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KHLM/43 ceasing operations?

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Got my Xfinity bill and it includes this notice:

"Beginning December 1, 2018, KHLM-LD Multimedios (channels 325 & 1043) will no longer be available in Limited Basic. Station is ceasing operations and will no longer broadcast any programming."

According to RabbitEars.info the station had applied to move to RF Channel 10 as part of the TV repack (which starts December 1 for the Houston market with April 12, 2019 as a completion date.) Perhaps they decided to throw in the towel rather than foot the expense of moving.

KHLM had the best signal of all the LPTVs in Houston, at least at my Cy-Fair location. Somewhat surprised to hear of their impending demise, assuming the info Xfinity is passing along is correct.

Several other LPTVs are being displaced by the repack and have applied for new RF channels.
 
Looks like there are competing applications for RF10 in Houston
KHLM (RF43) and KUVM (RF22) both want RF10 from the same site so if I understand correctly they will have to work out something or let the FCC decide for them
 
I put a "?" in the thread title as I have not found any other info regarding the KHLM shutdown. Nothing on the station's public Facebook or Twitter accounts, and their (alleged) website will not load.

Xfinity program guide still shows KHLM programming on Dec 1 & 2.

Not sure if this is a complete shutdown of KHLM, or whether Multimedios will resurface on a subchannel of another station, perhaps reduced to a straight network feed out of Monterrey. Guess we'll know more on Dec. 1.
 
KHLM has an ungranted application to move to RF channel 10, but KUVM has also requested channel 10. In addition, two stations requesting RF channel 9 are in the mutual exclusion - KBHO Richmond and KBMN Beaumont. The stations have until January 10, 2019, to work out the mutual exclusivity on their own. After January 10, the FCC will decide who gets the channel. Until then, if KHLM has received a 120-day notice on the auction winner for the channel 43 spectrum, they would need to go off air until they can move.
 
Update: On KHLM 43.2, the Millennium Broadcasting Corporation has a graphic with this message: "Our station, The Millennium Broadcasting Corporation, MBC is re-engineering its network as well as switching from channel 43.2 to Channel 21.2 starting from Friday, November 30, 2018. Consequently, we'll be off the air from Friday, November 30 at 10 a.m. on Channel 43.2 to resume transmission on Channel 21.2 same day at 2 p.m. Thank you for your understanding and see you back as scheduled above."

MBC runs programming produced in Africa. Multimedios programming appears to still be on 43.1. The 43.3 through 43.8 subchannels are all running infomercials at a 10:30pm check this evening.

This would appear to support the Xfinity claim of the impending shutdown of KHLM; however Xfinity's own program guide continues to show scheduled programming for the next seven days.

Channel 21 is KVQT, which has a construction permit to move to RF 14 as part of the TV repack.
 
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KHLM is now off the air; transmitter was cut abruptly in the middle of programming about 20 seconds after midnight on December 1. No announcement, no goodbyes—in fact they were still running promos for (supposedly) upcoming programming, and those were local inserts, not the network. Even the weather person said “hasta manana” at the end of a local forecast.

On Xfinity the programming kept going until 12:13am when it suddenly went to black, presumably when the direct feed out of the station was cut.

The MBC channel move graphic remained on 43.2 up until the end, and infomercials were running on the other six subchannels. Looks like they were going to milk every last revenue dollar until the very end, without any hint of the impending closure.

KHLM had been on the air since the mid 1990’s, but was not always a TV station. It actually began as a digital internet service called Accelernet. The station served as a download source for subscribers with a special antenna and receiver, offering faster speeds over the dialup connections common at the time (return/uploads were still via dialup, so it was a hybrid service.). Accelernet was a flop, so the station was reengineered for television.

I seem to recall the KHLM call was once on another Houston LPTV (channel 28?) but my memory might be somewhat fuzzy on that.

Anyway, the 644 to 650 MHz block of UHF spectrum is now clear for new cellular/broadband services in Houston. And we are at the beginning of the TV repack here, with completion due by April 12, 2019, so more changes on the way.
 
They have some events on their Facebook page planed for December 16 in Pasadena Square mall. Last post was at 6:20 pm yesterday.
 
I seem to recall the KHLM call was once on another Houston LPTV (channel 28?) but my memory might be somewhat fuzzy on that.
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Correcting my own post: Channel 28 (now KUGB) was once KHMV, not KHLM. File that under “extremely irrelevant LPTV trivia.”
 
Very interesting conversation unfortunately I’m not able to pic up most of the channels on my neighborhood on Rankin Rd.
 
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