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KTRE

KTRE is the ABC-affiliated television station for East Texas. It is licensed to Lufkin and owned by Raycom Media. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 9 from a transmitter at their studios on TV Road in Pollok along U.S. 69. Although considered a separate station in its own right, it is a semi-satellite of KLTV in Tyler. It clears all of that station's syndicated programming but produces separate weeknight newscasts and airs its own commercials/station identifications.

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Digital programming

On KLTV-DT3 is Telemundo which is not carried on Suddenlink digital cable.

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

History

KTRE signed-on August 31, 1955 by the owners of KTRE-AM 1420 (now defunct) as a satellite of Houston NBC affiliate KPRC-TV. However, it occasionally broke off to air programming from ABC and CBS. In 1964, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) collapsed Lufkin and Nacogdoches into the Tyler market. Soon afterward, the Buford family (owner of KLTV) bought KTRE and made it a satellite of that channel. Until 1984, the station had an unusual "joint primary" arrangement with all three networks slightly favoring ABC. Both stations lost CBS when KLMG-TV (now Fox affiliate KFXK) signed-on in 1984 but retained a secondary affiliation with NBC until KETK signed-on in 1987. Along with KLTV, it was sold to Civic Communications in the early 1990s. Civic merged with The Liberty Corporation in 2002 which in turn merged with Raycom in 2006.

For many years, this station operated at 26,000 watts from a tiny 540 foot tower being short-spaced to WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and later KETG-TV in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. In the early-1980s, KTRE installed a new antenna and transmitter to increase power to 131 kilowatts but never reached full power because of the short-space interference it would cause to those other stations. On another front, the new transmitter antenna was directional to minimize overlap with KLTV to comply with FCC duopoly rules. KTRE is available on Suddenlink Communications in the area but not Dish Network or DirecTV because this region is part of the Tyler area. In June of 2010 the station reported it would soon be on DISH Network. The station is said to release a air date soon.

Its first news anchorman was Murphy Martin who later became a local television newsman in Dallas and anchorman for ABC News. KTRE simulcasts KLTV's weekday morning, midday, and weekend newscasts. In addition to its main studios, this station operates a bureau on North Street (U.S. 59 Business) in Nacogdoches.

Newscast titles

  • Good Morning East Texas (2007-present, simulcast with KLTV)
  • East Texas News Weekend (2008-present, simulcast with KLTV)

Station slogans

News team

+ denotes personnel based at KTRE

Anchors

StormTracker Meteorologists

Sports

Reporters

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 | Telemundo network affiliates | Channel 9 digital TV stations in the United States | Television channels and stations established in 1955 | Television stations in Lufkin, Texas

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