KAEP-LP is a low-power television station

Television station

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 in Las Cruces, New Mexico

Las Cruces, New Mexico

Las Cruces, also known as "The City of the Crosses", is the county seat of Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 97,618 in 2010 according to the 2010 Census, making it the second largest city in the state....

, broadcasting locally in analog

NTSC

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 on UHF

Ultra high frequency

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 channel 42 as an affiliate of Azteca America

Azteca América

Azteca América is a broadcast television network marketed toward Spanish-speaking families residing in the United States. As a rapidly-growing Spanish language network, Azteca América now reaches 89% of the Hispanic households in the U.S., operating in sixty-two markets nationwide. Wholly owned by...

. Founded October 27, 1994, the station is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting and operated by KVIA-TV

KVIA-TV

KVIA-TV is an ABC affiliate television station in El Paso, Texas. It broadcasts its digital signal on channel 7 and channel 17. It is owned by and was the flagship television station of the News-Press & Gazette Company of St. Joseph, Missouri before the company acquired KRDO-TV. Its transmitter is...

, a station owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company

News-Press & Gazette Company

The News Press & Gazette Company  is a media company based in St. Joseph, Missouri, wholly owned and operated by the Bradley family. It is presided by Brian Bradley and David R. Bradley, with Hank Bradley , Eric Bradley and Kit Bradley serving on its Board of Directors.  All are descendants of...

. The station is seen in the El Paso market on DirecTV

DirecTV

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  channel 42 and Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable

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 channel 9 -- not to be confused with KTSM-TV

KTSM-TV

KTSM-TV, also known as NewsChannel 9, is an NBC affiliated television station based in El Paso, Texas. It broadcasts its digital signal on VHF channel 9...

, which broadcasts on channel 9 terrestrially, but is carried on Time Warner channel 10, due to cable

Coaxial cable

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 signal ingress issues.

The station currently has an application with the FCC

Federal Communications Commission

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 to flash cut its channel 42 signal to digital.

El Paso is one of four markets to receive both Azteca America and the original TV Azteca

TV Azteca

Azteca, is the second largest Mexican television entertainment. It was established in 1983 as the state-owned Instituto Mexicano de la Televisión , a holding of the national TV networks channel 13 and 7 and was privatized under its current name in 1993 and now is part of Grupo Salinas...

 channels (Rio Grande Delta, San Diego and Laredo are the others). Much of KAEP's programming from Azteca America can also be seen on XHCJE-TV

XHCJE-TV

XHCJE is the Ciudad Juárez television station that is owned and operated by TV Azteca. XHCJE is an affiliate of Azteca 13. Since 2005, XHCJE-TV is the first television station in broadcast in digital television formatfirst where? and since 2010, the first television station in broadcast HD...

 Channel 11 (Azteca 13) or XHCJH-TV

XHCJH-TV

XHCJH is the Ciudad Juárez television station that is owned and operated by TV Azteca. The station is an affiliate of Azteca 7....

Channel 20 (Azteca 7), sometimes simultaneously.

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