KEYT-TV
Encyclopedia
KEYT-TV is the ABC
-affiliated television station
for the Santa Barbara
, Santa Maria
, and San Luis Obispo, California
areas. Licensed to Santa Barbara, California
the station broadcasts on digital
UHF
channel 27 and uses VHF
channel 3 as its virtual channel
. KEYT's transmitter is located on top of Broadcast Peak, located between Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez, California
in the Santa Ynez Mountains
. KEYT is owned and operated by Smith Media, LLC
. KEYT's studios are located at 730 Miramonte Dr. on TV Hill, overlooking downtown Santa Barbara.
KEYT operates the area's MyNetwork TV affiliate on its DT2 digital subchannel, branded as MyRTV. MyRTV clears the entire MyNetwork TV programming schedule and airs programming from Retro Television Network
, as well as a few syndicated shows
.
, CBS
, DuMont
, and NBC
. KEYT operates morning, afternoon, and evening newscasts. KEYT channel 3 has identified itself as KEY News since the 1980s. In the ratings game, KEYT is number one in ratings for late news.
Between KEYT's launch of its HDTV signal on March 2007 and September 2007, KEYT-HD was initially unavailable to cable subscribers in the Central Coast
, due to a contract dispute with the local cable companies. KEYT has since reached an agreement with Cox Communications
in Santa Barbara, Comcast
in Santa Maria
, and as of late October 2007, with Charter Cable in San Luis Obispo to carry its HDTV signal.
As of July 7, 2011, none of the stations, including KEYT, currently broadcast local news in high definition although KCOY-TV
broadcasts its local newscasts in 16:9 enhanced definition widescreen.
KEYT completed its transition to digital
on February 17, 2009 MyNetworkTV
/Retro Television Network
programming is carried on its second digital subchannel
. The station's digital channel is multiplexed.
after Good Morning America
, The Real Housewives before the ABC soap opera lineup, The Dr. Oz Show
and Who Wants to be a Millionaire during the mid-afternoons, TMZ
and Access Hollywood
before ABC primetime.
affilitaton on June 2006 and initially showed only MyNetworkTV programming, and a test pattern
the rest of the time. By Fall 2007, the station had managed to obtain syndication
broadcast rights to Family Guy
and South Park
, and officially launched its DT2 subchannel branded as "MyNetworkTV Central Coast" on October 2007, replacing Los Angeles
-based MyNetworkTV
affiliate KCOP channel 13 on all Central Coast cable systems.
The channel initially simulcast the SD version of KEYT outside of MyNetwork TV programming. As of October 30, 2007, it has picked up the Retro Television Network
affiliation and broadcasts RTV programming outside of MyNetwork TV. It has subsequently changed its branding to "My RTN" to coincide with the new affiliation, later changing to "My RTV" after RTN changed its acronym to RTV.
, K57BC, on channel 57, and KSBB-LP, a Class A
television station
, in downtown Santa Barbara, on UHF
channel 17. KSBB-LP is located at KEYT's studios and broadcasts a directional signal to downtown Santa Barbara, serving areas shielded from the main channel 3 signal by the Santa Ynez Mountains
. The station initially rebroadcast KKFX-CA
from its sign-on until July 1, 2006, when KKFX-CA
terminated the agreement for the station to rebroadcast its programming. The station has since been a repeater station for KEYT.
KSBB-LP has a construction permit to operate digitally on channel 17, while K57BC has a construction permit to operate digitally on channel 31.
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
-affiliated television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
for the Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...
, Santa Maria
Santa Maria, California
Santa Maria is a city in Santa Barbara County, on the Central Coast of California. The 2010 census population was 100,062, putting it ahead of Santa Barbara for the first time and making it the largest city in the county...
, and San Luis Obispo, California
San Luis Obispo, California
San Luis Obispo is a city in California, located roughly midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles on the Central Coast. Founded in 1772 by Spanish Fr. Junipero Serra, San Luis Obispo is one of California’s oldest communities...
areas. Licensed to Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...
the station broadcasts on digital
Digital television
Digital television is the transmission of audio and video by digital signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV...
UHF
Ultra high frequency
Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres...
channel 27 and uses VHF
Very high frequency
Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency...
channel 3 as its virtual channel
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....
. KEYT's transmitter is located on top of Broadcast Peak, located between Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez, California
Santa Ynez, California
Santa Ynez is a census-designated place in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. The town of Santa Ynez is one of the communities that make up the Santa Ynez Valley, and features the Santa Ynez Airport for general aviation with a paved 2804 x 75 foot runway. The population was 4,418...
in the Santa Ynez Mountains
Santa Ynez Mountains
The Santa Ynez Mountains are a portion of the Transverse Ranges, part of the Pacific Coast Ranges of the west coast of North America, and are one of the northernmost mountain ranges in Southern California.-Geography:...
. KEYT is owned and operated by Smith Media, LLC
Smith Media, LLC
Smith Media, LLC, successor to Smith Television, is a broadcasting group co-based in Los Angeles, California and St. Petersburg, Florida, that owns and operates seven television stations across the United States....
. KEYT's studios are located at 730 Miramonte Dr. on TV Hill, overlooking downtown Santa Barbara.
KEYT operates the area's MyNetwork TV affiliate on its DT2 digital subchannel, branded as MyRTV. MyRTV clears the entire MyNetwork TV programming schedule and airs programming from Retro Television Network
Retro Television Network
The Retro Television Network is a system of television stations that airs classic television shows as well as more recently produced programs...
, as well as a few syndicated shows
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
.
History
During the 1950s, the station ran programming from all four TV networks: ABCAmerican Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
, CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
, DuMont
DuMont Television Network
The DuMont Television Network, also known as the DuMont Network, DuMont, Du Mont, or Dumont was one of the world's pioneer commercial television networks, rivalling NBC for the distinction of being first overall. It began operation in the United States in 1946. It was owned by DuMont...
, and NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
. KEYT operates morning, afternoon, and evening newscasts. KEYT channel 3 has identified itself as KEY News since the 1980s. In the ratings game, KEYT is number one in ratings for late news.
Between KEYT's launch of its HDTV signal on March 2007 and September 2007, KEYT-HD was initially unavailable to cable subscribers in the Central Coast
Central Coast of California
The Central Coast is an area of California, United States, roughly spanning the area between the Monterey Bay and Point Conception. It extends through Santa Cruz County, San Benito County, Monterey County, San Luis Obispo County, and Santa Barbara County...
, due to a contract dispute with the local cable companies. KEYT has since reached an agreement with Cox Communications
Cox Communications
Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and wireless services in the United States...
in Santa Barbara, Comcast
Comcast
Comcast Corporation is the largest cable operator, home Internet service provider, and fourth largest home telephone service provider in the United States, providing cable television, broadband Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers in 39 states and the...
in Santa Maria
Santa Maria, California
Santa Maria is a city in Santa Barbara County, on the Central Coast of California. The 2010 census population was 100,062, putting it ahead of Santa Barbara for the first time and making it the largest city in the county...
, and as of late October 2007, with Charter Cable in San Luis Obispo to carry its HDTV signal.
As of July 7, 2011, none of the stations, including KEYT, currently broadcast local news in high definition although KCOY-TV
KCOY-TV
KCOY-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Central Coast of California that is licensed to Santa Maria. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 19 from a transmitter on Tepusquet Peak in the Los Padres National Forest east of Santa Maria. Owned by the Cowles...
broadcasts its local newscasts in 16:9 enhanced definition widescreen.
Digital Television
Digital terrestrial television
Digital terrestrial television is the technological evolution of broadcast television and advance from analog television, which broadcasts land-based signals...
on February 17, 2009 MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
/Retro Television Network
Retro Television Network
The Retro Television Network is a system of television stations that airs classic television shows as well as more recently produced programs...
programming is carried on its second digital subchannel
Digital subchannel
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a means to transmit more than one independent program at the same time from the same digital radio or digital television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual...
. The station's digital channel is multiplexed.
| Virtual Channel |
Physical Channel |
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Programming |
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| 3.1 | 27.1 | 720p 720p 720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan... |
16:9 16:9 16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ... |
main KEYT/ABC programming |
| 3.2 | 27.2 | 480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC... |
4:3 | MyNetworkTV MyNetworkTV MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation... /Retro Television Network Retro Television Network The Retro Television Network is a system of television stations that airs classic television shows as well as more recently produced programs... programming |
Programming
In addition to ABC programming and local news, KEYT airs syndicated programming, with Live with Regis and KellyLive with Regis and Kelly
Live! with Kelly is a syndicated American television morning talk show, hosted by Kelly Ripa. The show has aired since 1983 in New York City and 1988 nationwide. Tony Pigg has been the show's announcer since its inception...
after Good Morning America
Good Morning America
Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...
, The Real Housewives before the ABC soap opera lineup, The Dr. Oz Show
The Dr. Oz Show
The Dr. Oz Show is an American syndicated television talk show, hosted by Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and teaching professor at Columbia University who became famous for his appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show from 2004 until 2009....
and Who Wants to be a Millionaire during the mid-afternoons, TMZ
TMZ on TV
TMZ on TV, or simply TMZ and TMZTV, is an American syndicated entertainment and gossip news television show that premiered on September 10, 2007. The program is generally aired on Fox, The CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates, though a majority of the stations that carry the series are Fox affiliates...
and Access Hollywood
Access Hollywood
Access Hollywood is a weekday television entertainment news program covering events and celebrities in the entertainment industry. It was created by former Entertainment Tonight executive producer Jim Van Messel, and is currently directed by Robert Silverstein. In previous years, Doug Dougherty and...
before ABC primetime.
Affiliation with MyNetworkTV and Retro Television Network
KEYT picked up the MyNetworkTVMyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
affilitaton on June 2006 and initially showed only MyNetworkTV programming, and a test pattern
SMPTE color bars
The SMPTE color bars are a type of television test pattern, and is most commonly used in countries where the NTSC video standard is dominant, such as those in North America. The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers refers to this test pattern as Engineering Guideline EG 1-1990...
the rest of the time. By Fall 2007, the station had managed to obtain syndication
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
broadcast rights to Family Guy
Family Guy
Family Guy is an American animated television series created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series centers on the Griffins, a dysfunctional family consisting of parents Peter and Lois; their children Meg, Chris, and Stewie; and their anthropomorphic pet dog Brian...
and South Park
South Park
South Park is an American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. Intended for mature audiences, the show has become famous for its crude language, surreal, satirical, and dark humor that lampoons a wide range of topics...
, and officially launched its DT2 subchannel branded as "MyNetworkTV Central Coast" on October 2007, replacing Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
-based MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
affiliate KCOP channel 13 on all Central Coast cable systems.
The channel initially simulcast the SD version of KEYT outside of MyNetwork TV programming. As of October 30, 2007, it has picked up the Retro Television Network
Retro Television Network
The Retro Television Network is a system of television stations that airs classic television shows as well as more recently produced programs...
affiliation and broadcasts RTV programming outside of MyNetwork TV. It has subsequently changed its branding to "My RTN" to coincide with the new affiliation, later changing to "My RTV" after RTN changed its acronym to RTV.
News operation
KEYT airs 22 hours of local news per week, with four hours on weekdays and only one hour on weekends. A two-hour block airs at 5 a.m., followed by a half-hour block at 5 p.m., a one-hour block at 6 p.m., and a 35-minute wrap at 11 p.m. On weekends, half-hour news blocks airs at 6 and 11 p.m.Anchors
- Ryan Carmel - weekday mornings "KEY News This Morning" (5-7 a.m.) & weather anchor
- Beth Farnsworth - weekday mornings "KEY News This Morning" (5-7 a.m.)
- Joe Gehl - weeknights at 5 p.m.; also reporter
- Tracy Lehr - weekends at 6 and 11 p.m.; Ventura County Bureau Chief
- Paula Lopez - weeknights at 6 and 11 p.m.
- CJ Ward - weeknights at 6 and 11 p.m.
Reporters
- Martha Bull - general assignment reporter
- Ben Howell - general assignment reporter
- Scott Hurst - general assignment reporter
- John Palminteri - senior reporter
- Lauren Pozen- general assignment reporter
Weather
- Alan Rose - Chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 6, and 11 p.m.
- Shawn Quien - weekend evenings at 6 and 11 p.m.
Sports
- Mike Klan - sports director, weeknights at 6 and 11 p.m.
- Mike DeFina - sports anchor; weekends at 6 and 11 p.m.; also reporter
Notable former staff
- Giselle FernándezGiselle Fernández-External links:...
(Reporter circa 1983) - Christine CraftChristine CraftChristine Craft is an attorney, radio talk show host and former television news anchor. She became known in the broadcast industry in the 1980s for her age and sexual discrimination lawsuit against a television station that had demoted her from news anchor to reporter.- Early life :Craft was born...
(Reporter and anchor in 1970's) - Edie LambertEdie LambertEdie Lambert is a well-known TV journalist in Sacramento. She currently anchors the 5pm, 6pm and 11pm newscasts on KCRA reports....
, (Anchor/ Reporter (Now at KCRA-TVKCRA-TVKCRA-TV, channel 3, is a television station in Sacramento, California, United States. KCRA-TV is owned by Hearst Television, a subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation, and is an affiliate of the NBC television network...
in Sacramento) - Dan ElliottDan ElliottDaniel Michael Elliott , commonly known as Dan Elliott, currently anchors KXTV News10 Good Morning from 5-7am with Kelly Jackson and News10 Midday from 11-11:30am with Jennifer Smith and solo on Friday....
, (Sports Anchor/ Fill-in Anchor, Now at KXTVKXTVKXTV, channel 10, is an ABC affiliate television station in Sacramento, California. It is owned and operated by the Gannett Company. Its transmitter tower is located in Walnut Grove, California, and studios are located on Broadway, just south of Business Loop 80 at the south edge of downtown...
in Sacramento) - Michelle FranzenMichelle FranzenMichelle Franzen is a national correspondent for NBC News. She has reported on a wide range of issues and events for various television stations, as well as MSNBC, The Today Show, and NBC Nightly News...
(Reporter/ Fill-in Anchor 1993-1994)
Rebroadcast stations
KEYT also operates two translators to extend its coverage area. It operates a repeater station in San Luis ObispoSan Luis Obispo, California
San Luis Obispo is a city in California, located roughly midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles on the Central Coast. Founded in 1772 by Spanish Fr. Junipero Serra, San Luis Obispo is one of California’s oldest communities...
, K57BC, on channel 57, and KSBB-LP, a Class A
Class A television service
The class A television service is a system for regulating some low-power television stations in the United States. Class A stations are denoted by the broadcast callsign suffix "-CA" or "-CD" , although very many analog -CA stations have a digital companion channel that was assigned the -LD...
television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
, in downtown Santa Barbara, on UHF
Ultra high frequency
Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres...
channel 17. KSBB-LP is located at KEYT's studios and broadcasts a directional signal to downtown Santa Barbara, serving areas shielded from the main channel 3 signal by the Santa Ynez Mountains
Santa Ynez Mountains
The Santa Ynez Mountains are a portion of the Transverse Ranges, part of the Pacific Coast Ranges of the west coast of North America, and are one of the northernmost mountain ranges in Southern California.-Geography:...
. The station initially rebroadcast KKFX-CA
KKFX-CA
KKFX-CA is the Class A television service Fox-affiliated television station for the Central Coast of California that is licensed to San Luis Obispo. It continues to broadcast an analog signal on UHF channel 24 from a transmitter near Serrano and U.S. 101 in the Los Padres National Forest even after...
from its sign-on until July 1, 2006, when KKFX-CA
KKFX-CA
KKFX-CA is the Class A television service Fox-affiliated television station for the Central Coast of California that is licensed to San Luis Obispo. It continues to broadcast an analog signal on UHF channel 24 from a transmitter near Serrano and U.S. 101 in the Los Padres National Forest even after...
terminated the agreement for the station to rebroadcast its programming. The station has since been a repeater station for KEYT.
KSBB-LP has a construction permit to operate digitally on channel 17, while K57BC has a construction permit to operate digitally on channel 31.