KUTU-CD,

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25 (

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channel 17), is a low-powered, Class A dual

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- affiliated

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, United States. The station is owned by the

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. KUTU-CD's programming and advertising sales offices are located at Eastland Plaza (on East 21st Street and South 145th East Avenue) in southeast Tulsa, and its transmitter is located atop the Bank of America Center (at the corner of West 6th Street and South Boulder Avenue West) in

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and some internal operations are based at the facilities of sister stations and fellow Univision and Telemundo affiliates

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and

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near Southeast 51st Street and Shields Boulevard in southern

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. On

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, KUTU-CD is available on

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channel 14 in both

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and

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History

The station was founded on December 30, 1994, as very low-power K25FF; the

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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

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-based Equity Broadcasting Corporation (later

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), 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. The sale preceded Equity Media Holdings'

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protection filing in December 2008; offers by Luken Communications to acquire Equity-owned stations in six markets were later withdrawn.Equity's Management Cause of Downfall, Former CEO Asserts
Mark Hengel, Arkansas Business, February 2, 2009 KUTU-CA was later sold at auction to the Oklahoma City-based Tyler Media Group on April 16, 2009. The following year, the station filed a

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to move to UHF channel 45 and at the same time, upgrade its transmitter's

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from 5.06

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s to about 25 kilowatts. In December 2011, KUTU-CA shut down its analog signal and

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its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 25; its call letters were also modified to KUTU-CD.

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is

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Newscasts

In August 2011, KUTU began simulcasting Spanish language newscasts (airing weeknights at 5 and 10 p.m.) produced by

-affiliated sister station

in Oklahoma City, upon the rebranding of its newscasts as ''Accion Oklahoma'' (a variant of the ''

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'' branding). Weather forecast segments during the newscasts include current conditions and seven-day forecasts for both the

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and

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s. 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.).

References

External links

KUTU-CD1 official website

KUTU-CD2 official website

Tyler Media corporate website

Univision official website
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History

Digital channels

Newscasts

See also

References

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