KTMD is a full-power television station

Television station

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 licensed to Galveston, Texas

Galveston, Texas

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 transmitting over digital

Digital television

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 channel 48, displaying channel 47 to tuners via PSIP

Program and System Information Protocol

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. The station is owned and operated by NBCUniversal and is the Telemundo

Telemundo

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 Owned and Operated station for Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas

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, and its surrounding area.

History

KTMD took to the air in the spring of 1988 on channel 48 from a transmitter located east of Farm to Market Road 528

Farm to Market Road 528

Farm to Market Road 528, or FM 528 or Urban Road 528, is a farm to market road in southeast Texas. The road runs from Interstate 45 in Webster, Texas southwest to State Highway 35C Business . FM 528 was designated on June 21, 1945; it originally ran past I-45 to State Highway 146 in Seabrook...

 south of Friendswood

Friendswood, Texas

Friendswood is a city in the U.S. state of Texas within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. The city lies in Galveston and Harris counties. As of the 2000 U.S...

. In 2002, KTMD was granted permission to move its analog signal to channel 47 in order to operate its digital transmitter on channel 48 in Missouri City

Missouri City, Texas

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 rather than Friendswood. The station also cited interference from a station in Bryan. The change to channel 47 occurred November 9, 2002.

News Operation

Noticiero 48 was the name of the station's newscast when it signed on in 1988. It was changed to Noticentro 48 the following year, and back to the original "Noticiero" title in 1991, with a slight change 2002 to Noticiero 47 to reflect its new dial position. In 2010 "Noticiero Telemundo Houston" was launched.

Telemundo's parent company NBC-Universal replaced the local newscast with a regional newscast based out of the new Production Center in Dallas. At the time national organizations such as the NAHJ National Association of Hispanic Journalists criticized the move and issue formal statements against parent company NBC-Universal

On February 3, 2010 true local newscasts returned to the station when the Dallas-based regional program was dropped in favor of 5 and 10 PM newscasts that are produced in the Houston studios.

Digital television

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel	Programming
47.1	main KTMD/Telemundo programming
47.2	Inmigrante TV Inmigrante TV Inmigrante TV is a United States television network featuring political news and commentary aimed at Hispanic immigrants.The station was founded in 2010 by immigration attorney Manuel Solis...
47.3	Infomercial Infomercial Infomercials are direct response television commercials which generally include a phone number or website. There are long-form infomercials, which are typically between 15 and 30 minutes in length, and short-form infomercials, which are typically 30 seconds to 120 seconds in length. Infomercials... s

Current

Daniel Morales - Anchor/Meteorologist Carlos De Pavía - Reporter Roger Franco - Reporter Ariel Rodríguez - Meteorologist Ramón Días - Sports Anchor Cindy Burbano - Breves AM Anchor

Newscast titles

• Noticiero 48 (1988–1989 and 1991–2002)
• Noticentro 48 (1989–1991)
• Noticiero 47 (2002–2007)
• Noticiero Telemundo Houston (2010–present)

Station slogans

• Mejorando Su Vida (2007–2009)

• Juntos Somos Telemundo (2010–2011)

External links

• Telemundo Houston

mobile site: almhouston.com