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 | |
| Subchannels | 11.1 CBS 11.2 MNTV 11.3 KKTV No Wait Weather |
| Affiliations | CBS MyNetworkTV |
| Owner | Gray Television, Inc. (Gray Television Licensee, Inc.) |
| First air date | December 7, 1952 |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 11 (1952-2009) |
| Former affiliations | All secondary: NBC (1952-1953) DuMont (1952-1956) ABC (1952-1960) |
| Transmitter Power | 20.1 kW (digital) |
| Height | 725 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 35037 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | 38°44′42″N 104°51′45.5″W / 38.745°N 104.862639°W |
| Website | www.kktv.com www.mykktv.com |
KKTV, channel 11, is a CBS affiliated television station in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It serves the Colorado Springs/Pueblo 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 signed on the air on December 7, 1952. It is the third-oldest station in Colorado--behind Denver's KWGN-TV and KUSA-TV--and the oldest outside Denver. It originally carried programming from CBS, NBC, ABC, and DuMont.[1] In 1953, KRDO-TV signed on and took the NBC affiliation. 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 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 became a sole CBS affiliate with KRDO-TV becoming a full-time ABC affiliate and Pueblo's KCSJ-TV (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 Ackerley Group, 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 KCOY in Santa Maria, California. Current owner Gray Television acquired KKTV when they bought most of Benedek's stations in April 2002.
[edit] MyKKTV
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 digital subchannel 11.2, to be known as MyKKTV. [2]
Other programming on MyKKTV includes replays and extra runs of KKTV's syndicated programming (such as Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune) and some syndicated programs of its own. For newscasts, MyKKTV features a newscastat 9 PM seen only on MyKKTV.
MyKKTV is carried on cable channel 141 in Colorado Springs and cable channel 246 Pueblo.On June 9th 2009 at Noon MyKKTV moved to Comcast channel 41 in Colorado Springs.
[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
- Telenews (1952-1964)
- The Six O'Clock Report/The Eleven O'Clock Report (1964-1968)
- Newsnight (1968-1970)
- NewsScene (1970-1974)
- Action News (1974-1976)
- KKTV News (1976-1979)
- NewsCenter 11 (1979-1989)
- 11 News (1989-Present)
- KKTV 11 News (2002-present)
- MY 11 News (2006-present; on MY KKTV)
[edit] Station Slogans
- We're #1 in Southern Colorado, TV-11! (late 1970s)
- Hello Colorado (1981)
- NewsCenter 11: We're the Team (1982-1983)
- KKTV is On The Go (1985-1986)
- Say Hello (1986-1987)
- Channel 11, The Team To Watch (1988-1989)
- The Difference at Night (1988-1991, used for their 10PM newscasts)
- Get Ready (1989-1991)
- The Look of TV-11 (1991-1992)
- This is TV-11 (1993-1994)
- It's All Right Here on KKTV (1994-1995)
- Coverage That Counts (1997-1998)
- Coverage You Can Count On (1998-2005)
- On Air, Online, or On the Go, KKTV 11 News Delivers (2008-present)
[edit] External links
- Official KKTV Website
- Official MyKKTV Website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KKTV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KKTV-TV
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