KTDO
KTDO 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 Carnegie Avenue in El Paso, and its transmitter is located atop the Franklin Mountains on the El Paso city limits.
History
KASK-TV
The station first signed on the air November 18, 1984, as KASK-TV; it originally operated as an English-language independent station. The TV station was an outgrowth of KASK-FM.KZIA
KASK-TV went off the air in October 1987 when it was bought by Bayport Communications. Bayport was approved to relocate the tower to a new site near Anthony, New Mexico, and increase power from 74,000 watts to the maximum 5 million. Channel 48 was sold to Robert Muñoz and reemerged on June 13, 1990, as KZIA. The station was added to the El Paso cable system in 1991. Lee Enterprises bought the station in 1993 for $440,000, after a separate $900,000 sale fell through the year prior. "Z48" became a charter affiliate of the United Paramount Network upon the network's launch on January 16, 1995.Change to Telemundo
In 1997, the station's calls were changed to KMAZ ahead of a January 16, 1998, change to Telemundo and Spanish-language programming. The change was made to improve the station's financial position and because management felt the market was ready for a second Spanish-language station on the United States side of the border.In 2001, the station's call letters were changed to KTYO. In 2004, the station was purchased by the Arlington, Virginia–based ZGS Group for $11.8 million; ZGS subsequently converted the station into a Spanish-language outlet as the market's Telemundo affiliate and changed its call letters to KTDO. As a result of the switch, UPN did not have a full-time affiliate in the El Paso market for the remainder of the network's run, with its programming being relegated to a secondary affiliation on KKWB until it switched to TeleFutura in January 2002.
On December 4, 2017, NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group announced its purchase of ZGS' television stations, including KTDO. The sale was completed on February 1, 2018.
News operation
KTDO presently broadcasts 12 hours of locally produced newscasts each week.On November 16, 2010, KTDO launched a news department, with half-hour Spanish-language newscasts airing at 5 and 10 p.m., under the title Telenoticias El Paso; with the launch, it became the first Spanish-language television station in the El Paso market to broadcast its local newscasts in high definition.
On June 11, 2018, the station launched newscasts at 4 and 4:30 p.m., adding to the already established 5 p.m. newscast. With this expansion, KTDO has more hours of local news than any other Spanish-language station in El Paso.
Previous local newscasts
KASK-TV had launched with a local news operation, airing a five-minute news brief at 7 p.m. and a main newscast at 10 p.m.As KZIA-TV, the station carried a 9 p.m. local newscast, Newswatch 48, hosted by former KDBC-TV anchor Bill Mitchell, and a replay of KDBC's 6 p.m. newscast at 9:30 p.m. In 1991, channel 48 began carrying by microwave link all of KOB-TV's local newscasts live from Albuquerque in a first-of-its-kind arrangement. When Lee Enterprises—owner of KRQE-TV—bought the station in 1993, the station shifted to carrying that station's news, though Lee planned to begin local newscasts in Las Cruces.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
| 48.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KTDO-HD | Telemundo |
| 48.2 | 480i | 16:9 | TELEXIT | TeleXitos |
| 48.3 | 480i | 16:9 | CRIMES | NBC True CRMZ |
| 48.4 | 480i | 16:9 | COZI | Cozi TV |
| 48.5 | 480i | 16:9 | OXYGEN | Oxygen |
| 14.2 | 480i | 16:9 | COMET | Comet |
| 14.3 | 480i | 16:9 | CHARGE! | Charge! |