| Pueblo/Colorado Springs, Colorado | |
|---|---|
| Branding | CW 57 |
| Channels | Digital: 57 (UHF) & KXRM-TV 21.2 |
| Affiliations | The CW |
| Owner | Barrington Broadcasting |
| Founded | November 1, 1999 |
| Call letters' meaning | KX = KXRM (sister station) TU (2) may refer to this sister station status |
| Sister station(s) | KXRM-TV |
| Former affiliations | UPN (1999-2006) |
| Website | coloradoconnetion.com |
KXTU-LP (CW 57) is a low-powered television station affiliated with The CW serving Colorado Springs, Pueblo, and other communities in southern Colorado. It is licensed to Pueblo and operates on channel 57. KXTU is a sister station to Fox affiliate KXRM-TV; both are owned by Barrington Broadcasting.
Unlike most other low-powered stations, KXTU is available to viewers on DirecTV and Dish Network, as well as on cable systems throughout southern Colorado. This is because under the retransmission consent portion of the must-carry rules, Barrington has the right to require cable and satellite providers to carry KXTU as part of the compensation for carrying KXRM.
Since 2008, the station has been available on KXRM's digital subchannel; its over-the-air signal doesn't make it too far out of Pueblo. KXTU since it was an Low-Power station it didn't have to switch to DT.
On August 30, 2010, KXTU-LP flashed-cut from analog to digital on channel 57. [1]
The station signed on in 1999 as an affiliate of UPN, but when that network left the air on September 17, 2006, it switched to The CW, which was created by the merger of UPN and The WB (which had been available in the market by way of Denver's KWGN-TV). Unlike its sister station, KXTU does not air news but during a breaking news event or weather bump it simulcasts KXRM-TV News.
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