KUTP shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 45, at 8:30 a.m. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: The agreement was renewed for the 2021–22 season. īasketball returned to channel 45 in 2019 when Grand Canyon University entered into a deal to move men's basketball coverage from YurView Arizona, a cable channel, to KUTP the games are produced by Sneaky Big Studios for GCU and KUTP. KUTP produced its own broadcast graphics, in conjunction with the Suns until the 2010–11 NBA season this role of the regional television broadcaster of Suns games was taken over thereafter by corporate sibling Fox Sports Arizona (now Bally Sports Arizona), starting with the 2011–12 season.

Sports programming įor 23 years, from 1988 to 2011, KUTP served as the over-the-air television home of the NBA's Phoenix Suns, televising all road games that did not have exclusive rights held by a national broadcast or cable television network, as well as selected home games, averaging at least 45 game telecasts each season.

In February 2022, KUTP began simulcast programming from Fox Weather. In addition, the station airs two hours of LiveNow from Fox, the Fox television stations' over-the-top streaming news offering, which originated as Fox 10 News Now in Phoenix. newscast, Fox 10 Xtra News at 7, for air on KUTP this program, the station's first regular newscast, debuted in July 2018. ) Coinciding with the September 2006 launch of MyNetworkTV, Fox announced that KUTP would begin producing a local interactive dating show, My Dating Place, which aired on weeknights. (Phoenix's WB affiliate, KASW, then signed an affiliation agreement with The CW. The next month, News Corporation then announced the creation of its own secondary network, MyNetworkTV, to serve its own outgoing UPN stations as well as those that had not been selected for The CW. Even though neither of these groups were present in Phoenix, as with the rest of the chain, Fox took immediate steps to remove UPN branding and promotions from KUTP, which branded as 'PHX 45' for six months. In unveiling the merged network, while WB and UPN affiliates owned by WB minority stakeholder Tribune Broadcasting and by CBS Television Stations were announced as charter outlets, none of the Fox-owned UPN stations-many of which were competitors to these stations-were chosen. unit of Time Warner and CBS Corporation announced that the two companies would shut down UPN and The WB and combine the networks' respective programming to create a new jointly owned broadcast network called The CW. Logo used when the station was re-branded as 'PHX 45' from January to June 2006. KUTP merged its operations with KSAZ into that station's studio facilities on West Adams Street. On August 12 of that year, Chris-Craft sold its UPN stations to the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of News Corporation for $5.5 billion this resulted in the creation of Phoenix's second television duopoly with KSAZ. In 2000, Viacom bought Chris-Craft's 50% ownership interest in UPN (which Chris-Craft had wholly owned, until Viacom acquired a stake in the network in 1996) the deal effectively stripped KUTP of its status as one of the network's owned-and-operated stations in the process. In the fall of 1994, United Television and Paramount Pictures ( Viacom's new subsidiary) announced the formation of the United Paramount Network ( UPN), lining up independent stations that were owned by both companies at the time as charter affiliates KUTP affiliated with UPN upon the network's January 16, 1995, debut. Under United Television ownership, the station carried programming from the Prime Time Entertainment Network programming service from January 1993 to January 1995.

In 1988, United made an even more consequential pickup, one that served as the face of the station for viewers for more than 20 years: road games of the Phoenix Suns. Along with movies and syndicated programs, United commissioned a revival of The Lloyd Thaxton Show, last seen in Los Angeles in the late 1960s, as a centerpiece of its programming efforts. On December 23, 1985, a year after obtaining the construction permit, KUTP came to air. It originally proposed to become KOLT-TV (as in ' Kolt 45'), but United could not convince radio station KOLT in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, to give it the rights to share the designation.

United immediately set out to bring Phoenix its third independent station. United soon got competition for the channel from another twelve applicants, Undeterred, United bought out all of the competitors for a reported $5 million and won a construction permit on December 20, 1984. In May 1984, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allocated channel 45 to Phoenix and began taking applications for the channel after United Television, a subsidiary of Chris-Craft Industries, petitioned for the additional slot.

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