RIP Azteca America

[JeeperOne]

Azteca showed up in 2002 with a lot of fanfare here in Houston on full power KAZH. It never seemed to gain much traction against Univision and Telemundo, and perhaps was further impeded by the launch of TeleFutura (now UniMas) around the same time (also on a full power signal here.) Throw Estrella TV In the mix and there was no room for Azteca.

From my admittedly superficial sampling of Aztecs over the years, it seemed the program quality took a long, downward slide.

Here in Denver, AA was relegated to an LP (Eventually bought by Scripps at some point) on RF channel 15 (??) while UniMas was on on KCEC 14, Univision on 50 (I forget the call letters now but I know they swapped with 14), Telemundo on OEA SHOOTER KDEN 25 (Out of Longmont) & Estrella on KWHD 53

ALL of them (Even KDEN 25) were then (And are today) FULL powered

 

[Deleted member 108832]

Azteca had been on 54.1 KCEB, here in Tyler, but was moved to 27.1 KDKJ-LD. KCEB is now the Magnificent Movies Network offered by HC2 Holdings, and after the network dissolved, KDKJ-LD became "Timeless TV".

The area's OTA Spanish language offerings leave a lot to be desired. There is no Univision or Telefutura here. Telemundo airs on KLTV-DT3, Novelisima on KBJE-LD3, Estrella TV on KDKJ-LD2, and that is it.

 

[Joey1986]

In Los Angeles, Azteca América was on 3 different stations throughout the network’s history. It originally launched on KAZA (now owned by Weigel and carrying MeTV on 54-1 and Story Television on 54-2), before moving at the beginning of 2018 to KJLA 57-1 (now affiliated with Visión Latina TV), then ultimately ended up on KWHY 22-2 for the network’s last year of operation. Since the network’s shutdown, 22-2 has been a simulcast of 22-1.