Jump to content

KKTV

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected fromK07AG)

For the television station in Osaka, Japan, seeKansai Telecasting Corporation.For the television station in Kumamoto, Japan, seeKumamoto Kenmin Television.
KKTV
A sans serif 11 with a circle cut out of it to accommodate the CBS eye. The word "NEWS" is written next to 11. Beneath both elements is the slogan "Your Breaking News Leader".
CityColorado Springs, Colorado
Channels
Branding
  • KKTV 11;11 News
  • MyKKTV (on DT2)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
December 7, 1952(71 years ago)(1952-12-07)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:11 (VHF,1952–2009)
  • Digital:10 (VHF, 2003–2011), 49 (UHF, 2011–2019)
  • All secondary:
  • NBC(1952–1953)
  • DuMont(1952–1956)
  • ABC(1952–1960)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID35037
ERP350kW
HAAT719.7 m (2,361 ft)
Transmitter coordinates38°44′42″N104°51′45″W/ 38.74500°N 104.86250°W/38.74500; -104.86250
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.kktv.com

KKTV(channel 11) is atelevision stationinColorado Springs, Colorado,United States, affiliated withCBS.The station is owned byGray Television,and maintains studios on East Colorado Avenue in downtown Colorado Springs and a transmitter onCheyenne Mountain.

History

[edit]

KKTV signed on the air on December 7, 1952. It is the third-oldest station in Colorado—behindDenver'sKWGN-TVandKUSA-TV—and the oldest outside Denver. The station's first studio located on Mill Street was too small from the beginning. It originally carried programming from CBS,NBC,ABC,andDuMont.[2]In 1953,KRDO-TV(channel 13) signed on and took the NBC affiliation. DuMont folded in 1956, leaving KKTV as a primary CBS affiliate and secondary ABC affiliate. That same year, the station moved its operations to a new building located on South Tejon Street in Colorado Springs.

By 1960, the formerly separate Colorado Springs andPueblomarkets became one single market serving the Pikes Peak region and surrounding areas with each of the area's three TV stations becoming "exclusive" network affiliates. KKTV became a sole CBS affiliate with KRDO-TV becoming a full-time ABC affiliate and Pueblo's KCSJ-TV (channel 5, nowKOAA-TV), which had been a primary NBC affiliate since its inception in 1953, becoming the area's sole NBC affiliate. In 1963, KKTV's original owners, TV Colorado, sold the station to Willard W. Garvey, who held a minority stake in Stauffer Publications Stations. In December 1968, KKTV relocated to a new studio facility on North Nevada Avenue in Colorado Springs, which had previously functioned as a film stage.[3]By the time the move was complete, a deal had been reached to sell KKTV to the Capitol Broadcasting Company ofJackson, Mississippi,[a]which owned radio and television properties in that city.[4]

In late 1982, Capitol Broadcasting Company sold KKTV to the Seattle-basedAckerley Group(originally called Ackerley Communications), becoming one of that company's earliest acquisitions. Ackerley owned the station until early 1999 when it swapped KKTV toBenedek Broadcastingin exchange forKCOYinSanta Maria, California.Current ownerGray Televisionacquired KKTV when it bought most of Benedek's stations in April 2002 as part of Benedek's bankruptcy liquidation.

On October 17, 2009; KKTV became the second station in the Colorado Springs-Pueblo market to present its newscasts inhigh definition(HD) beginning with its 10 p.m. newscast.

On June 23, 2012, at around 2 p.m. MDT, KKTV began to provide live 24/7 continuous coverage of theWaldo Canyon firein Colorado Springs. KKTV called in help fromKOLNinLincoln, Nebraska,WOWTinOmaha, Nebraska,KCNC-TVin Denver, andKOLO-TVinReno, Nevada(KOLN, WOWT, and KOLO are sister stations to KKTV, CBS-ownedKCNC shares a helicopter with KKTV), to help out with the coverage of the fire. The nonstop coverage wrapped up at midnight on June 29, 130 hours after it started. KKTV's syndicated and CBS programming were shown on Channel 11.2 during its 24/7 fire coverage. The coverage was praised by various critics, and won theColorado Springs Independent's Best Local TV Newscast award for 2012,[5]ending a long streak in that category by KOAA. KKTV's news ratings have gone up considerably since their Waldo Canyon fire coverage, and as of January 2013, they are claiming their news ratings are "Southern Colorado's Most Watched", higher than KOAA or KRDO.

Colorado Springs studio

KKTV announced plans to move into a new location at 520 East Colorado Avenue in downtown Colorado Springs. The move was completed in mid-2013.[6]

News operation

[edit]

KKTV currently broadcasts 35 hours of locally produced newscasts (with six hours each weekday, two hours on Saturdays, and three hours on Sundays). KKTV was the last station in the Colorado Springs–Pueblo market to produce morning newscasts on the weekends, which began on the weekend of November 13–14, 2021. However, KKTV was the second TV station in the Colorado Springs–Pueblo market to broadcast an early morning newscast beginning in late 1992 originally running a full hour, while rival KRDO-TV continued to stick with a 15-minute length morning newscast (and would eventually extend the program's length beginning in early 1996).

Technical information

[edit]

Subchannels

[edit]

The station's signal ismultiplexed:

Subchannels of KKTV[7]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
11.1 1080i 16:9 KKTV-HD CBS
11.2 480i METV-KK MeTV&MyNetworkTV
11.3 Outlaw Outlaw

KKTV began broadcasting a digital signal on channel 10 in 2003.

On September 5, 2006, KKTV launched a subchannel carryingMyNetworkTVprogramming, under the brandingMyKKTV.[8]KKTV-DT2 is carried on cable channel 41 in Colorado Springs and cable channel 246 in Pueblo. When the channel first launched it carried replays and extra runs of KKTV's syndicated programming (such asJeopardy!andWheel of Fortune) and some exclusive syndicated such asFuturamaand30 Rock.At one point, KKTV produced a 9 p.m. newscast for the subchannel. Around September 8, 2015, KKTV-DT2 began airing select programming fromMeTValongside syndicated programming. By October 2019, MeTV takes up a bulk of the schedule outside of MyNetworkTV programming, with the service moving to the graveyard slot, airing from 2 to 4 a.m. on Tuesdays through Saturdays,[9]an increasingly common fate for the service.

From October 2007 to January 2010, KKTV broadcast a 24-hour weather channel called "KKTV No Wait Weather" on digital channel 11.3 and area cable providers. The channel began as a time filler service on KKTV digital channel 11.2. No Wait Weather was also seen on 11.2 overnights but this was discontinued in June 2009. OnJanuary 1,2010, this service was discontinued and KKTV-DT3 was removed from Cable 140.

Analog-to-digital conversion

[edit]

KKTV shut down its analog signal, overVHFchannel 11, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcastsunder federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 10,[10]usingvirtual channel11.

On January 21, 2011, KKTV began broadcasting on UHF channel 49 and discontinued its broadcast on VHF channel 10 at noon on January 24.[11]Moving to the UHF dial was deemed necessary because of viewer reception (all other Springs area commercial stations were on UHF by 2009) and interference issues with the VHF broadcast.[12]

On June 6, 2019, KKTV switched frequencies from RF channel 49 to RF channel 26 due to the FCC spectrum repack.

Translators

[edit]

Notes

[edit]
  1. ^Not related to theCapitol Broadcasting Companyof Raleigh, North Carolina.

References

[edit]
  1. ^"Facility Technical Data for KKTV".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^[1]ArchivedJanuary 17, 2006, at theWayback Machine
  3. ^"KKTV Slated to Complete Move to AFCO Stage".Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph.Colorado Springs, Colorado. December 8, 1968. p. 3-E.RetrievedJune 26,2022– via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^"Capitol Broadcasting Buys KKTV Television Station".Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph.Colorado Springs, Colorado. October 23, 1968. p. 2-F.RetrievedJune 26,2022– via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^"Best of 2012: Personalities | Best of 2012 Vol. II | Colorado Springs Independent".Csindy.com.RetrievedApril 26,2013.
  6. ^Wineke, Andrew (August 23, 2012)."KKTV plans to move station downtown | kktv, move, downtown - Colorado Springs Gazette, CO".Gazette.com. Archived fromthe originalon October 2, 2012.RetrievedApril 26,2013.
  7. ^RabbitEars TV Query for KKTV
  8. ^[2]ArchivedFebruary 4, 2012, at theWayback Machine
  9. ^TitanTV Query for KKTV
  10. ^"DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on August 29, 2013.RetrievedMarch 24,2012.
  11. ^KKTV Launches New Transmitter
  12. ^http://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/Auth_Files/1333027.pdf.RetrievedMay 29,2010.{{cite web}}:Missing or empty|title=(help)[dead link]
[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=KKTV&oldid=1219325888"