KTUW

KTUW, UHF digital channel 16, was a television station licensed to Scottsbluff, Nebraska, United States. The station was owned by Equity Broadcasting.

KTUW
CityScottsbluff, Nebraska
Channels
Programming
AffiliationsDefunct
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
2006 (2006)
Last air date
June 2009 (2009-06)
(license cancelled on June 8, 2009)
RTN (2006−January 2009)
??? (January−June 2009)
Technical information
Facility ID136747
ClassDT
ERP5.2 kW
HAAT236.8 m
Transmitter coordinates41°50′21.5″N 103°49′40.1″W

The station signed on in 2006 as a Retro Television Network affiliate; at that time, Equity owned the network. However, on January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity and Luken Communications, LLC (who had acquired RTN in June 2008) interrupted the programming on many RTN affiliates.[1] As a result, Luken moved RTN operations to its headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and dropped all Equity-owned affiliates, including KTUW, immediately;[2] RTN would return to Scottsbluff via a subchannel of KDUH-TV that summer (by which time the network had been rebranded RTV). KTUW's replacement programming is unknown.

KTUW held a construction permit to move to digital channel 17 at increased power; this would not be built, as the station's license was canceled on June 8, 2009.[3]

References
  1. What’s Wrong with MyTV? Archived 2009-01-13 at the Wayback Machine
  2. TV Newsday: "Financial Dispute Disrupts RTN Diginet", 1/5/2009.
  3. "Station Search Details (DKTUW)". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved June 22, 2009.


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