KTMJ-CA
Encyclopedia
KTMJ-CA is the Class A
Fox-affiliated television station
for Topeka, Kansas
. It broadcasts an analog signal on UHF channel 43 from a transmitter in the city between the Kansas River
and I-70
/U.S. 40
/U.S. 75
/KS 4
. Owned by New Vision Television
, the station is sister to NBC
affiliate KSNT
and also ABC
affiliate KTKA-TV
through a shared services agreement
with its owner PBC Broadcasting, LLC; KSNT and KTMJ-CA share studios on Northwest 27th Street (U.S. 24
) near the Kiro section of Topeka.
Syndicated
programming on KTMJ includes: Everybody Loves Raymond
, Family Guy
, Judge Joe Brown, and Maury
. Due to its Class A status, the station does not air a digital signal of its own. Therefore, there is one offered on KSNT's second digital subchannel on UHF channel 27.2 from a transmitter at its studios. On cable, KTMJ-CA is carried on analog channel 6 in standard definition and digital channel 2006 in high definition on Cox Communications
in the Topeka area.
-FM 91.3 tower.
listings and other references in newspapers. KETM-CA went on-the-air on November 30, 1988 as K17CK. Eventually, it became a repeater of the main signal. In 2001, it became a Class A station and changed its calls to the current one. When the KTMJ-CA calls were moved to channel 43 in Topeka and became the flagship station, KETM became a repeater of that channel. KMJT-CA began life on August 4, 1992 as K15DQ. It became a Class A repeater of the original signal on September 24, 2001.
It became a Class A station in 2001 and gained the "KTMJ-CA" call sign. The KTMJ calls would be moved to a Topeka repeater of the Junction City station leaving the original KTMJ to become KTLJ-CA while the modern KTMJ-CA became the flagship of several Class A Fox stations in the Topeka viewing area. It carried UPN
as a secondary affiliation until 2003. On July 7, 2008, New Vision Television (owner of NBC affiliate KSNT) announced its intention to buy KTMJ and its repeaters from Montgomery Communications. The purchase was completed on September 1. In November 2008, KTMJ started broadcasting as a second digital subchannel of KSNT replacing a CW Plus
affiliate. It can be received in 720p
HD by using a ClearQAM device connected to Cox
cable.
On September 1, 2010, KTMJ-CA applied to flash-cut from analog to digital on channel 43, which it was granted a construction permit on September 28.
On September 29, 2011 - KTMJ began HD off-air broadcasts.
licened in Salina in the year 2008. The second station that went off air was KBSD-DT on June 12, 2009, because of the full power license.
in Kansas City
. In April 2009, 27 News produced newscasts for KTMJ. Currently, KTMJ airs 2.5 hours of local newscasts on weekdays which are produced by Kansas First News.
Kansas First News
(weekday mornings 7 to 9)
Kansas First News at 9 on Fox 43 KTMJ
(weeknights 9 to 9:30)
KTMJ features additional news personnel from Kansas First News. See that article for a complete listing.
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...
Fox-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 Topeka, Kansas
Topeka, Kansas
Topeka |Kansa]]: Tó Pee Kuh) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is situated along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was...
. It broadcasts an analog signal on UHF channel 43 from a transmitter in the city between the Kansas River
Kansas River
The Kansas River is a river in northeastern Kansas in the United States. It is the southwestern-most part of the Missouri River drainage, which is in turn the northwestern-most portion of the extensive Mississippi River drainage. Its name come from the Kanza people who once inhabited the area...
and I-70
Interstate 70 in Kansas
In the U.S. state of Kansas, Interstate 70 contains the first segment to start being paved and to be completed in the Interstate Highway System. It extends from the Western border to the Eastern border covering and passing through several of the state's principal cities in the process.-Route...
/U.S. 40
U.S. Route 40
U.S. Route 40 is an east–west United States highway. As with most routes whose numbers end in a zero, U.S. 40 once traversed the entire United States. It is one of the original 1920s U.S. Highways, and its first termini were San Francisco, California, and Atlantic City, New Jersey...
/U.S. 75
U.S. Route 75
U.S. Route 75 is a north–south U.S. Highway. The highway's northern terminus is in Kittson County, Minnesota, at the Canadian border, where it continues as Manitoba Highway 75 on the other side of a closed border crossing. Its southern terminus is at Interstate 30 and Interstate 45 in Dallas,...
/KS 4
K-4 (Kansas highway)
K-4 is the longest designated state highway in Kansas traversing from north of Scott City at US-83 to US-59 near Nortonville in northeast Kansas. A segment of the highway in McPherson County overlaps Interstate 135, and a section in Topeka runs concurrent with Interstate 70.-Western Kansas:K-4...
. Owned by New Vision Television
New Vision Television
New Vision Television is a broadcast company based in Los Angeles, California. The company owns or manages 18 television stations in medium sized markets.-New Vision I:...
, the station is sister to 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...
affiliate KSNT
KSNT
KSNT is the NBC-affiliated television station for Topeka, Kansas. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 27 from a transmitter at its studios on Northwest 27th Street near the Kiro section of Topeka...
and also ABC
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...
affiliate KTKA-TV
KTKA-TV
KTKA-TV, channel 49, is the ABC-affiliated television station in Topeka, Kansas. Owned by PBC Broadcasting, the station is operated by New Vision Television though a shared services agreement with NBC affiliate KSNT and low-powered Fox affiliate KTMJ-CA. Its studios are located on Northwest 27th...
through a shared services agreement
Shared services
Shared services refers to the provision of a service by one part of an organization or group where that service had previously been found in more than one part of the organization or group. Thus the funding and resourcing of the service is shared and the providing department effectively becomes an...
with its owner PBC Broadcasting, LLC; KSNT and KTMJ-CA share studios on Northwest 27th Street (U.S. 24
U.S. Route 24
U.S. Route 24 is one of the original United States highways of 1926. It originally ran from Pontiac, Michigan, in the east to Kansas City, Missouri, in the west. Today, the highway's eastern terminus is west of Clarkston, Michigan, at an intersection with I-75 and its western terminus is near...
) near the Kiro section of Topeka.
Syndicated
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...
programming on KTMJ includes: Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond
Everybody Loves Raymond is an American television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005. Many of the situations from the show are based on the real-life experiences of lead actor Ray Romano, creator/producer Phil Rosenthal and the show's writing staff...
, 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...
, Judge Joe Brown, and Maury
Maury (TV series)
Maury is a syndicated American tabloid talk show hosted by Maury Povich.When the series first aired in 1991, the show was called The Maury Povich Show and was produced by MoPo Productions in association with Paramount Domestic Television...
. Due to its Class A status, the station does not air a digital signal of its own. Therefore, there is one offered on KSNT's second digital subchannel on UHF channel 27.2 from a transmitter at its studios. On cable, KTMJ-CA is carried on analog channel 6 in standard definition and digital channel 2006 in high definition on 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 the Topeka area.
Repeaters
The station operates three repeaters that broadcast the Fox signal to the majority of the Topeka viewing area. KTLJ was the original KTMJ-CA before Topeka became the flagship home. It has an application to air a signal on channel 46 from a transmitter on the KANVKANV
KANV , is a National Public Radio-affiliated radio station in Olsburg, Kansas, USA. It primarily features National Public Radio programming....
-FM 91.3 tower.
| Call sign | Channel (UHF, unless notice first) | City of license | Transmitter location |
|---|---|---|---|
| KTLJ-CA | 6 (VHF), 87.7 (FM FM broadcasting FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term "FM band" describes the "frequency band in which FM is used for broadcasting"... ), Junction City Cox Cable 6 (SD), Junction City Cox Digital Cable 2006 (HD) |
Junction City Junction City, Kansas Junction City is a city in and the county seat of Geary County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 23,353. Fort Riley, a major U.S. Army post, is nearby... |
southeast of downtown and I-70 / U.S. 40 / K-18 K-18 (Kansas highway) K-18 is a primarily east–west state highway running between US-24 and I-70 in north central Kansas.-Route description:K-18 begins near the town of Bogue in Graham County as it branches off to the south from US-24... |
| KMJT-LP | 15, Manhattan and Ogden Cox Cable 6 (SD), Manhattan and Ogden Cox Digital Cable 2006 (HD) | Ogden Ogden, Kansas Ogden is a city in Riley County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 2,087. It is part of the Manhattan, Kansas Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:... |
southwest of downtown Manhattan Manhattan, Kansas Manhattan is a city located in the northeastern part of the state of Kansas in the United States, at the junction of the Kansas River and Big Blue River. It is the county seat of Riley County and the city extends into Pottawatomie County. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 52,281... |
| KETM-CA | 17 | Emporia Emporia, Kansas Emporia is a city in and the county seat of Lyon County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 24,916. Emporia lies between Topeka and Wichita at the intersection of U.S. Route 50 with Interstates 335 and 35 on the Kansas Turnpike... |
south of Admire Admire, Kansas Admire is a city in Lyon County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 156. It is part of the Emporia Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Admire is located at... and I-335 / Kansas Turnpike Kansas Turnpike The Kansas Turnpike is a freeway-standard toll road that lies entirely within the U.S. state of Kansas. It runs in a general southwest-northeast direction from the Oklahoma border, and passes through several major Kansas cities, including Wichita, Topeka, Lawrence and Kansas City... |
History
What is now KTMJ began its life on June 16, 1982 as K06KZ on channel 6 in Junction City. It became a low-powered Fox affiliate under the call sign KTMJ-LP (Topeka / Manhattan / Junction City). It was known as "KTMJ-TV 6" in TV GuideTV Guide
TV Guide is a weekly American magazine with listings of TV shows.In addition to TV listings, the publication features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews and crossword puzzles...
listings and other references in newspapers. KETM-CA went on-the-air on November 30, 1988 as K17CK. Eventually, it became a repeater of the main signal. In 2001, it became a Class A station and changed its calls to the current one. When the KTMJ-CA calls were moved to channel 43 in Topeka and became the flagship station, KETM became a repeater of that channel. KMJT-CA began life on August 4, 1992 as K15DQ. It became a Class A repeater of the original signal on September 24, 2001.
It became a Class A station in 2001 and gained the "KTMJ-CA" call sign. The KTMJ calls would be moved to a Topeka repeater of the Junction City station leaving the original KTMJ to become KTLJ-CA while the modern KTMJ-CA became the flagship of several Class A Fox stations in the Topeka viewing area. It carried UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
as a secondary affiliation until 2003. On July 7, 2008, New Vision Television (owner of NBC affiliate KSNT) announced its intention to buy KTMJ and its repeaters from Montgomery Communications. The purchase was completed on September 1. In November 2008, KTMJ started broadcasting as a second digital subchannel of KSNT replacing a CW Plus
The CW Plus
The CW Plus is a group of primarily digital sub-channels, analog, and non-broadcast cable television outlets for the CW Television Network, for markets below the top 99 television media markets in the United States....
affiliate. It can be received in 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...
HD by using a ClearQAM device connected to Cox
Cox Communications
Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and wireless services in the United States...
cable.
On September 1, 2010, KTMJ-CA applied to flash-cut from analog to digital on channel 43, which it was granted a construction permit on September 28.
On September 29, 2011 - KTMJ began HD off-air broadcasts.
KTMJ-CA AND KTLJ-CA on Radio
From June 16, 1982 until transition, K06KZ at first, KTMJ-LP and KTMJ-CA at the time, and now KTLJ-CA is broadcast on the radio in the Junction City area on 87.7 FM. This is possible because channel 6 is close to the FM radio band and radios sold in the United States at the time. When the DTV transition is done to KTLJ-CA, it will be the last 87.7 FM radio staiton in the state of Kansas that will go off air. The first station that went off air was K06LZKSNL-LD
KSNL-LD channel 47 is a low-powered NBC affiliate based in Salina, Kansas. It is owned by the New Vision Television group. KSNL is part of the Kansas State Network network of NBC affiliates, repeating the signal of KSNW in Wichita, Kansas, with local advertising and news inserts. KSNL is broadcast...
licened in Salina in the year 2008. The second station that went off air was KBSD-DT on June 12, 2009, because of the full power license.
Newscasts
In April 2007, KTMJ began to simulcast newscasts from fellow Fox affiliate WDAF-TVWDAF-TV
WDAF-TV, virtual channel 4.1, is the Fox-affiliated television station serving the Kansas City, Missouri-Kansas designated market area. The station is owned by Local TV LLC, the media arm of private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners. Its studios and transmitter are located in the Signal Hill...
in Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...
. In April 2009, 27 News produced newscasts for KTMJ. Currently, KTMJ airs 2.5 hours of local newscasts on weekdays which are produced by Kansas First News.
Kansas First News
(weekday mornings 7 to 9)
- Anchor:
- Hillary Mullin
- Weather:
- Tom Hagen
Kansas First News at 9 on Fox 43 KTMJ
(weeknights 9 to 9:30)
- Anchor:
- Ben Bauman
- Kelli Stegeman
- Weather:
- Matt Miller
- Sports:
- Alex Wiebel
KTMJ features additional news personnel from Kansas First News. See that article for a complete listing.