KLTV

KLTV, virtual and VHF digital channel 7, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Tyler, Texas, United States. The station is owned by Raycom Media. KLTV maintains studio facilities located on West Ferguson Street in Downtown Tyler (located between the Smith County and the United States courthouses), and its transmitter is located in rural northern Smith County (near the Wood County line). On cable, the station is available on Suddenlink Communications channel 7 and in high definition on digital channel 720.

KTRE (virtual and VHF channel 9) in Lufkin operates as a semi-satellite of KLTV; it clears all of KLTV's syndicated programming, but produces separate weeknight 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. newscasts, airs its own station identifications and maintains its own advertising sales department for commercials seen on KTRE.

History

The station first signed on the air on October 14, 1954; it was founded by the locally based company Buford Television, which was owned by Lucille Buford. KLTV has been an ABC affiliate since its debut, however it initially carried the network as a shared primary affiliation with CBS and NBC; the station also aired programming from the DuMont Television Network on a secondary basis until 1955. The station originally operated from studio facilities on Texas Loop 323 on the east side of Tyler. In 1964, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) collapsed Lufkin and Nacogdoches into the Tyler market. Soon afterward, the Buford family bought KTRE and converted it into a semi-satellite of KLTV.

KLTV (Washington)

KLTV operates Public, educational, and government access (PEG) Channels from Longview, Washington, USA. KLTV has three broadcast channels on the Comcast network. Channel 11 provides local programming for the public to express their opinions and have a voice on television. 'Television for the community, by the community'

Channel 28 provides local programming from Lower Columbia College and live coverage from NASA and many other educational sources.

Channel 29 provides both replays and live local government meetings from Longview, Washington, Kelso, Washington, Kalama, Washington and Cowlitz County, Washington

KLTV operates in a cooperative partnership with Comcast and funding jurisdiction to facilitate open communication between government agencies and local citizens, residents, their neighbors and nonprofit organizations within the community at large.

'KLTV provides the facility, you provide the voice'

History

KLTV began as a class at Lower Columbia College in 1973. After the college decided to discontinue the class, a group of citizens joined together to form a nonprofit organization that was named Lower Columbia Telecommunications Association. This would later become Kelso Longview Television Inc.