KTNB, virtual channel 10, is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Burgdale. Owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. The station's transmitter is located at the Burgdale Summit ski area.
History[]
The station signed on April 16, 1993, as KBCT and aired an analog signal on VHF channel 10. It was originally locally owned by the Burgdale Christian Television Authority and affiliated with the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). On January 16, 1995, it became a charter UPN affiliate. In late August 1995, Burgdale Christian Television Authority sold the station to Fredrick Broadcasting, LLC. The call letters became KTNB on August 30, 1996. In 1997, KTNB started expanding syndicated programming, including talk shows and cartoons. When TCI (the only cable TV system in the Burgdale market at the time) dropped WGN-TV, KTNB hurriedly picked up The WB programming on a secondary basis. With this, WB network programming was carried on a two-hour delay from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m., immediately following UPN's prime time schedule (which aired in pattern from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.) on nights when the two networks offered prime time programs.
In late 1998, the station dropped WB programming, as the network decided to only air on cable outside the top 100 markets. Through national service The WB 100+, "KBWB" replaced KTNB as Burgdale's affiliate, and cleared the entire WB schedule. KTNB was eventually sold to Summit Television Broadcasting.
On September 18, 2006, KTNB became an affiliate of The CW (the merger of UPN and The WB), carrying it on the main channel in place of UPN. A new second digital subchannel signed on the offering The CW Plus (a similar operation to The WB 100+) as the replacement for "KBWB". The former cable-exclusive station then dropped the faux calls in favor of KTNB-DT2, creating a situation where CW primetime programming aired on both DT1 and DT2. However, KTNB (DT1) declined to carry its weekday afternoon programming block, The CW Daytime or it's Saturday morning children's programming block, Kids' WB (later The CW4Kids), which the latter of the two programming blocks were only available on The CW Plus subchannel; the main channel children's programming instead carried syndicated E/I programming to the Saturday morning timeslot to meet its E/I requirements (the latter two blocks were not available on the KTNB analog signal, nor its DT1 signal). KTNB were one of the few stations not to use The CW branding to avoid confusion between The CW and The CW Plus networks.
In September 2008, Summit Television Broadcasting announced that it had aggreed to sell KTNB to Journal Communications (owner of KBIE), creating Burgdale's first television duopoly.
On August 30, 2012, KTNB assumed the Fox affiliation from KBUR-TV (channel 8), upon expiration of their CW affiliation agreements.
On September 10, CW Plus programming moved to KOWZ-LP and a subchannel to KAFR-TV. The last CW program to air on KTNB was Supernatural. KTNB-DT2 subsequently switched to RTV that same day; it later carried Movies! in 2013, and carried Grit until 2020.
On July 30, 2014, it was announced that the E. W. Scripps Company would acquire Journal Communications in an all-stock transaction. The combined firm will retain their broadcast properties and spin off their print assets as Journal Media Group. Originally, KTNB-TV, KBIE and 4 radio stations, were not included in the merger; in September, Journal filed to transfer these stations to Journal/Scripps Divestiture Trust (with Kiel Media Group as trustee). The merge was completed on April 1, 2015 and Kiel Media Group assumed the operations of the license, Scripps retained KBIE and the other 4 radio stations.
Digital television[]
Digital channels[]
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KTNB-HD | Main KTNB programming / Fox |
| 10.2 | 480i | Mystery | Ion Mystery | |
| 10.3 | Bounce | Bounce |
Analog-to-digital conversion[]
KTNB shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 10, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in SimNation/the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 10.
Programming[]
Syndicated programming[]
Syndicated programming on KTNB includes Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory among others.
Past programming preemptions[]
Upon becoming a charter affiliate of UPN in 1995, KBCT did not clear the entire TBN schedule due to the fact KBCT was the only TV station in the Burgdale market at the time that aired religious programming all day. This isn't until 1997 when Burgdale Christian Television Authority launched their own low-powered 24 hour TBN affiliate K17BD-LP (channel 17) (now HSN affiliate KBLE-LD). As the result, KBCT did not have enough room for daytime syndicated programming to fill the station's schedule. After UPN launched, KBCT aired TBN during the daytime, UPN programming during prime time, and syndicated programming until 2:00 a.m.. Because of the limited syndicated programming schedule, many syndicated children's programs were never cleared in the Burgdale market including Sailor Moon.