KKTV

KKTV

Colorado Springs, Colorado
Branding	KKTV 11 (general) KKTV 11 News (newscasts) MyKKTV (general) My11 News (newscasts)
Channels	Digital: 49 (UHF) Virtual: 11 (PSIP)
Subchannels	11.1 CBS 11.2 MNTV
Owner	Gray Television, Inc. (Gray Television Licensee, Inc.)
First air date	December 7, 1952
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 11 (VHF, 1952-2009) Digital: 10 (VHF, 2003-2011)
Former affiliations	All secondary: NBC (1952-1953) DuMont (1952-1956) ABC (1952-1960)
Transmitter power	550 kW
Height	723.8 m
Facility ID	35037
Transmitter coordinates	38°44′42″N 104°51′43″W
Website	www.kktv.com www.mykktv.com

KKTV, virtual channel 11 (digital channel 49), is the 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.

In the northern part of New Mexico, KKTV's broadcast area overlaps with that of KRQE's, especially in New Mexico's Capital, Santa Fe.

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 it swapped KKTV to Benedek Broadcasting in exchange for KCOY in Santa Maria, California. Current owner Gray Television acquired KKTV when it bought most of Benedek's stations in April 2002.

On October 17, 2009; KKTV became the second station in the Colorado Springs-Pueblo market to present its newscasts in high definition (HD) beginning with its 10 p.m. newscast.

Digital Television

Channel	Video	Aspect	Name	Programming
11.1	1080i	16:9	KKTV-DT	Main KKTV programming / CBS
11.2	480i	4:3	MyKKTV	Main KKTV-DT2 programming / MyNetworkTV

On June 29, 2006, KKTV announced plans that on September 5, 2006 it 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 9 p.m. newscast seen only on MyKKTV. MyKKTV is carried on cable channel 41 in Colorado Springs and cable channel 246 Pueblo.

From October 2007 to January 2010, KKTV broadcasted a 24-hour weather channel called "KKTV No Wait Weather" on digital channel 11.3 and area cable providers. The channel began as a time filler service on KKTV digital channel 11.2. No Wait Weather was also seen on 11.2 overnights but this was discontinued in June 2009. On January 1, 2010, this service was discontinued and KKTV-DT3 was removed from Cable 140.

On January 21, 2011, KKTV began broadcasting on UHF frequency 49 and discontinued its broadcast on VHF channel 10 at 12 p.m. on January 24. Moving to the UHF dial was necessary because of viewer reception & interference issues with the VHF broadcast.

Anchors

• Don Ward - Weekdays at 4pm, 5:30pm, and 10pm
• Shannon Brinias - Weekdays at 5:30pm and 10pm
• Betty Sexton - Weekdays at 4pm (also Call for Action reporter)
• John Harding - Weekday Mornings and Noon
• Stacia Naquin - Weekdays Mornings and Noon
• David Nancarrow - Weekends (also weekday reporter)

Reporters

• Lauri Martin - Senior Reporter/Crime Stoppers
• Kendra Potter - Pueblo Reporter
• Karen Morfitt
• Alyssa Chin
• Catherine Bilkey
• Patrick Nelson

Weather

• Brian Bledsoe - Chief Meteorologist seen weekdays at 4pm, 5:30pm, and 10pm
• Branden Borremans - Weekday Mornings and Noon
• Sarah Schwabe - Weekend Weather Forecaster/Weekday Reporter

Sports

• Jesse Kurtz - Sports Director
• Sam Farnsworth - Weekend Sports Anchor/Reporter

News/station presentation

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 (2006–2009; on MyKKTV; the monker was dropped in October 2009)

Station slogans

• Television 11 in Color (1960s)
• Action News, Where the Action Is (1974–1975)
• We're #1 in Southern Colorado, TV-11! (late 1970s)
• NewsCenter 11: We're The Team (1982–1983)
• KKTV is On The Go (1985–1986)
• Channel 11, The Team To Watch (1988–1989)
• 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)
• On Your Side (2009–present)

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Trivia

Current evening newsanchor Don Ward appeared on the long-running British Children's show Crackerjack. It was his first appearance on TV ever. Ward was a contestant in their "Crackerjack Young Entertainer of The Year" contest as a young magician. His father was in the American Armed Forces stationed in the UK at the time. However Ward did not move into the semi-finals.

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