KNEX-LP channel 55 is a low-powered television station in the Laredo, Texas

Laredo, Texas

Laredo is the county seat of Webb County, Texas, United States, located on the north bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, across from Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. According to the 2010 census, the city population was 236,091 making it the 3rd largest on the United States-Mexican border,...

 market. It is owned and operated by BMP Radio

BMP Radio

BMP Radio, also known as Border Media Partners, is a privately owned Hispanic focused radio broadcasting company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. On July 17, 2009, Radio-Info.com announced that BMP would be seized by its banks after failing to make debt payments for two years. Ten days later, it was...

. KNEX was once affiliated with Mas Musica and later MTV Tr3s before it switched programming to 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...

. The station later disaffiliated from Azteca America and the station started broadcasting audio from KQUR-FM on a rotating-color screen with its call sign and channel number. In 2009, Border Media Partners LLC transferred the station to Border Media Business Trust pursuant to a forbearance agreement

Forbearance

In the context of a mortgage process, forbearance is a special agreement between the lender and the borrower to delay a foreclosure. The literal meaning of forbearance is “holding back.”...

 between Border Media Partners and its lenders. Azteca America programming can still be seen on Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...

 through the network's San Antonio

San Antonio, Texas

San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...

 affiliate, KTDF-LP

KTDF-LP

KTDF channel 18 is a low-powered television station affiliated to Azteca América in the San Antonio, Texas market. It is the second Azteca América affiliate in San Antonio, KVDF-CA being the other. KTDF can be seen cable on channel 4 in the Laredo, Texas market which does not have an Azteca América...

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