K18JL-D
| Phoenix, Arizona | |
|---|---|
| Branding | Good News TV 2 |
| Channels |
Digital: 18 (UHF) Virtual: 25 |
| Affiliations | Amazing Facts TV |
| Owner | Landover 5, LLC |
| Founded | July 10, 1990 |
| First air date | 1990 |
| Former callsigns | K25DM (1990-2014) |
| Former channel number(s) | 25 (1990-2014) |
| Former affiliations |
Channel America MuchMusic Canada Video Catalog Channel Panda America Shopping Network ACN ValueVision/ShopNBC LAT TV Retro Jams HSN |
| Transmitter power | 9.8 kW |
| Height | 264 m |
| Facility ID | 7085 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 33°35′38″N 112°5′10″W / 33.59389°N 112.08611°W |
K18JL-D is a low-power broadcast television station located in Phoenix, Arizona. It transmits on channel 25 from Shaw Butte in North Phoenix. The station is owned by Mako Communications, LLC of Corpus Christi, Texas.
An original construction permit was granted on July 10, 1990 to Broadcast Systems Inc. of Phoenix to build low-power television station K25DM on channel 25. Its transmitter was located in Deer Valley near Phoenix Deer Valley Airport. The station was quickly built and signed on the air later that year as a full-time affiliate of Channel America. K25DM moved its transmitter location to the current Shaw Butte site in early 1993 and upgraded to the current broadcast parameters in late 1994.
After nearly fifteen years operating the station, its owners sold K25DM and sister station K42FD (now KVPA-LD) to a new broadcast group called Latin America Broadcasting in August 2005. On November 7, 2007, Latin America Broadcasting transferred the station to Mako Communications, whose stations were the first three affiliates of LAT TV.
In November 2007, the station filed a displacement request with the FCC to move to VHF channel 6, citing interference concerns from full-power digital operations from KAZT-TV in Prescott and KMSB-TV in Tucson, both of whom operate their digital stations on channel 25. The FCC granted the displacement request on January 23, 2008, and assigned the station a new callsign of K06OX that will become effective when the station is licensed on the new channel. However in June 2009, the station filed a displacement request with the FCC to move its broadcast facilities from Shaw Butte to South Mountain and move to digital on UHF channel 18, citing interference concerns from full-power digital operations from KTVK who operates their digital station on channel 24.
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