was not slated to expire until January 11, 2005, and the terms of the sales called for both stations to drop their WB affiliations in favor of Spanish-language programming supplied by Univision. On January 29, 2002, the station became an affiliate of TeleFutura (the forerunner of UniMás) and changed its callsign to KTFN in reflection of its new affiliation. After the switch, WB and UPN network programming in El Paso was provided on cable via their networks' flagship stations in Los Angeles; WB network programming was only available via KTLA, while UPN programming was only available via KCOP-TV—both of which were carried on Time Warner Cable in the area—for the remainder of their runs. This switch left southern New Mexico without a WB affiliate until February 2003, when KRWB-TV (a satellite of KWBQ) began broadcasting (albeit only to the southeastern portion of that state). The WB and UPN ceased operations in September 2006 and merged their programming as part of a joint venture between CBS Corporation and Time Warner to form The CW, whose affiliate is KVIA-TV (channel 7), which carries the network's CW Plus feed on its second digital subchannel. Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: On July 8, 2012, KTFN announced that it would begin airing newfound TeleFutura competitor MundoFox (later MundoMax) on digital subchannel 65.2, when the network formally launched on August 13, 2012. However, the station began carrying the network upon MundoFox's soft launch two weeks earlier on August 1. Analog-to-digital conversion KTFN shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 65, at noon on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 51. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 65, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition. After regular programming was discontinued on its analog signal, the station, as well as sister station KINT-TV, transmitted a repeated crawl in Spanish informing viewers about the digital transition and advising viewers of their options to continue receiving programming, which ran until KINT permanently ceased analog transmissions at 11:59 p.m. References External links Television channels and stations established in 1991 TFN UniMás