KTEL-CD

KTEL-CD is a Spanish-language low-power television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, broadcasting locally in digital on UHF channel 15 as an affiliate of Telemundo. Founded November 28, 1994, the station is owned by Ramar Communications.

KTEL-TV is the full-powered satellite station based in Carlsbad, New Mexico broadcasting on digital channel 25. This station is available statewide on Dish Network and DirecTV on channel 25.

Ramar also owns KRTN-LD channel 39 a low-powered digital station licensed in Albuquerque, but also owns KRTN-TV in Durango, Colorado. Both stations are affiliated with the Me-TV network. KRTN-LD also broadcasts KTEL programming in digital displayed as channel 47.1.

Stations

KTEL-CD is now broadcasting on channel 15.1 as a digital station. KTEL-TV broadcasts in digital.

In addition, KTEL-CD programming is broadcast on the following low-power repeater stations in New Mexico:

History

KTEL-CD signed on in late 1997 on UHF channel 15 as an affiliate of Telemundo. Telemundo had previously aired in Albuquerque on K59DB (now KTVS-LD) channel 59 since about 1988. It moved to UHF channel 53 in early 1999 just before full-powered station KAPX (now KTFQ) signed on channel 14. The station transmitted on UHF channel 53 from 1999-2007. KTEL-LP changed frequencies and broadcasts to channel 47 since channel 53 was part of the UHF band (Ch. 52-69) that the FCC had auctioned off from television broadcasts following the digital TV transition. Transmission on channel 53 ceased in early December 2007. The station call letters had not changed. KTEL-LP changed its call sign to KTEL-CA on March 19, 2015, and again on May 7, 2015 to the current KTEL-CD.

K-tel

K-Tel International is an "As-Seen-On-TV" company, which is most noted for its compilation music albums, such as The Super Hits series, The Dynamic Hits series and The Number One Hits series. It is also known for "The Record Selector," "The Micro-Roast," "The Tote-a-Tune portable stereo," and many other products.

History

The company has been in business since the late 1960s and is based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It also has subsidiaries or other controlled entities in the U.S., the UK and Germany. In the UK, the company is known as "K-tel UK Limited." In the U.S. and Canada it is known as "K-tel International," with U.S.-distributed compilation albums distributed from Plymouth, Minnesota.

The founder of K-Tel was Philip Kives. Kives, a demonstration salesman who had previously sold cookware door-to-door and in a department store, used television advertising in 1962 to sell Teflon-coated frying pans to a large-scale audience. Kives bought and marketed a number of other products from Seymour Popeil, father of Ronco founder Ron Popeil, such as the "Dial-o-matic," a type of food slicer that allowed the user to "dial in" the thickness of slices produced, the Veg-O-Matic, and the "Feather Touch Knife." The combination of inexpensive goods, mail-order distribution and a simple sales pitch were a novel combination in television advertising in the early 1960s. Kives took his "Feather Touch Knife" on the road to Australia starting in August 1965 and by Christmas had sold one million knives with a net profit of one dollar a knife.

KTEL

KTEL may refer to:

KTEL (AM)

KTEL (1490 AM, "1490 ESPN Radio") is a radio station broadcasting a sports format. Licensed to Walla Walla, Washington, USA, the station is currently owned by Capps Broadcast Group through its licensee WW2, L.L.C. and features programming from Citadel Media, ESPN Radio, and Premiere Radio Networks.

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