KSMS-TV
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Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz, California United States |
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| Branding | Univision 67 (general) Noticias 67 Coasta Central (newscasts) |
| Slogan | A su lado (By Your Side) |
| Channels |
Digital: 31 (UHF) Virtual: 67 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 67.1 Univision 67.2 KDJT-CD/UniMás 67.3 LATV |
| Affiliations | Univision |
| Owner |
Entravision Communications Corporation (Entravision Holdings, LLC) |
| First air date | September 1, 1986 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Salinas Monterey Santa Cruz |
| Sister station(s) | KCBA, KDJT-CD |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 67 (UHF, 1986–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 700.6 m |
| Facility ID | 35611 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°45′23″N 121°30′5″W / 36.75639°N 121.50139°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.ksmstv.com |
KSMS-TV is a Spanish-language television station in Monterey, California, broadcasting locally on digital channel 31 as an affiliate of Univision. KSMS shares its facilities with sister-station KDJT-CD, its Telefutura affiliate. KSMS has their studios on Garden Court in Monterey. Founded September 1, 1986, the station is owned by Entravision. In June 2010, KSMS began broadcasting in 16:9 HDTV ratio in time for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, however, its newscasts remains in 4:3 ratio.
KSMS-TV was founded by Bill Schuyler in 1986. In the same year, KCBA, the only television station broadcasting in Spanish in the area, was sold to the Ackerley Group. Ackerley decided to make KCBA an English-language station affiliated with the then-emerging Fox network, which would have left the Salinas/Monterey/Santa Cruz television market without a Spanish-language television station. Knowing that Schuyler had a permit to build a station in the Monterey/Salinas/Santa Cruz ADI market, a former manager of KCBA encouraged Schuyler to seize the opportunity to create a new station to serve the Spanish language community as the new Univision affiliate for the market.
Schuyler assembled a team of four television professionals and challenge them to develop the new station before KCBA's relaunch. The multiple tasks of creating a new station from the ground up were divided among the four individuals. The group found an old building on Garden Road, which coincidentally was the former home of KWAV radio, which Schuyler formerly owned. After negotiating the lease, the remodeling of the old building started immediately. A studio was built in the first floor, along with a small production area, a sound booth and the master control area. After much searching for a suitable transmitter, one was found and installed along with an antenna, atop of Fremont Peak, overlooking the Salinas Valley. Production and broadcasting equipment was purchased and installed, support personnel hired, a small news team was assembled and the station went on the air on time.
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
KSMS-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 67, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 31. Through the use of , digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 67, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.
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