KTUZ-TV
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HAAT | 474 m (1,555 ft) |
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Transmitter coordinates | 35°33′36.9″N 97°29′7.6″W / 35.560250°N 97.485444°W |
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Website | www |
KTUZ-TV (channel 30) is a
History
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In early 2004, Equity Broadcasting acquired KUOK (channel 35) in Woodward, and low-power stations KCHM-LP (channel 36, now KUOK-CD) and K69EK (channel 69, now Estrella TV affiliate KOCY-LD on channel 48) in Oklahoma City, and KOKT-LP (channel 20, now defunct) in Sulphur. On May 27 of that year, Equity sold KQOK to Oklahoma City-based Tyler Media Group, becoming the company's first television station property.[2][3] Under Tyler Media, channel 30 became a Telemundo affiliate on December 27, 2004; the station's affiliation switch had been delayed from an original target date of December 1. Equity had earlier switched the affiliations of KUOK and the low-power stations in Oklahoma City and Sulphur to Univision on May 8, converting the latter three stations into translator stations of KUOK. The station's callsign was also changed to KTUZ-TV (after its sister radio station KTUZ-FM [106.7 FM], which maintained a Regional Mexican music format). To accommodate the station's plans to launch local programming catering to Oklahoma's Latino community, Tyler Media expanded the company's existing Shields Boulevard facility, constructing two production studios for use for KTUZ's news and public affairs programming, and a third, larger studio for varied usage, including possible use for town hall events. The company also hired around ten employees to help manage KTUZ-TV's operations.[4][5]
Prior to the analog television shutdown, KTUZ-TV's analog and digital signal patterns offered different coverage across
On April 16, 2009, in a bankruptcy auction held by Equity Media Holdings following the withdrawal of an offer to sell the stations and Equity-owned stations in five other markets to
Programming
Local programming
In addition to airing Telemundo network programming and newscasts, KTUZ also airs some locally produced programs: the station produces a weekly discussion program Nuestra Oklahoma (Our Oklahoma), airing Sundays at 10 a.m. with an encore presentation at 10 p.m. It also airs a local sports show on Saturday nights (similar in format 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 2005 affiliation switch 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
KTUZ has tended to preempt more Telemundo programming than other affiliates; the network's weekend schedule is more susceptible to this. Until November 2011, KTUZ preempted Nitido on Saturday mornings and Fotogenicas on Sunday mornings (though the latter show aired on the station for two weeks in October 2009; the actual preemption was problematic since on Sundays when Telemundo scheduled a
News operation
KTUZ-TV presently broadcasts five hours of locally produced newscasts each week (all airing only on weekdays). KTUZ, along with KAUT-TV (whose newscasts are produced by KFOR-TV) are the only stations in the Oklahoma City market with weekday-only newscasts. After switching to Telemundo, KTUZ had no full-fledged newscasts other than two-minute daily news and weather updates that were produced out of a small studio which aired during the network's daytime and primetime programs. However, the station expressed interest in airing regular newscasts from the affiliation switch. One of the anchors seen in these updates was Flory Mata (later the host of the local entertainment/lifestyle program Estilo Latino on KUOK).
KTUZ's news operation, originally branded as T30 Noticias, began in October 2006. In its news department's beginnings, the station only ran a weeknight 10 p.m. newscast (anchored by Carlos Toledo, who also served as the station's first news director), with programming supplied by Telemundo continuing to air in the early 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 Acción Oklahoma (a variant of the
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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30.1 | 1080i | 16:9 |
KTUZ | Telemundo |
30.2 | 480i | QVC | QVC | |
30.3 | HSN | HSN | ||
30.4 | QVC-2 | QVC2
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30.5 | Grio | TheGrio | ||
30.6 | StartTV | Start TV | ||
36.1 | 1080i | KUOK | Univision (KUOK/KUOK-CD) | |
48.1 | KOCY | Estrella TV (KOCY-LD) |
On August 9, 2021, KTUZ-TV launched three digital subchannels—the first programmed by Channel 30 outside of simulcasts of its sister stations—affiliated with home shopping networks: QVC on virtual channel 30.2, HSN on virtual channel 30.3 and QVC2 on virtual channel 30.4, with the latter inadvertently running the same programming as KTUZ-DT2 until QVC2 was placed on the subchannel on August 12. (KTUZ assumed the full-power affiliation rights to QVC and HSN from Ion affiliate KOPX-TV [channel 62], which had displaced them in favor of Defy TV and TrueReal on their respective 62.5 and 62.6 subchannels on June 30, the day prior to the latter two Scripps-owned networks' formal launches, temporarily leaving QVC and HSN without full-market over-the-air availability in the Oklahoma City DMA—beyond low-power affiliations—until the addition of the KTUZ subchannels.)
Analog-to-digital conversion
KTUZ-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KTUZ-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "KQOK-TV changes ownership". The Oklahoman. Oklahoma Publishing Company. May 27, 2004. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
- ^ Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License, August 10, 2004.
- ^ Pemberton, Tricia (October 23, 2004). "Local television station to have Spanish show". The Oklahoman. Oklahoman Publishing Company.
- ^ "Telemundo Programming Begins Airing in Oklahoma City". TelevisionWeek. December 28, 2004. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
- ^ Burkes, Paula (August 12, 2009). "Tyler Media buys Oklahoma City's Univision affiliates". The Oklahoman. Oklahoman Publishing Company. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
- ^ "Takers found for 60 Equity stations". Radio-Television Business Report. Streamline-RBR, Inc. April 18, 2009. Archived from the original on April 24, 2009. Retrieved April 20, 2009.
- ^ "OKC cluster expands". Radio-Television Business Report. Streamline-RBR, Inc. May 19, 2009. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
- ^ RabbitEars TV Query for KTUZ
- ^ List of Digital Full-Power Stations Archived August 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine