KPMR

KPMR
Location	Santa Barbara, CA
Branding	Univision Costa Central
Channel Number	Digital: 21 (UHF) Virtual: 38
Subchannels	38.1: Univision 38.3: UniMás for others, see Subchannels
Affiliation	Univision
First Air Date	April 1, 2001
Former Channel Number(s)	Analog: 38 (UHF, 2001–2009)
Former Call Letters	840720 kg (1997–1998)
Sister station(s)	KTSB-CD
Owner	Entravision Communications (Entravision Holdings, LLC)

KPMR (channel 38) is a television station licensed to Santa Barbara, California, United States, serving the Central Coast of California as an affiliate of the Spanish-language network Univision. Owned by Santa Monica-based Entravision Communications, it is a sister station to Santa Maria-licensed UniMás affiliate KTSB-CD (channel 35). The two stations share studios on Fairway Drive in Santa Maria north of Santa Maria Public Airport; KPMR's transmitter is located atop Broadcast Peak, between Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez in the Santa Ynez Mountains.

History

On May 23, 1997, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a construction permit to Coast TV to build a full-service television station on channel 38 to serve Santa Barbara and California's Central Coast. Originally identified by its application identification, 840720 kg, the station took call letters KPMR in February 1998. Entravision Communications acquired the station from Coast TV in a deal finalized in January 2001, and applied for a license for the station a month later, bringing the station on the air under Program Test Authority as a Univision affiliate. The FCC granted the license on April 12, 2002.

On June 15, 2015, the studios of KPMR and KTSB-CA were broken into by former station employee Pablo Quiroz, Jr., destroying computers, cars, windows, and hard drives. He also documented his vandalism on Twitter during the spree.

Programming

KPMR airs Spanish-language programming such as telenovelas, comedies, movies, sports and news, as well as Univision network programming. Local programming includes a newscast originally called Noticias Costa Central, and recently rebranded as Noticias A Su Lado, which airs nightly at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m.

Competing news stations in the area announced that KPMR's news department would be shut down on December 30, 2011; however, the station continues to air local newscasts. The station also continues to operate as a Univision affiliate.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KPMR

Channel	Video	Aspect	Short Name	Programming
38.1	1080i	16:9	Univisn	Univision
38.2	480i		ION	Ion Television
38.3			UniMas	UniMás (KTSB-CD)
38.4			MjstdTV	Majestad TV
38.5			Laff	Laff

The FCC granted KPMR a construction permit in March 2001 to build companion digital facilities to broadcast on channel 21 with 1000 kW ERP. After two extensions of the construction permit, the station applied for and was granted Special Temporary Authority (STA) to build reduced-power facilities in October 2003. After several extensions of the STA, KPMR-DT applied for a license for its full-power digital facilities in July 2006. The station has elected to remain on channel 21 after the end of the DTV transition.

A nalog-to-digital conversion

KPMR shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 38, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 21. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 38.

KPMR also broadcasts sister station KTSB-CA as a digital subchannel.

Translators

KPMR's signal is relayed on the following translator stations:

City of license	Callsign	Translating	Channel	ERP	HAAT	Facility ID	Transmitter coordinates	Owner
San Luis Obispo	K32LT-D	KPMR 38.1	32	12.5 kW	m ( ft)	29885	35° 21' 37", W 120° 39' 24"	Entravision Communications
Paso Robles	K17GD-D	KPMR	17	15 kW	m ( ft)	129078	35° 38' 44.8", W 120° 44' 19.6"
Lompoc	K10OG-D	KPMR	10	3 kW	m ( ft)	41125	34° 44' 24.9", W 120° 26' 45.5"

Reference

TV stations in California
Azteca América	UniMás	Telemundo	Univision	Other stations
KMSG-LD2, Fresno	KBTF-CD/KTFB-CA, Bakersfield	KKEY-LP, Bakersfield	KVER-CD, Indio	KVMM-CD, Santa Barbara	KVMD, Twentynine Palms	KCBT-LD, Bakersfield	KZMM-CD, Fresno
KVYE-DT2, El Centro	KEVC-CD, Indio	KUNA-LD, Indio	KVYE, El Centro			KSDX-LD, San Diego	KWHY, Los Angeles
XHAS-TDT, Tijuana/San Diego	KKTF-LD, Chico	KMUV-LD, Monterey	KDTV-DT/KDTV-CD, San Francisco/Santa Rosa			KGMC, Merced
KRHT-LD, Redding	KDJT-CD, Monterey	KNVN-DT2, Chico	KBNT-CD, San Diego			KQCA-DT3, Stockton
KSBO-CD, San Luis Obispo	KTSB-CD, Santa Maria	KCSO-LD/KMUM-CD/KMMW-LD, Sacramento/Stockton	KUVS-DT/KEZT-CD, Modesto/Sacramento			KRCA, Riverside
KBBV-CD, Bakersfield	KFTR-DT, Ontario	KTAS, San Luis Obispo	KFTV-DT, Hanford
KMCE-LD, Monterey	KDTF-LD, San Diego	KSTS, San Jose	KUCO-LD, Chico
KSAO-LD, Sacramento	KAJB, Calipatria	KUAN-LD, Poway	KEUV-LD, Eureka
KEMO, San Francisco	KTFF-DT/KTFF-LD, Porterville/Fresno	KNSO, Clovis	KMEX-DT, Los Angeles
KWHY-DT2, Los Angeles	KTFK-DT, Stockton	KVEA, Corona	KPMR, Santa Barbara
	KFSF-DT, Vallejo		KABE-CD, Bakersfield
			KSMS, Monterey

TV stations in California
KPXN, Los Angeles KIEM-DT2, Eureka KSPX-TV, Sacramento KKPX, San Francisco KION, Monterey KAIL-DT4, Fresno KERO-DT4, Bakersfield