KTAZ
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Phoenix, Arizona United States |
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| Branding | Telemundo Phoenix (general) Noticiero Telemundo Arizona (newscasts) |
| Channels |
Digital: 39 (UHF) Virtual: 39 () |
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| Owner |
NBCUniversal (NBC Telemundo License LLC) |
| First air date | January 12, 2001 |
| Call letters' meaning | Telemundo AriZona |
| Former callsigns | KPHZ (2001–2006) |
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| Former affiliations | ACN (2001–2002) |
| Transmitter power | 550 kW |
| Height | 537.5 m |
| Facility ID | 81458 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 33°20′2.7″N 112°3′40.7″W / 33.334083°N 112.061306°WCoordinates: 33°20′2.7″N 112°3′40.7″W / 33.334083°N 112.061306°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.telemundoarizona.com |
KTAZ, virtual and UHF digital channel 39, is a Telemundo owned-and-operated television station located in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. The station is owned by the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations subsidiary of NBCUniversal. KTAZ maintains studio facilities located on South 33rd Place in Phoenix, and its transmitter is located atop South Mountain.
In 1986, the FCC designated VHF channel 11 as a commercial allotment for Holbrook. The allotment lay vacant until April 1996, when Channel 11 LLC, applied for a permit to build a TV station. The application was granted on January 23, 1998, and in March, Channel 11 requested KBCZ for its call sign., In August 2000, Channel 11 struck an agreement to sell the station to Venture Technologies Group, LLC, which was approved in November and consummated in December. Venture immediately changed the call letters to KPHZ and requested a waiver of the Main Studio Rule so that they could operate their new station out of existing facilities in Phoenix, used for stations KPHZ-LP (channel 58, now KDTP-LP channel 48) and KPSW-LP (channel 41, now KPDF-CA), instead of having the added expense of studio facilities in Holbrook. Venture signed the station on air in January 2001 as an affiliate of the home shopping channel America's Collectibles Network (ACN) - now Jewelry Television (JTV). The FCC granted a license to KPHZ on December 5, 2001. The station was never profitable, and in April 2002, shortly after its acquisition by NBC, Telemundo reached an agreement with Venture to acquire KPHZ, along with Venture's two Phoenix low power stations. The FCC granted the request on August 23 and the purchase was consummated on September 26. KPHZ was Telemundo's second full-power station in Arizona, after KHRR in Tucson), but it continued to air ACN programming until July 2003, when it switched to Telemundo programming.
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