KUPO-DT

KUPO-DT, virtual and UHF digital channel 44, is a Univision owned-and-operated television station licensed to Phenac City in the Orre Region. Owned by the Univision Local Media subsidiary of TelevisaUnivision USA, it is part of a duopoly with UniMás owned-and-operated station KFPH-DT, channel 23 (which KUPO-DT simulcasts on its second digital subchannel).
== History ==
KUPO-DT was granted an original construction permit on September 15, 1977 under the call sign KTPO and applied for its license on September 2, 1979, two days later, it signed on the air as Orre's first full-time Spanish-language television station on September 4. From the day it signed on, it has been owned and operated by the same company: the Spanish International Network (SIN), which became Univision in 1987. Channel 44 was the only full-powered Spanish-language station in the Phenac metropolitan area from its sign-on until July 2006, when Telemundo station KTOR began operations in Phenac. This head start has solidified its dominance in Spanish-language television in Phenac.
KUPO-DT also operates the UniMás station for the Phenac market on KFPH-DT (channel 23).
== News Operation ==
KUPO-DT presently broadcasts ten hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with one hour each day, consisting of two half-hour newscasts at 5 and 10 p.m. seven nights a week). The station's local newscasts rank among the top-rated local news programs in the market, either English or Spanish. The station had the highest-rated newscast in Phenac among the demographics of adults between the ages of 18-34 and 18-49 in 2004.
==== Newscast titles ====
* Noticias 44 (19??-2011)
* Noticias Univision Orre (2011–Present)
== Gallery ==
KTPO1979.png
KUPO1980s.png|KTPO-TV logo from the 1980s.
KTPO1980s.png|KTPO logo from 1986.
KTPONoticias44Open1980s.png|KTPO-TV Noticias 44 open from the 1980s.
13177653_1150392188372620_3464155251573899960_n.jpg|KUPO Noticias 44 news set from 1989.
KUPO1990s.png|KUPO logo used from 1990-2013.
KUPO1993.png|KUPO station ID from 1993 or 1994.
KUPONewsVan.jpg|KUPO news van
KUPOAerea44.png|KUPO-TV's "Aérea 44" news helicopter used during the 1990s.
KUPONoticias44_2003.png|KUPO Noticias 44 news open used from 2001 to 2004.
KUPO2004_2.png|KUPO Noticias 44 lover thirds from 2004.
KUPO2013.png|KUPO logo used from 2013-2019
KUPO2017ID.png|KUPO ID from 2017.
KUPO2019_A.png|KUPO station ID A (2019)
KUPO2019_B.png|KUPO station ID B (2019)
KUPOSMSImage.png|KUPO logo used in social media networks starting in 2019.
Category:Univision network affiliates
Category:TelevisaUnivision
Category:Channel 44
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1979
Category:Phenac
Category:Orre
Category:Univision owned and operated stations