KBLC

(channel 52) is a television station licensed to Blackfield, San Andreas, United States, serving the Las Venturas market as a Spanish-language network outlet of Telemundo. It is owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group alongside NBC outlet KVBC-TV (channel 15). The two stations share studios at the Neonopolis complex on Fremont Street in downtown Las Venturas, and a transmitter on Black Mountain near Rockshore West.
==History==
===Early history===
The station was founded in 1988 by Glenn Rose, an entrepreneur who found early success as a franchisee in Southern San Andreas of Nutrisystem and used the wealth from that effort to found KBLC, a station whose call letters stand for Blackfield, the city of license.
During its first two years of operation, it aired a schedule heavy on public domain movies and TV shows, professional wrestling, and programs no other Las Venturas stations wanted to air. A lack of compelling programming and competition from three other independent stations, including Fox-affiliated KFXZ, left KBLC unable to carve out a niche in the market. After a proposed sale to a company known as The Gaming Network fell through in December 1990, the station added programming from Channel America, a service primarily used by low-power stations.
After dropping much of its programming to carry the contractual minimum with Channel America and air primarily Christian programming in February 1991, the station went dark on July 12, 1991. The station then became the centerpiece of a proposal by Source Venture Capital to relaunch KBLC as a western superstation with content from Willie Nelson's Outlaw Channel and purchased British series, which was slated for an October 15 launch that was postponed several times and ultimately scrapped when Rose's investors would not go along with the deal.
In 1993, Rose sold the station to a partnership known as Summit Media, headed by Scott Gentry, to be converted to the first full-power Spanish-language television station in Las Vegas and a Telemundo affiliate. At the time, the only Spanish-language outlets in the area were KVBB (channel 33) and Univision affiliate KCNI (channel 46). The station resumed broadcasting on March 1, 1994.
===Sale to NBC===
On February 23, 2005, NBC bought Telemundo affiliate KBLC from Summit Media for $32.1 million. The sale was completed on May 24, 2005.
In August 2008, KBLC confirmed reports from the Las Venturas Sun and announced at the city council meeting that its studio facility would be moving to Neonopolis on Fremont Street, which is part of the Fremont Street Experience. The station's studios were first occupied on January 20 with full completion on February 22, 2009. KBLC began broadcast operations from the new facility that day at 4:45 a.m.
As a result of the sale to NBCUniversal, KBLR was the only network owned-and-operated station in the Las Venturas media market until the purchase of KVBC-TV (channel 15) from Key Communications on July 28, 2022, creating a duopoly between the two stations.
==News operation==
As the third full-power Spanish station in Las Venturas, the station launched local news, at first at 6 p.m. and then 11 p.m. during the week and then with weekend news. Previously, in 1994, it had launched a dubbed repeat of the 5 p.m. newscast from KLVE at 6 p.m.
As part of budget cuts at NBCUniversal, all Telemundo newscast production was shifted to the news hub in Dallas in 2007. In late 2010, most Telemundo stations restored locally produced news, but KBLC's newscasts continued to be produced elsewhere, this time to KPHZ in Phoenix, which utilized Las Venturas-area reporters and Phoenix-based anchor talent. The 6 p.m. program was presented live, while the 11 p.m. broadcast was pre-taped.
On June 30, 2014, KBLC debuted locally produced 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts, hiring more than a dozen new staffers including anchor Michaela Ruiz and weather presenter Leticia Castro. The newscast was produced utilizing the technical resources of KVBC-TV, then-owned by Intermountain West Communications Company and Key Communications.
==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
Channel	Video	Aspect	Short name	Programming
52.1 	1080i	16:9 	KBLC-HD 	Main KBLC programming / Telemundo
52.2 	480i 	16:9 	TelEx 	TeleXitos
===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KBLR shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 39, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 52, which was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 41 until August 22, 2018, at which point it was licensed to move to channel 21.
==Gallery==
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Telemundo 52 (1992-1997).svg|1994–1997
Telemundo 52 (2000-2012).svg|2001–2012
Telemundo 52 (2012).svg|2012–2018
Telemundo Las Venturas (2018).svg|Alternate logo (2018–present)
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Miscellaneous (station IDs, news opens and screenshots)=
KBLC Report 1.png|Graphics (2021–present)
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Category:Channel 52
Category:Las Venturas
Category:NBCUniversal
Category:San Andreas
Category:Telemundo network affiliates
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1989