KTDO

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KTDO (channel 48) is a television station licensed to Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Telemundo network to the El Paso, Texas, area. Owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group, the station has studios on Pellicano Drive in El Paso, and its transmitter is located atop the Franklin Mountains on the El Paso city limits. Channel 48 first began broadcasting from Las Cruces as KASK-TV on November 18, 1984. It was owned alongside KASK radio and was an English-language independent station complete with local news for the Las Cruces area. It struggled financially and was put into receivership in September 1986; though the receiver sold the station, the new owner opted not to pursue reconstruction. Instead, it was acquired by Robert Muñoz and returned to the air in 1990 as KZIA. The station offered local and New Mexico news, but as with the first incarnation, the station failed economically and filed for bankruptcy protection in August 1992. It was purchased by Lee Enterprises, then-owner of Albuquerque's KRQE. In 1995, the station affiliated with UPN and moved its studios to east El Paso. Beginning January 15, 1998, channel 48 became the new Telemundo station for Las Cruces and El Paso, as KMAZ and then as KTYO under Council Tree Communications ownership from 2001 to 2004.…

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