KTAS

KTAS (channel 33) is a television station licensed to San Luis Obispo, California, United States, serving the Central Coast of California as an affiliate of the Spanish-language diginet TeleXitos. Owned by Raul and Consuelo Palazuelos, the station maintains studios on Carmen Lane in Santa Maria and a transmitter atop Cuesta Peak.

Channel 33 in San Luis Obispo went on the air in January 1990 as KADE. Its airtime was leased by KADY, an independent station in Oxnard, to expand its programming. A dispute over payment terms ended the lease in November 1991 and plunged the station into non-operational status for more than five years. It returned to the air in February 1997 and was sold later that year to Raul and Consuelo Palazuelos. The Palazuelos family renamed the station KTAS, inheriting the Spanish-language programming that had aired on two low-power TV stations in the market since 1986. The station was a Telemundo affiliate from 2001 to 2023, when the family sold the license and transferred rights to Telemundo programming to KCOY-TV effective February 1.

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