broadcast interests, compared to the one station owned by Weigel, and a superior proposal for integration of management. That same year, on August 2, Pueblo signed on a translator for SIN on channel 45 (K45AK), which it had separately filed for in 1979. Plans were then made to build the full-power facility, which began broadcasting on September 16, 1987. The station originally operated from studio facilities located along Kirby Drive, near the Astrodome; it moved down the road in 1989. KXLN was immediately profitable: by 1990, sales reached $6 million a year. It was the fastest-growing Hispanic business in the entire United States between 1984 and 1988, according to Hispanic Business'' magazine. Univision bought KXLN from Pueblo in 1994 for $20 million. Univision Communications acquired channel 67, then KHSH-TV, from USA Broadcasting in 2000; that station became the Houston charter station of Univision's new secondary network, Telefutura (which was rebranded as UniMás in January 2013) when it launched in January 2002. Later that year, Univision, in a multimillion-dollar purchase, bought a six-story building in Houston's Uptown district to serve as the studio facilities for KXLN, KFTH and several Univision-owned radio stations in the Houston area. The Univision-owned local properties moved into the building in 2006. On January 26, 2019, KXLN changed frequencies from RF channel 45 to RF channel 30 as part of the FCC's spectrum repack. News operation In 1988, KXLN began producing news updates during Univision prime-time programming; two years later, the station began producing a 6 p.m. newscast. In 1993, KXLN debuted Houston's first Spanish-language morning news program, , as well as an innovative late evening newscast called . Ratings success was quick to follow; the station attracted more younger viewers than KPRC-TV by 2001. On March 27, 2015, the station axed its morning newscast along with the local UniMás show for a regionalized morning newscast titled that would air on Univision stations in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin. Univision restored separate morning newscasts to the four Texas stations in 2019. The Univision building in Houston houses a weather center, opened in 2017, that supplies the company's broadcast stations and digital platforms nationwide with weather information and forecasts. Notable on-air staff Martin Berlanga – reporter Raul Peimbert – anchor Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: KXLN-DT transmits one of KTXH's subchannels under Houston's ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) deployment plan; in turn, KXLN is