KTUD-CA

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KTUD-CA

Las Vegas, Nevada
Branding	Vegas Television
Slogan	All About You!
Channels	25 (UHF) analog
Affiliations	Independent
Owner	Greenspun Broadcasting
Founded	1999
Call letters meaning	possibly from the word "attitude"
Former affiliations	America's Voice UPN (1998-2006)
Website	http://www.ilovevegastv.com

KTUD-CA (Channel 25 analog) is an independent television station serving the Las Vegas, Nevada market owned and operated by the Greenspun Broadcasting, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Greenspun Corporation.

The "-CA" suffix in the call letters denotes the station's status as a "Class A" television station, a slight upgrade from its previous "low power" (-LP) designation.

The station now broadcasts a local newscast at 10:00 p.m., which is produced by CBS affiliate KLAS-TV (Channel 8).

1 History
2 Newscasts
3 Logo Gallery
4 External links

[edit] History

After the Sinclair Broadcast Group acquired what was then known as KUPN (now KVMY) and switched the station's affiliation to WB Network in 1998, Las Vegas, Nevada was left without a UPN affiliate. The next year, a low power station, KCNG-LP, started broadcasting UPN on channel 25 (owned by Kong Broadcasting). After a series of ownership changes, Greenspun Broadcasting now owns the station.

On April 24, 2006, KTUD-CA announced that they were becoming an independent station, and not The CW as expected. The CW affiliation went to former independent KFBT, now KVCW.

KTUD-CA is low-powered, which means cable carriers are not bound by the FCC must-carry rule to carry KTUD on cable systems in the Las Vegas DMA. Cox Communications, the primary local cable company, refused to carry KCNG/KTUD for several years. It finally began to carry the station on Cox Cable channel 14. DirecTV also carries KTUD with the other "Las Vegas locals". Dish Network currently does not carry KTUD.

[edit] Newscasts

Eyewitness News is produced by KLAS with newscasts at 5 p.m. and 10 p.m.. It is currently anchored by Denise Saunders, who left KYW-TV in Philadelphia after a contract dispute in August 2004.

Ironically, Greenspun Broadcasting put KLAS on the air in 1953 as the first television station in Nevada. However, Greenspun has not owned KLAS in decades.

[edit] Logo Gallery

KCNG "UPN 25" logo, used from mid-1998 until late 2000.

Former KTUD "Las Vegas UPN" logo, used until September 18, 2006.

Current KTUD logo.

[edit] External links

Broadcast television stations in the Las Vegas market (Nielsen DMA #48)
KVBC 3 (NBC) (NBC Weather Plus on DT2) - KVVU 5 (FOX) (Fox 5 24/7 Weather on DT2) - KLAS 8 (CBS) - KLVX 10 (PBS) (PBS HD on DT1) (Create on DT3) - KTNV 13 (ABC) (KTNV Problem Solver Traffic on DT2) - KINC 15 (UNI) (KELV-LP on DT2) - KEEN-LP 17 (TLN) - KHDF-CA 19 (AZA) - KVMY 21 (MNTV) (The Tube on DT3) - KLVD-LP 23 (DS) - KTUD-CA 25 (Ind) - KELV-LP 27 (TFU) - KVPX-LP 28 (VSEN-TV) - KPVT-LP 30 (FamilyNet) - KNBX-CA 31 (Spanish) - KVCW 33 (The CW) - KMCC 34 (Spanish) - KVTE-LP 35 (Ind) - KBLR 39 (TEL) - K41IO 41 (TBN) - KPVM-LP 41 (i) - K43FO 43 (3ABN) KGNG-LP 47 (HSN) - KLSV-LP 50 (JTV) KHMP-LP 62 (A1) - KEGS-LP 63 (IA/RTN)