KUTU-CA is a low-power "Class-A" broadcast television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 46th-largest city in the United States. With a population of 391,906 as of the 2010 census, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Area, a region with 937,478 residents in the MSA and 988,454 in the CSA. Tulsa's...

. KUTU is an affiliate of the Univision

Univision

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 Spanish-language television network. The station 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...

 of Oklahoma City

Oklahoma city

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, and is programmed from studios in Oklahoma City.

Technical Information

This station operates on UHF

Ultra high frequency

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 channel 25 with an effective radiated power of 5.06 kilowatts -- but has filed a construction permit to move to channel 45 and at the same time, expand broadcast power to about 25 kilowatts. KUTU was owned and operated by Equity Broadcasting

Equity Broadcasting

Equity Media Holdings was a broadcasting company based in Little Rock, Arkansas that owned and operated television stations across the United States. Prior to March 30, 2007, the company was known as Equity Broadcasting, which is now used for its broadcast station subisdary...

 of Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock, Arkansas

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 with the name "Woodward Broadcasting, Inc." bared as the station's licensee.

History

KUTU was founded on December 30, 1994 as very low-power K25FF. However the call letters were never used on-air. The station was finally granted a license sometime in 1996 under the call letters KLOT-LP. Then finally, the station was sold to Equity Broadcasting and was handed the Univision affiliation on March 1, 2005. Upon such changes, the station was given its current call letters KUTU-CA.

On June 25, 2008, Equity disclosed that it was selling KUTU to Luken Communications, LLC.

Equity Media Holdings has been in chapter 11 bankruptcy

Bankruptcy

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since December 2008 and offers by Luken Communications to acquire Equity-owned stations in six markets have since been withdrawn.

KUTU was sold at auction to Tyler Media Group on April 16, 2009.

External links

• Univision.com
• http://www.univisionok.com