KTSB-CD

KTSB-CD
Location	Santa Maria, CA
Branding	UniMás Costa Central
Channel Number	Digital: 35 (UHF) Virtual: 35 (PSIP)
Subchannels	35.1: UniMás
Affiliation	UniMás
First Air Date	September 28, 1995
Call Letter Meaning(s)	Telefutura Santa Barbara (former name of UniMás)
Former Call Letters	K35ER (1995–2009) KTSB-CA (2009–2019)
Owner	Entravision Communications (Entravision Holdings, LLC)

KTSB-CD, virtual and UHF digital channel 35, is a low-powered, Class A UniMás-affiliated television station licensed to Santa Maria, California, United States. Owned by Entravision Communications, it is a sister station to Santa Barbara-licensed Univision affiliate KPMR (channel 38). The two stations share studios on Fairway Drive in Santa Maria north of Santa Maria Public Airport; KTSB-CD's transmitter is located on Tepusquet Peak in Los Padres National Forest east of Santa Maria.

History

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a construction permit on September 28, 1995 to build a low-power television station on UHF channel 43 to serve Santa Barbara. Melissa Harnett was the originally owner of the station, which was given the callsign K43FA. Harnett licensed the station on July 10, 1997. In June 1998, following the allotment of channel 43 to Los Angeles independent station KCAL-TV for their digital facilities, Harnett attempted to move the station to a location about 15 mi (25 km) away, change the channel assignment to UHF 29 and to increase the power to the maximum 150 kW. The application would eventually be dismissed by the FCC. In October 1998, Harnett agreed to sell the station to JB Broadcasting Inc. The sale was approved by the FCC in April 1999 and consummated the following July. JB Broadcasting applied to upgrade the station's license to Class A and shortly after, agreed to sell the station to Univision Communications. The sale was approved in October 2001 and finalized in December and the station was granted a Class A license on October 9, 2002. About the same time, Univision agreed to sell the station to Entravision Communications and the deal was finalized in November 2002.

Subchannel

Subchannels of KTSB-CD

Virtual Channel	Physical RF Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming
35.1	35.1	1080i	16:9	KTSB-CD	Main KTSB-CD programming / UniMás

Former Subchannels

Former Subchannels of KTSB-CD

Virtual Channel	Physical RF Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming
35.1	35.1	1080i	16:9	KTSB-CA	Main KTSB-CA programming / UniMás

Programming

KTSB-CD features programs from the UniMás network, plus local and children's programming to fulfill its Class A license. A half-hour of news followed by a half-hour of other local programming, both from KPMR and aired three days a week, gives the station its necessary three hours weekly of locally produced programming. The UniMás network schedule features long blocks of movies, some of which are dubbed from English into Spanish.

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