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KDTF-LD

Television station in San Diego

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KDTF-LD (channel 36) is a low-power television station in San Diego, California, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language network UniMás. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside Class A Univision affiliate KBNT-CD (channel 17). The two stations share studios on Ruffin Road in San Diego's Kearny Mesa section; KDTF-LD's transmitter is located on San Miguel Mountain in Spring Valley.

01History

This station was affiliated with Telefutura, the forerunner to UniMás, sometime in 2006, after talks reportedly broke down with sister station and former UPN affiliate XHUPN (channel 49, now XHDTV-TDT).

02Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KDTF-LD
Subchannel Res.Tooltip Display resolution Short name Programming
36.1 1080iUniMasUniMás
36.17 UnivisnUnivision (KBNT-CD)
  Simulcast of subchannels of another station

KDTF began broadcasting its digital signal on UHF channel 51 on May 14, 2009, and multicasting KBNT-CA and XHDTV.

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