KASA-TV

KASA-TV
Santa Fe–Albuquerque, New Mexico; United States;
City	Santa Fe, New Mexico
Channels	Digital: 27 (UHF); Virtual: 2;
Branding	Telemundo Nuevo México; Noticias Telemundo Nuevo México
Programming
Affiliations	2.1: Telemundo; 2.2: TeleXitos; 33.1: Roar; 47.1: Cozi TV;
Ownership
Owner	Telemundo Station Group; (NBC Telemundo License LLC);
Sister stations	KTEL-CD, KRTN-LD, KUPT-LD
History
First air date	October 31, 1983
Former call signs	KSAF-TV (1983–1985); KNMZ-TV (1985–1989); KKTO-TV (1989–1993);
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 2 (VHF, 1983–2009)
Former affiliations	Independent (1983–1992); Dark (1992–1993); Fox (1993–2017);
Call sign meaning	Based on Spanish word casa, meaning "home" or "house"
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	32311
ERP	380 kW
HAAT	1,278 m (4,193 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	35°12′49.8″N 106°27′3.3″W / 35.213833°N 106.450917°W
Translator(s)	see § Rebroadcasters
Links
Public license information	Public file; LMS;
Website	www.telemundonuevomexico.com

KASA-TV (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States, serving the Albuquerque area and most of the state as an owned-and-operated station of the Spanish-language network Telemundo. KASA-TV's studios are located on Monroe Street NE in Albuquerque; its transmitter is located on Sandia Crest, with translators in much of the state and southwestern Colorado extending its signal and on subchannels of two high-power stations, KTEL-TV in Carlsbad and KUPT in Hobbs.

Channel 2 in Santa Fe was established in 1983 and struggled for its first decade on air as an independent station. It went silent in 1992 during a merger with KGSW-TV, which resulted in 1993 in its relaunch as Fox affiliate KASA-TV. KASA remained the Albuquerque market's Fox affiliate until a merger led to Fox's move to a subchannel of KRQE; at that time, channel 2 and its translators were sold to Lubbock, Texas-based Ramar Communications and switched to Telemundo, which had previously aired on that company's KTEL-CD. Telemundo's parent company, NBCUniversal, purchased all of Ramar's stations in New Mexico in 2021.