KUTU-CD

KUTU-CD
Tulsa, Oklahoma United States

Branding	Univision 25 (general) Univision Tulsa (alternate general) Acción Oklahoma (KTUZ-TV produced newscasts)
Channels	Digital: 25 (UHF) Virtual: 25 (PSIP)
Subchannels	(see article)
Affiliations	Univision
Owner	Tyler Media Group (Oklahoma Land Company, LLC)
Founded	December 30, 1994
First air date	1996
Call letters' meaning	Univision TUlsa
Former callsigns	K25FF (1994–1996) KLOT-LP (1996–2005) KUTU-CA (2005–2011)
Former affiliations	(Possibly) Independent
Transmitter power	5.06 kW (digital) 25 kW (digital CP)
Height	149 m
Class	Class A
Facility ID	31369
Transmitter coordinates	36°16′6″N 99°26′56″W / 36.26833°N 99.44889°W / 36.26833; -99.44889
Licensing authority	FCC
Public license information:	Profile CDBS
Website	www.unidosok.com

KUTU-LD, virtual and UHF digital channel 25, is a low-powered Univision-affiliated television station located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. The station is owned by the Tyler Media Group. KUTU maintains sales and programming offices located at Eastland Plaza (on East 21st Street and South 145th East Avenue) in southeast Tulsa; master control operations are housed alongside sister stations KUOK and KTUZ-TV near Southeast 51st Street and Shields Boulevard in southern Oklahoma City; KUTU's transmitter is located atop the Bank of America Center (at the corner of West 6th Street and South Boulder Avenue West) in downtown Tulsa. On cable, the station is available on Cox Communications channel 14 in standard definition and on digital channel 791 in high definition.

History

KUTU logo, used prior to January 1, 2013.

KUTU was founded on December 30, 1994 as very low-power K25FF; the call letters were never used on-air. The station was finally granted a license sometime in 1996 under the call letters KLOT-LP. The station was then sold to Little Rock, Arkansas-based Equity Broadcasting Corporation (later Equity Media Holdings), under the licensee "Woodward Broadcasting, Inc.", in 2004. On March 1, 2005, the station changed its call letters to KUTU-CA, and became an affiliate of Spanish language network Univision.

On June 25, 2008, Equity announced that it was selling KUTU to Luken Communications, LLC.^[1] The sale preceded Equity Media Holdings' Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing in December 2008;^[2] offers by Luken Communications to acquire Equity-owned stations in six markets were later withdrawn.^[3] KUTU was sold at auction to the Oklahoma City-based Tyler Media Group on April 16, 2009.^[4] The following year, the station filed a construction permit to move to UHF channel 45 and at the same time, upgrade its transmitter's effective radiated power from 5.06 kilowatts to about 25 kilowatts. In December 2011, KUTU discontinued its analog signal and flash-cut its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 25; its call letters were also modified to KUTU-CD.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP Short Name	Programming^[5]
25.1	1080i	16:9	KUTU	Main KUTU-CD programming / Univision
25.2	1080i	16:9	KUTU	Telemundo

Newscasts

In August 2011, KUTU began simulcasting Spanish language newscasts (airing weeknights at 5 and 10 p.m.) produced by Telemundo-affiliated sister station KTUZ-TV in Oklahoma City, upon the rebranding of its newscasts as Accion Oklahoma (a variant of the Action News branding). Weather forecast segments during the newscasts include current conditions and seven-day forecasts for both the Tulsa and Oklahoma City metropolitan areas. As Univision airs its national late-night news program Noticiero Univision: Edicion Nocturna at 10:30 p.m., KUTU signs off from the 10 p.m. edition of Accion Oklahoma five minutes before the conclusion of the broadcast on KTUZ (which an additional segment that runs until rejoining Telemundo programming at 10:35 p.m.).

News team

Current on-air staff

Anchors

* Marco Antonio Zavala - general assignment reporter; anchor; weeknights at 5 and 10 p.m.
Jessica Cano; weeknights at 5 and 10 p.m.

Reporters

Michael Brooks-Jimenez - legal consultant
Juan Sainz - general assisgnment reporter

References

↑ Marich, Robert (2008-06-26). "Equity Media Sells RTN to Ease Crunch". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved 2008-06-28.
↑ Larson, Erik (December 8, 2008). "Equity Media, U.S. TV Station Owner, Seeks Bankruptcy". Bloomberg News. Retrieved December 9, 2008.
↑ Equity's Management Cause of Downfall, Former CEO Asserts, Mark Hengel, Arkansas Business, February 2, 2009
↑ "Takers found for 60 Equity stations". Television Business Report. April 18, 2009. Retrieved April 20, 2009.
↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KUTU

External links

Broadcast television in East-Central Oklahoma, including Tulsa

Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television

Local stations

English	KJRH-TV (2.1 NBC, 2.2 Bounce, 2.3 Laff) KOTV (6.1 CBS, 6.2 CW, 6.3 News on 6 Now) KTUL (8.1 ABC, 8.2 Comet, 8.3 Antenna TV) KOED / KOET (11.1 / 3.1 PBS / OETA, 11.2 / 3.2 OKLA, 11.3 / 3.3 Create, 11.4 / 3.4 PBS Kids) K15DA (MyNetworkTV) KQCW-TV (19.1 The CW, 19.2 This TV) KOKI-TV (23.1 FOX, 23.2 MeTV, 23.3 Escape) KMYT-TV (41.1 MyNetworkTV, 41.2 GetTV, 41.3 Grit, 41.4 H&I) KTPX (44.1 Ion, 44.2 qubo, 44.3 Ion Life, 44.4 Ion Shop, 44.5 QVC Over Air, 44.6 HSN) KWHB (47.2 Cozi TV)

Spanish	KUTU-CD (25.1 UNI, 25.2 Telemundo) KXAP-LD (51.1 Estrella)

Religious	KDOR (17.1 TBN, 17.2 Hillsong, 17.3 Smile/JUCE TV, 17.4 Enlace, 17.5 Salsa) KTZT-CD 29 (Daystar) KWHB (47.1/47.3 LeSEA) KGEB (53.1 GEB America)

Outlying areas

K16KR-D 16 (A1, McAlester)
KRSU-TV (35.1/35.2 Edu. Ind., Claremore)
K50JG 50 (dark, Independence, KS)

Adjacent locals

Fort Smith	KFSM (5.1 CBS, 5.2 MyNetworkTV/Antenna TV) KAFT (13.1 PBS, 13.2 Create, 13.3 AETN Plus (PBS Kids/AETN Scholar/World)) KFTA (24.1 Fox, 24.2 NBC) KHBS 40.1 / KHOG 29.1 (ABC, 40.2 / 29.2 CW) KNWA-TV (51.1 NBC, 51.2 Fox)

Joplin	KOAM-TV (7.1 CBS, 7.2 Fox) KODE (12.1 ABC) KFJX (14.1 Fox) KSNF (16.1 NBC)

Oklahoma City	KFOR (4.1 NBC, 4.2 Antenna TV) KOCO (5.1 ABC, 5.2 MeTV) KWTV (9.1 CBS, 9.2 News 9 Now) KETA (13.1 PBS, 13.2 OKLA, 13.3 Create, 13.4 PBS Kids) KOKH (25.1 Fox, 25.2 ZUUS Country)

Springfield	KYTV (3.1 NBC, 3.2 WN) KTKO (8.1 MeTV) KOLR (10.1 CBS) KOZK (21.1 PBS, 21.2 OPT-ED, 21.3 Create) KOZL-TV (27.1 Ind.) KSPR (33.1 ABC, 33.2 CW)

Wichita	KSNW (3.1 NBC) KPTS (8.1 PBS, 8.2 Explore, 8.3 Create) KAKE (10.1 ABC, 10.2 MeTV) KWCH-DT (12.1 CBS, 12.2 Weather) KSAS (24.1 Fox, 24.2 Antenna TV)

Cable channels

The Cox Channel

Defunct

KCEB 23 (NBC/ABC/DuMont)
KELF-LP 49 (A1, Miami)
News Now 53 (cable)¹

¹ This channel currently exists as News on 6 Now, available on KOTV-DT 6.3 and on area cable systems.

Oklahoma broadcast television areas by city: Ada/Sherman, TX; Amarillo, TX; Fort Smith, AR (Eastern OK); Joplin, MO (Northeast OK); Lawton/Wichita Falls, TX; Oklahoma City Metro; Texarkana, TX–AR/Shreveport, LA; Tulsa (East Central OK)

See also: Topeka TV

Spanish language television stations in the state of Oklahoma

Telemundo affiliates	KSWO 7.2 (Lawton) KTUZ 30 (Shawnee)

Univision affiliates	KUOK 35 (Woodward) KUOK-CD 36 (Oklahoma City) KUTU-CD 25 (Tulsa)

Estrella TV affiliates	KOCY-LP (48.1 Oklahoma City) KXAP-LD (51.1 Tulsa)

Other	KTBO (14.4 Enlace, Oklahoma City) KLHO-LD 31 (ALMA, Oklahoma City; 31.1 TV Alabanza, 31.2 LATV, 31.3 TV Vision El Canal De Los Pastores De Oklahoma, 31.4 TV Alabanza) KOHC-CD (45.1 AZA, 45.2 MundoMax, 45.3 Mexicanal, 45.4 TeLe-Romántica, Oklahoma City)

See also ABC CBS CW Fox Ion MyNetworkTV NBC PBS Other stations in Oklahoma See also Religious and Spanish TV stations

Tyler Media Group

Broadcast television	KOCY-LP (Estrella) KTUZ-TV (TMD) KUOK/KUOK-CD (UNI) KUTU-CD (UNI)

Radio stations	KEBC KJKE KMGL KOKC KOMA KRXO-FM KTUZ-FM

Former stations	KGHM KKNG-FM KOKT-LP KTLR

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