KUPB

KUPB (channel 18) is a television station licensed to Midland, Texas, United States, serving the Permian Basin area as an affiliate of the Spanish-language Univision network. The station is owned by Entravision Communications, and has studios on Younger Road in Midland; its transmitter is located on University Boulevard in West Odessa.

KUPB

Midland–Odessa, Texas United States
City	Midland, Texas
Channels	Digital: 18 (UHF) Virtual: 18
Branding	Univision 18
Programming
Affiliations	18.1: Univision 18.2: LATV 18.3: Comet 18.4: Charge!
Ownership
Owner	Entravision Communications (Entravision Holdings, LLC)
Sister stations	KANG-LD, KEUS-LD
History
First air date	May 14, 2001 (21 years ago) (2001-05-14)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 18 (UHF, 2001–2009)
Call sign meaning	Univision Permian Basin
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	86263
ERP	1,000 kW
HAAT	281 m (922 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	31°50′19.4″N 102°32′0.6″W / 31.838722°N 102.533500°W / 31.838722; -102.533500
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	noticiasya.com/midland-odessa

History

The station commenced broadcasting on analog channel 18 on May 14, 2001. KUPB moved to digital broadcasting on June 12, 2009 at 9:00 a.m., "flash-cutting" to digital channel 18 after a temporary (3 minutes) signal outage. (KUPB was granted a construction permit after the Federal Communications Commission finalized the digital television allotment plan on April 21, 1997;^[1] as a result, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station.)^[2] KUPB moved to high definition (1080i) at 10 a.m. on May 3, 2010.

In 2013, KUPB added a secondary station, KUPB-DT2, and began airing ZUUS Latino on 18.2. In 2014, it removed ZUUS Latino and replaced it with LATV.

In 2018, KUPB added two additional subchannels that broadcast English programming.

News operation

 

KUPB's logo prior to January 1, 2013

Noticias 18 was launched on November 5, 2007 to provide news for the viewers in the Permian Basin. KUPB had been airing two-minute newsbriefs since August 2003. On October 13, 2008, the name of the newscast was changed to Noticias Univision Oeste de Texas and began to be simulcast on San Angelo sister station KEUS-LP. In 2015, Entravision transferred production of KUPB's newscasts to El Paso sister station KINT-TV.^[3]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel	Video	Aspect	Short name	Programming^[4]
18.1	1080i	16:9	KUPB-DT	Main KUPB programming / Univision
18.2	480i	4:3		LATV
18.3				Comet
18.4				Charge!

References

1. Final Digital TV (DTV) Channel Plan from FCC97-115
2. (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
3. Villafañe, Veronica (November 3, 2015). "Entravision cancels KLUZ local newscast production, lays off staff". Media Moves. Retrieved March 12, 2018. Earlier this year, Entravision also shipped production of its Univision Midland/Odessa newscast to El Paso.
4. RabbitEars TV Query for KUPB

External links

• Official website