KHRR

'KHRR' is a full-service television station, owned and operated by NBC Universal, and serving Tucson, Arizona as the Telemundo station. The station broadcasts in analog on UHF channel 40 and in digital on UHF channel 42, with 1550 kW ERP on its analog and 12.7 kW on its digital signal. KHRR is also rebroadcast in Douglas, Arizona on UHF channel 28.

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History

Digital television

References

External links

History

KHRR came into existence on November 28, 1983 with the grant of a permit to construct a full-service station on UHF channel 40 to serve the Tucson area. The station signed on in 1985 as 'KPOL', an English-language general entertainment independent station owned by the Polan family, and was licensed on November 20, 1985. However, the same year, KDTU (now My Network TV affiliate KTTU-TV) signed on the air and over time the station couldn't compete in what was then an overcrowded market. KPOL signed off on October 17, 1989.
In 1991, local Tucson businessman Jay Zucker purchased the station out of bankruptcy, and on July 1 1992, signed the station back on as KHRR with Telemundo programming. Zucker owned the station until 1998, when he sold it to The Apogee Companies, who maintained the Telemundo affiliation.
KHRR became a Telemundo O&O in 2002, along with KDRX-CA (now KDTP-CA). A different sale also included now-sister KNSO. The two stations maintained a sister relationship with each other until a station swap in 2006 in Phoenix caused NBC Universal ownership and Telemundo programming to move to KTAZ. The two stations share a newscast and programming schedule, but are based out of their respective cities of license.
As of 2007, under a restructuring plan by its parent company NBC Universal called "NBCU 2.0", the KHRR newscast will originate from the Telemundo News Hub in Dallas, as will various news operations in the West.

Digital television

In their Sixth Report and Order, dated April 3 1997, proposing a digital television table of allotments, the FCC allocated UHF channel 41 for the 'KHRR-DT' operations.^[1] However, by February 1998, the DTV Table of Allotments had been changed to specify channel 42 for KHRR-DT.^[2] KHRR applied for DTV facilities to broadcast at 303 kW in October 1999, and eventually amended the ERP to 411.5 kW in February 2002.^[3][4] In May 2003, in order to meet an FCC deadline for having a digital television station operational, KHRR requested a Special Temporary Authorization (STA) to operate at 12.7 kW, which the FCC granted the following month.^[5] After delays due to coordination with the Mexican government, interference issues, and the sale of the station from the Apogee Companies to NBC Telemundo, by June 2006, the station was still operating under their STA facilities, the STA having been extended several times. Having to meet another FCC deadline to have fully operational facilities by June 30 2006, KHRR requested to make their STA facilities permanent.^[6] The FCC granted the request on July 10 2006, and the next day, KHRR applied for a license to cover their facilities, from which they were already broadcasting. The FCC granted the license on January 31 2007.^[7]
At the end of the digital television transition, scheduled for February 17 2009, KHRR has elected to move their digital operations to UHF channel 40, where their analog operations have resided.^[8]

References

1. Proposed DTV Table of Allotments
2. 1998 Initial DTV Table of Allotments
3. Original DTV application
4. Amended DTV application
5. Amended STA request
6. Application to make STA facilities permanent
7. DTV license application
8. DTV channel election

External links

★ Telemundo Website

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