KUTU-CD (channel 25) is a low-power, Class A television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with Univision, UniMás, and Telemundo. The station is owned by the Tyler Media Group. KUTU-CD's programming and advertising sales offices are located at Eastland Plaza (on East 21st Street and South 145th East Avenue) in southeast Tulsa, and its transmitter is located atop the Bank of America Center (at the corner of West 6th Street and South Boulder Avenue West) in downtown Tulsa. Master control and some internal operations are based at the facilities of sister stations and fellow Univision and Telemundo affiliates KUOK and KTUZ-TV near Southeast 51st Street and Shields Boulevard in southern Oklahoma City.
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| Branding | Univision 25 (general) Univision Tulsa (alternate general) Telemundo 25.3 Tulsa (on CD3) Acción Oklahoma (KTUZ-TV produced newscasts) |
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| History | |
| Founded | December 30, 1994 |
First air date | December 20, 1996 |
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Call sign meaning | "Univision Tulsa" |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 31369 |
| Class | CD |
| ERP | 6.55 kW |
| HAAT | 138.5 m (454 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 36°9′1″N 95°59′26.1″W / 36.15028°N 95.990583°W |
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| Website | www.unidosok.com |
History
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The station was founded on December 30, 1994, as very low-power K25FF; the call letters were never used on-air. The station was finally granted a license sometime in 1996 under the call letters KLOT-LP. The station was then sold to Little Rock, Arkansas-based Equity Broadcasting Corporation (later Equity Media Holdings), under the licensee "Woodward Broadcasting, Inc.", in 2004. On March 1, 2005, the station changed its call letters to KUTU-CA, and became an affiliate of Spanish–language network Univision.
On June 25, 2008, Equity announced that it was selling KUTU to Luken Communications, LLC.[2] The sale preceded Equity Media Holdings' Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing in December 2008;[3] offers by Luken Communications to acquire Equity-owned stations in six markets were later withdrawn.[4] KUTU-CA was later sold at auction to the Oklahoma City-based Tyler Media Group on April 16, 2009.[5] The following year, the station filed a construction permit to move to UHF channel 45 and at the same time, upgrade its transmitter's effective radiated power from 5.06 kilowatts to about 25 kilowatts. In December 2011, KUTU-CA shut down its analog signal and flash-cut its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 25; its call letters were also modified to KUTU-CD.
Newscasts
editIn August 2011, KUTU began simulcasting Spanish language newscasts (airing weeknights at 5 and 10 p.m.) produced by Telemundo-affiliated sister station KTUZ-TV in Oklahoma City, upon the rebranding of its newscasts as Accion Oklahoma (a variant of the Action News branding). Weather forecast segments during the newscasts include current conditions and seven-day forecasts for both the Tulsa and Oklahoma City metropolitan areas. As Univision airs its national late-night news program Noticiero Univision: Edicion Nocturna at 10:30 p.m., KUTU signs off from the 10 p.m. edition of Accion Oklahoma five minutes before the conclusion of the broadcast on KTUZ (with an additional segment that runs until rejoining Telemundo programming at 10:35 p.m.).
Subchannels
editThe station's digital signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 25.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KUTUCD1 | Main KUTU-CD programming / Univision |
| 25.2 | KUTUCD2 | UniMás | ||
| 25.3 | KUTUCD3 | Telemundo | ||
| 25.4 | 480i | AceTV | Ace TV | |
| 25.5 | KUTUCD7 | Catchy Comedy | ||
| 25.6 | KUTUCD6 | Story Television |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KUTU-CD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Marich, Robert (June 26, 2008). "Equity Media Sells RTN to Ease Crunch". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved June 28, 2008.
- ^ Larson, Erik (December 8, 2008). "Equity Media, U.S. TV Station Owner, Seeks Bankruptcy". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on October 23, 2012. Retrieved December 9, 2008.
- ^ Equity's Management Cause of Downfall, Former CEO Asserts, Mark Hengel, Arkansas Business, February 2, 2009
- ^ "Takers found for 60 Equity stations". Television Business Report. April 18, 2009. Archived from the original on April 24, 2009. Retrieved April 20, 2009.
- ^ "RabbitEars TV Query for KUTU-CD". RabbitEars. Retrieved February 22, 2024.