KTTW is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States. It broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on VHF channel 7 (also the station's virtual channel via PSIP) from a transmitter in Rowena, South Dakota. KTTW is owned by a group of local investors and maintains studio facilities on West 11th Street in Sioux Falls. It operates a full satellite station in Huron: KTTM (virtual and VHF digital channel 12); this station's transmitter is located near Alpena, South Dakota.
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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.
Until 1996, when KEVN-TV switched affiliations from NBC, it was also the state's only Fox affiliate.
KTTW aired on analog channel 17 since its inception. But while most TV stations kept their PSIP virtual channels the same as their former analog channel after the digital transition, KTTW rebranded from "Fox 17" to "Fox 7" and shows up on PSIP virtual channel 7. KTTW has never had a news operation.
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Digital television
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
KTTW and KTTM shut down their analog signals respectively for the 2009:
- 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
- K22HJ-D Worthington
- K32DK-D Watertown
- K39CZ-D Aberdeen
- K50DG-D Brookings
References
External links
- KTTW website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KTTW
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KTTM
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KTTW-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KTTM-TV
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