KTDO
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Las Cruces, New Mexico/El Paso, Texas United States |
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| City | Las Cruces, New Mexico |
| Branding | Telemundo 48 (general) Telenoticias El Paso (newscasts) |
| Channels |
Digital: 47 (UHF) Virtual: 48 () |
| Subchannels | 48.1 Telemundo 48.3 Inmigrante TV |
| Translators | KTDO-LP 48 El Paso, Texas |
| Affiliations | Telemundo (1999–present) |
| Owner |
ZGS Communications (ZGS El Paso Television, LP) |
| First air date | November 1984 |
| Call letters' meaning | TelemunDO |
| Former callsigns | KASK-TV (1984–1989) KZIA (1989–1997) KMAZ (1997–2001) KTYO (2001–2004) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 48 (UHF, 1984–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Independent (1984–1995) UPN (1995–1999) |
| Transmitter power | 200 kW |
| Height | 555 m |
| Facility ID | 36916 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 31°48′19″N 106°28′59″W / 31.80528°N 106.48306°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KTDO, virtual channel 48 (UHF digital channel 47), is a Telemundo-affiliated television station located in El Paso, Texas, United States that is licensed to Las Cruces, New Mexico. The station is owned by ZGS Communications. KTDO maintains studio facilities located on North Mesa Street/Highway 20 in northwest El Paso, and its transmitter is located atop the Franklin Mountains on the El Paso city limits. On cable, the station is available on Time Warner Cable channel 11 and in high definition on digital channel 209.
The station first signed on the air in November 1984 as KASK-TV; it originally operated as an English language independent station. Five years later in 1989, the station changed its call letters to KZIA. Channel 48 became a charter affiliate of the United Paramount Network (UPN) upon the network's launch on January 16, 1995. In 1997, the station's calls were changed to KMAZ.
In 2001, the station's call letters were changed to KTYO. In 2004, the station was purchased by the Arlington, Virginia-based ZGS Group for $11.8 million; ZGS subsequently converted the station into a Spanish language outlet as the market's Telemundo affiliate and changed its call letters to KTDO. As a result of the switch, UPN (which ceased operations in September 2006 and merged its programming with competing network The WB as part of a joint venture between CBS Corporation and Time Warner to form The CW) did not have a full-time affiliate in the El Paso market for the remainder of the network's run, with its programming being relegated to a secondary affiliation on KKWB (channel 65, now KTFN) until it switched to TeleFutura in January 2002.
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