KEYT-TV
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| Santa Barbara, California | |
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| Branding | Channel 3 (general) Key News (newscast) MyRTV |
| Slogan | Where The News Comes First / Your News, Your Team |
| Channels | Digital: 27 (UHF) |
| Subchannels | 3.1 ABC 3.2 My/RTV |
| Translators | KSBB-LP 17 Santa Barbara (city) K57BC San Luis Obispo |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner | Smith Media, LLC (Smith Media License Holdings, LLC) |
| First air date | July 24, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | KEY Television or KEY Channel Three |
| Former callsigns | KEYT (1953-1987) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 3 (VHF, 1953-2009) |
| Former affiliations | DuMont (1953-1954) CBS NBC |
| Transmitter power | 250 kW |
| Height | 918 m |
| Facility ID | 60637 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°31′31.5″N 119°57′32″W / 34.525417°N 119.95889°W |
| Website | www.keyt.com |
KEYT-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for the Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, and San Luis Obispo, California areas. Licensed to Santa Barbara, California the station broadcasts on digital UHF channel 27 and uses VHF channel 3 as its virtual channel. KEYT's transmitter is located on top of Broadcast Peak, located between Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez, California in the Santa Ynez Mountains. KEYT is owned and operated by Smith Media, LLC. KEYT's studios are located at 730 Miramonte Dr. on TV Hill, overlooking downtown Santa Barbara.
KEYT operates the area's MyNetwork TV affiliate on its DT2 digital subchannel, branded as MyRTV. MyRTV clears the entire MyNetwork TV programming schedule and airs programming from Retro Television Network, as well as a few syndicated shows.
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[edit] History
During the 1950s, the station ran programming from all four TV networks: ABC, CBS, DuMont, and NBC.[1] KEYT operates morning, afternoon, and evening newscasts. KEYT channel 3 has identified itself as KEY News since the 1980s. In the ratings game, KEYT is number one in ratings for late news.[citation needed]
Between KEYT's launch of its HDTV signal on March 2007 and September 2007, KEYT-HD was initially unavailable to cable subscribers in the Central Coast, due to a contract dispute with the local cable companies. KEYT has since reached an agreement with Cox Communications in Santa Barbara, Comcast in Santa Maria, and as of late October 2007, with Charter Cable in San Luis Obispo to carry its HDTV signal.
As of July 7, 2011, none of the stations, including KEYT, currently broadcast local news in high definition although KCOY-TV broadcasts its local newscasts in 16:9 enhanced definition widescreen.
[edit] Digital Television
KEYT completed its transition to digital on February 17, 2009[2] MyNetworkTV/Retro Television Network programming is carried on its second digital subchannel. The station's digital channel is multiplexed.
| Virtual Channel |
Physical Channel |
Video | Aspect | Programming |
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| 3.1 | 27.1 | 720p | 16:9 | main KEYT/ABC programming |
| 3.2 | 27.2 | 480i | 4:3 | MyNetworkTV/Retro Television Network programming |
[edit] Programming
In addition to ABC programming and local news, KEYT airs syndicated programming, with Live with Regis and Kelly after Good Morning America, The Real Housewives before the ABC soap opera lineup, The Dr. Oz Show and Who Wants to be a Millionaire during the mid-afternoons, TMZ and Access Hollywood before ABC primetime.
[edit] Affiliation with MyNetworkTV and Retro Television Network
KEYT picked up the MyNetworkTV affilitaton on June 2006 and initially showed only MyNetworkTV programming, and a test pattern the rest of the time.[3] By Fall 2007, the station had managed to obtain syndication broadcast rights to Family Guy and South Park, and officially launched its DT2 subchannel branded as "MyNetworkTV Central Coast" on October 2007, replacing Los Angeles-based MyNetworkTV affiliate KCOP channel 13 on all Central Coast cable systems.
The channel initially simulcast the SD version of KEYT outside of MyNetwork TV programming. As of October 30, 2007, it has picked up the Retro Television Network affiliation and broadcasts RTV programming outside of MyNetwork TV.[4] It has subsequently changed its branding to "My RTN" to coincide with the new affiliation, later changing to "My RTV" after RTN changed its acronym to RTV.
[edit] News operation
KEYT airs 22 hours of local news per week, with four hours on weekdays and only one hour on weekends. A two-hour block airs at 5 a.m., followed by a half-hour block at 5 p.m., a one-hour block at 6 p.m., and a 35-minute wrap at 11 p.m. On weekends, half-hour news blocks airs at 6 and 11 p.m.
The station also simulcasts its 6pm and 6:30pm newscasts in Spanish.[5] This comes after Univision affiliate KPMR-TV and it's owner, Entravision Communications Corporation, announced earlier that the station will end its newscast the day before due to unsuccessful attempts to save KPMR from budget cuts.[6]
[edit] On-air staff
[edit] Current
[edit] Anchors
- Ryan Carmel - weekday mornings "KEY News This Morning" (5-7 a.m.) & weather anchor
- Beth Farnsworth - weekday mornings "KEY News This Morning" (5-7 a.m.)
- Joe Gehl - weeknights at 5 p.m. and 11 p.m.
- Shirin Rajaee - weeknights at 5 and 6 p.m.
- Paula Lopez - weeknights at 6:30 and 11 p.m.
- CJ Ward - weeknights at 6
[edit] Reporters
- Tracy Lehr - general assignment reporter, Ventura County Bureau Chief
- Scott Hurst - general assignment reporter
- John Palminteri - senior reporter
- Sara Bush- general assignment reporter
[edit] Weather
- Alan Rose - Chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 6, and 11 p.m.
- Shawn Quien - weekend evenings at 6 and 11 p.m.
[edit] Sports
- Mike Klan - sports director, weeknights at 6 and 11 p.m.
[edit] Notable former staff
- Giselle Fernández (Reporter circa 1983)
- Christine Craft (Reporter and anchor in 1970's)
- Edie Lambert, (Anchor/ Reporter (Now at KCRA-TV in Sacramento)
- Dan Elliott, (Sports Anchor/ Fill-in Anchor, Now at KXTV in Sacramento)
- Michelle Franzen (Reporter/ Fill-in Anchor 1993-1994)
[edit] Rebroadcast stations
KEYT also operates two translators to extend its coverage area. It operates a repeater station in San Luis Obispo, K57BC, on channel 57, and KSBB-LP, a Class A television station, in downtown Santa Barbara, on UHF channel 17. KSBB-LP is located at KEYT's studios and broadcasts a directional signal to downtown Santa Barbara, serving areas shielded from the main channel 3 signal by the Santa Ynez Mountains. The station initially rebroadcast KKFX-CA from its sign-on until July 1, 2006, when KKFX-CA terminated the agreement for the station to rebroadcast its programming. The station has since been a repeater station for KEYT.
KSBB-LP has a construction permit to operate digitally on channel 17,[7] while K57BC has a construction permit to operate digitally on channel 31.[8]
[edit] External links
- Official KEYT Website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KEYT
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KEYT-TV
[edit] References
- ^ TV Guide: Los Angeles Metropolitan Edition
- ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
- ^ MyNetworkTV Adds 10 Affils | Business solutions from AllBusiness.com
- ^ RTN To Launch This Week in Santa Barbara
- ^ KEYT Relaunching Spanish Simulcast
- ^ KPMR supporters say investor proposals to save newscast declined KSBY.
- ^ http://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/Auth_Files/1245365.pdf
- ^ http://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/Auth_Files/1245347.pdf
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