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KLTV

KLTV is the ABC-affiliated television station for East Texas that is licensed to Tyler. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 7 from a transmitter in Red Springs. The station can also be seen Suddenlink channel 7 and in high definition on digital channel 720. Owned by Raycom Media, the channel has studios on West Ferguson Street in Downtown Tyler. Syndicated programming on KLTV: Wheel of Fortune, Oprah, Dr. Phil and Jeopardy!. KTRE in Lufkin operates as a semi-satellite of this station. It clears all of KLTV's syndicated programming but produces separate weeknight newscasts and airs its own commercials/station identifications.

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Digital programming

On KLTV-DT2 and Suddenlink digital channel 247 is This TV. On KLTV-DT3 is Telemundo which is not carried on Suddenlink.

Channel Video Aspect Programming
7.1 720p 16:9 main KLTV HD programming / ABC HD
7.2 480i 4:3 KLTV-DT2 "This TV East Texas"
7.3 480i 4:3 KLTV-DT3 "Telemundo La Vida"

History

KLTV went on-the-air October 14, 1954 [1] and shared primary affiliation time with ABC, CBS, and NBC until the early 1980s. The station also aired programming from DuMont on a secondary basis until 1955. It was originally locally operated by Buford Television which was owned by Lucille Buford. In 1964, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) collapsed Lufkin and Nacogdoches into the Tyler market. Soon afterward, the Buford family bought KTRE and made it a satellite of KLTV. Buford Television owned the stations until the early 1990s when they were sold to Civic Communications of Jackson, Mississippi. Civic merged with The Liberty Corporation in 2002 which in turn merged with current owner Raycom Media in 2006.

KLTV's studios were near TX 31 and Loop 323 on the east side of Tyler until the late-1990s when it moved to facilities in Downtown Tyler. The old studios were demolished in November 2007. This channel's current studios are in a former savings loan branch and office complex near the Smith County courthouse.

The station installed its digital tower on September 23, 2005 and started broadcasting a high definition signal on VHF channel 10 on December 14 becoming the second East Texas station to do so. It also started airing the "StormTracker 24/7 Weather Channel" on a new second digital subchannel. This consisted of temperatures, weather conditions, and "StormTracker 7 Live Doppler Network" graphics in a rotating schedule. In the first round of DTV channel elections [2], KLTV elected to return its digital channel assignment back to channel 7. On June 12, 2009, it ceased analog broadcasting on channel 7 and performed a "flash-cut" from digital channel 10 to channel 7. In December 2009, KLTV changed programming on DT2 to This TV. First broadcast in HD as on June 21, 2010.

Tower collapse

At approximately 7:30 in the morning on February 3, 2006, KLTV's 1,078 foot broadcast transmitter in Red Springs collapsed taking both its over-the-air analog and digital signals off-the-air leaving customers of Cox Communications as the only customers who could receive the station. The outage also affected the feed of the station to DirecTV and Dish Network. Interestingly, the collapse occurred the day after new owners Raycom Media officially took ownership of the station. Within thirteen hours of the collapse, KLTV re-established analog broadcasts at reduced power from its former station and transmitter location in Eastern Tyler. No injuries were reported as a result. No cause for the collapse has been disclosed to date.

A new Harris transmitter was brought in the day after the collapse allowing resumption of high-power broadcasts from the Tyler site though from a tower slightly less than half the height of the destroyed one. This allowed the viewing area to see Super Bowl XL on analog channel 7. Digital broadcasts resumed from the Tyler site several days later. In addition, Christian radio station KVNE-FM was also knocked off as a result of the collapse. On February 7, KVNE held a one-day fundraiser to raise a goal of $70,000 to put the station back on at high-power. The station raised more than $80,000 in its fifteen-hour campaign.

KLTV restored its analog over-the-air signal from its original tower along with its signals to DirecTV and Dish Network and the feeds to all area cable companies. Its analog transmitter equipment was undamaged and was supplemented at the original tower site with a newer transmitter. However, its over-the-air high definition and digital television transmission equipment was a total loss. In March and April 2007, KLTV ran a "Flip the Switch" promotion to promote the completion of the new Red Springs tower. Viewers were urged to submit thirty second videos to show why they should be selected to "Flip The Switch". Winners were selected by popular vote on the station's website. The winner was Jeff Heimer, and on April 17, 2007 at approximately 6:58 p.m., he officially flipped the switch to turn on the new transmitter and tower.

News operation

KLTV news open seen weeknights at 10.

It has been the dominant station in the market for most of its history and news broadcasts on the station routinely garner several times the number of viewers of its nearest competitor. KLTV and its staff have received several awards including seven Lone Star Emmy awards. The station's most well known slogan is "Proud of East Texas" which has been used since 1985. In a June 2006 article, the Longview News-Journal reported KLTV continued its dominance of the area with an estimated 70,000 households tuning in to its weeknight 10 o'clock broadcast. KETK was second with about 12,000 viewers and KYTX was watched by an estimated 9,000 viewers. The station was nominated in 2008 for eleven Lone Star Emmy Awards including: best morning and evening newscasts, weather, along with several news/sports specials and reporting. KTRE simulcasts KLTV's weekday morning, Midday, and weekend newscasts. On Monday, June 21, 2010, KLTV-TV became the third station in the market to broadcast its local newscasts in high definition.

Newscast titles

Station slogans

News team

+ denotes personnel not seen on KTRE

Anchors

StormTracker 7 Meteorologists

Sports

Reporters

Former staff

References

  1. ^ KLTV 7 News Tyler, Longview, Jacksonville |KLTV Celebrates 50th Anniversary
  2. ^ 52162.xls

External links

v • d • Broadcast television in East Texas (Tyler / Longview / Lufkin / Nacogdoches)
Stations

KLTV 7 / KTRE 9 (ABC) • KYTX 19 (CBS, RTN on DT2, AZA on DT3) • KLNM-LP 42 (TBN) • KTPN 48 / KLPN 58 (MNTV) • KFXK 51 / KFXL 30 (Fox) • KCEB 54 (CW) • KETK 56 / KETK-LP 53 (NBC)
Distant Stations

(reception pending on location) Dallas-Fort Worth: KDFW 4 (Fox) • KXAS 5 (NBC) • WFAA 8 (ABC) • KERA 13 (PBS) • KXTX 39 (TEL) Houston: KPRC 2 (NBC) • KUHT 8 (PBS) • KHOU 11 (CBS) • KTRK 13 (ABC) • KETH 14 (TBN) • KRIV 26 (Fox) • KIAH 39 (CW) Shreveport: KTBS 3 (ABC) • KTAL 6 (NBC) • KSLA 12 (CBS) • KLTS 24 (PBS/LPB) • KMSS 33 (Fox) Alexandria: KALB 5 (NBC) Bryan/College Station: KBTX 3 (CBS)
Texas Broadcast television areas by city:

Abilene/Sweetwater • Amarillo (Texas Panhandle) • Austin • Beaumont/Port Arthur • Corpus Christi • Dallas-Fort Worth • Del Rio, TX • El Paso • Houston • Laredo • Lubbock • Midland-Odessa (Permian Basin) • Rio Grande Valley • San Angelo • San Antonio • Sherman/Ada, OK • Texarkana/Shreveport, LA • Tyler/Longview (East Texas) • Victoria • Waco/Bryan (Brazos Valley) • Wichita Falls/Lawton, OK

See also Lake Charles TV
v • d • ABC Network Affiliates in the state of Texas

KMID 2 (Midland) - KIII 3 (Corpus Christi) - KRGV 5 (Weslaco) - KLTV 7 / KTRE 9 (Tyler / Lufkin) - KVIA 7 (El Paso) - KVII 7 (Amarillo) - WFAA 8 (Dallas) - KBMT 12 (Beaumont) - KSAT 12 (San Antonio) - KTXS 12 / KTXE 38 (Sweetwater / San Angelo) - KTRK 13 (Houston) - KVUE 24 (Austin) - KAVU 25 (Victoria) - KXXV 25 / KRHD 40 (Waco / Bryan) - ABC Texoma 26.3 (Sherman) - KAMC 28 (Lubbock)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, ION, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Texas
v • d • Telemundo Network Affiliates in the state of Texas

KTMO-LP 36 (Amarillo) - K68DJ 68 (Corpus Christi) - KXTX 39 (Dallas) - KTMD 47 (Galveston) - KGNS DT 8.3 (Laredo) - KTLE-LP 20 / KTLD-LP 49 (Odessa) - KTLM 40 (Rio Grande City) - KEYE-DT 42.2 (Austin) - KVDA 60 (San Antonio)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, ION, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Texas Also see: Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, religious and other Spanish language stations in Texas
v • d • Raycom Media
Corporate Staff Paul McTear (President & CEO) • Wayne Daugherty • Marty Edelman • Leon Long • Jeff Rosser • Anne Adkins • Clyde Baucom • Rebecca Bryan • David Folsom • Mary Carloe McDonnell • Billy McDowell • Susana Schuler • Melissa Thurber
ABC Network Affiliates KAIT • KLTV • KTRE • WLOX • WTVM
CBS Network Affiliates: KFVS • KGMB / KGMD / KGMV • KOLD • KSLA • WAFB • WBTV • WCSC • WOIO • WTOC • WTOL
The CW Network Affiliates WQWQ • WUPV1
Fox Network Affiliates WBRC • WDFX • WFLX • WFXG1 • WPGX • WSFX1 • WTNZ • WXIX • WXTX1
MyNetworkTV Affiliates KFVE2 • WBXH • WUAB
NBC Network Affiliates KCBD • KHNL / KHBC / KOGG • KPLC • WAFF • WALB • WAVE • WDAM • WECT • WFIE • WIS • WLBT • WMBF • WMC • WSFA • WWBT
Other Assets Raycom Sports
1 Raycom Media owns and operates these stations through Southeastern Media Holdings. 2 Raycom operates this station owned by MCG Capital Corporation under a SSA.
Annual Revenue: Unknown at this time. • Employees: 4,200 • Stock Symbol: None, privately held. • Website: www.raycommedia.com

Categories: ABC network affiliates | Television stations in Texas | This TV affiliates | Telemundo network affiliates | Raycom Media | Channel 7 digital TV stations in the United States | Television channels and stations established in 1954 | Tyler, Texas

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