KEYU (TV)
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KEYU (channel 31) is a television station licensed to Borger, Texas, United States, serving the Amarillo area as an affiliate of the Spanish-language network Telemundo. It is owned by Gray Television alongside CBS affiliate KFDA-TV (channel 10). The two stations share studios on Broadway Drive (just south of West Cherry Avenue) in northern Amarillo; KEYU's transmitter is located on Dumas Drive (US 87-287) and Reclamation Plant Road in rural unincorporated Potter County.
Despite its full-power status, the station's
History
The station first signed on the air on November 2, 2004; it was founded and owned by
On June 25, 2008, Equity announced that it would sell KEYU and its low-power repeaters—along with Univision affiliates
In 2009, KEYU and three Amarillo
On August 10, 2015,
On June 25, 2018, Atlanta-based Gray Television announced it had reached an agreement with Raycom to merge their respective broadcasting assets (consisting of Raycom's 63 existing owned-and/or-operated television stations, including KFDA-TV and KEYU as well as Lubbock sister station KCBD, and Gray's 93 television stations) under the former's corporate umbrella. The cash-and-stock merger transaction valued at $3.6 billion—in which Gray shareholders would acquire preferred stock currently held by Raycom—resulted in KFDA/KEYU gaining a new sister station in the Odessa–Midland market as Gray plans to retain ownership of fellow CBS affiliate KOSA-TV in exchange for selling NBC affiliate KWES-TV (which was sold to an independent company to comply with FCC ownership rules prohibiting common ownership of two of the four highest-rated stations in a single market, instead KWES and WTOL in Toledo, Ohio, would be sold to Tegna Inc.).[13][14][15][16] The sale was approved on December 20,[17] and was completed on January 2, 2019.[18]
In August 2018, the station dropped LATV programming on its second digital subchannel and opened a third subchannel affiliating with Ion Television, bringing the network's programming back to the Amarillo market since low-power station K39HF ceased operations in 2014.
Newscasts
From 2005 until May 2008, Equity Broadcasting produced Spanish-language newscasts for KEYU, titled Noticias Univision Amarillo. The twice-nightly newscasts – which aired at 5 and 10 p.m. each weeknight – consisted of a single broadcast that was repeated later in the evening. While KEYU maintained its own locally based full-time reporters and photographers at its Amarillo facility, most of the newscast segments were produced out of studios located at Equity's headquarters in Little Rock, which served as a production hub for local newscasts aired by the group's Univision-affiliated stations. As with Equity's Univision newscasts elsewhere, the program consisted of nine minutes of local news and weather segments, accompanied by pre-recorded national and international news and sports segments produced for inclusion in all of the broadcasts. As a result of corporate cutbacks spurred by the company's financial issues, Equity discontinued the newscasts it produced for all six of its Univision affiliates (including KEYU) on June 6, 2008.[19][20][21]
After becoming a sister station to KFDA-TV, KEYU restored full-scale news programming to its schedule in September 2009; the station assumed production responsibilities for its newscasts, launching weeknight-only newscasts at 5 and 10 p.m. produced at the Broadway Drive studios.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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31.1 | 1080i | 16:9 |
KEYU | Main KEYU programming / Telemundo |
31.2 | 480i | H&I | Heroes & Icons | |
31.3 | Circle | Outlaw | ||
31.4 | Ion | Ion | ||
31.5 | Dabl | Dabl | ||
31.6 | TheGrio | TheGrio TV | ||
31.7 | Defy | Defy TV |
Analog-to-digital transition
As the station's original
As a result of then-KEYU-owner Equity Media Holdings filing a bankruptcy relief petition under Chapter 11 of the
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KEYU". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- Reed Business Information. Retrieved June 28, 2008.
- ^ Miller, Mark K. (June 26, 2008). "Equity Media Sells RTN to Pay Off Debts". TVNewsCheck. NewsCheck Media. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
- ^ Larson, Erik (December 8, 2008). "Equity Media, U.S. TV Station Owner, Seeks Bankruptcy". Bloomberg News. Bloomberg L.P. Archived from the original on October 23, 2012. Retrieved December 9, 2008.
- ^ Hengel, Mark (February 2, 2009). "Equity's Management Cause of Downfall, Former CEO Asserts". Arkansas Business.
- ^ Equity's Management Cause of Downfall, Former CEO Asserts, Mark Hengel, Arkansas Business, February 2, 2009
- ^ "Equity stations still on the block". Television Business Report. April 20, 2009. Archived from the original on May 2, 2009. Retrieved April 28, 2009.
- ^ "Amarillo acquisition requires waiver". Television Business Report. October 16, 2009. Archived from the original on October 22, 2009. Retrieved October 21, 2009.
- ^ Jessell, Harry A. (August 10, 2015). "Raycom Buying Drewry For $160 Million". TVNewsCheck. NewsCheck Media. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
- ^ Malone, Michael (August 18, 2015). "Raycom Acquires Drewry Stations for $160 Million". Broadcasting & Cable. NewBay Media. Retrieved August 4, 2017.
- ^ Kuperberg, Jonathan (December 1, 2015). "Raycom Media Completes $160 Million Acquisition of Drewry Communications". Broadcasting & Cable. NewBay Media.
- ^ "Raycom Closes On Drewry TV-Radio Buy". TVNewsCheck. NewsCheck Media. December 1, 2015. Retrieved June 23, 2018.
- ^ "GRAY AND RAYCOM TO COMBINE IN A $3.6 BILLION TRANSACTION". Raycom Media (Press release). June 25, 2018. Archived from the original on June 25, 2018. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
- ^ Miller, Mark K. (June 25, 2018). "Gray To Buy Raycom For $3.6 Billion". TVNewsCheck. NewsCheckMedia. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
- ^ Eggerton, John (June 25, 2018). "Gray Buying Raycom for $3.6B". Broadcasting & Cable. NewBay Media.
- ^ Hayes, Dade (June 25, 2018). "Gray Acquiring Raycom For $3.65B, Forming No. 3 Local TV Group". Deadline Hollywood. Penske Media Corporation.
- ^ "FCC OK with Gray/Raycom Merger", Broadcasting & Cable, December 20, 2018, Retrieved December 20, 2018.
- ^ "Gray Closes On $3.6 Billion Raycom Merger". TVNewsCheck. NewsCheckMedia. January 2, 2019. Retrieved January 3, 2019.
- ^ Gambrell, Jon (July 7, 2007). "Live From Arkansas, Utah News in Spanish". The Oklahoman. Oklahoma Publishing Company. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
- ^ Jessell, Harry A. (June 10, 2008). "Equity Says Adios to Spanish-Language News". TVNewsCheck. NewsCheck Media.
- ^ Manthey, Toby (June 14, 2008). "Equity ends newscasts; N.Y. station buy teeters". Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. WEHCO Media. Archived from the original on February 6, 2009. Retrieved June 19, 2008.
- ^ "RabbitEars TV Query for KEYU". RabbitEars. Retrieved August 6, 2018.
- ^ Lung, H. Douglas (May 28, 1997). "Final Digital TV (DTV) Channel Plan from FCC97-115". Transmitter.com.
External links
- www.telemundoamarillo.com - KEYU official website