Бейкерсфилд қаласының KKEY телеарнасының тарихы

Telemundo affiliate in Bakersfield, California

KKEY LD (channel 13) is a low power television station in Bakersfield, California, United States, affiliated with the Spanish language network Telemundo. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside NBC affiliate KGET TV (channel 17). The two stations share studios on L Street in downtown Bakersfield; KKEY LP's transmitter is located atop Mount Adelaide. In addition to its own digital signal, KKEY LD is simulcast in standard definition on KGET TV's third digital subchannel (17.3) from the same transmitter site.

The station was formerly known as K14IK and carried a low power signal on UHF channel 14. In 2003, it moved to VHF channel 11 and was renamed KKEY LP and became a Telemundo affiliate that same year. Previously, Telemundo programming was piped through Los Angeles' KVEA on cable providers. On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group to Newport Television, a broadcasting holding company established by the private equity firm Providence Equity Partners. This deal closed on March 14, 2008. However, due to Providence Equity Partners' partial ownership stake in rival Spanish language network Univision, the owner of MyNetworkTV affiliate KUVI TV (channel 45), KKEY LP was sold along with KGET TV and five other stations (CBS affiliate KGPE in Fresno, KTVX and KUCW in Salt Lake City, WOAI TV in San Antonio, and WTEV TV in Jacksonville) to High Plains Broadcasting. However, due to KKEY LP's low power status, it was excluded along with KTVX from the deal, which was finalized on September 15, 2008. Newport Television continued to operate KGET through a shared services agreement. Newport agreed to sell KKEY LP and KGET TV, as well as KGPE in Fresno, to Nexstar Broadcasting Group on November 5, 2012. The sale was completed on February 19, 2013.

+Subchannel of KKEY LD Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming 13.1 1080i 16:9 KKEY TV Telemundo

The analog signal went off the air on July 31, 2009, and for a year KKEY only existed as a subchannel of KGET and was even rebranded "Telemundo 17.3". On July 23, 2010, the analog signal on channel 11 came back on the air—just nine days before the station's analog license was to be canceled by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In April 2014, the analog signal on channel 11 went off the air and a high definition digital signal went on the air on channel 13.