KTTW
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Branding | Fox 7 |
Programming | |
Affiliations | 7.1: Fox 7.2: This TV 7.3: Cozi TV |
Ownership | |
Owner | Independent Communications, Inc. |
History | |
First air date | 1987 |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 17 (UHF, 1987–2009) |
Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 28521 |
ERP | 7.5 kW |
HAAT | 217.6 m (714 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 43°30′18.3″N 96°33′22.7″W / 43.505083°N 96.556306°W |
Translator(s) | See below |
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Public license information | |
Website | fox7 |
Satellite of KTTW | |
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Branding | see KTTW infobox |
Programming | |
Affiliations | 12.1: Fox 12.2: This TV 12.3: Cozi TV |
Ownership | |
Owner | Independent Communications, Inc. |
History | |
First air date | 1991[2] |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 12 (VHF, 1991–2009) Digital: 22 (UHF, until 2009) |
Technical information[3] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 28501 |
ERP | 12.6 kW |
HAAT | 257 m (843 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 44°11′39.0″N 98°19′5.0″W / 44.194167°N 98.318056°W |
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Public license information |
KTTW, virtual and VHF digital channel 7, is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States. The station is owned by a group of local investors. KTTW's studios are located on West 11th Street in Sioux Falls, and its transmitter is located in Rowena, South Dakota.
KTTM (virtual and VHF digital channel 12) in Huron operates as a full-time satellite of KTTW; this station's transmitter is located near Alpena, South Dakota. KTTM covers areas of south-central and southeastern South Dakota that receive a marginal to non-existent over-the-air signal from KTTW, although there is significant overlap between the two stations' contours otherwise. KTTM is a straight simulcast of KTTW; on-air references to KTTM are limited to Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-mandated hourly station identifications during programming. Aside from the transmitter, KTTM does not maintain any physical presence locally in Huron.
History
The station signed on May 29, 1987 as the first non-Big Three network commercial station in South Dakota. It has been a Fox affiliate for its entire existence. For its first six years on the air, it was effectively South Dakota's first general entertainment independent station. Fox didn't air a full week's worth of programming until 1993, and until then most early Fox affiliates were programmed as independents. Satellite station KTTM signed on in 1991 to serve the western portions of the Sioux Falls area that could not get a clear signal from KTTW.
In early 1996, Rapid City-based KEVN-TV announced that it would switch from NBC to Fox once its affiliation contract with NBC expired in July of that year. Prior to the switch, KTTW was the only Fox affiliate to be based in South Dakota, while the western portion of the state received the network's programming via either Foxnet or Denver-based KDVR.
KTTW aired on analog channel 17 since its inception, then took advantage of the digital transition in 2009 to use their physical digital channel 7 as their permanent PSIP virtual channel to better brand themselves. The station has never had a news operation, nor contracted with another station to provide a newscast.
Digital television
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming[4][5] |
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7.1 / 12.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KTTW-HD KTTM-HD |
Main programming / Fox |
7.2 / 12.2 | 480i | 4:3 | ThisTV | This TV |
7.3 / 12.3 | Cozi-TV | Cozi TV |
Analog-to-digital conversion
Both stations shut down their analog signals for the 2009 analog shutoff date:[6]
- KTTW shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 17; the station's digital signal broadcasts on its pre-transition VHF channel 7.
- KTTM shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 12; the station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 22 to VHF channel 12.
Translators
The programming of KTTW is also rebroadcast on the following translator stations:
- K14IO-D Pierre
- K18MO-D Worthington
- K32DK-D Watertown
- K39CZ-D Aberdeen
- K25OU-D Brookings
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KTTW". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says KTTM signed on September 7, while the Television and Cable Factbook says it signed on August 31.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KTTM". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ RabbitEars TV Query for KTTW
- ^ RabbitEars TV Query for KTTM
- ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.