the morning portion devoted to English-language religious programming, the rest of the day (from approximately 2:00pm to sign-off) to Spanish-language programming as one of the original affiliates of SIN (the Spanish International Network), carrying the afternoon and evening schedule of KMEX from Los Angeles via a live microwave feed, as did KDTV in the Bay Area. SIN would later be renamed Univision. In the 1980s, the station call letters were changed to KCSO (for "Chester Smith Organization").

In the late 1990's, the station was sold to Univision and became a O&O of that network (Smith had accepted stock in SIN as part of the agreement to be an original affiliate), and currently airs all of its programming in Spanish as Univision 19. After the ownership change, the studios were moved from Modesto to Sacramento, and the call letters changed to KUVS.

[edit] Newscasts

KUVS 19 airs local newscasts in the following time slots:

MONDAY-FRIDAY

• Noticias 19: A Primera Hora (6:00-7:00 a.m.)
  • anchored by Maribel López and Gustavo Ortiz with Catalina Martínez on weather
• Noticias 19 (6:00-6:30 p.m.)
  • anchored by Jairo Diaz-Pedraza with Guillermo Quiroz on weather and Enrique González on sports
• Noticias 19 (11:00-11:30 p.m.)
  • anchored by Jairo Diaz-Pedraza with Guillermo Quiroz on weather and Enrique González on sports

SATURDAY

• Noticias 19 (6:00-6:30 p.m.)
  • anchored by Johanna Suarez and Pablo Espinoza
• Noticias 19 (11:00-11:30 p.m.)
  • anchored by Johanna Suarez and Pablo Espinoza

SUNDAY

• Noticias 19 (6:00-6:30 p.m.)
  • anchored by Johanna Suarez and Pablo Espinoza
• Noticias 19 (11:00-11:30 p.m.)
  • anchored by Johanna Suarez and Pablo Espinoza

[edit] Other Station Personnel

• Tatiana Bedoya, General Assignment Reporter
• Santiago Lucero, General Assignment Reporter
• Xóchitl Arellano, Political Reporter
• Carlos Humberto Sánchez, General Assignment Reporter
• Fernando Pizarro, Washington, D.C. General Assignment Reporter
• Amanda Mariscal, Entertainment Reporter

[edit] Local Programs

KUVS 19 produces two local programs that air Saturday mornings between 10 - 11 a.m.

[edit] Voz Y Voto

• moderated by Xóchitl Arellano and Pablo Espinoza

Voz Y Voto is a political roundtable program that specializes in interviewing local, state and national leaders on issues of political, economical and national policy. These shows help fulfill the obligations of this station to provide a public service to the community from a Sacramento capital prospective. Past guests have included Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, his 2006 challenger Phil Angelides and Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Voz Y Voto is syndicated to other local California stations like KMEX 34.

[edit] Sabor Latino

• hosted by Amanda Mariscal

Sabor Latino, while mostly an entertainment program focusing on music, also provides current events and general interest topics to Northern California region. A public affairs segment details local programs, dates and points of contact for various community services.

[edit] External links

• Univision 19 website
• Voz y Voto
• Sabor Latino
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KUVS

Broadcast television in the Sacramento / Stockton / Modesto market  (Nielsen DMA #20)

KCRA 3 (NBC) (WX Plus) on DT2 - KVIE 6 (PBS) - KBTV-CA 8 (Ind.) - KXTV 10 (ABC) (AccuWX TV) on DT2 - KOVR 13 (CBS) - KMMK-LP 14/KMUM-CA 15/KMMW-LP 47 (MMA/MTV3) - KAZV-LP 14 (AmericanLife, A1) - KUVS 19 (UNI) - KBSV 23 (Ind.) - K27EU 27 (3ABN) - KSPX 29 (ION) - KMAX 31 (The CW) - KCSO 33 (TMD) - KTXL 40 (FOX) - KTNC 42 (AZA) - KRJR-CA 47/KDTS-CA 52/KACA-LP 61 (DS) - KSAO-LP 49/KSTV-LP 60 (Jewelry TV) - KQCA 58 (MNTV) - KTFK 64 (TFU)

v • d • e Univision Network Affiliates in the state of California
KVER-CA 4 / KVES-LP 28 (Indio / Palm Springs) - KVYE 7 (El Centro) - KDTV 14 / 28 (San Francisco / Santa Rosa) - KBNT-CA 17 / KHAX-LP 49 / KNSD-LP 62 (San Diego / Vista / La Jolla) - KUVS 19 (Modesto) - KFTV 21 (Hanford) - KUCO-LP 27 (Chico) - KEUV-LP 31 (Eureka) - KMEX 34 (Los Angeles) - KPMR 38 (Santa Barbara) - KABE-LP 39 (Bakersfield) - KSMS 67 (Monterey)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Independent, Other Spanish Network, Religious, Home Shopping and Other stations in California