KTUW (post-2009 vision)

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KTUW was a digital-only television station in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, owned by Tribune Broadcasting.

History
The station signed on in 2006 as a Retro Television Network affiliate; at that time, Equity owned the network. However, on January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity and Luken Communications, LLC (who had acquired RTN in June 2008) interrupted the programming on many RTN affiliates. As a result, Luken moved RTN operations to its headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and dropped all Equity-owned affiliates, including KTUW, immediately;RTN would return to Scottsbluff via a subchannel of KDUH-TV that summer (by which time the network had been rebranded RTV). KTUW's replacement programming is unknown.

KTUW held a construction permit to move to digital channel 17 at increased power; this would not be built, as the station's license was canceled on June 8, 2009.

Not willing to give up on the station, Liberty Media Corporation decided to form a joint venture with Tribune Broadcasting called "Panhandle TV Partners, LLC" and rebuilt the facilities for exactly one year. During the time of the rebuilding, western Nebraska was getting RTN/RTV programming from KOTA's second digital subchannel for six months before KTUW returned back on the air on March 4, 2010. After the rebuilding, both Liberty and Tribune announced that KTUW will be the official, exclusive MyNetworkTV affiliate in the Panhandle and moved RTV programming to its second digital subchannel. Around the same time, Equity Broadcasting sold the station to the Liberty/Tribune joint venture. Panhandle TV Partners continued to own the station until Christmas Eve 2010, when Liberty sold its stake in PTVP (including the station) to Tribune Media for $2 billion dollars. As part of the agreement, KTUW kept their MyNetworkTV affiliation.