KREN-TV
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Reno, Nevada United States |
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| Branding | Univision 27 (general) Noticias Univision Nevada (newscasts) |
| Channels |
Digital: 26 (UHF) Virtual: 27 () |
| Subchannels | 27.1 Univision 27.2 CW 27.3 UniMás |
| Affiliations | Univision (1986–1994, 2009–present) |
| Owner |
Entravision Communications Corporation (Entravision Holdings, LLC) |
| First air date | October 8, 1986 |
| Call letters' meaning | RENo |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 27 (UHF, 1986–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Independent (1994–1995) The WB (1995–2000, 2002–2006) Pax TV (1998–2002, secondary until 2000) The CW (2006–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 896 m |
| Facility ID | 51493 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°18′47″N 119°52′59″W / 39.31306°N 119.88306°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website |
www.univisionreno.com www.cwreno.com |
KREN-TV is a full-service television station in Reno, Nevada, broadcasting locally in digital on UHF channel 26. It is an affiliate of Univision. It rebroadcasts its two low-power sister stations—Class A digital The CW Plus affiliate KRNS-CD (Channel 46) on digital subchannel 27.2 and analog UniMás affiliate KNVV-LP (Channel 41) on digital subchannel 27.3. Founded March 1, 1982, the station is owned by Entravision Communications of Santa Monica, California. Until April 16, 2010, KREN-TV was rebroadcast in Susanville, California on KREN-LP, UHF channel 29. Entravision fully returned the KREN-LP license to the Federal Communications Commission in April 2011, and the KREN-LP call sign was deleted on the 27th of that month.
KREN's sister station in Reno was KAZR-CA (now KRNS-CD), which was a TuVision Spanish language affiliate. Both stations were housed in a 8,500 sq ft (790 m2) glass-walled facility at the Meadowood Mall in south Reno until 2008 when Entravision bought the signals for KAZR and KREN. The remaining staff were laid off September 25, 2008.
The station first signed on in October 1986 as a Univision affiliate owned by the Sainte Broadcasting Group, a company that was partially related to the present-day Sainte Partners II, L.P. Pappas Telecasting acquired the station at the end of 1994 and converted it to an English-language general entertainment station, taking The WB affiliation when that network launched on January 11, 1995. When Paxson Communications launched Pax TV in 1998, KREN took on a secondary affiliation with that network. In 2000, KREN lost the WB affiliation to the newly launched cable-only The WB 100+ channel known by the fictitious call letters KWBV ("WB6"). In 2002, the WB affiliation was moved back to KREN, effectively merging the two channels since KREN then took over the channel 6 position on cable. What is now ION Television currently has no affiliate in Reno. The cable channel 6 position is now used by KRNS-CD.
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