KISA-LD

KISA-LD was a low-power television station in San Antonio, Texas, formerly broadcasting in analog on UHF channel 40 as an affiliate of LAT TV. The station is owned by Mako Communications of Corpus Christi, Texas and was available on Grande Communications cable television, but not on Time Warner Cable.

History

On January 22, 1992, the FCC granted a construction permit to San Antonio College to build a new station to broadcast on UHF channel 48, and assigned it the call sign K48DS. Signing on in January 1994, the station broadcast educational programming. The FCC allocated channel 48 for KSAT-TV's digital operations in April 1997, and San Antonio College tried to move the station to channel 46, but were denied permission to do so. By April 2002, KSAT-DT signed on, and K48DS was forced to shut down. Unable to operate the station on its licensed frequency, and in need of funds for construction, the college sold the station to Mako Communications on August 17, 2004. The new owners relocated the station to channel 40 in March 2005 under the call sign K40IH, then changed the call sign to KISA-LP seven months later.