KUVE-DT

KTVW began broadcasting to the Tucson area on November 1, 1980, when it built a translator on channel 40.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58184742/tucson-to-get-spanish-tv-outlet-nov-1/|title=Tucson to get Spanish TV outlet Nov. 1|first=Sherry|last=Stern|work=The Arizona Daily Star|pages=1A, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58184749/ 8A]|date=October 23, 1980}} K40AC was displaced from the channel by the launch of KPOL-TV in 1985, moving to channel 52.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/54192631/|date=September 26, 1984|title=Tucson espera dos nuevas estaciones de TV|trans-title=Tucson awaits two new TV stations|first=Leyla|last=Cattan|language=es|work=The Arizona Daily Star|page=A15}} The call letters were changed to KUVE-LP in 1998.

Meanwhile, in 1983, four groups applied for Green Valley's channel 46, with their applications being designated for comparative hearing.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/66925763/|date=July 16, 1983|work=The Arizona Daily Star|title=4 broadcasting firms compete for Green Valley UHF station|page=C7}} Sungilt Corporation got the nod and the construction permit on October 31, 1988, and the permit took the call letters KXGR in 1990. After Paxson Communications Corporation announced plans to operate and acquire KXGR alongside stations in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and Charleston, West Virginia,{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86902823/paxson-acquiring-3-stations/|title=Paxson acquiring 3 stations|date=September 17, 1997|page=1E|work=The Arizona Daily Star}} it was identified as an intended affiliate of Paxnet, but the station failed to materialize;{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86902592/family-network-to-debut-in-august/|title=Family Network to debut in August|page=9B|work=Tucson Citizen|date=November 20, 1997}} by the time of the network's August 1998 launch, it was tabbed to start in the second quarter of 1999.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/86902690/family-oriented-network-born-toddles-he/|title=Family-oriented network born; toddles here next year|first=A.J.|last=Flick|page=5B|work=Tucson Citizen|date=August 5, 1998}}

After twelve years, five expired construction permits and two transmitter location changes, KXGR applied for its license to cover on December 21, 2000, and signed on as a Pax affiliate on January 5, 2001, under program test authority. However, at the completion of the first day of program testing, the station's transmitter failed, and it was unable to return to the airwaves until June 1, and then, only at low power for a minimum of two hours a day. After ten days, the station was again forced to go dark, and after being threatened with license cancellation, KXGR advised the FCC on November 28, 2001, that they had resumed program testing.{{cite web |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/leg_det.pl?Application_id=544550&File_number=BLCT-20001221ABN |title=KXGR Legal Action Information |work=FCC CDBS database |date=January 12, 2001 |access-date=August 20, 2007}} The station was finally licensed on June 2, 2003.

Sungilt made two attempts to sell the station. Donald E. Ledwig agreed to buy KXGR for $15 million in early 2001, with $1 million of that going to Paxson.{{cite news|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-2001/BC-2001-01-08.pdf|work=Broadcasting & Cable|date=January 8, 2001|page=65|title=Changing Hands}} The deal never received approval and fell apart after one year. In January 2002, shortly after resuming program testing, Sungilt agreed to sell the station to Univision. The sale was approved by the FCC in September 2003 and completed in November. The new owners changed the station's call sign to KUVE-TV, to match the low-power station's call sign.

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The station's signal is multiplexed:

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{{legend|#f2d1de|Subchannel broadcast with MPEG-4 video}}

KUVE ended regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 46, on September 18, 2008. The station cited a lack of space at its transmitter site to accommodate both the analog and digital transmitters, an issue that could not be rectified as the transmitter building lies on United States Forest Service land; additionally, winter weather conditions rendered it impossible to perform work after October.{{cite web|url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1274428&Service=TV&Form_id=387&Facility_id=63927|title=DTV TRANSITION STATUS REPORT|date=October 21, 2008|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=November 2, 2008}} The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 47 to channel 46.

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