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KYTX

KYTX is a television station based in Tyler, Texas, licensed to Nacogdoches. It operates on digital UHF 18. The CBS affiliate, owned by London Broadcasting Company, serves a swath of East Texas, including Tyler, Jacksonville, Lufkin and Nacogdoches. It was the first East Texas station to broadcast programming, and most recently, local news in high-definition. The station operated on analog UHF 19 until February 17, 2009, when the analog service entered its Federal Communications Commission (FCC) nightlight phase, and the analog service ceased on March 1, 2009. KYTX's main offices and studio are located on Tyler's southeast side, inside a former four-screen movie theater.

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History

Previous KYTX logo used from April 2004-April 2010.

KLSB began broadcasting in 1991 as a low-powered NBC affiliate. It was the satellite station for Tyler/Longview's NBC affiliate, KETK. Max Media purchased the station in 2003, relocating its offices to Tyler, signed an affiliation agreement with CBS, and applied for the new call letters. On April 12, 2004, KYTX signed on from the KLSB tower and the following day was officially granted the KYTX call sign by the FCC. The station began broadcasting from its new tower south of New Summerfield on June 13, 2004.

The move returned over-the-air CBS programming to East Texas for the first time since 1991, when Longview's KLMG-TV switched to Fox as KFXK, and only the third CBS affiliate (KTVE channel 32 was the first in 1953 until its demise in 1955) to call Longview home. For the 13 years prior, cable systems in the area piped in either KTVT in Dallas or KSLA in Shreveport, Louisiana with most cable systems in East Texas still piping the latter.

KLSB moved to a low-powered transmitter broadcasting on channel 53 (now KETK-LP) which, technically, made KYTX a new station. For its first few months, KYTX simulcast KTVT's evening news while building its own local news department.

On October 18, 2007 the Longview News-Journal and the Tyler Morning Telegraph reported that the station had been sold for $25 million to Terry London and Sun TX Capital Partners through London Broadcasting Company, Inc. Terry London is a former CEO of Gaylord Entertainment Company. KYTX-TV CBS 19 and MYTX-18 became the platform properties for London Broadcasting Company. The stations were previously owned by Max Media of Texas LLC. ([1], [2]) It is also notable that Phil Hurley, the station's first General Manager, is now Chief Operating Officer at the company.

During the week of April 17, 2010, a new station logo (see above, top right) began appearing during CBS 19 newscasts, as well as on KYTX's website.

Digital television

Channel Video Aspect Programming
19.1 / 18.1 1080i 16:9 KYTX-DT - CBS-HD DD5.1
19.2 / 18.2 480i 4:3 MYTX RTN
19.3 / 18.3 480i 4:3 Azteca América

In 2004, KYTX was the first station in the Tyler-Longview market to transmit with a full power digital signal, and the first to offer HD programming. KYTX-DT went on the air in HD on UHF channel 18 (19.1) on June 12, 2004 from the new tower in Ponta, Texas. On January 1, 2006, sub-channel 19.2 was added, and UPN programming was moved from KCEB to the new UPN18. 19.2 currently airs independent MYTX.

In 2009, KYTX added Azteca América programming to channel 18.3 / 19.3, becoming the first Spanish-language television channel for the East Texas market. [3]

Despite the extension of the DTV transition deadline, KYTX joined hundreds of other stations across the country in shutting down its analog station on the original deadline of February 17, 2009. Stations nationwide have stated that they have targeted this date for over two years and that broadcasting both their digital and analog signals for four extra months would cost them too much money. At 11:59 p.m. on February 17, KYTX ended its analog signal and began nightlight service on analog channel 19, advising viewers that it has ceased its analog service and advising viewers of their options.

KLTV, KETK, and KFXK did not start full power digital broadcasting until 2006. CW affiliate, KCEB channel 54 still has yet to go high or low power digital.

My Texas TV

On January 1, 2006, KYTX assumed the UPN affiliation from KCEB and began carrying the UPN network signal for the Tyler/Longview market as a subchannel on channel 18.2 / 19.2 of its DTV signal.

After UPN and The WB announced their merger in January 2006, KCEB was awarded affiliation for the new CW network.

In September 2006, UPN 18 became "MYTX: My Texas TV", not to be confused with MyNetworkTV. This station launched as being an independent station for Sports, Comedy, and Entertainment. The schedule currently consists of simulcasts of its newscasts, along with the CBS programs The Price Is Right and The Young and the Restless. In addition, the reruns carried prior to the switch have been shuffled around on the schedule. This subchannel has since added programming from the Retro Television Network (RTV).

Newscasts

On September 12, 2004, KYTX began airing CBS 19 Eyewitness News. The station started with weekday newscasts at 6 a.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m., and a weekend newscast at 10 p.m.; the "'Eye @ 5'" 5 p.m. newscast was added in 2005.

CBS 19 later launched a 6:30-7:00 p.m. show: "'CBS 19 Eyewitness News: Longview/Kilgore Edition.'" The newscast is similar to a previously attempted Longview-centered newscast on KFXK Fox 51.

In 2007, the 5 PM newscast was reformatted as "'Primetime at 5'". The 10 PM newscast was renamed "'Ten @ 10'" in January 2008, focusing on faster delivery of news and weather in the first 10 minutes. In 2008, "'CBS 19 Sunday Morning'" was added to the line-up.

In 2009, CBS 19 renamed all newscasts, dropping the Eyewitness News brand in favor of KYTX CBS 19 News, closer matching its competitors, KLTV 7 and KETK 56.

On Thursday, April 23, 2009, KYTX-TV CBS 19 became the first station in the market to broadcast its local newscasts in high definition, beginning with CBS 19 News This Morning. CBS 19 Goes HD

Stormy, the Weather Dog

Stormy, a dog adopted from the Humane Society of Smith County in late 2005, served as the station's de facto mascot, "assisting" former Chief Meteorologist Doc Deason with his weekday weather forecasts. The idea was inspired by a similar mascot at Houston station KPRC-TV. Viewers named the dog in a poll, and Stormy made his first appearance on November 3, 2005. Sales of "Stormy's Dog-gone Goodwill Dog Cookies" featuring the dog benefit area humane societies and Goodwill Industries chapters. Stormy no longer appears on the newscast.

'Anchorwoman' reality show

KYTX pitched a new reality show, Anchorwoman: The TV Show, with a former international model coming to town to anchor the news in the Spring of 2007.

Billboards posted in the East Texas community caused quite a controversy. The boards showed Lauren Jones in a provocative pose and two words, "She's coming" written on them. Many news outlets including Fox News and Good Morning America did stories on the filming of the reality show.

The comedy show wrapped up filming in late June 2007. During taping, KYTX removed the CBS eye from its logo and all instances of CBS identification from its signage and equipment, as the program aired on a competing network, Fox. The CBS eye returned to the logo after taping was wrapped.

The first two episodes aired back-to-back on August 22, 2007 on Fox. The network canceled the show the next day after the debut airing garnered a disappointing 2.0 household rating (1.0 in the 18 to 49 year old demographic).

In the market, KYTX's competitor, KFXK, aired the program as scheduled on Fox. However, it did not sell any local ad time, opting to use this time to promote the newscasts on KFXK's sister station, KETK-TV. (At the time, KFXK had no newscast of its own.)

Notable on-air staff

Current on-air staff

(as of July 15, 2009) Anchors

Reporters

AccuWeather Team

Sports Team

Former on-air staff

News/station presentation

Newscast titles

Newscast branding

  • Eye @ 5 (2004-2007; 5PM newscast)
  • Primetime at 5 (2007-2010); 5PM newscast)
  • Ten @ 10 (2008-present; 10PM newscast)

Station slogans

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 • CBS Network Affiliates in the state of Texas

KDBC 4 (El Paso) - KGBT 4 (Harlingen) - KENS 5 (San Antonio) - KAUZ 6 (Wichita Falls) - KFDM 6 (Beaumont) - KOSA 7 (Odessa) - KLST 8 (San Angelo) - KFDA 10 (Amarillo) - KWTX 10 / KBTX 3 (Waco / Bryan) - KZTV 10 (Corpus Christi) - KHOU 11 (Houston) - KTVT 11 (Fort Worth / Dallas) - KXII 12 (Sherman) - KLBK 13 (Lubbock) - KVTV 13 (Laredo) - KYTX 19 (Nacogdoches / Tyler) - KTAB 32 (Abilene) - KEYE 42 (Austin)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, ION, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Texas
v • d • Other Spanish-Language Television Stations in the state of Texas

Azteca América: KYTX-DT 19.3 (Nacogdoches) - KADF-LP 20 (Austin) - KVDF-CA 31 (San Antonio) - KUVM 34 (DeWalt / Houston) - KTXD-LP 43 (Amarillo) - KLEG 44 (DFW) - KNEX-LP 55 (Laredo) - KBDF 64 (Brownsville) Multimedios Television: K24FW 24 (Lubbock) - K40FW 40 (El Paso) - KHLM 43 (Houston) - K45HW 45 (San Angelo) - XHNAT 45 (Laredo) - K51JF 51 (San Antonio) - K54JS 54 (Corpus Christi) - K69IT 69 (Midland) Other Stations: KTRG 10 (VasalloVision, Del Rio) - KZFW 6 (Religious, Royse City / Dallas) - KVAW 16 (MTV3, Eagle Pass) - KODF 26.1 (Mega TV, Britton / DFW) - KLDO 27.3 (LATV, Laredo) - KMPX 29 (Estrella TV, Decatur / DFW) - KAMM 30 (MTV3, Amarillo) - K31GL 31.2 (Genesis, DeSoto / DFW) - KDAF 33.2 (LATV, DFW) - KVFW 38 (Religious, Fort Worth) - KATA 50 (MTV3, Mesquite / DFW) - KAZH 57 (VasalloVision, Baytown / Houston) - KZJL 61 (Estrella TV, Houston) - KLMV-LP 68 (Religious, Laredo)
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

Categories: CBS network affiliates | Channel 19 TV stations in the United States | Television channels and stations established in 1991 | Tyler, Texas | Retro Television Network affiliates | Azteca América network affiliates | Television stations in Texas

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