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 / 41.839306°N 103.827806°W / 41.839306; -103.827806

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

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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