The Univision-owned local properties moved into the building in 2006. 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. 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. Univision bought KXLN from Pueblo in 1994 for $20 million. It was the fastest-growing Hispanic business in the entire United States between 19, according to Hispanic Business magazine. KXLN was immediately profitable: by 1990, sales reached $6 million a year. The station originally operated from studio facilities located along Kirby Drive, near the Astrodome it moved down the road in 1989. Plans were then made to build the full-power facility, which began broadcasting on September 16, 1987. 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. In 1984, administrative law judge Edward Luton found Weigel qualified to be a licensee but also gave Pueblo the nod based on its lack of substantive broadcast interests, compared to the one station owned by Weigel, and a superior proposal for integration of management. The comparative hearings ended up examining Weigel's bid, more specifically issues added as to whether Weigel had misrepresented the coverage area of its only TV station, WCIU-TV, on maps it gave to prospective advertisers. The other applicant was Texas 45 Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting. The bid had initially been prepared because SIN was interested in a station in the market and had approached local Hispanics to put together an application. Adán Treviño, proposed the construction of Houston's first full-time Spanish-language outlet previously, KRIV, an English-language independent, had carried some Spanish programming from the Spanish International Network, Univision's predecessor, or adjacent to prime time. Pueblo Broadcasting, owned by businessmen A.C. Trinity Broadcasting of Texas dropped out in 1981, leaving two combatants for the channel. In February 1980, the Federal Communications Commission designated three applications seeking channel 45 in Rosenberg for hearing.
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