KKTV
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| KKTV | |
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| Colorado Springs/Pueblo, Colorado | |
| Branding | KKTV11 (general) KKTV 11 News (newscasts) MyKKTV (general) My11 News (newscasts) |
| Channels | Analog: 11 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | CBS MyNetworkTV (DT2) "KKTV No Wait Weather" (DT3) |
| Owner | Gray Television, Inc. (Gray Television Licensee, Inc.) |
| First air date | December 7, 1952 |
| Former affiliations | All secondary: NBC (1952-1953) DuMont (1952-1956) ABC (1950s) |
| Transmitter Power | 234 kW (analog) 20.1 kW (digital) |
| Height | 725 m (both) |
| Facility ID | 35037 |
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| Website | www.kktv.com My KKTV |
KKTV is a CBS television station on VHF channel 11 (199.25 MHz video / 203.75 MHz audio). It serves the Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Pueblo, Colorado USA market, and is owned by Gray Television. Its transmitter is located on Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs.
KKTV is carried on cable channel 10 in Colorado Springs and channel 11 in Pueblo.
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[edit] History
KKTV first went on the air on December 7, 1952 as the first television station in southern Colorado. It originally carried programming from CBS, NBC, ABC, and DuMont.[1] In 1953, KRDO-TV signed on and took the NBC affiliation and DuMont folded in 1956. During the late 1950s, KKTV was a primary CBS affiliate and held a secondary affiliation with ABC.
By 1960, the formerly separate Colorado Springs and Pueblo TV markets 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 11 became a sole CBS affiliate with KRDO-TV 13 becoming a full-time ABC affiliate and Pueblo's KCSJ-TV 5 (now KOAA-TV), which had been a primary NBC affiliate since its inception in 1953, becoming the area's sole NBC affiliate.
In late 1982, KKTV's original local owners sold the station to the Seattle-based The Ackerley Group, in turn becoming one of that company's earliest acquisitions. Ackerley owned the station until early 1999 when they swapped KKTV to Benedek Broadcasting in exchange for that company's KCOY in Santa Maria, California. Current owner Gray Television acquired KKTV when they bought most of Benedek's stations in April 2002.
[edit] MyNetworkTV
On June 29, 2006, KKTV announced plans that on September 5, 2006 they would launch an affiliate with FOX's new sister network MyNetworkTV on the station's DT2 sub-channel, to be known as My KKTV. [2]
Gray has registered the "mykktv.com" domain for its launch, however at this point the domain goes to a redirect site. Currently, My KKTV's website is located at "kktv.com/mntv".
Other programming on My KKTV includes replays and extra runs of KKTV's syndicated programming and some syndicated programs of its own. For newscasts, My KKTV features newscasts at 6:30 and 9 PM seen only on My KKTV. KKTV has not been able to boost the signal, which results in a very poor signal for much of the market.
[edit] KKTV No Wait Weather
Since October 2007, KKTV has been broadcasting a 24-hour Weather channel called "KKTV No Wait Weather" on digital channel 11.3 and cable. The channel began as a time filler service on KKTV digital channel 11.2, and it is still used for this purpose.
[edit] News/Station Presentation
[edit] Newscast Titles
- KKTV News (1976-1979)
- NewsCenter 11 (1979-1989)
- 11 News (1989-present)
[edit] External links
- Station Website
- KKTV DT2 "MyKKTV" Website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KKTV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KKTV-TV
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