KMYS

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KMYS
Kerrville, Texas/San Antonio, Texas
Branding	My 35
Channels	35 (UHF) analog, 32 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	My Network TV
Owner	Sinclair Broadcast Group
Founded	November 6, 1985
Call letters meaning	K MY Network TV San Antonio
Former callsigns	KRRT (1985-2006)
Former affiliations	Independent (1985-1986) FOX (1986-1995) UPN (1995-1998) The WB (1998-2006)
Website	kmys.tv

KRRT (this station's former callsign) is also the ICAO airport code for the Warroad International Airport-Swede Carlston Field in Warroad, Minn., U.S.

KMYS, My 35, is the My Network TV affiliate in San Antonio, Texas. The station is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. Its transmitter is located near Lakehills, Texas. It is licensed to the city of Kerrville.

Contents 1 History 1.1 The WB Ends/KMYS Today 2 KMYS TV Tower 3 Gallery 4 External links

[edit] History

KMYS first hit the airwaves on November 6, 1985, as KRRT, an independent station. The station would be the first independent general entertainment station in the San Antonio market, as well as San Antonio's first new English-language commercial station in 28 years. Prior to 1985, San Antonio was the largest market without an independent station. The station was founded by the TVX Broadcast Group.

KRRT became a charter affiliate of the FOX network in 1987 under the moniker FOX 35. That year TVX bought large market indepednent statations and Fox affiliates from Taft Broadcasting. The next year TVX sold stations in Norfolk (WTVZ-TV), New Orleans (WNOL-TV), the Piedmont Triad (WNRW), Miami (WCIX, a former Taft station that TVX intended to keep but later sold to CBS), Buffalo (WNYB), Nashville (WCAY), and Memphis (WMKW). Paramount Pictures bought a minority ownership interest in the remainder of TVX in 1989 and would acquire the rest in 1991. In 1995, KRRT became a UPN affiliate monikered UPN 35, and later that year Paramount sold the station to Jet Broadcasting, who began a local marketing agreement (LMA) with cross-town KABB (who became the new FOX affiliate at the same time KRRT went UPN), owned by River City Broadcasting. In 1996, Sinclair would acquire KABB and the LMA with KRRT through its purchase of River City. In 1998, UPN was dropped and KRRT became an affiliate with The WB and changed its branding to WB 35. KMOL-TV (now WOAI-TV) would pick up UPN and air it late night, due in part to being owned at the time by Chris-Craft, a one-time part-owner of UPN. UPN, though, eventually went to KBEJ (now KCWX), which was located between Austin and San Antonio. Soon enough though, even with the WB 35 logo, it was known over-the-air as "San Antonio's WB". Also like other general entertainment stations, KRRT moved away from classic sitcoms and movies and toward more talk/reality and court shows. They also gradually dropped cartoons keeping the afternoon Kids WB block until that was ended nationally by WB in 2006. The Kids WB, now reduced to Saturdays, has since moved to KCWX upon the network merger.

[edit] The WB Ends/KMYS Today

As the WB met its demise in September 2006 to become The CW, a joint venture with CBS and Time Warner, KRRT seemed likely to become an affiliate of The CW since KCWX has a rimshot signal over San Antonio and Austin. But that came to a halt on March 2, 2006, when it was announced KRRT would affiliate with My Network TV. KCWX would affiliate with The CW instead and pull out of the Austin market since WB station KNVA would be a part of The CW in that TV market as of April 18, 2006. At one point, based on branding conventions, KRRT could have been branded as "My San Antonio TV" but that would have caused confusion with a website operated by KENS: mysa.com (shorthand: mysanantonio.com). The station was branded as My 35 to avoid the confusion.

KRRT changed its call letters to KMYS on June 19, 2006. The new call letters are to reflect its new affiliation with My Network TV.

In late 2006, KMYS began airing the 4Kids TV line-up for the first time since 1995, when the station was a FOX station airing what was then Fox Kids.

[edit] KMYS TV Tower

KMYS broadcasts from a 473.3-meter-high, guy-wired aerial mast. The tower, built in 1985, is used for the transmission of FM radio and television programs in Lakehills, Texas, USA (Geographical coordinates: 29°36'38.8" N and 98°53'34.1" W).

[edit] Gallery

KRRT in 1993 as a Fox affiliate.

KRRT in 1997 as a UPN affiliate.

KRRT's old "WB35" logo — prior to the Summer of 2006.

KRRT, now as KMYS — now a MNTV affiliate.

[edit] External links

• Station Website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KMYS
• ASR Registration for KMYS's Tower

Broadcast television in the San Antonio market  (Nielsen DMA #37)
KCWX 2 (The CW) - WOAI 4 (NBC) - KENS 5 (CBS) - KLRN 9 (PBS) - KSAT 12 (ABC) - K14LM 14 (3ABN) - KNIC 17 (TFU) - KHCE 23 (TBN) - KPXL 26 (ION) - KABB 29 (Fox) - KVDF-CA 31 (AZA) - KNIC-CA 34 (Silent) - KMYS 35 (MNTV) (The Tube on DT2) - KWEX 41 (UNI) - KQVE-LP 46 (DS) - K52EA 52 (Multimedios) - KVDA 60 (TEL)
See also, Broadcast television in Del Rio / Eagle Pass