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City | Santa Fe, New Mexico |
Channels | |
Branding | Telemundo Nuevo México; Noticias Telemundo Nuevo México |
Programming | |
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Ownership | |
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KTEL-CD, KRTN-LD, KUPT-LD | |
History | |
First air date | October 31, 1983 |
Former call signs |
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Former channel number(s) | Analog: 2 (VHF, 1983–2009) |
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Call sign meaning | Based on Spanish word casa, meaning "home" or "house" |
Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 32311 |
ERP | 380 kW |
HAAT | 1,278 m (4,193 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 35°12′49.8″N 106°27′3.3″W / 35.213833°N 106.450917°W |
Translator(s) | see § Rebroadcasters |
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Public license information | |
Website | www |
KASA-TV (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, serving the Albuquerque area and most of the state as an owned-and-operated station of the Spanish-language network Telemundo. KASA-TV's studios are located on Monroe Street NE in Albuquerque; its transmitter is located on Sandia Crest, with translators in much of the state and southwestern Colorado extending its signal and on subchannels of two high-power stations, KTEL-TV in Carlsbad and KUPT in Hobbs.
Channel 2 in Santa Fe was established in 1983 and struggled for its first decade on air as an independent station. It went silent in 1992 during a merger with KGSW-TV, which resulted in 1993 in its relaunch as Fox affiliate KASA-TV. KASA remained the Albuquerque market's Fox affiliate until a merger led to Fox's move to a subchannel of KRQE; at that time, channel 2 and its translators were sold to Lubbock, Texas-based Ramar Communications and switched to Telemundo, which had previously aired on that company's KTEL-CD. Telemundo's parent company, NBCUniversal, purchased all of Ramar's stations in New Mexico in 2021.