KTTW
Sioux Falls, South Dakota United States | |
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Channels | Digital: 7 (VHF) Virtual: 7 |
Programming | |
Affiliations | |
Ownership | |
Owner | Tri-State Christian Television (Radiant Life Ministries, Inc.) |
History | |
First air date | May 29, 1987 |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 17 (UHF, 1987–2009) |
Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 28521 |
ERP | 7.5 kW |
HAAT | 217.6 m (714 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 43°30′14″N 96°34′18.8″W / 43.50389°N 96.571889°W |
Translator(s) | See below |
Links | |
Public license information | Profile LMS |
Satellite of KTTW | |
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Huron, South Dakota United States | |
Channels | Digital: 12 (VHF) Virtual: 7 |
Programming | |
Affiliations | see KTTW infobox |
Ownership | |
Owner | Tri-State Christian Television (Radiant Life Ministries, Inc.) |
History | |
First air date | January 31, 1992 |
Former channel number(s) |
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Technical information | |
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 | Profile LMS |
KTTW, virtual and VHF digital channel 7, is a TCT owned-and-operated television station licensed to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States. The station is owned by Marion, Illinois-based Tri-State Christian Television. KTTW's studios are located on West 11th Street in Sioux Falls, and its transmitter is located in Rowena, South Dakota.
KTTM (virtual channel 7, 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 a Fox affiliate, the first non-Big Three network commercial station in South Dakota. The station was founded by Independent Communications, Inc., a consortium of local investors. 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 in order to better brand itself.
For most of its existence, especially since the turn of the millennium, it was mostly a pass-through for automated programming. It never produced a newscast, unlike most Fox affiliates; its studios were too small for an in-house news operation, and it never contracted with other stations to produce a newscast.
On November 2, 2020, KTTW's non-license assets were purchased by Gray Television, owner of ABC affiliate KSFY-TV (channel 13) and NBC affiliate KDLT-TV (channel 46); Fox programming moved to KDLT on digital subchannel 46.2. Cozi TV, which was also carried on KTTW, moved to subchannel 46.4.[1] According to a local business publication, Independent Communications is exiting television altogether, and intends to sell or donate KTTW "to a nonprofit entity in the near future".[2] On February 10, 2021, it was announced that Tri-State Christian Television would acquire the licensed assets of KTTW/KTTM for $850,000.[3] The transaction was completed on December 21;[4] the stations switched to TCT programming the next day.
Technical information[]
Subchannels[]
The stations' digital signals are multiplexed:
Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming[5][6] |
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7.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KTTW-HD | TCT |
7.2 | 480i | 4:3 | THIS-TV | This TV |
7.3 | 16:9 | Sonlife | ||
7.4 | 4:3 | Laff | ||
7.5 | Bounce TV | |||
7.6 | Grit | |||
7.7 | 16:9 | Defy TV | ||
7.8 | 4:3 | TrueReal | ||
7.9 | 16:9 | Newsy |
Analog-to-digital conversion[]
Both stations shut down their analog signals for the 2009 analog shutoff date:[7]
- 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.
Former translators[]
The programming of KTTW was also rebroadcast on the following translator stations:
City of license | Callsign | Channel | ERP | HAAT | Facility ID | Transmitter coordinates | Owner |
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Aberdeen | K36NW-D | 36 | 3 kW | 99 m (325 ft) | 28534 | 45°28′29.0″N 98°31′38.0″W / 45.474722°N 98.527222°W | Independent Communications, Inc. |
Brookings | K25OU-D | 25 | 4.5 kW | 47 m (154 ft) | 30578 | 44°18′03.0″N 96°46′00.0″W / 44.300833°N 96.766667°W | |
Lowry | K44ME-D | 44 | 4.24 kW | 250 m (820 ft) | 198506 | 45°23′50.0″N 99°56′30.0″W / 45.397222°N 99.941667°W | South Dakota Five County TV Translator District |
Pierre | K14IO-D | 14 | 1.6 kW | 53 m (174 ft) | 28499 | 44°18′42.0″N 100°21′10.0″W / 44.311667°N 100.352778°W | Independent Communications, Inc. |
Watertown | K32DK-D | 32 | 2.28 kW | 96 m (315 ft) | 28533 | 44°51′56.0″N 97°06′21.0″W / 44.865556°N 97.105833°W | |
Worthington, MN | K18MO-D | 18 | 2.5 kW | 139 m (456 ft) | 28491 | 43°37′01.6″N 95°41′20.6″W / 43.617111°N 95.689056°W |
On November 4, 2020, KTTW's owner reached a deal to sell the translators to Gray Television for $1.[8]
References[]
- ^ Ellis, Jon (November 2, 2020). "FOX Changes Channels in Sioux Falls". Northpine.com. Retrieved November 3, 2020.
- ^ "KTTW ‘exiting broadcast business’; Fox moves to Gray Television", SiouxFalls.Business, 10 November 2020, Retrieved 11 November 2020.
- ^ "Assignments". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. February 11, 2021. Retrieved February 11, 2021.
- ^ "Notification of Consummation", Licensing and Management System, Federal Communications Commission, 21 December 2021, Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Application for Transfer of Control of a Corporate Licensee or Permittee, or for Assignment of License or Permit of TV or FM Translator Station or Low Power Television Station". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. November 4, 2020. Retrieved November 7, 2020.
External links[]
- Tri-State Christian Television affiliates
- This TV affiliates
- Laff (TV network) affiliates
- Bounce TV affiliates
- Grit (TV network) affiliates
- Defy TV affiliates
- TrueReal affiliates
- Newsy affiliates
- Television channels and stations established in 1987
- 1987 establishments in South Dakota
- Television stations in Sioux Falls, South Dakota