KINT-TV (channel 26) is a television station in El Paso, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Univision network. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongside UniMás affiliate KTFN (channel 65). Both stations share studios on North Mesa Street/Highway 20 in northwest El Paso, while KINT-TV's transmitter is located atop the Franklin Mountains on the El Paso city limits. History The station first signed on the air on May 5, 1984; it was founded by a consortium of local businessmen including Larry Daniels (former manager of KROD-TV (channel 4, now KDBC-TV), and owner of KINT radio (1590 AM, now KELP and 97.5 FM, now at 93.9) as well as other businesses) and Jose Angel Silva Sr., owner of a grocery store in downtown El Paso. The consortium originally planned to assign KEHB-TV as the station's call letters, but it was changed to KINT (standing for "K-Internaciónal") prior to sign on. For many years, it was the only Spanish-language television station in the El Paso market. El Paso is divided by a prominent natural ridge (part of the Franklin Mountains), where all of the U.S.-based television stations in the market maintain their transmitter towers and antennas. There are four general sites ranging from above average terrain, the self-supporting tower just above Scenic Drive (long used by KVIA-TV (channel 7)), the "Old Channel 4" site with a tower first used by KROD-TV), the "New 4 site", Channel 0, and ch. 14 (used by KFOX-TV). In founding the station, Daniels worked out a partnership between KDBC-TV and Larry Gallatin's two-way company. A new self-supporting tower was put up, with channel 4 at its top, channel 26's being side-mounted, on a tower that was long vacant (now occupied by radio station KSII (93.1 FM) and KINT-FM) and two-way space at the bottom. News operation KINT-TV presently broadcasts 12 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with two hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). Newscasts for the Midland–Odessa and San Angelo markets are broadcast live from KINT's studios. Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: On March 16, 2010, KINT's main channel was upgraded to 1080i high definition in order to allow the carriage of Univision programming produced in the format. The station also added a second digital subchannel, carrying a simulcast of sister station KTFN. On December 3, 2010, the KTFN simulcast was replaced with LATV on