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Phoenix TV stations that are now long gone

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KeithE4

(A carry-over from the similar thread on the radio board)

OK, I can only think of a few: KOY-TV 10 (merged with KOOL-TV in 1954), K61??, which carried music videos 15-20 years ago, and K67??, the Phoenix translator of Channel 13 in Flagstaff that was the original Pax-TV station in Phoenix before KPPX came on the air.

By channel (Full-powered & Class-A stations only)...
3: KTVK
5: KTXL (assigned but never used on-air), KPHO-TV
8: KAET
10: KOY-TV, KOOL-TV, KTSP-TV, KSAZ-TV
12: KTYL-TV, KVAR, KTAR-TV, KPNX (-TV)
15: KNXV-TV
21: KPAZ-TV
27: K27AN, KAZT-CA
28: KCOS-LP (actually a Class-A, I believe)
33: KTVW
35: KDUO-CA, KFPH-CA
39: K39??, KDTP-LP, KDTP (moved to 48), KTAZ (formerly KDRX-CA Ch. 48)
41: KPDF-CA
45: KUTP
48: K64DR, KDRX-CA (formerly Ch. 64), KDTP-CA (formerly KDTP 39)
51: KAJW (testing only), KPPX
61: KASW
 
Someone that had done research for the Dumont Network claimed that there were two UHF allocations in Phoenix that were given callsigns but are now defunct:
  • KLUZ channel 15 - operated in the 1950s but went dark.
  • KGPA channel 33 - don't know if it ever came on the air; don't know when it existed.

See list of defunct stations. (http://members.aol.com/cingram/television/dumonta10.htm)

Channel 27 used to be KHSK-LP before KAZT-CA.

Channel 28 is a Class A station, but they never applied to change their callsign. Former callsigns have been K28FV and K68FB (as a CP only).

Channel 35 was never KDUO-CA. It was first K39BI, then KDTP-LP on channel 39. The station completed a sale, moved to channel 35, became a Class A station, all within one week. Its callsign was KOND-CA, then when it was sold to Univision, became KFPH-CA.

Channel 39 has actually been three stations - the aforementioned LPTV station, now channel 35, the full-power Daystar station, KDTP, now Holbrook channel 11 (not KDTP-CA 48), and the current full-power Telemundo station, KTAZ, formerly Holbrook channel 11 (not KDRX-CA 48).

Channel 41 has been KPSW-CA, KPSW-LP, K41EN, and K69HJ (as a CP only).

Channel 48 has been KDRX-CA, KDRX-LP, and K64DR. It was never KDTP 39.
 
KeithE4 said:
... and K67??, the Phoenix translator of Channel 13 in Flagstaff that was the original Pax-TV station in Phoenix before KPPX came on the air.
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That would be K67FE, now the infamous K53GF, someday to be digital K38IZ.
 
dhett said:
Someone that had done research for the Dumont Network claimed that there were two UHF allocations in Phoenix that were given callsigns but are now defunct:
  • KLUZ channel 15 - operated in the 1950s but went dark.
  • KGPA channel 33 - don't know if it ever came on the air; don't know when it existed.

See list of defunct stations. (http://members.aol.com/cingram/television/dumonta10.htm)
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Was KLUZ actually on the air at one time? I've never heard anyone mention either one as anything other than a late '60s CP. I'd always heard that KPAZ-TV 21 was Phoenix's first full-powered UHF station in 1966.

I don't know when Phoenix got its UHF allocations but they weren't part of the original 1952 channel allottment.

Channel 27 used to be KHSK-LP before KAZT-CA.

Channel 28 is a Class A station, but they never applied to change their callsign. Former callsigns have been K28FV and K68FB (as a CP only).

Channel 35 was never KDUO-CA. It was first K39BI, then KDTP-LP on channel 39. The station completed a sale, moved to channel 35, became a Class A station, all within one week. Its callsign was KOND-CA, then when it was sold to Univision, became KFPH-CA.
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I believe you're right. Now that I think about it, IIRC it was Channel 13 in Flagstaff that was KDUO.

Channel 39 has actually been three stations - the aforementioned LPTV station, now channel 35, the full-power Daystar station, KDTP, now Holbrook channel 11 (not KDTP-CA 48), and the current full-power Telemundo station, KTAZ, formerly Holbrook channel 11 (not KDRX-CA 48).

Channel 41 has been KPSW-CA, KPSW-LP, K41EN, and K69HJ (as a CP only).

Channel 48 has been KDRX-CA, KDRX-LP, and K64DR. It was never KDTP 39.
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That's one of those grey areas that's can be interpreted different ways when stations swap facilities, but technically you're correct since transmitters get callsigns. It's a similar situation to the KFYI/KGME/KOY frequency swaps from 1999 & 2000. KOY on 1230 is a successor to KISO/KFLR/KRIZ, not its former transmitter on 550.
 
When I worked in Flagstaff radio, there was the interesting story...or legend...of the original, ill-fated channel 13 CP...KVLS. Co-owned with the now-gone KCLS 600 AM in the late 1950's or 1960's, I was told the station was partially built as a full-power 316 kW. on Mt. Elden, but the tower collapsed either during construction, or due to inclement weather. The station supposedly was never reconstructed either because a 1kW. power limit was imposed at the site (which still stands) or because a proposed network affiliation never materialized. Indeed, the remains of the tower base and guy anchors for a large tower have been visible at the west end of the Devil's Head site on Mt. Elden for many years.

Local television had to wait until another designated high power site at Mormon Mt. was developed as an electronic site in the early 1970's, when KOAI (now KNAZ) was built on channel 2.
 
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