KTUZ-TV

KTUZ-TV

Shawnee/Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
City of license	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Branding	Telemundo 30 (general) Accion Oklahoma (news)
Slogan	Estas Viendo T30 Telemundo
Channels	Digital: 29 (UHF) Virtual: 30 (PSIP)
Affiliations	Telemundo
Owner	Tyler Media Group (Oklahoma Land Company, LLC)
First air date	November 10, 2000
Call letters' meaning	Sequentially assigned to FM radio sister
Sister station(s)	KTUZ-TV, KUTU-CD, KTUZ-FM, KJKE, KEBC, KTLR, KKNG-FM
Former callsigns	KQOK (2000-2004)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 30 (UHF, 2000-2009)
Former affiliations	ACN/independent (2001-2004)
Transmitter power	770 kW
Height	474 m
Facility ID	77480
Transmitter coordinates	35°33′36.9″N 97°29′7.6″W (digital)
Website	www.ktuztv.com

KTUZ-TV, virtual channel 30, is the Telemundo affiliated television station serving the Oklahoma City Metroplex and licensed to Shawnee, Oklahoma. It is owned by Tyler Media Group, in a duopoly with Univision affiliate KUOK (channel 36), and the two stations share studios located on Shields Blvd. in southwest Oklahoma City. The station's call letters are taken from its sister radio station KTUZ-FM (106.7 FM, "La Z").

The station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 29, using its former analog assignment of channel 30 as its virtual digital channel via PSIP, and is carried on channel 5 in the Oklahoma City market via Cox Communications (ABC affiliate KOCO-TV, which is broadcast on virtual channel 5 over-the-air, is instead carried on cable channel 8). The station is also available to DirecTV and Dish Network customers within the Oklahoma City market.

Digital television

KTUZ-DT broadcasts on digital channel 29.

Digital channels

Channel	Video	Format	Name	Programming
30.1	1080i	16:9	KTUZ-DT	main KTUZ-TV programming / Telemundo

History

KTUZ signed on the air on November 10, 2000 as KQOK (branded as "OK30"), which aired mainly programming from Jewelry Television from ACN. Channel 30 also aired some religious and children's programming. For a brief period, KQOK also aired Bonanza reruns and the Independent News Network.

In 2004, KQOK was sold to Oklahoma City-based Tyler Media from its original owners, Equity Broadcasting, who owned Univision affiliate KUOK (channel 35) in Woodward and its repeaters (KWDW-LP and KCHM-LP in Oklahoma City and KOKT-LP in Sulphur) until April 16, 2009 when the stations were acquired by Tyler. The station became a Telemundo affiliate in early February 2005, delayed from an original target date of December 1, 2004.

KTUZ-TV's analog and digital signal patterns offer different coverage in the Central Oklahoma; its analog transmitter was located farther south than other Oklahoma City television stations (located at 35°16'58.1"N, 97°20'19.3"W). It provided city-grade coverage to Norman and Moore, but only provided "rimshot" coverage to Oklahoma City. Its analog signal was marginal at best in several parts of the city (especially in suburbs such as Forest Park, Nichols Hills and Spencer), and could not be seen at all in many of the northern suburbs. Despite this, the station did not offer a low-power repeater to give it a city-grade signal throughout the immediate Oklahoma City area. The digital signal (located at 35°33'36.9"N, 97°29'7.6"W), however, provides city-grade coverage to the entire Oklahoma City metropolitan area due to its transmitter being located within the city.

Programming

In addition to airing Telemundo network programming, KTUZ also airs some local programming as well. In addition to newscasts, the station produces a weekly discussion program Nuestra Oklahoma (Our Oklahoma), airing Sundays at 10 a.m. with an encore at 10 p.m. The station also airs a Saturday night local sports show similar to Telemundo's Ritmo Deportivo called Fiesta Deportiva, airing immediately following Telemundo's national sports program Titulares Telemundo at 10:30 p.m. From the switchover until September 2007, the station also aired Studio Z (produced in conjunction with KTUZ-FM), a weekly music video program hosted by KTUZ-FM personality Blanca Estela Ramirez, showcasing videos from Latin artists.

KTUZ-TV and sister radio station KTUZ-FM made history in September 2007, becoming the first Spanish-language station to simulcast college football games in Spanish, when both aired OU football.

KTUZ tends to preempt more Telemundo programming than other affiliates, the network's weekend schedule is more succeptible to this. Until November 2011, KTUZ preempted Nitido on Saturday mornings and Fotogenicas on Sunday mornings (though the show aired on the station for two weeks in October 2009; the actual preemption was problematic since on Sundays when Telemundo schedules a football (soccer) match, the first five minutes of Ritmo Deportivo were cut off as Telemundo moves the start times of programs that air before the games back five minutes) and Telemundo's Sunday edition of Titulares Telemundo and the network's early late night movie; however with the exception of the Sunday Titulares Telemundo telecast (for an encore presentation of Nuestra Oklahoma and the preemption of the Sunday evening telecast of the home video show Camara Loca for Fiesta Deportiva); for the most part, KTUZ did not preempt these programs for any actual programming, instead the station preempted them for infomercials.

News operation

Currently, KTUZ airs five hours of local news each week (airing on weekdays only). KTUZ, along with independent station KSBI (channel 52) and MyNetworkTV affiliate KAUT (channel 43; whose newscasts are produced by NBC affiliate KFOR-TV, channel 4) are the only stations in the Oklahoma City market with weekday-only newscasts.

After switching to Telemundo, KTUZ had no newscasts with the exception of daily, two-minute news and weather updates aired during Telemundo daytime and primetime programming seven days a week from a small closet studio. However, the station expressed interest in airing regular newscasts from the switchover. One of the anchors seen in these updates was Flory Mata (now host of the local entertainment/lifestyle program Estilo Latino on KUOK).

KTUZ's news operation, branded T30 Noticias, began in October 2006. In its beginnings, T30 Noticias only aired a 10 p.m. newscast in the evenings. A 5 p.m. newscast was added in early 2007. The newscasts initially used a logo that was radically different from the station's network-standardized logo, but a new graphics package was instituted in September 2007 with a logo more closely aligned with the station's regular branding.

In August 2011, the station's newscasts were rebranded as Accion Oklahoma (a variant of the Action News branding); with the change, the station introduced a new set and graphics for its newscasts. Currently, KTUZ-TV is one of only two remaining television stations in the Oklahoma City market not currently broadcasting its newscasts in 16:9 widescreen standard definition or high definition, Fox affiliate KOKH being the only other.

Newscasts and local programming

Weeknights

• Accion Oklahoma a las 5PM - 5-5:30 p.m.
• Accion Oklahoma a las 10PM - 10-10:35 p.m.

Sundays

• Nuestra Oklahoma - 10-10:30 a.m. (encore: 10-10:30 p.m.)
• Fiesta Deportiva - 10:30-11 p.m.

News/station presentation

Newscast titles

• T30 Noticias (2006–2011)
• Accion Oklahoma (2011–present)

Station slogans

• "Estas Viendo T30 Telemundo" (2004-present)

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News team

Current on-air staff (as of November 2011)

Anchors

• Carlos Toledo - news anchor; weeknights at 5 and 10 p.m., also news director
• Shirley Rivera - meteorologist; weeknights at 5 and 10 p.m., also entertainment reporter
• Ubaldo Martinez - sports director; weeknights at 5 and 10 p.m.
• Armando Rubio - Nuestra Oklahoma host; also station general manager

Reporters

• Michael Brooks-Jimenez - legal consultant
• Luis Estrada - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor
• Jessica Perez - health reporter
• Franco Sui Yuan - general assignment reporter; also news producer
• Marco Antonio Zavala - general assignment reporter

External links

• Official website
• Tyler Media corporate website
• Telemundo Homepage
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KTUZ-TV
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KTUZ-TV