KNIC-DT
CityBlanco, Texas
Channels
BrandingUniMás 17
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
TV: KWEX-DT
Radio: KBBT, KMYO, KROM, KVBH
History
FoundedJuly 13, 2005
First air date
September 28, 2006 (2006-09-28)
Former call signs
KNIC-TV (2006–2009)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 17 (UHF, 2006–2009)
Call sign meaning
Nicolas Communications (former owner of former station on channel 17, KNIC-CD)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID125710
ERP1,000 kW
HAAT200 m (656 ft)
Transmitter coordinates29°41′48″N 98°30′45″W / 29.69667°N 98.51250°W / 29.69667; -98.51250
Translator(s)KCOR-CD 34 (27 UHF) San Antonio
Links
Public license information
WebsiteUniMás

KNIC-DT (channel 17) is a television station licensed to Blanco, Texas, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language UniMás network to the San Antonio area. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside Univision outlet KWEX-DT (channel 41). Both stations share studios on Network Boulevard in Northwest San Antonio, while KNIC's transmitter is located on Hogan Drive in Timberwood Park. Although Blanco is geographically within the Austin market, that city has its own UniMás station, KTFO-CD.

History

KNIC-DT's history traces back to the March 1991 sign-on of K17BY, a low-power television station that San Antonio-based Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) was issued a construction permit to build on March 23, 1988; operating on UHF channel 17, Clear Channel sold the station in March 1991 to Nicolas Communications. In November 1997, the station changed its calls to KNIC-LP (in reference to its owners); Nicolas Communications sold KNIC-CA in November 2001 (the station received approval to upgrade its license to Class A status that same month) to Univision Communications, a sale that was completed in January 2002; that month, it became a charter affiliate of Univision's secondary network, TeleFutura (which relaunched as UniMás on January 7, 2013).

Univision had applied for a license to build a full-power television station in 2000 on UHF channel 52 in Blanco; after the Federal Communications Commission awarded Univision the license at auction, Univision requested that the FCC move the allocation to UHF channel 17; the request was granted in February 2003.[2] KNIC-TV was founded on July 13, 2005. The formal application for KNIC-TV called for Univision to either move KNIC-CA to another channel, or to shut it down outright,[3] KNIC-CA moved to channel 34 under special temporary authorization, before it ceased operations on September 28, 2006; its license survives as KCOR-CD, a translator of KNIC-DT. KNIC-DT was one of the few television stations to have been built and signed on by Univision Communications.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KNIC-DT[4]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
17.1 1080i16:9KNIC-DTUniMás
17.2 KWEX-DTUnivision (KWEX-DT)
17.3 480iMYSTERYIon Mystery
17.4 LAFFLaff
17.5 SHOP LCShop LC
  Simulcast of subchannels of another station

Analog-to-digital conversion

Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997 , the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. KNIC-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 17, on June 12, 2009. The station "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 18,[5] using PSIP to display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 17.

References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KNIC-DT". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on August 26, 2007. Retrieved December 15, 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getattachment_exh.cgi?exhibit_id=256547%5B%5D
  4. ↑ "RabbitEars TV query for KNIC". www.rabbitears.info. Archived from the original on March 14, 2016. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  5. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
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