KFRE-CA

Last updated
DKFRE-CA
Tulare, California
Channels Analog: 27 (UHF)
Special Temporary Authority (STA)
Programming
AffiliationsDefunct
Ownership
Owner Pappas Telecasting Companies
(Harry J. Pappas)
History
FoundedNovember 19, 1992
Former call signs
KFRE-LP, K27FQ, K40DQ
Independent
Call sign meaning
FREsno
Technical information
Facility ID 51490
Class Class A
ERP 3 kW

KFRE-CA was a low-power Class A television station licensed to Tulare, California, but serving Bakersfield per Special Temporary Authority (STA). Under the terms of the STA, the station, while licensed to broadcast in analog on UHF channel 40, actually broadcast on channel 27, having been displaced by the DTV companion channel for Fresno PBS member station KVPT. Founded November 19, 1992, KFRE-CA was an independent station owned by Pappas Telecasting Companies, with Harry J Pappas as its licensee.

The station's license was cancelled and its call sign deleted from the Federal Communications Commission's database on July 27, 2011.


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