WKTI

WKTI is an FOX affiliate serving Milwaukee, WI, and areas around Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois along the I-94 highway. Broadcasting on channel 13, WKTI is owned and operated by Capital Cities Communications (also known as CapCities). WKTI is the youngest station in the Milwaukee market, launching on May 2, 1980 (four years after the launch of WMIL). Being an independent from 1980-98, WKTI became a FOX affiliate shortly after being purchased by Capital Cities Communications.

History
Hudson Valley Broadcasting Company decided to launch an affiliate for Milwaukee, WI. Meanwhile, WMIL (who was Milwaukee's first independent station) was planning to join PBS. So to make up for it, WKTI was launched on May 2, 1980. In addition to running kid's shows in the morning and afternoon and movies throughout the night, WKTI also beame the home of the Milwaukee Bucks (of the NBA) and the Milwaukee Brewers (of the NFL) airing all the games on the schedule. During the NFL preseason, WKTI aired games for the Green Bay Packers. FOX first asked WKTI to become an affiliate when they launched in 1986, but WKTI refused.

Capital Cities buy WKTI
In spite of them carrying games for the Packers, Bucks and Brewers, when the Wisconsin Sports Network (now FOX Sports Wisconsin) bought broadcasting rights from the Brewers and Bucks, it left WKTI in a huge problem. Once taking viewers away from big-market stations, WKTI saw their ratings plummet, and Hudson Valley Broadcasting started losing money. Meanwhile after being bought out by Walt Disney Company to become ABC, Inc. Frank Smith, Jr. (whose father helped founded the original Capital Cities Communications) decided to relaunch Capital Cities and made it his creation. One of the first stations CapCities bought was WKTI in 1998, and immediately took the FOX affiliation. Once they became a FOX affiliate, they were once again the home of the Green Bay Packers, broadcasting both preseason and regular season games (unless it was a Thursday Night or Sunday Night game).

Newscast
Launched in 2010, FOX 13 News was the youngest newscast to launch (WMIL launched TV 3 News on May 4, 2015). WKTI was Milwaukee's first prime-time newscast. In 2012, FOX 13 News launched a 10 PM edition, putting them in direct competition with WRMI, WCAN, WMIW, WMUN, and WMJT's newscasts.