KTNC-TV, digital channel 14, is a satellite of Estrella TV affiliated KCNS (DT3) in Concord, California, serving the Diablo Valley area. KTNC is owned by New World TV Group and broadcasts at 40 kilowatts.

Station history[link]

The station began broadcasting in 1983 as KFCB, a Christian-broadcasting station owned by First Century Broadcasting (later, Family Christian Broadcasting) — the initials in the company name formed the station's original call letters. At that time, its president was Rev. Ronn Haus. A majority of its air time was devoted to Christian programming, including its own in-house productions. The flagship program was called California Tonight, later retitled Coast to Coast, a Christian talk show with sermons, conversations with religious topics, and musical guests. The program utilized an applause cart (audio tape cartridge) to give the viewers the impression of a studio audience. Other programming included The 700 Club, Dr. Robert Schuller's Hour of Power, and various other local and national religious programs, usually of an evangelical nature.

In its earliest years, KFCB supplemented the religious programs with secular shows such as Speed Racer, Dennis The Menace, Donna Reed, Father Knows Best, Mighty Hercules, Candid Camera, New Zoo Revue, Danger Mouse, CNN Headline News, and others for about 5 hours per day. Although the station aired secular programming and commercials, KFCB's primary revenue source was always viewer donations; commercial revenue was not significant. Commercials that aired were primarily "direct response" spots. The station broadcast semi-annual telethons, in the manner of public television and radio. Christian children's programming included The Gospel Bill Show, Superbook, Davey and Goliath, and others. From 1985 to 1986, the station phased out most of its secular shows, although a lineup of Saturday morning secular shows remained until at least 1989. The secular shows were occasionally modified to meet the station's "Christian" standards—master control operators were instructed to cover up the "Hollywood Minute" feature of CNN Headline News, and beer commercials were deleted from It's Your Business, a syndicated discussion program. During the fall of 1989, KFCB aired a schedule of Western Athletic Conference college football games.

KFCB's studios were originally located at 5101 Port Chicago Highway, in the industrial section of north Concord, just north of the interchange with State Route 4. Later, space was leased in a neighboring office building for additional offices and a larger studio. Only the cameras (three RCA TK-761's) were moved to the new studio, with the control room remaining in the original building. The new studio was also the only television studio in the Diablo Valley to feature a restroom in the middle of the studio floor, the result of the studio being located in a roughed-in, but unfinished, office structure. The restroom was placed off-limits during tapings as a result of not being soundproof. The RCA transmitter was located on the north peak of Mount Diablo, in a very difficult to access building which was barely large enough to house the transmitter itself—the result of challenges from environmentalists against the station's original application for a construction permit. An engineer working on the front panel of the transmitter was actually standing outside the building itself. The North Peak transmitter site was to be decommissioned at the end of analog transmission in June, 2009. The digital transmitter site is on Mt. Diablo's main peak.

KFCB maintained a full-time production staff and generated much of its own programming, primarily short ministry programs with local ministers. A Sunday-afternoon public-affairs program, Open Forum, covered secular community issues and was the result of an agreement between First Century Broadcasting and a competing applicant for the channel 42 license. The program was later replaced by a similar show, The Informed Viewer.

Around 1988, a translator station, K34AV, was built in Fresno, California to rebroadcast KFCB's signal. The translator became low-power station KSDI-LP in 1997 (now on channel 33) and is no longer associated with KFCB/KTNC. Efforts around the same time to construct another translator in Modesto, California, and purchase a full-power station on Long Island, New York failed.

In 1990, the license renewal application of KFCB came under fire from minority groups for alleged failures to comply with the equal employment opportunity regulations of the FCC. After an investigation by the FCC, the license was ultimately renewed.

A few years later, Haus and other partners decided to form United Christian Broadcasting, with KFCB as the flagship station, which was intended to bring station's programming to a national audience. The venture would prove to be a financial disaster, and by 1996 Haus was forced to sell the station to Pappas Telecasting, at which time the station adopted the KTNC-TV callsign.

In 1997, Pappas acquired KFWU-TV in Fort Bragg in 1997 from Sainte Limited,^[1] at which point KFWU became a satellite of KTNC (though at first, KFWU was considered the main station and KTNC the satellite).^[2] That station became KUNO-TV in 2003.

KUNO was sold to Jeff Chang in July 2010.^[3] Chang would later drop the KTNC simulcast in favor of Retro Television Network programming, under new call letters (originally KBQR; now KQSL), upon taking over.^[4]

KTNC was among the earliest affiliates of Azteca America upon its formation in 2001.^[5] However, Pappas Telecasting terminated KTNC's affiliation agreement with Azteca America after the end of the June 30, 2007 broadcast day.^[6] The next day, KTNC officially became a part of Pappas' independent Spanish language network, TuVision.^[7] The Azteca América affiliation for the San Francisco DMA moved to a newly-created digital subchannel of KBWB (now KOFY-TV), while the Azteca América affiliation for the Sacramento DMA moved to a low-power station, KSTV-LP.^[8] DirecTV replaced KTNC with the KBWB subchannel in some locations on July 1, 2007.

On January 16, 2009, it was announced that several Pappas stations, including KTNC and KUNO, would be sold to New World TV Group, after the sale received United States bankruptcy court approval.^[9]

On June 3, 2009, the Federal Communications Commission announced that KTNC would be one of 35 stations to go dark at the end of full-power analog television operation on June 12, 2009.^[10] However, the station was transmitting a digital signal as of June 13, 2009.

KTNC affiliated with Estrella TV upon its launch in 2009.^[11]

Digital television[link]

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Digital channels

External links[link]

• official KTNC website
• ThisTV's website and schedule for KTNC-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KTNC
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KTNC-TV

References[link]

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Guadalupe Rivera Saavedra (born January 30, 1972) in La Barca, Jalisco, Mexico, is a Mexican regional singer.^[1][2]

Early Life[link]

As a youngster, Lupillo, his sister Jenni Rivera and the rest of the Rivera family moved to Long Beach California, where Lupillo graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School in 1990.

Career[link]

Rivera wanted to be a restaurant owner. His father Pedro Rivera, however, was a recording label/studio owner(Cintas Acuario) . Wanting to give his son a hands-on business experience, Mr. Rivera hired his son Lupillo to work at the studio when a contracted singer failed to show up for a recording session. Lupillo was given the task of looking for local talent at bars, with the idea that some of that talent could be signed by his father's company. When Lupillo first started singing he was called "El Torito" Lupillo Rivera.Later when becoming more famous he was known as "El Toro del Corrido. Lupillo's uncle was a semi-famous professional boxer, known as El Toro Rivera to Mexican boxing fans. By 1999, Lupillo began to sing using his own name[Lupillo]. By then, he had already signed with Sony Discos. His star began to rise meteorically at that point. In 2001, he was awarded a Premios lo Nuestro.

Personal Life[link]

In Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, while he was driving to a concert location, his SUV flipped over. He required hospitalization. Months later, Adán Sánchez, a years-long friend who had grown to admire and become like a little brother to Lupillo, died at the age of nineteen in another car accident, leaving Lupillo Rivera devastated. In 2004, a Marine who died in Iraq had requested for Lupillo to sing at his funeral should he die, and Lupillo complied with the request, leaving one of his famous sombreros on the Marine's burial casket during the funeral. On December 11, 2006, after leaving a restaurant around 1 am in Guadalajara, Jalisco, his SUV was shot 7 times. It is not known if the shooting was an attempted murder, kidnapping or just robbery. Lupillo's brother Pedro Rivera Jr. is a Spanish language Christian singer and ordained pastor of the Southern Baptist Church.the name of the church is Primer Amor located in Whittier, CA. it is a Spanish speaking service. On August 8, 2008 he had a son.

Discography[link]

• Selena La Estrella 1995
• El Moreno 1999
• Puro Corridos Macizo 1999
• El Toro De Corridos 2000
• El Señor de los Cielos 2001
• Y Sique La Vendimia 2001
• Gabino Barrera-Cartel De Tijuana 2001
• Viente Mujeres 2001
• Despreciado 2001
• Sufriendo A Solas 2001
• Amorcito Corazon 2002
• Los Hemanos Mas Bucados 2002
• De Bohemia Con Lupillo Rivera 2003
• Con Mis Propias Manos 2004
• Pa Corridos 2004
• El Rey De Las Cantinas 2005
• Entre Copas Y Botellas 2006
• Mi Homenaje A Pedro Infante 2007
• Desde Una Fiesta Privada 2007
• En Acustico 2008
• Tiro De Gracia 2008
• Esclavo Y Amo 2009
• 24 Horas 2010

Personal life[link]

On June 21 Lupillo Rivera and his two young children appeared on the Spanish talk-show, Cristina, and he told Cristina that he has 7 children. Six of them biologically his and one that he has accepted as his own.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Lupillo Rivera Myspace Page

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Michael Burger (born June 10, 1957) is an American actor and game show host. He is best known for hosting the game show, Match Game, and co-hosting the 1994 ABC talk show Mike and Maty. He co-hosted The Home and Family Show with Cristina Ferrare, a two-hour show that was broadcast on the Family Channel from June 3, 1996, to August 14, 1998. Also from 1996 to 1997, Burger hosted the Family Channel's game show The New Family Challenge, succeeding the previous host of Family Challenge, Ray Combs, who had committed suicide in 1996.

Burger is currently the warm up comedian for Hot in Cleveland. Before that, he had a stint hosting the live stage show The Price Is Right Live!.^[1]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site
• Michael Burger at the Internet Movie Database