KNIC-DT

KNIC-DT
Blanco/San Antonio, Texas
United States
Branding UniMás 17
Channels Digital: 18 (UHF)
Virtual: 17 (PSIP)
Affiliations
Owner Univision Communications
(UniMas Partnership San Antonio)
Founded July 13, 2005
First air date September 28, 2006 (2006-09-28)
Call letters' meaning from former station on channel 17, KNIC-CD
Sister station(s) TV: KWEX-DT
Radio: KBBT, KCOR, KMYO, KROM, KXTN-FM
Former callsigns KNIC-TV (2006–2009)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 17 (UHF, 2006–2009)
Former affiliations TeleFutura (2006–2013)
Transmitter power 400 kW
Height 200 m
Facility ID 125710
Transmitter coordinates 29°41′48″N 98°30′45″W / 29.69667°N 98.51250°W / 29.69667; -98.51250
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website UniMás

KNIC-DT, virtual channel 17 (UHF digital channel 18, is a UniMás owned-and-operated television station serving San Antonio, Texas, United States that is licensed to Blanco. The station is owned by Univision Communications, as part of a duopoly with Univision owned-and-operated station KWEX-DT (channel 41). The two stations share studio facilities located on Durango Boulevard in the Southtown district of downtown San Antonio; KNIC-DT maintains transmitter facilities located on Hogan Drive in Timberwood Park. Although Blanco is geographically within the Austin market, that city has its own UniMás station, KTFO-CD.

History

KNIC-DT's history traces back to the March 1991 sign-on of K17BY, a low-power television station that San Antonio-based Clear Channel Communications was issued a construction permit to build on March 23, 1988; operating on UHF channel 17, Clear Channel sold the station in March 1991 to Nicolas Communications. In November 1997, the station changed its calls to KNIC-LP (in reference to its owners); Nicolas Communications sold KNIC-CA in November 2001 (the station received approval to upgrade its license to Class A status that same month) to Univision Communications, a sale that was completed in January 2002; that month, it became a charter affiliate of Univision's secondary network, TeleFutura (which relaunched as UniMás on February 7, 2013).

Univision had applied for a license to build a full-power television station in 2000 on UHF channel 52 in Blanco; after the Federal Communications Commission awarded Univision the license at auction, Univison requested that the FCC move the allocation to UHF channel 17; the request was granted in February 2003. KNIC-TV was founded on July 13, 2005. The formal application for KNIC-TV called for Univision to either move KNIC-CA to another channel, or to shut it down outright, KNIC-CA moved to channel 34 under special temporary authorization, before it ceased operations on September 28, 2006. KNIC-DT was one of the few television stations to have been built and signed on by Univision Communications.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[1]
17.1 1080i 16:9 KNIC-DT Main KNIC-DT programming / UniMás
17.2 480i ESCAPE Escape
17.4 4:3 LAFF Laff

Analog-to-digital conversion

Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997 , the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. KNIC-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 17, on June 12, 2009. The station "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 18,[2] using PSIP to display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 17.

References

  1. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KNIC
  2. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.
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