KTUZ-TV
Encyclopedia
KTUZ-TV, virtual channel 30, is the Telemundo
affiliated television station serving the Oklahoma City Metroplex and Shawnee, Oklahoma
. It is owned by Tyler Media Group
, in a duopoly
with Univision
affiliate KUOK
(channel 36). The station's call letters are taken from its sister radio station KTUZ-FM
(106.7 FM, "La Z").
The station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 29, using its former analog assignment of channel 30 as its virtual digital channel via PSIP, and is carried on channel 5 in the Oklahoma City market via Cox Communications
(ABC
affiliate KOCO-TV
, which is broadcast on virtual channel 5 over-the-air, is instead carried on cable channel 8). The station is also available to DirecTV
and Dish Network
customers within the Oklahoma City market.
Digital channels>
Channel
Video
Format
Name
Programming
30.1
480i
4:3
KTUZ-DT
main KTUZ-TV programming / Telemundo
from ACN. Channel 30 also aired some religious and children's programming. For a brief period, KQOK also aired Bonanza
reruns and the Independent News Network
.
In 2004, KQOK was sold to Oklahoma City-based Tyler Media from its original owners, Equity Broadcasting, who owned Univision
affiliate KUOK
(channel 35) in Woodward
and its repeaters (KWDW-LP and KCHM-LP in Oklahoma City and KOKT-LP in Sulphur
) until April 16, 2009 when the stations were acquired by Tyler. The station became a Telemundo affiliate in early February 2005.
KTUZ-TV's analog and digital signal patterns offer different coverage in the Central Oklahoma; its analog transmitter was located farther south than other Oklahoma City television stations (located at 35°16'58.1"N, 97°20'19.3"W). It provided city-grade coverage to Norman and Moore, but only provided "rimshot" coverage to Oklahoma City. Its analog signal was marginal at best in several parts of the city (especially in suburbs such as Forest Park, Nichols Hills and Spencer), and could not be seen at all in many of the northern suburbs. Despite this, the station did not offer a low-power repeater to give it a city-grade signal throughout the immediate Oklahoma City area. The digital signal (located at 35°33'36.9"N, 97°29'7.6"W), however, provides city-grade coverage to the entire Oklahoma City metropolitan area due to its transmitter being located within the city.
called Fiesta Deportiva, airing immediately following Telemundo's national sports program Titulares Telemundo at 10:30 p.m. From the switchover until September 2007, the station also aired Studio Z (produced in conjunction with KTUZ-FM), a weekly music video program hosted by KTUZ-FM personality Blanca Estela Ramirez, showcasing videos from Latin artists.
KTUZ-TV and sister radio station KTUZ-FM made history in September 2007, becoming the first Spanish-language station to simulcast college football games in Spanish, when both aired OU football.
KTUZ tends to preempt more Telemundo programming than other affiliates, the network's weekend schedule is more succeptible to this. Until November 2011, KTUZ preempted Nitido on Saturday mornings and Fotogenicas on Sunday mornings (though the show aired on the station for two weeks in October 2009; the actual preemption was problematic since on Sundays when Telemundo schedules a football (soccer) match, the first five minutes of Ritmo Deportivo were cut off as Telemundo moves the start times of programs that air before the games back five minutes) and Telemundo's Sunday edition of Titulares Telemundo and the network's early late night movie; however with the exception of the Sunday Titulares Telemundo telecast (for an encore presentation of Nuestra Oklahoma and the preemption of the Sunday evening telecast of the home video show Camara Loca for Fiesta Deportiva); for the most part, KTUZ did not preempt these programs for any actual programming, instead the station preempted them for infomercials.
(channel 52) and MyNetworkTV
affiliate KAUT (channel 43; whose newscasts are produced by NBC affiliate KFOR-TV
, channel 4) are the only stations in the Oklahoma City market with weekday-only newscasts.
After switching to Telemundo, KTUZ had no newscasts with the exception of daily, two-minute news and weather updates aired during Telemundo daytime and primetime programming seven days a week from a small closet studio. However, the station expressed interest in airing regular newscasts from the switchover. One of the anchors seen in these updates was Flory Mata (now host of the local entertainment/lifestyle program Estilo Latino on KUOK).
KTUZ's news operation, branded T30 Noticias, began in October 2006. In its beginnings, T30 Noticias only aired a 10 p.m. newscast in the evenings. A 5 p.m. newscast was added in early 2007. The newscasts initially used a logo that was radically different from the station's network-standardized logo, but a new graphics package was instituted in September 2007 with a logo more closely aligned with the station's regular branding.
In August 2011, the station's newscasts were rebranded as Accion Oklahoma (a variant of the Action News
branding); with the change, the station introduced a new set and graphics for its newscasts. Currently, KTUZ-TV is one of only two remaining television stations in the Oklahoma City market not currently broadcasting its newscasts in 16:9
widescreen
standard definition or high definition, Fox
affiliate KOKH being the only other (in KTUZ's case, the station is also the only full-power commercial station in the market whose digital signal does not carry programming in high definition or widescreen, despite Telemundo having carried some of its network programming in HD since 2008).
Reporters
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
affiliated television station serving the Oklahoma City Metroplex and Shawnee, Oklahoma
Shawnee, Oklahoma
Shawnee is a city in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 29,857 at the 2010 census. The city is part of the Oklahoma City-Shawnee Combined Statistical Area; it is also the county seat of Pottawatomie County and the principal city of the Shawnee Micropolitan Statistical...
. It is owned by Tyler Media Group
Tyler Media Group
Tyler Media Group, also known as Tyler Broadcasting Corporation or simply Tyler Media, headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a media company which owns six television stations and five radio stations...
, in a duopoly
Duopoly (broadcasting)
In United States broadcast television and radio, duopoly is a term used to describe a single company which owns two or more stations in the same city or community....
with Univision
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...
affiliate KUOK
KUOK
KUOK also known as "Univisión 36" or "Univisión Oklahoma" is a network of television stations airing programming from Spanish-language television network Univisión based in Oklahoma City...
(channel 36). The station's call letters are taken from its sister radio station KTUZ-FM
KTUZ-FM
KTUZ-FM is a Regional Mexican radio station serving the Oklahoma City Metroplex area and is owned by Tyler Media. Tyler Media also owns KTUZ-TV , for which the television station was given the radio station's callsign.-History:...
(106.7 FM, "La Z").
The station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 29, using its former analog assignment of channel 30 as its virtual digital channel via PSIP, and is carried on channel 5 in the Oklahoma City market via 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...
(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 KOCO-TV
KOCO-TV
KOCO-TV, virtual channel 5 , is the ABC affiliate in the Oklahoma City television market. The station is owned by Hearst Television, Inc., but uses "Ohio/Oklahoma Hearst Television, Inc." as their end tag during their newscasts, the same licensing purpose corporation as sister Cincinnati, Ohio...
, which is broadcast on virtual channel 5 over-the-air, is instead carried on cable channel 8). The station is also available to DirecTV
DirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
and Dish Network
Dish Network
Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...
customers within the Oklahoma City market.
Digital television
KTUZ-DT broadcasts on digital channel 29.480i
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...
History
KTUZ signed on the air on November 10, 2000 as KQOK (branded as "OK30"), which aired mainly programming from Jewelry TelevisionJewelry Television
Jewelry Television is an American television network, similar to the Home Shopping Network. It was formerly called "America's Collectibles Network" . The privately-held company was founded in 1993 and broadcasts high definition programming 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to over 80 million unique...
from ACN. Channel 30 also aired some religious and children's programming. For a brief period, KQOK also aired Bonanza
Bonanza
Bonanza is an American western television series that both ran on and was a production of NBC from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons and 430 episodes, it ranks as the second longest running western series and still continues to air in syndication. It centers on the...
reruns and the Independent News Network
Independent News Network
For the consortium of non-profit investigative news organizations, see .The Independent News Network, also known as INN, is a television news service based in Davenport, Iowa. It syndicates "localized" news programs for television stations across the country with little budget for news...
.
In 2004, KQOK was sold to Oklahoma City-based Tyler Media from its original owners, Equity Broadcasting, who owned Univision
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...
affiliate KUOK
KUOK
KUOK also known as "Univisión 36" or "Univisión Oklahoma" is a network of television stations airing programming from Spanish-language television network Univisión based in Oklahoma City...
(channel 35) in Woodward
Woodward, Oklahoma
Woodward is a city in and the county seat of Woodward County, Oklahoma, United States. It is the largest city in a nine-county area. The population was 12,051 at the 2010 census....
and its repeaters (KWDW-LP and KCHM-LP in Oklahoma City and KOKT-LP in Sulphur
Sulphur, Oklahoma
Sulphur is a city in Murray County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 4,794 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Murray County.-Geography:Sulphur is located at ....
) until April 16, 2009 when the stations were acquired by Tyler. The station became a Telemundo affiliate in early February 2005.
KTUZ-TV's analog and digital signal patterns offer different coverage in the Central Oklahoma; its analog transmitter was located farther south than other Oklahoma City television stations (located at 35°16'58.1"N, 97°20'19.3"W). It provided city-grade coverage to Norman and Moore, but only provided "rimshot" coverage to Oklahoma City. Its analog signal was marginal at best in several parts of the city (especially in suburbs such as Forest Park, Nichols Hills and Spencer), and could not be seen at all in many of the northern suburbs. Despite this, the station did not offer a low-power repeater to give it a city-grade signal throughout the immediate Oklahoma City area. The digital signal (located at 35°33'36.9"N, 97°29'7.6"W), however, provides city-grade coverage to the entire Oklahoma City metropolitan area due to its transmitter being located within the city.
Programming
In addition to airing Telemundo network programming, KTUZ also airs some local programming as well. In addition to newscasts, the station produces a weekly discussion program Nuestra Oklahoma (Our Oklahoma), airing Sundays at 10 a.m. with an encore at 10 p.m. The station also airs a Saturday night local sports show similar to Telemundo's Ritmo DeportivoRitmo Deportivo
Ritmo Deportivo is a weekly television series airing Sundays at 12:25pm ET on Spanish-language network Telemundo, part of the Deportes Telemundo line of programming, that premiered in October 2002.-About the show:The series is hosted by Leti Coo, Karim Mendiburu and Omar Amador and...
called Fiesta Deportiva, airing immediately following Telemundo's national sports program Titulares Telemundo at 10:30 p.m. From the switchover until September 2007, the station also aired Studio Z (produced in conjunction with KTUZ-FM), a weekly music video program hosted by KTUZ-FM personality Blanca Estela Ramirez, showcasing videos from Latin artists.
KTUZ-TV and sister radio station KTUZ-FM made history in September 2007, becoming the first Spanish-language station to simulcast college football games in Spanish, when both aired OU football.
KTUZ tends to preempt more Telemundo programming than other affiliates, the network's weekend schedule is more succeptible to this. Until November 2011, KTUZ preempted Nitido on Saturday mornings and Fotogenicas on Sunday mornings (though the show aired on the station for two weeks in October 2009; the actual preemption was problematic since on Sundays when Telemundo schedules a football (soccer) match, the first five minutes of Ritmo Deportivo were cut off as Telemundo moves the start times of programs that air before the games back five minutes) and Telemundo's Sunday edition of Titulares Telemundo and the network's early late night movie; however with the exception of the Sunday Titulares Telemundo telecast (for an encore presentation of Nuestra Oklahoma and the preemption of the Sunday evening telecast of the home video show Camara Loca for Fiesta Deportiva); for the most part, KTUZ did not preempt these programs for any actual programming, instead the station preempted them for infomercials.
News operation
Currently, KTUZ airs five hours of local news each week (airing on weekdays only). KTUZ, along with independent station KSBIKSBI
KSBI, virtual channel 52, is an independent television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is locally owned and operated by Family Broadcasting Group of Oklahoma, an Oklahoma-based company, in a duopoly with Tuff TV affiliate KXOC-LP...
(channel 52) and 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 KAUT (channel 43; whose newscasts are produced by NBC affiliate KFOR-TV
KFOR-TV
KFOR-TV, virtual channel 4 , is the NBC-affiliated television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. KFOR-TV is owned by Local TV, a subsidiary of the private equity group Oak Hill Capital Partners, in a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate KAUT-TV ; its studios are located at 444 East Britton Road in...
, channel 4) are the only stations in the Oklahoma City market with weekday-only newscasts.
After switching to Telemundo, KTUZ had no newscasts with the exception of daily, two-minute news and weather updates aired during Telemundo daytime and primetime programming seven days a week from a small closet studio. However, the station expressed interest in airing regular newscasts from the switchover. One of the anchors seen in these updates was Flory Mata (now host of the local entertainment/lifestyle program Estilo Latino on KUOK).
KTUZ's news operation, branded T30 Noticias, began in October 2006. In its beginnings, T30 Noticias only aired a 10 p.m. newscast in the evenings. A 5 p.m. newscast was added in early 2007. The newscasts initially used a logo that was radically different from the station's network-standardized logo, but a new graphics package was instituted in September 2007 with a logo more closely aligned with the station's regular branding.
In August 2011, the station's newscasts were rebranded as Accion Oklahoma (a variant of the Action News
Action News
Action News is a local television newscast format in the United States. It was conceived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at WFIL-TV by then-news director Mel Kampmann in 1970 as a response to the "Eyewitness News" format used on rival station KYW-TV...
branding); with the change, the station introduced a new set and graphics for its newscasts. Currently, KTUZ-TV is one of only two remaining television stations in the Oklahoma City market not currently broadcasting its newscasts in 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 ...
widescreen
Widescreen
Widescreen images are a variety of aspect ratios used in film, television and computer screens. In film, a widescreen film is any film image with a width-to-height aspect ratio greater than the standard 1.37:1 Academy aspect ratio provided by 35mm film....
standard definition or high definition, Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
affiliate KOKH being the only other (in KTUZ's case, the station is also the only full-power commercial station in the market whose digital signal does not carry programming in high definition or widescreen, despite Telemundo having carried some of its network programming in HD since 2008).
Weeknights
- Accion Oklahoma a las 5PM - 5-5:30 p.m.
- Accion Oklahoma a las 10PM - 10-10:35 p.m.
Sundays
- Nuestra Oklahoma - 10-10:30 a.m. (encore: 10-10:30 p.m.)
- Fiesta Deportiva - 10:30-11 p.m.
Current on-air staff (as of November 2011)
Anchors- Carlos Toledo - news anchor; weeknights at 5 and 10 p.m., also news director
- Shirley Rivera - meteorologist; weeknights at 5 and 10 p.m., also entertainment reporter
- Ubaldo Martinez - sports director; weeknights at 5 and 10 p.m.
- Armando Rubio - "Nuestra Oklahoma" host; also station general manager
Reporters
- Michael Brooks-Jimenez - legal consultant
- Luis Estrada - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor
- Jose Ramon Nevarez - general assignment reporter; also news producer
- Jessica Perez - health reporter
- Franco Sui Yuan - general assignment reporter
- Marco Antonio Zavala - general assignment reporter
External links
- KTUZ-TV's Homepage
- http://www.tylermedia.com/
- Telemundo Homepage