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KEYT-TV (channel 3) is a
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licensed to
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, United States, serving the
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as an affiliate of ABC,
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, and
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. It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) alongside
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-licensed low-power, Class A Fox affiliate
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(channel 24); NPG also provides certain services Santa Maria-licensed
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affiliate
KCOY-TV KCOY-TV (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Santa Maria, California, United States, serving the Central Coast of California as an affiliate of the digital multicast network Dabl. It is owned by VistaWest Media, LLC, which maintains a ...
(channel 12) through a
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agreement (SSA) with VistaWest Media,
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. KEYT-TV's studios are located on Miramonte Drive on TV Hill, overlooking downtown Santa Barbara; KCOY-TV and KKFX-CD share separate facilities at West McCoy Lane and Skyway Drive in Santa Maria north of
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. KEYT-TV's transmitter is located atop Broadcast Peak, between Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez in the
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.


History


Early years

KEYT-TV first
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the air on May 31, 1953, after obtaining a
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from the
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(FCC) on November 13, 1952. It was owned by the Santa Barbara Broadcasting & Television Corporation. Harry Butcher, who owned KIST (1340 AM), was a 14% owner of the new TV station. During the 1950s, the station ran programming from all four TV networks: ABC,
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,
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and the
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. Dumont discontinued operations in 1956. The original owners sold the station to Key Television in 1957. KEYT-TV lost its NBC affiliation in 1964 when
KCOY-TV KCOY-TV (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Santa Maria, California, United States, serving the Central Coast of California as an affiliate of the digital multicast network Dabl. It is owned by VistaWest Media, LLC, which maintains a ...
in nearby Santa Maria signed on. KEYT then shared CBS with KCOY until 1969, when the inclusion of
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into the Santa Barbara—Santa Maria
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resulted in KEYT becoming exclusively affiliated with ABC. KCOY became the CBS affiliate, and
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in San Luis Obispo became the region's NBC affiliate. KEYT was purchased by Shamrock Broadcasting in 1984.


Later developments

In September 1998, KEYT-TV owner Smith Broadcasting purchased radio station
KTMS KTMS (990 AM, "News Talk AM 990") is a commercial radio station in Santa Barbara, California. It is owned by Rincon Broadcasting and airs a talk radio format. KTMS is simulcast on FM translator station K250BS at 97.9 MHz, licensed to Solimar ...
(1250 AM) for $1.6 million and launched an
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format with new call letters KEYT to match those of its new TV sister. "KEYT 1250" featured news reports from the
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and simulcasts of KEYT-TV newscasts. (The previous
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format and call letters of KTMS moved to
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upon the sale to Smith.) The radio operation was a financial drain on Smith Broadcasting from the beginning, losing $1 million over five years, and the station was sold to Lazer Broadcasting in October 2003. Between March and September 2007, as the station transitioned to a high definition signal, KEYT-HD was initially unavailable to cable subscribers in the Central Coast due to a carriage dispute with the local cable companies. KEYT eventually reached an agreement with
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in Santa Barbara,
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in Santa Maria, and Charter Cable in San Luis Obispo to carry its HDTV signal. In 2012,
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in
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began carrying the HDTV signal. On September 7, 2012, News-Press & Gazette Company announced that it had entered into an agreement to purchase KEYT-TV from Smith Media for $14.3 million. The transaction was approved by the FCC on November 6 and was completed on November 19, 2012. Smith Media had owned KEYT since 1987. On January 28, 2013, KEYT retired the longtime ''KEY News'' branding and, with the new owner's purchase, rebranded as ''NewsChannel 3''. The branding is similar to that of
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sister station
KESQ-TV KESQ-TV (channel 42) is a television station licensed to Palm Springs, California, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Coachella Valley. It is owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) alongside five low-power stations: ...
. KEYT's newscasts and site now include a graphics package that is similar to all NPG stations and is operated by
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. On April 1, 2013, KEYT began broadcasting its news in high definition. Until that point, KEYT aired network and syndicated programming in HD but the newscasts were still in standard definition.


Programming

Syndicated programming featured on KEYT includes ''
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'', ''
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'', '' TMZ'' and ''
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'', while KEYT-DT2 syndicated programs include '' The Doctors'', ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
Family Feud ''Family Feud'' is an American television game show created by Mark Goodson. It features two families who compete to name the most popular answers to survey questions in order to win cash and prizes. The show has had three separate runs, th ...
'', and ''
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''.


News Now

When KEYT acquired the
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affiliation in June 2006, it initially showed only MyNetworkTV programming, with a test pattern running outside of network programming hours. By the fall of 2007, the station had managed to obtain
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broadcast rights to ''
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'' and ''
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'', and officially launched its second digital subchannel under the branding "MyNetworkTV Central Coast" in October 2007, replacing
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-based MyNetworkTV affiliate
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on all cable systems in the Central Coast region. The subchannel initially ran a
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simulcast of KEYT's primary channel outside of MyNetworkTV programming. On October 30, 2007, KEYT-DT2 added a secondary affiliation with the
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-owned Retro Television Network to RTV programming outside of MyNetworkTV
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program slots. The subchannel subsequently changed its branding to "My RTN" to coincide with the new affiliation, later changing to "My RTV" after the network modified its on-air acronym to "RTV", then finally "My Retro TV". On April 18, 2017, the 3.2 subchannel dropped Retro TV because station management was unsure of it continuing as a going concern with a declining affiliate base, along with contractual restrictions on using it as an overflow channel for breaking news. (Before that date, it was the only "Big Three" network affiliate nationwide left still carrying the network as a subchannel). In the interim, the station relaunched KEYT-DT2 as ''News Now'', airing simulcasts and rebroadcasts of newscasts from KEYT-TV and KKFX-CD, along with live rolling coverage of local political events, news coverage and other public affairs and local interest programming; the subchannel continues to carry MyNetworkTV programming in primetime. The News-Press & Gazette Company announced on October 10, 2018, that it was converting KSBB-CD to
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operations, airing ''News Now'' in that format, with its own ATSC 1.0 signal and programming being moved to a subchannel of KEYT-TV. On January 1, 2021, CBS programming moved from sister station KCOY to KEYT-DT2, moving ''News Now'' and MyNetworkTV programming to a new third subchannel.


Notable former on-air staff

*Joey Buttitta and Kelsey Gerckens, reporters; winners of '' The Amazing Race 27'' *
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, anchor/reporter (1970s) *
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, reporter (circa 1983) *
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, reporter/fill-in anchor (1993–1994) *
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, anchor/reporter (now at
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in Sacramento) * Indra Petersons, reporter (now with
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)


Technical information


Subchannels

The station's digital signal is
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:


Analog-to-digital conversion

KEYT-TV shut down its analog signal, over
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channel 3, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition
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channel 27. Through the use of
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, digital television receivers display the station's
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as its former VHF analog channel 3.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Keyt-Tv ABC network affiliates CBS network affiliates News-Press & Gazette Company EYT-TV Television channels and stations established in 1953 1953 establishments in California