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MyNetworkTV станциясы Миннеаполисте
MyNetworkTV station in Minneapolis
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WFTC (channel 9.2) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KMSP TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie, while WFTC's transmitter is located in Shoreview, Minnesota. WFTC rebroadcasts its signal on full power satellite station KFTC (channel 26) in Bemidji (with transmitter near Lake Bemidji State Park) and several low power repeaters across Minnesota, including the Mankato market (via K23MF D in nearby St. James through the local municipal operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators), as that area does not have a MyNetworkTV affiliate of its own. History
Early history
The station signed on air in October 1982 as WFBT (for "Family Bible Television"). Channel 29 originally maintained a schedule offering reruns of classic family oriented series and Christian based religious programming. The station was started by a group led by Danny Koker, a gospel musician and father of Danny Koker II, star of History's Counting Cars. It first operated from studio facilities located on Aspen Lane North in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. On May 6, 1984, the station was sold to the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation, headed by prominent arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, who changed its call letters to KITN TV (which although it actually stood for "Independent Twenty Nine", colloquially meant "Kitten" as in, "The KITN That Roars!"). At that time, it transitioned into the market's second mainstream independent station (and first on the UHF dial), airing syndicated programs such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman and Star Trek. It also acquired broadcast rights to the NHL's Minnesota North Stars, as well as University of Minnesota college football games. In 1985, BHHC sold the station to Nationwide Communications, the broadcasting subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio–based Nationwide Insurance. As a Fox affiliate, then becoming a UPN station
In 1988, KMSP TV ended its affiliation with Fox, disappointed with the network's weak programming offerings that were bogging down the station's otherwise successful general entertainment lineup. Fox then shifted its affiliation to KITN, which adopted the moniker "Fox 29". The station again changed its call sign to WFTC on October 1, 1994 (for "We're Fox Twin Cities"), with the additional change using the "W" first letter identifier over the "K", allowed for by its transmitter location on the eastern side of the Mississippi River. The station later relocated its operations to a new studio located on Broadway Street Northeast in Minneapolis. Until 1998, it served as the de facto Fox affiliate for almost all of Minnesota; the state's other two markets, Duluth and Rochester, did not have Fox affiliates of their own until KXLT TV in Rochester joined the network in 1998, and KQDS TV debuted in Duluth one year later. Most areas in western Minnesota received Fox programming from Fargo, North Dakota's KVRR or Sioux Falls, South Dakota's KTTW. As part of its liquidation of its broadcasting interests, Nationwide Communications sold the station to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 1993 (it was the last remaining television station under Nationwide's ownership, the company having sold its other three stations, all of which were affiliated with ABC, to Young Broadcasting the year before). In 2001, Clear Channel traded the station to Fox Television Stations for KMOL TV (now WOAI TV) in San Antonio and KTVX in Salt Lake City. Both stations were acquired by Fox through its purchase of Chris Craft Industries' broadcast properties, which included then UPN affiliate KMSP TV. WFTC became the third station in the area to be owned and operated by a major network, but since KMSP had higher ratings and a stronger signal than WFTC, Fox switched the affiliations of the two stations on September 8, 2002: Fox programming returned to KMSP, while WFTC affiliated with UPN. Switch to MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that UPN and The WB would shut down and be replaced by a new network that would carry programs from both networks, The CW. Despite affiliating with most of CBS Corporation's UPN stations and Tribune Broadcasting's WB stations, Fox's UPN affiliates were not included in the new network. Although The CW did not sign its Twin Cities' affiliate until May 2006 (when KMWB TV, which changed its calls to WUCW by the network's launch in September, was announced as the network's local affiliate through an affiliation deal by its parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group), WFTC joined other Fox owned UPN stations in scrubbing all UPN branding the following day, becoming branded as simply "WFTC 29". It also stopped promoting UPN programming outside of network hours. On February 22, less than a month after the announcement of The CW, Fox announced that it would (in conjunction with its syndication division Twentieth Television) launch a new network called MyNetworkTV, with WFTC and the other Fox owned UPN stations (plus included in this deal is a Fox owned independent station in Dallas Fort Worth) as the nuclei. On June 2, 2006, WFTC officially changed its branding to "My 29", following its impending switch to the newly launched Fox owned network. Although MyNetworkTV announced its launch date to be September 5, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates that switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN's programming outside its regular prime time slot, the Fox owned stations (including WFTC) dropped the network entirely on August 31, 2006. On September 9, 2006, WFTC began carrying the 4Kids TV lineup for the first time since 2002, when the station was a Fox affiliate airing what was then Fox Kids. The station continues to air the Weekend Marketplace infomercial block on Saturday mornings while sister station KMSP aired Xploration Station'' which started in the fall of 2014.
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WFTC (channel 9.2) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KMSP TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie, while WFTC's transmitter is located in Shoreview, Minnesota. WFTC rebroadcasts its signal on full power satellite station KFTC (channel 26) in Bemidji (with transmitter near Lake Bemidji State Park) and several low power repeaters across Minnesota, including the Mankato market (via K23MF D in nearby St. James through the local municipal operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators), as that area does not have a MyNetworkTV affiliate of its own. History
Early history
The station signed on air in October 1982 as WFBT (for "Family Bible Television"). Channel 29 originally maintained a schedule offering reruns of classic family oriented series and Christian based religious programming. The station was started by a group led by Danny Koker, a gospel musician and father of Danny Koker II, star of History's Counting Cars. It first operated from studio facilities located on Aspen Lane North in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. On May 6, 1984, the station was sold to the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation, headed by prominent arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, who changed its call letters to KITN TV (which although it actually stood for "Independent Twenty Nine", colloquially meant "Kitten" as in, "The KITN That Roars!"). At that time, it transitioned into the market's second mainstream independent station (and first on the UHF dial), airing syndicated programs such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman and Star Trek. It also acquired broadcast rights to the NHL's Minnesota North Stars, as well as University of Minnesota college football games. In 1985, BHHC sold the station to Nationwide Communications, the broadcasting subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio–based Nationwide Insurance. As a Fox affiliate, then becoming a UPN station
In 1988, KMSP TV ended its affiliation with Fox, disappointed with the network's weak programming offerings that were bogging down the station's otherwise successful general entertainment lineup. Fox then shifted its affiliation to KITN, which adopted the moniker "Fox 29". The station again changed its call sign to WFTC on October 1, 1994 (for "We're Fox Twin Cities"), with the additional change using the "W" first letter identifier over the "K", allowed for by its transmitter location on the eastern side of the Mississippi River. The station later relocated its operations to a new studio located on Broadway Street Northeast in Minneapolis. Until 1998, it served as the de facto Fox affiliate for almost all of Minnesota; the state's other two markets, Duluth and Rochester, did not have Fox affiliates of their own until KXLT TV in Rochester joined the network in 1998, and KQDS TV debuted in Duluth one year later. Most areas in western Minnesota received Fox programming from Fargo, North Dakota's KVRR or Sioux Falls, South Dakota's KTTW. As part of its liquidation of its broadcasting interests, Nationwide Communications sold the station to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 1993 (it was the last remaining television station under Nationwide's ownership, the company having sold its other three stations, all of which were affiliated with ABC, to Young Broadcasting the year before). In 2001, Clear Channel traded the station to Fox Television Stations for KMOL TV (now WOAI TV) in San Antonio and KTVX in Salt Lake City. Both stations were acquired by Fox through its purchase of Chris Craft Industries' broadcast properties, which included then UPN affiliate KMSP TV. WFTC became the third station in the area to be owned and operated by a major network, but since KMSP had higher ratings and a stronger signal than WFTC, Fox switched the affiliations of the two stations on September 8, 2002: Fox programming returned to KMSP, while WFTC affiliated with UPN. Switch to MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that UPN and The WB would shut down and be replaced by a new network that would carry programs from both networks, The CW. Despite affiliating with most of CBS Corporation's UPN stations and Tribune Broadcasting's WB stations, Fox's UPN affiliates were not included in the new network. Although The CW did not sign its Twin Cities' affiliate until May 2006 (when KMWB TV, which changed its calls to WUCW by the network's launch in September, was announced as the network's local affiliate through an affiliation deal by its parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group), WFTC joined other Fox owned UPN stations in scrubbing all UPN branding the following day, becoming branded as simply "WFTC 29". It also stopped promoting UPN programming outside of network hours. On February 22, less than a month after the announcement of The CW, Fox announced that it would (in conjunction with its syndication division Twentieth Television) launch a new network called MyNetworkTV, with WFTC and the other Fox owned UPN stations (plus included in this deal is a Fox owned independent station in Dallas Fort Worth) as the nuclei. On June 2, 2006, WFTC officially changed its branding to "My 29", following its impending switch to the newly launched Fox owned network. Although MyNetworkTV announced its launch date to be September 5, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates that switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN's programming outside its regular prime time slot, the Fox owned stations (including WFTC) dropped the network entirely on August 31, 2006. On September 9, 2006, WFTC began carrying the 4Kids TV lineup for the first time since 2002, when the station was a Fox affiliate airing what was then Fox Kids. The station continues to air the Weekend Marketplace infomercial block on Saturday mornings while sister station KMSP aired Xploration Station'' which started in the fall of 2014.
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MyNetworkTV station in Minneapolis
Working Families Tax Credit
WFTC (channel 9.2) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KMSP TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie, while WFTC's transmitter is located in Shoreview, Minnesota. WFTC rebroadcasts its signal on full power satellite station KFTC (channel 26) in Bemidji (with transmitter near Lake Bemidji State Park) and several low power repeaters across Minnesota, including the Mankato market (via K23MF D in nearby St. James through the local municipal operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators), as that area does not have a MyNetworkTV affiliate of its own. History
Early history
The station signed on air in October 1982 as WFBT (for "Family Bible Television"). Channel 29 originally maintained a schedule offering reruns of classic family oriented series and Christian based religious programming. The station was started by a group led by Danny Koker, a gospel musician and father of Danny Koker II, star of History's Counting Cars. It first operated from studio facilities located on Aspen Lane North in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. On May 6, 1984, the station was sold to the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation, headed by prominent arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, who changed its call letters to KITN TV (which although it actually stood for "Independent Twenty Nine", colloquially meant "Kitten" as in, "The KITN That Roars!"). At that time, it transitioned into the market's second mainstream independent station (and first on the UHF dial), airing syndicated programs such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman and Star Trek. It also acquired broadcast rights to the NHL's Minnesota North Stars, as well as University of Minnesota college football games. In 1985, BHHC sold the station to Nationwide Communications, the broadcasting subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio–based Nationwide Insurance. As a Fox affiliate, then becoming a UPN station
In 1988, KMSP TV ended its affiliation with Fox, disappointed with the network's weak programming offerings that were bogging down the station's otherwise successful general entertainment lineup. Fox then shifted its affiliation to KITN, which adopted the moniker "Fox 29". The station again changed its call sign to WFTC on October 1, 1994 (for "We're Fox Twin Cities"), with the additional change using the "W" first letter identifier over the "K", allowed for by its transmitter location on the eastern side of the Mississippi River. The station later relocated its operations to a new studio located on Broadway Street Northeast in Minneapolis. Until 1998, it served as the de facto Fox affiliate for almost all of Minnesota; the state's other two markets, Duluth and Rochester, did not have Fox affiliates of their own until KXLT TV in Rochester joined the network in 1998, and KQDS TV debuted in Duluth one year later. Most areas in western Minnesota received Fox programming from Fargo, North Dakota's KVRR or Sioux Falls, South Dakota's KTTW. As part of its liquidation of its broadcasting interests, Nationwide Communications sold the station to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 1993 (it was the last remaining television station under Nationwide's ownership, the company having sold its other three stations, all of which were affiliated with ABC, to Young Broadcasting the year before). In 2001, Clear Channel traded the station to Fox Television Stations for KMOL TV (now WOAI TV) in San Antonio and KTVX in Salt Lake City. Both stations were acquired by Fox through its purchase of Chris Craft Industries' broadcast properties, which included then UPN affiliate KMSP TV. WFTC became the third station in the area to be owned and operated by a major network, but since KMSP had higher ratings and a stronger signal than WFTC, Fox switched the affiliations of the two stations on September 8, 2002: Fox programming returned to KMSP, while WFTC affiliated with UPN. Switch to MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that UPN and The WB would shut down and be replaced by a new network that would carry programs from both networks, The CW. Despite affiliating with most of CBS Corporation's UPN stations and Tribune Broadcasting's WB stations, Fox's UPN affiliates were not included in the new network. Although The CW did not sign its Twin Cities' affiliate until May 2006 (when KMWB TV, which changed its calls to WUCW by the network's launch in September, was announced as the network's local affiliate through an affiliation deal by its parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group), WFTC joined other Fox owned UPN stations in scrubbing all UPN branding the following day, becoming branded as simply "WFTC 29". It also stopped promoting UPN programming outside of network hours. On February 22, less than a month after the announcement of The CW, Fox announced that it would (in conjunction with its syndication division Twentieth Television) launch a new network called MyNetworkTV, with WFTC and the other Fox owned UPN stations (plus included in this deal is a Fox owned independent station in Dallas Fort Worth) as the nuclei. On June 2, 2006, WFTC officially changed its branding to "My 29", following its impending switch to the newly launched Fox owned network. Although MyNetworkTV announced its launch date to be September 5, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates that switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN's programming outside its regular prime time slot, the Fox owned stations (including WFTC) dropped the network entirely on August 31, 2006. On September 9, 2006, WFTC began carrying the 4Kids TV lineup for the first time since 2002, when the station was a Fox affiliate airing what was then Fox Kids. The station continues to air the Weekend Marketplace infomercial block on Saturday mornings while sister station KMSP aired Xploration Station'' which started in the fall of 2014.
Working Families Tax Credit
WFTC (channel 9.2) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KMSP TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie, while WFTC's transmitter is located in Shoreview, Minnesota. WFTC rebroadcasts its signal on full power satellite station KFTC (channel 26) in Bemidji (with transmitter near Lake Bemidji State Park) and several low power repeaters across Minnesota, including the Mankato market (via K23MF D in nearby St. James through the local municipal operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators), as that area does not have a MyNetworkTV affiliate of its own. History
Early history
The station signed on air in October 1982 as WFBT (for "Family Bible Television"). Channel 29 originally maintained a schedule offering reruns of classic family oriented series and Christian based religious programming. The station was started by a group led by Danny Koker, a gospel musician and father of Danny Koker II, star of History's Counting Cars. It first operated from studio facilities located on Aspen Lane North in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. On May 6, 1984, the station was sold to the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation, headed by prominent arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, who changed its call letters to KITN TV (which although it actually stood for "Independent Twenty Nine", colloquially meant "Kitten" as in, "The KITN That Roars!"). At that time, it transitioned into the market's second mainstream independent station (and first on the UHF dial), airing syndicated programs such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman and Star Trek. It also acquired broadcast rights to the NHL's Minnesota North Stars, as well as University of Minnesota college football games. In 1985, BHHC sold the station to Nationwide Communications, the broadcasting subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio–based Nationwide Insurance. As a Fox affiliate, then becoming a UPN station
In 1988, KMSP TV ended its affiliation with Fox, disappointed with the network's weak programming offerings that were bogging down the station's otherwise successful general entertainment lineup. Fox then shifted its affiliation to KITN, which adopted the moniker "Fox 29". The station again changed its call sign to WFTC on October 1, 1994 (for "We're Fox Twin Cities"), with the additional change using the "W" first letter identifier over the "K", allowed for by its transmitter location on the eastern side of the Mississippi River. The station later relocated its operations to a new studio located on Broadway Street Northeast in Minneapolis. Until 1998, it served as the de facto Fox affiliate for almost all of Minnesota; the state's other two markets, Duluth and Rochester, did not have Fox affiliates of their own until KXLT TV in Rochester joined the network in 1998, and KQDS TV debuted in Duluth one year later. Most areas in western Minnesota received Fox programming from Fargo, North Dakota's KVRR or Sioux Falls, South Dakota's KTTW. As part of its liquidation of its broadcasting interests, Nationwide Communications sold the station to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 1993 (it was the last remaining television station under Nationwide's ownership, the company having sold its other three stations, all of which were affiliated with ABC, to Young Broadcasting the year before). In 2001, Clear Channel traded the station to Fox Television Stations for KMOL TV (now WOAI TV) in San Antonio and KTVX in Salt Lake City. Both stations were acquired by Fox through its purchase of Chris Craft Industries' broadcast properties, which included then UPN affiliate KMSP TV. WFTC became the third station in the area to be owned and operated by a major network, but since KMSP had higher ratings and a stronger signal than WFTC, Fox switched the affiliations of the two stations on September 8, 2002: Fox programming returned to KMSP, while WFTC affiliated with UPN. Switch to MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that UPN and The WB would shut down and be replaced by a new network that would carry programs from both networks, The CW. Despite affiliating with most of CBS Corporation's UPN stations and Tribune Broadcasting's WB stations, Fox's UPN affiliates were not included in the new network. Although The CW did not sign its Twin Cities' affiliate until May 2006 (when KMWB TV, which changed its calls to WUCW by the network's launch in September, was announced as the network's local affiliate through an affiliation deal by its parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group), WFTC joined other Fox owned UPN stations in scrubbing all UPN branding the following day, becoming branded as simply "WFTC 29". It also stopped promoting UPN programming outside of network hours. On February 22, less than a month after the announcement of The CW, Fox announced that it would (in conjunction with its syndication division Twentieth Television) launch a new network called MyNetworkTV, with WFTC and the other Fox owned UPN stations (plus included in this deal is a Fox owned independent station in Dallas Fort Worth) as the nuclei. On June 2, 2006, WFTC officially changed its branding to "My 29", following its impending switch to the newly launched Fox owned network. Although MyNetworkTV announced its launch date to be September 5, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates that switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN's programming outside its regular prime time slot, the Fox owned stations (including WFTC) dropped the network entirely on August 31, 2006. On September 9, 2006, WFTC began carrying the 4Kids TV lineup for the first time since 2002, when the station was a Fox affiliate airing what was then Fox Kids. The station continues to air the Weekend Marketplace infomercial block on Saturday mornings while sister station KMSP aired Xploration Station'' which started in the fall of 2014.
WFTC (9.2 арнасы) – Миннеаполис, Миннесота штаты, АҚШ қаласына лицензиясы бар, Твин-Сити аймағына MyNetworkTV бағдарламалық қызметін тарататын телеарна. Ол Fox Television Stations компаниясына тиесілі және Fox арнасы KMSP TV (9 арнасымен) бірге басқарылады. Екі станса да Эден-Прейридегі Викинг Драйвтағы студияларды бөліседі, ал WFTC таратушысы Миннесота штатының Шорвью қаласында орналасқан. WFTC өзінің сигналын Бемидж қаласындағы толық қуатты спутниктік станция KFTC (26 арнасы) (Бемидж көлі мемлекеттік паркіне жақын жердегі таратушымен) және Миннесота штатындағы бірнеше төмен қуатты қайта тарату станциялары арқылы, соның ішінде Манкато нарығында (жергілікті муниципалды кооперативтік теледидар (CTV) аудармашылар желісі арқылы жақын маңдағы Сент-Джеймстегі K23MF D арқылы) қайта таратады, себебі бұл аймақта MyNetworkTV филиалы жоқ.
MyNetworkTV station in Minneapolis
Working Families Tax Credit
WFTC (channel 9.2) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KMSP TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie, while WFTC's transmitter is located in Shoreview, Minnesota. WFTC rebroadcasts its signal on full power satellite station KFTC (channel 26) in Bemidji (with transmitter near Lake Bemidji State Park) and several low power repeaters across Minnesota, including the Mankato market (via K23MF D in nearby St. James through the local municipal operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators), as that area does not have a MyNetworkTV affiliate of its own. History
Early history
The station signed on air in October 1982 as WFBT (for "Family Bible Television"). Channel 29 originally maintained a schedule offering reruns of classic family oriented series and Christian based religious programming. The station was started by a group led by Danny Koker, a gospel musician and father of Danny Koker II, star of History's Counting Cars. It first operated from studio facilities located on Aspen Lane North in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. On May 6, 1984, the station was sold to the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation, headed by prominent arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, who changed its call letters to KITN TV (which although it actually stood for "Independent Twenty Nine", colloquially meant "Kitten" as in, "The KITN That Roars!"). At that time, it transitioned into the market's second mainstream independent station (and first on the UHF dial), airing syndicated programs such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman and Star Trek. It also acquired broadcast rights to the NHL's Minnesota North Stars, as well as University of Minnesota college football games. In 1985, BHHC sold the station to Nationwide Communications, the broadcasting subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio–based Nationwide Insurance. As a Fox affiliate, then becoming a UPN station
In 1988, KMSP TV ended its affiliation with Fox, disappointed with the network's weak programming offerings that were bogging down the station's otherwise successful general entertainment lineup. Fox then shifted its affiliation to KITN, which adopted the moniker "Fox 29". The station again changed its call sign to WFTC on October 1, 1994 (for "We're Fox Twin Cities"), with the additional change using the "W" first letter identifier over the "K", allowed for by its transmitter location on the eastern side of the Mississippi River. The station later relocated its operations to a new studio located on Broadway Street Northeast in Minneapolis. Until 1998, it served as the de facto Fox affiliate for almost all of Minnesota; the state's other two markets, Duluth and Rochester, did not have Fox affiliates of their own until KXLT TV in Rochester joined the network in 1998, and KQDS TV debuted in Duluth one year later. Most areas in western Minnesota received Fox programming from Fargo, North Dakota's KVRR or Sioux Falls, South Dakota's KTTW. As part of its liquidation of its broadcasting interests, Nationwide Communications sold the station to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 1993 (it was the last remaining television station under Nationwide's ownership, the company having sold its other three stations, all of which were affiliated with ABC, to Young Broadcasting the year before). In 2001, Clear Channel traded the station to Fox Television Stations for KMOL TV (now WOAI TV) in San Antonio and KTVX in Salt Lake City. Both stations were acquired by Fox through its purchase of Chris Craft Industries' broadcast properties, which included then UPN affiliate KMSP TV. WFTC became the third station in the area to be owned and operated by a major network, but since KMSP had higher ratings and a stronger signal than WFTC, Fox switched the affiliations of the two stations on September 8, 2002: Fox programming returned to KMSP, while WFTC affiliated with UPN. Switch to MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that UPN and The WB would shut down and be replaced by a new network that would carry programs from both networks, The CW. Despite affiliating with most of CBS Corporation's UPN stations and Tribune Broadcasting's WB stations, Fox's UPN affiliates were not included in the new network. Although The CW did not sign its Twin Cities' affiliate until May 2006 (when KMWB TV, which changed its calls to WUCW by the network's launch in September, was announced as the network's local affiliate through an affiliation deal by its parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group), WFTC joined other Fox owned UPN stations in scrubbing all UPN branding the following day, becoming branded as simply "WFTC 29". It also stopped promoting UPN programming outside of network hours. On February 22, less than a month after the announcement of The CW, Fox announced that it would (in conjunction with its syndication division Twentieth Television) launch a new network called MyNetworkTV, with WFTC and the other Fox owned UPN stations (plus included in this deal is a Fox owned independent station in Dallas Fort Worth) as the nuclei. On June 2, 2006, WFTC officially changed its branding to "My 29", following its impending switch to the newly launched Fox owned network. Although MyNetworkTV announced its launch date to be September 5, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates that switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN's programming outside its regular prime time slot, the Fox owned stations (including WFTC) dropped the network entirely on August 31, 2006. On September 9, 2006, WFTC began carrying the 4Kids TV lineup for the first time since 2002, when the station was a Fox affiliate airing what was then Fox Kids. The station continues to air the Weekend Marketplace infomercial block on Saturday mornings while sister station KMSP aired Xploration Station'' which started in the fall of 2014.
Working Families Tax Credit
WFTC (channel 9.2) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KMSP TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie, while WFTC's transmitter is located in Shoreview, Minnesota. WFTC rebroadcasts its signal on full power satellite station KFTC (channel 26) in Bemidji (with transmitter near Lake Bemidji State Park) and several low power repeaters across Minnesota, including the Mankato market (via K23MF D in nearby St. James through the local municipal operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators), as that area does not have a MyNetworkTV affiliate of its own. History
Early history
The station signed on air in October 1982 as WFBT (for "Family Bible Television"). Channel 29 originally maintained a schedule offering reruns of classic family oriented series and Christian based religious programming. The station was started by a group led by Danny Koker, a gospel musician and father of Danny Koker II, star of History's Counting Cars. It first operated from studio facilities located on Aspen Lane North in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. On May 6, 1984, the station was sold to the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation, headed by prominent arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, who changed its call letters to KITN TV (which although it actually stood for "Independent Twenty Nine", colloquially meant "Kitten" as in, "The KITN That Roars!"). At that time, it transitioned into the market's second mainstream independent station (and first on the UHF dial), airing syndicated programs such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman and Star Trek. It also acquired broadcast rights to the NHL's Minnesota North Stars, as well as University of Minnesota college football games. In 1985, BHHC sold the station to Nationwide Communications, the broadcasting subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio–based Nationwide Insurance. As a Fox affiliate, then becoming a UPN station
In 1988, KMSP TV ended its affiliation with Fox, disappointed with the network's weak programming offerings that were bogging down the station's otherwise successful general entertainment lineup. Fox then shifted its affiliation to KITN, which adopted the moniker "Fox 29". The station again changed its call sign to WFTC on October 1, 1994 (for "We're Fox Twin Cities"), with the additional change using the "W" first letter identifier over the "K", allowed for by its transmitter location on the eastern side of the Mississippi River. The station later relocated its operations to a new studio located on Broadway Street Northeast in Minneapolis. Until 1998, it served as the de facto Fox affiliate for almost all of Minnesota; the state's other two markets, Duluth and Rochester, did not have Fox affiliates of their own until KXLT TV in Rochester joined the network in 1998, and KQDS TV debuted in Duluth one year later. Most areas in western Minnesota received Fox programming from Fargo, North Dakota's KVRR or Sioux Falls, South Dakota's KTTW. As part of its liquidation of its broadcasting interests, Nationwide Communications sold the station to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 1993 (it was the last remaining television station under Nationwide's ownership, the company having sold its other three stations, all of which were affiliated with ABC, to Young Broadcasting the year before). In 2001, Clear Channel traded the station to Fox Television Stations for KMOL TV (now WOAI TV) in San Antonio and KTVX in Salt Lake City. Both stations were acquired by Fox through its purchase of Chris Craft Industries' broadcast properties, which included then UPN affiliate KMSP TV. WFTC became the third station in the area to be owned and operated by a major network, but since KMSP had higher ratings and a stronger signal than WFTC, Fox switched the affiliations of the two stations on September 8, 2002: Fox programming returned to KMSP, while WFTC affiliated with UPN. Switch to MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that UPN and The WB would shut down and be replaced by a new network that would carry programs from both networks, The CW. Despite affiliating with most of CBS Corporation's UPN stations and Tribune Broadcasting's WB stations, Fox's UPN affiliates were not included in the new network. Although The CW did not sign its Twin Cities' affiliate until May 2006 (when KMWB TV, which changed its calls to WUCW by the network's launch in September, was announced as the network's local affiliate through an affiliation deal by its parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group), WFTC joined other Fox owned UPN stations in scrubbing all UPN branding the following day, becoming branded as simply "WFTC 29". It also stopped promoting UPN programming outside of network hours. On February 22, less than a month after the announcement of The CW, Fox announced that it would (in conjunction with its syndication division Twentieth Television) launch a new network called MyNetworkTV, with WFTC and the other Fox owned UPN stations (plus included in this deal is a Fox owned independent station in Dallas Fort Worth) as the nuclei. On June 2, 2006, WFTC officially changed its branding to "My 29", following its impending switch to the newly launched Fox owned network. Although MyNetworkTV announced its launch date to be September 5, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates that switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN's programming outside its regular prime time slot, the Fox owned stations (including WFTC) dropped the network entirely on August 31, 2006. On September 9, 2006, WFTC began carrying the 4Kids TV lineup for the first time since 2002, when the station was a Fox affiliate airing what was then Fox Kids. The station continues to air the Weekend Marketplace infomercial block on Saturday mornings while sister station KMSP aired Xploration Station'' which started in the fall of 2014.
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MyNetworkTV station in Minneapolis
Working Families Tax Credit
WFTC (channel 9.2) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KMSP TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie, while WFTC's transmitter is located in Shoreview, Minnesota. WFTC rebroadcasts its signal on full power satellite station KFTC (channel 26) in Bemidji (with transmitter near Lake Bemidji State Park) and several low power repeaters across Minnesota, including the Mankato market (via K23MF D in nearby St. James through the local municipal operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators), as that area does not have a MyNetworkTV affiliate of its own. History
Early history
The station signed on air in October 1982 as WFBT (for "Family Bible Television"). Channel 29 originally maintained a schedule offering reruns of classic family oriented series and Christian based religious programming. The station was started by a group led by Danny Koker, a gospel musician and father of Danny Koker II, star of History's Counting Cars. It first operated from studio facilities located on Aspen Lane North in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. On May 6, 1984, the station was sold to the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation, headed by prominent arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, who changed its call letters to KITN TV (which although it actually stood for "Independent Twenty Nine", colloquially meant "Kitten" as in, "The KITN That Roars!"). At that time, it transitioned into the market's second mainstream independent station (and first on the UHF dial), airing syndicated programs such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman and Star Trek. It also acquired broadcast rights to the NHL's Minnesota North Stars, as well as University of Minnesota college football games. In 1985, BHHC sold the station to Nationwide Communications, the broadcasting subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio–based Nationwide Insurance. As a Fox affiliate, then becoming a UPN station
In 1988, KMSP TV ended its affiliation with Fox, disappointed with the network's weak programming offerings that were bogging down the station's otherwise successful general entertainment lineup. Fox then shifted its affiliation to KITN, which adopted the moniker "Fox 29". The station again changed its call sign to WFTC on October 1, 1994 (for "We're Fox Twin Cities"), with the additional change using the "W" first letter identifier over the "K", allowed for by its transmitter location on the eastern side of the Mississippi River. The station later relocated its operations to a new studio located on Broadway Street Northeast in Minneapolis. Until 1998, it served as the de facto Fox affiliate for almost all of Minnesota; the state's other two markets, Duluth and Rochester, did not have Fox affiliates of their own until KXLT TV in Rochester joined the network in 1998, and KQDS TV debuted in Duluth one year later. Most areas in western Minnesota received Fox programming from Fargo, North Dakota's KVRR or Sioux Falls, South Dakota's KTTW. As part of its liquidation of its broadcasting interests, Nationwide Communications sold the station to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 1993 (it was the last remaining television station under Nationwide's ownership, the company having sold its other three stations, all of which were affiliated with ABC, to Young Broadcasting the year before). In 2001, Clear Channel traded the station to Fox Television Stations for KMOL TV (now WOAI TV) in San Antonio and KTVX in Salt Lake City. Both stations were acquired by Fox through its purchase of Chris Craft Industries' broadcast properties, which included then UPN affiliate KMSP TV. WFTC became the third station in the area to be owned and operated by a major network, but since KMSP had higher ratings and a stronger signal than WFTC, Fox switched the affiliations of the two stations on September 8, 2002: Fox programming returned to KMSP, while WFTC affiliated with UPN. Switch to MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that UPN and The WB would shut down and be replaced by a new network that would carry programs from both networks, The CW. Despite affiliating with most of CBS Corporation's UPN stations and Tribune Broadcasting's WB stations, Fox's UPN affiliates were not included in the new network. Although The CW did not sign its Twin Cities' affiliate until May 2006 (when KMWB TV, which changed its calls to WUCW by the network's launch in September, was announced as the network's local affiliate through an affiliation deal by its parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group), WFTC joined other Fox owned UPN stations in scrubbing all UPN branding the following day, becoming branded as simply "WFTC 29". It also stopped promoting UPN programming outside of network hours. On February 22, less than a month after the announcement of The CW, Fox announced that it would (in conjunction with its syndication division Twentieth Television) launch a new network called MyNetworkTV, with WFTC and the other Fox owned UPN stations (plus included in this deal is a Fox owned independent station in Dallas Fort Worth) as the nuclei. On June 2, 2006, WFTC officially changed its branding to "My 29", following its impending switch to the newly launched Fox owned network. Although MyNetworkTV announced its launch date to be September 5, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates that switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN's programming outside its regular prime time slot, the Fox owned stations (including WFTC) dropped the network entirely on August 31, 2006. On September 9, 2006, WFTC began carrying the 4Kids TV lineup for the first time since 2002, when the station was a Fox affiliate airing what was then Fox Kids. The station continues to air the Weekend Marketplace infomercial block on Saturday mornings while sister station KMSP aired Xploration Station'' which started in the fall of 2014.
Working Families Tax Credit
WFTC (channel 9.2) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KMSP TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie, while WFTC's transmitter is located in Shoreview, Minnesota. WFTC rebroadcasts its signal on full power satellite station KFTC (channel 26) in Bemidji (with transmitter near Lake Bemidji State Park) and several low power repeaters across Minnesota, including the Mankato market (via K23MF D in nearby St. James through the local municipal operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators), as that area does not have a MyNetworkTV affiliate of its own. History
Early history
The station signed on air in October 1982 as WFBT (for "Family Bible Television"). Channel 29 originally maintained a schedule offering reruns of classic family oriented series and Christian based religious programming. The station was started by a group led by Danny Koker, a gospel musician and father of Danny Koker II, star of History's Counting Cars. It first operated from studio facilities located on Aspen Lane North in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. On May 6, 1984, the station was sold to the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation, headed by prominent arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, who changed its call letters to KITN TV (which although it actually stood for "Independent Twenty Nine", colloquially meant "Kitten" as in, "The KITN That Roars!"). At that time, it transitioned into the market's second mainstream independent station (and first on the UHF dial), airing syndicated programs such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman and Star Trek. It also acquired broadcast rights to the NHL's Minnesota North Stars, as well as University of Minnesota college football games. In 1985, BHHC sold the station to Nationwide Communications, the broadcasting subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio–based Nationwide Insurance. As a Fox affiliate, then becoming a UPN station
In 1988, KMSP TV ended its affiliation with Fox, disappointed with the network's weak programming offerings that were bogging down the station's otherwise successful general entertainment lineup. Fox then shifted its affiliation to KITN, which adopted the moniker "Fox 29". The station again changed its call sign to WFTC on October 1, 1994 (for "We're Fox Twin Cities"), with the additional change using the "W" first letter identifier over the "K", allowed for by its transmitter location on the eastern side of the Mississippi River. The station later relocated its operations to a new studio located on Broadway Street Northeast in Minneapolis. Until 1998, it served as the de facto Fox affiliate for almost all of Minnesota; the state's other two markets, Duluth and Rochester, did not have Fox affiliates of their own until KXLT TV in Rochester joined the network in 1998, and KQDS TV debuted in Duluth one year later. Most areas in western Minnesota received Fox programming from Fargo, North Dakota's KVRR or Sioux Falls, South Dakota's KTTW. As part of its liquidation of its broadcasting interests, Nationwide Communications sold the station to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 1993 (it was the last remaining television station under Nationwide's ownership, the company having sold its other three stations, all of which were affiliated with ABC, to Young Broadcasting the year before). In 2001, Clear Channel traded the station to Fox Television Stations for KMOL TV (now WOAI TV) in San Antonio and KTVX in Salt Lake City. Both stations were acquired by Fox through its purchase of Chris Craft Industries' broadcast properties, which included then UPN affiliate KMSP TV. WFTC became the third station in the area to be owned and operated by a major network, but since KMSP had higher ratings and a stronger signal than WFTC, Fox switched the affiliations of the two stations on September 8, 2002: Fox programming returned to KMSP, while WFTC affiliated with UPN. Switch to MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that UPN and The WB would shut down and be replaced by a new network that would carry programs from both networks, The CW. Despite affiliating with most of CBS Corporation's UPN stations and Tribune Broadcasting's WB stations, Fox's UPN affiliates were not included in the new network. Although The CW did not sign its Twin Cities' affiliate until May 2006 (when KMWB TV, which changed its calls to WUCW by the network's launch in September, was announced as the network's local affiliate through an affiliation deal by its parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group), WFTC joined other Fox owned UPN stations in scrubbing all UPN branding the following day, becoming branded as simply "WFTC 29". It also stopped promoting UPN programming outside of network hours. On February 22, less than a month after the announcement of The CW, Fox announced that it would (in conjunction with its syndication division Twentieth Television) launch a new network called MyNetworkTV, with WFTC and the other Fox owned UPN stations (plus included in this deal is a Fox owned independent station in Dallas Fort Worth) as the nuclei. On June 2, 2006, WFTC officially changed its branding to "My 29", following its impending switch to the newly launched Fox owned network. Although MyNetworkTV announced its launch date to be September 5, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates that switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN's programming outside its regular prime time slot, the Fox owned stations (including WFTC) dropped the network entirely on August 31, 2006. On September 9, 2006, WFTC began carrying the 4Kids TV lineup for the first time since 2002, when the station was a Fox affiliate airing what was then Fox Kids. The station continues to air the Weekend Marketplace infomercial block on Saturday mornings while sister station KMSP aired Xploration Station'' which started in the fall of 2014.
Бастапқы тарихы
MyNetworkTV station in Minneapolis
Working Families Tax Credit
WFTC (channel 9.2) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KMSP TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie, while WFTC's transmitter is located in Shoreview, Minnesota. WFTC rebroadcasts its signal on full power satellite station KFTC (channel 26) in Bemidji (with transmitter near Lake Bemidji State Park) and several low power repeaters across Minnesota, including the Mankato market (via K23MF D in nearby St. James through the local municipal operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators), as that area does not have a MyNetworkTV affiliate of its own. History
Early history
The station signed on air in October 1982 as WFBT (for "Family Bible Television"). Channel 29 originally maintained a schedule offering reruns of classic family oriented series and Christian based religious programming. The station was started by a group led by Danny Koker, a gospel musician and father of Danny Koker II, star of History's Counting Cars. It first operated from studio facilities located on Aspen Lane North in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. On May 6, 1984, the station was sold to the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation, headed by prominent arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, who changed its call letters to KITN TV (which although it actually stood for "Independent Twenty Nine", colloquially meant "Kitten" as in, "The KITN That Roars!"). At that time, it transitioned into the market's second mainstream independent station (and first on the UHF dial), airing syndicated programs such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman and Star Trek. It also acquired broadcast rights to the NHL's Minnesota North Stars, as well as University of Minnesota college football games. In 1985, BHHC sold the station to Nationwide Communications, the broadcasting subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio–based Nationwide Insurance. As a Fox affiliate, then becoming a UPN station
In 1988, KMSP TV ended its affiliation with Fox, disappointed with the network's weak programming offerings that were bogging down the station's otherwise successful general entertainment lineup. Fox then shifted its affiliation to KITN, which adopted the moniker "Fox 29". The station again changed its call sign to WFTC on October 1, 1994 (for "We're Fox Twin Cities"), with the additional change using the "W" first letter identifier over the "K", allowed for by its transmitter location on the eastern side of the Mississippi River. The station later relocated its operations to a new studio located on Broadway Street Northeast in Minneapolis. Until 1998, it served as the de facto Fox affiliate for almost all of Minnesota; the state's other two markets, Duluth and Rochester, did not have Fox affiliates of their own until KXLT TV in Rochester joined the network in 1998, and KQDS TV debuted in Duluth one year later. Most areas in western Minnesota received Fox programming from Fargo, North Dakota's KVRR or Sioux Falls, South Dakota's KTTW. As part of its liquidation of its broadcasting interests, Nationwide Communications sold the station to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 1993 (it was the last remaining television station under Nationwide's ownership, the company having sold its other three stations, all of which were affiliated with ABC, to Young Broadcasting the year before). In 2001, Clear Channel traded the station to Fox Television Stations for KMOL TV (now WOAI TV) in San Antonio and KTVX in Salt Lake City. Both stations were acquired by Fox through its purchase of Chris Craft Industries' broadcast properties, which included then UPN affiliate KMSP TV. WFTC became the third station in the area to be owned and operated by a major network, but since KMSP had higher ratings and a stronger signal than WFTC, Fox switched the affiliations of the two stations on September 8, 2002: Fox programming returned to KMSP, while WFTC affiliated with UPN. Switch to MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that UPN and The WB would shut down and be replaced by a new network that would carry programs from both networks, The CW. Despite affiliating with most of CBS Corporation's UPN stations and Tribune Broadcasting's WB stations, Fox's UPN affiliates were not included in the new network. Although The CW did not sign its Twin Cities' affiliate until May 2006 (when KMWB TV, which changed its calls to WUCW by the network's launch in September, was announced as the network's local affiliate through an affiliation deal by its parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group), WFTC joined other Fox owned UPN stations in scrubbing all UPN branding the following day, becoming branded as simply "WFTC 29". It also stopped promoting UPN programming outside of network hours. On February 22, less than a month after the announcement of The CW, Fox announced that it would (in conjunction with its syndication division Twentieth Television) launch a new network called MyNetworkTV, with WFTC and the other Fox owned UPN stations (plus included in this deal is a Fox owned independent station in Dallas Fort Worth) as the nuclei. On June 2, 2006, WFTC officially changed its branding to "My 29", following its impending switch to the newly launched Fox owned network. Although MyNetworkTV announced its launch date to be September 5, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates that switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN's programming outside its regular prime time slot, the Fox owned stations (including WFTC) dropped the network entirely on August 31, 2006. On September 9, 2006, WFTC began carrying the 4Kids TV lineup for the first time since 2002, when the station was a Fox affiliate airing what was then Fox Kids. The station continues to air the Weekend Marketplace infomercial block on Saturday mornings while sister station KMSP aired Xploration Station'' which started in the fall of 2014.
Working Families Tax Credit
WFTC (channel 9.2) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KMSP TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie, while WFTC's transmitter is located in Shoreview, Minnesota. WFTC rebroadcasts its signal on full power satellite station KFTC (channel 26) in Bemidji (with transmitter near Lake Bemidji State Park) and several low power repeaters across Minnesota, including the Mankato market (via K23MF D in nearby St. James through the local municipal operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators), as that area does not have a MyNetworkTV affiliate of its own. History
Early history
The station signed on air in October 1982 as WFBT (for "Family Bible Television"). Channel 29 originally maintained a schedule offering reruns of classic family oriented series and Christian based religious programming. The station was started by a group led by Danny Koker, a gospel musician and father of Danny Koker II, star of History's Counting Cars. It first operated from studio facilities located on Aspen Lane North in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. On May 6, 1984, the station was sold to the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation, headed by prominent arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, who changed its call letters to KITN TV (which although it actually stood for "Independent Twenty Nine", colloquially meant "Kitten" as in, "The KITN That Roars!"). At that time, it transitioned into the market's second mainstream independent station (and first on the UHF dial), airing syndicated programs such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman and Star Trek. It also acquired broadcast rights to the NHL's Minnesota North Stars, as well as University of Minnesota college football games. In 1985, BHHC sold the station to Nationwide Communications, the broadcasting subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio–based Nationwide Insurance. As a Fox affiliate, then becoming a UPN station
In 1988, KMSP TV ended its affiliation with Fox, disappointed with the network's weak programming offerings that were bogging down the station's otherwise successful general entertainment lineup. Fox then shifted its affiliation to KITN, which adopted the moniker "Fox 29". The station again changed its call sign to WFTC on October 1, 1994 (for "We're Fox Twin Cities"), with the additional change using the "W" first letter identifier over the "K", allowed for by its transmitter location on the eastern side of the Mississippi River. The station later relocated its operations to a new studio located on Broadway Street Northeast in Minneapolis. Until 1998, it served as the de facto Fox affiliate for almost all of Minnesota; the state's other two markets, Duluth and Rochester, did not have Fox affiliates of their own until KXLT TV in Rochester joined the network in 1998, and KQDS TV debuted in Duluth one year later. Most areas in western Minnesota received Fox programming from Fargo, North Dakota's KVRR or Sioux Falls, South Dakota's KTTW. As part of its liquidation of its broadcasting interests, Nationwide Communications sold the station to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 1993 (it was the last remaining television station under Nationwide's ownership, the company having sold its other three stations, all of which were affiliated with ABC, to Young Broadcasting the year before). In 2001, Clear Channel traded the station to Fox Television Stations for KMOL TV (now WOAI TV) in San Antonio and KTVX in Salt Lake City. Both stations were acquired by Fox through its purchase of Chris Craft Industries' broadcast properties, which included then UPN affiliate KMSP TV. WFTC became the third station in the area to be owned and operated by a major network, but since KMSP had higher ratings and a stronger signal than WFTC, Fox switched the affiliations of the two stations on September 8, 2002: Fox programming returned to KMSP, while WFTC affiliated with UPN. Switch to MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that UPN and The WB would shut down and be replaced by a new network that would carry programs from both networks, The CW. Despite affiliating with most of CBS Corporation's UPN stations and Tribune Broadcasting's WB stations, Fox's UPN affiliates were not included in the new network. Although The CW did not sign its Twin Cities' affiliate until May 2006 (when KMWB TV, which changed its calls to WUCW by the network's launch in September, was announced as the network's local affiliate through an affiliation deal by its parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group), WFTC joined other Fox owned UPN stations in scrubbing all UPN branding the following day, becoming branded as simply "WFTC 29". It also stopped promoting UPN programming outside of network hours. On February 22, less than a month after the announcement of The CW, Fox announced that it would (in conjunction with its syndication division Twentieth Television) launch a new network called MyNetworkTV, with WFTC and the other Fox owned UPN stations (plus included in this deal is a Fox owned independent station in Dallas Fort Worth) as the nuclei. On June 2, 2006, WFTC officially changed its branding to "My 29", following its impending switch to the newly launched Fox owned network. Although MyNetworkTV announced its launch date to be September 5, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates that switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN's programming outside its regular prime time slot, the Fox owned stations (including WFTC) dropped the network entirely on August 31, 2006. On September 9, 2006, WFTC began carrying the 4Kids TV lineup for the first time since 2002, when the station was a Fox affiliate airing what was then Fox Kids. The station continues to air the Weekend Marketplace infomercial block on Saturday mornings while sister station KMSP aired Xploration Station'' which started in the fall of 2014.
Станция 1982 жылғы қазан айында WFBT (Family Bible Television) деген атпен эфирге шықты. 29 арнасы бастапқыда классикалық отбасылық сериалдар мен христиандық діни бағдарламаларды қайта көрсетуге арналған кестеге ие болды. Станцияны евангелист музыкант және History арнасының "Counting Cars" бағдарламасының жұлдызы Дэнни Кокер II-нің әкесі Дэнни Кокер басқарған топ құрды. Алғашқыда ол Бруклин Парктегі (Миннесота штаты) Аспен Лейн Норт көшесінде орналасқан студиялық ғимараттардан жұмыс істеді. 1984 жылғы 6 мамырда станция танымал арбитражшы Иван Боэски басқарған Беверли-Хиллс қонақ үй корпорациясына сатылды, ол шақыру әріптерін KITN TV-ге өзгертті (бұл шын мәнінде "Тәуелсіз жиырма тоғыз" дегенді білдірсе де, тілдік мағынада "Киттен" дегенді білдіреді, "Китн шулап тұр!" сияқты). Сол кезде ол нарықтағы екінші негізгі тәуелсіз станцияға (және UHF диапазонындағы бірінші) айналды, ол "The Beverly Hillbillies", "Batman" және "Star Trek" сияқты синдикаттық бағдарламаларды эфирге шығарды. Сондай-ақ, NHL-дің "Миннесота Норт Старз" командасының, сондай-ақ Миннесота университетінің колледж футбол ойындарының трансляциялық құқықтарын алды. 1985 жылы BHHC станцияны Колумбуста орналасқан Nationwide Insurance компаниясының еншілес компаниясы Nationwide Communications компаниясына сатты.
MyNetworkTV station in Minneapolis
Working Families Tax Credit
WFTC (channel 9.2) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KMSP TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie, while WFTC's transmitter is located in Shoreview, Minnesota. WFTC rebroadcasts its signal on full power satellite station KFTC (channel 26) in Bemidji (with transmitter near Lake Bemidji State Park) and several low power repeaters across Minnesota, including the Mankato market (via K23MF D in nearby St. James through the local municipal operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators), as that area does not have a MyNetworkTV affiliate of its own. History
Early history
The station signed on air in October 1982 as WFBT (for "Family Bible Television"). Channel 29 originally maintained a schedule offering reruns of classic family oriented series and Christian based religious programming. The station was started by a group led by Danny Koker, a gospel musician and father of Danny Koker II, star of History's Counting Cars. It first operated from studio facilities located on Aspen Lane North in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. On May 6, 1984, the station was sold to the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation, headed by prominent arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, who changed its call letters to KITN TV (which although it actually stood for "Independent Twenty Nine", colloquially meant "Kitten" as in, "The KITN That Roars!"). At that time, it transitioned into the market's second mainstream independent station (and first on the UHF dial), airing syndicated programs such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman and Star Trek. It also acquired broadcast rights to the NHL's Minnesota North Stars, as well as University of Minnesota college football games. In 1985, BHHC sold the station to Nationwide Communications, the broadcasting subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio–based Nationwide Insurance. As a Fox affiliate, then becoming a UPN station
In 1988, KMSP TV ended its affiliation with Fox, disappointed with the network's weak programming offerings that were bogging down the station's otherwise successful general entertainment lineup. Fox then shifted its affiliation to KITN, which adopted the moniker "Fox 29". The station again changed its call sign to WFTC on October 1, 1994 (for "We're Fox Twin Cities"), with the additional change using the "W" first letter identifier over the "K", allowed for by its transmitter location on the eastern side of the Mississippi River. The station later relocated its operations to a new studio located on Broadway Street Northeast in Minneapolis. Until 1998, it served as the de facto Fox affiliate for almost all of Minnesota; the state's other two markets, Duluth and Rochester, did not have Fox affiliates of their own until KXLT TV in Rochester joined the network in 1998, and KQDS TV debuted in Duluth one year later. Most areas in western Minnesota received Fox programming from Fargo, North Dakota's KVRR or Sioux Falls, South Dakota's KTTW. As part of its liquidation of its broadcasting interests, Nationwide Communications sold the station to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 1993 (it was the last remaining television station under Nationwide's ownership, the company having sold its other three stations, all of which were affiliated with ABC, to Young Broadcasting the year before). In 2001, Clear Channel traded the station to Fox Television Stations for KMOL TV (now WOAI TV) in San Antonio and KTVX in Salt Lake City. Both stations were acquired by Fox through its purchase of Chris Craft Industries' broadcast properties, which included then UPN affiliate KMSP TV. WFTC became the third station in the area to be owned and operated by a major network, but since KMSP had higher ratings and a stronger signal than WFTC, Fox switched the affiliations of the two stations on September 8, 2002: Fox programming returned to KMSP, while WFTC affiliated with UPN. Switch to MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that UPN and The WB would shut down and be replaced by a new network that would carry programs from both networks, The CW. Despite affiliating with most of CBS Corporation's UPN stations and Tribune Broadcasting's WB stations, Fox's UPN affiliates were not included in the new network. Although The CW did not sign its Twin Cities' affiliate until May 2006 (when KMWB TV, which changed its calls to WUCW by the network's launch in September, was announced as the network's local affiliate through an affiliation deal by its parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group), WFTC joined other Fox owned UPN stations in scrubbing all UPN branding the following day, becoming branded as simply "WFTC 29". It also stopped promoting UPN programming outside of network hours. On February 22, less than a month after the announcement of The CW, Fox announced that it would (in conjunction with its syndication division Twentieth Television) launch a new network called MyNetworkTV, with WFTC and the other Fox owned UPN stations (plus included in this deal is a Fox owned independent station in Dallas Fort Worth) as the nuclei. On June 2, 2006, WFTC officially changed its branding to "My 29", following its impending switch to the newly launched Fox owned network. Although MyNetworkTV announced its launch date to be September 5, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates that switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN's programming outside its regular prime time slot, the Fox owned stations (including WFTC) dropped the network entirely on August 31, 2006. On September 9, 2006, WFTC began carrying the 4Kids TV lineup for the first time since 2002, when the station was a Fox affiliate airing what was then Fox Kids. The station continues to air the Weekend Marketplace infomercial block on Saturday mornings while sister station KMSP aired Xploration Station'' which started in the fall of 2014.
Working Families Tax Credit
WFTC (channel 9.2) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KMSP TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie, while WFTC's transmitter is located in Shoreview, Minnesota. WFTC rebroadcasts its signal on full power satellite station KFTC (channel 26) in Bemidji (with transmitter near Lake Bemidji State Park) and several low power repeaters across Minnesota, including the Mankato market (via K23MF D in nearby St. James through the local municipal operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators), as that area does not have a MyNetworkTV affiliate of its own. History
Early history
The station signed on air in October 1982 as WFBT (for "Family Bible Television"). Channel 29 originally maintained a schedule offering reruns of classic family oriented series and Christian based religious programming. The station was started by a group led by Danny Koker, a gospel musician and father of Danny Koker II, star of History's Counting Cars. It first operated from studio facilities located on Aspen Lane North in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. On May 6, 1984, the station was sold to the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation, headed by prominent arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, who changed its call letters to KITN TV (which although it actually stood for "Independent Twenty Nine", colloquially meant "Kitten" as in, "The KITN That Roars!"). At that time, it transitioned into the market's second mainstream independent station (and first on the UHF dial), airing syndicated programs such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman and Star Trek. It also acquired broadcast rights to the NHL's Minnesota North Stars, as well as University of Minnesota college football games. In 1985, BHHC sold the station to Nationwide Communications, the broadcasting subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio–based Nationwide Insurance. As a Fox affiliate, then becoming a UPN station
In 1988, KMSP TV ended its affiliation with Fox, disappointed with the network's weak programming offerings that were bogging down the station's otherwise successful general entertainment lineup. Fox then shifted its affiliation to KITN, which adopted the moniker "Fox 29". The station again changed its call sign to WFTC on October 1, 1994 (for "We're Fox Twin Cities"), with the additional change using the "W" first letter identifier over the "K", allowed for by its transmitter location on the eastern side of the Mississippi River. The station later relocated its operations to a new studio located on Broadway Street Northeast in Minneapolis. Until 1998, it served as the de facto Fox affiliate for almost all of Minnesota; the state's other two markets, Duluth and Rochester, did not have Fox affiliates of their own until KXLT TV in Rochester joined the network in 1998, and KQDS TV debuted in Duluth one year later. Most areas in western Minnesota received Fox programming from Fargo, North Dakota's KVRR or Sioux Falls, South Dakota's KTTW. As part of its liquidation of its broadcasting interests, Nationwide Communications sold the station to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 1993 (it was the last remaining television station under Nationwide's ownership, the company having sold its other three stations, all of which were affiliated with ABC, to Young Broadcasting the year before). In 2001, Clear Channel traded the station to Fox Television Stations for KMOL TV (now WOAI TV) in San Antonio and KTVX in Salt Lake City. Both stations were acquired by Fox through its purchase of Chris Craft Industries' broadcast properties, which included then UPN affiliate KMSP TV. WFTC became the third station in the area to be owned and operated by a major network, but since KMSP had higher ratings and a stronger signal than WFTC, Fox switched the affiliations of the two stations on September 8, 2002: Fox programming returned to KMSP, while WFTC affiliated with UPN. Switch to MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that UPN and The WB would shut down and be replaced by a new network that would carry programs from both networks, The CW. Despite affiliating with most of CBS Corporation's UPN stations and Tribune Broadcasting's WB stations, Fox's UPN affiliates were not included in the new network. Although The CW did not sign its Twin Cities' affiliate until May 2006 (when KMWB TV, which changed its calls to WUCW by the network's launch in September, was announced as the network's local affiliate through an affiliation deal by its parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group), WFTC joined other Fox owned UPN stations in scrubbing all UPN branding the following day, becoming branded as simply "WFTC 29". It also stopped promoting UPN programming outside of network hours. On February 22, less than a month after the announcement of The CW, Fox announced that it would (in conjunction with its syndication division Twentieth Television) launch a new network called MyNetworkTV, with WFTC and the other Fox owned UPN stations (plus included in this deal is a Fox owned independent station in Dallas Fort Worth) as the nuclei. On June 2, 2006, WFTC officially changed its branding to "My 29", following its impending switch to the newly launched Fox owned network. Although MyNetworkTV announced its launch date to be September 5, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates that switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN's programming outside its regular prime time slot, the Fox owned stations (including WFTC) dropped the network entirely on August 31, 2006. On September 9, 2006, WFTC began carrying the 4Kids TV lineup for the first time since 2002, when the station was a Fox affiliate airing what was then Fox Kids. The station continues to air the Weekend Marketplace infomercial block on Saturday mornings while sister station KMSP aired Xploration Station'' which started in the fall of 2014.
Fox филиалы болған кезде, кейін UPN станциясы болды
MyNetworkTV station in Minneapolis
Working Families Tax Credit
WFTC (channel 9.2) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KMSP TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie, while WFTC's transmitter is located in Shoreview, Minnesota. WFTC rebroadcasts its signal on full power satellite station KFTC (channel 26) in Bemidji (with transmitter near Lake Bemidji State Park) and several low power repeaters across Minnesota, including the Mankato market (via K23MF D in nearby St. James through the local municipal operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators), as that area does not have a MyNetworkTV affiliate of its own. History
Early history
The station signed on air in October 1982 as WFBT (for "Family Bible Television"). Channel 29 originally maintained a schedule offering reruns of classic family oriented series and Christian based religious programming. The station was started by a group led by Danny Koker, a gospel musician and father of Danny Koker II, star of History's Counting Cars. It first operated from studio facilities located on Aspen Lane North in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. On May 6, 1984, the station was sold to the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation, headed by prominent arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, who changed its call letters to KITN TV (which although it actually stood for "Independent Twenty Nine", colloquially meant "Kitten" as in, "The KITN That Roars!"). At that time, it transitioned into the market's second mainstream independent station (and first on the UHF dial), airing syndicated programs such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman and Star Trek. It also acquired broadcast rights to the NHL's Minnesota North Stars, as well as University of Minnesota college football games. In 1985, BHHC sold the station to Nationwide Communications, the broadcasting subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio–based Nationwide Insurance. As a Fox affiliate, then becoming a UPN station
In 1988, KMSP TV ended its affiliation with Fox, disappointed with the network's weak programming offerings that were bogging down the station's otherwise successful general entertainment lineup. Fox then shifted its affiliation to KITN, which adopted the moniker "Fox 29". The station again changed its call sign to WFTC on October 1, 1994 (for "We're Fox Twin Cities"), with the additional change using the "W" first letter identifier over the "K", allowed for by its transmitter location on the eastern side of the Mississippi River. The station later relocated its operations to a new studio located on Broadway Street Northeast in Minneapolis. Until 1998, it served as the de facto Fox affiliate for almost all of Minnesota; the state's other two markets, Duluth and Rochester, did not have Fox affiliates of their own until KXLT TV in Rochester joined the network in 1998, and KQDS TV debuted in Duluth one year later. Most areas in western Minnesota received Fox programming from Fargo, North Dakota's KVRR or Sioux Falls, South Dakota's KTTW. As part of its liquidation of its broadcasting interests, Nationwide Communications sold the station to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 1993 (it was the last remaining television station under Nationwide's ownership, the company having sold its other three stations, all of which were affiliated with ABC, to Young Broadcasting the year before). In 2001, Clear Channel traded the station to Fox Television Stations for KMOL TV (now WOAI TV) in San Antonio and KTVX in Salt Lake City. Both stations were acquired by Fox through its purchase of Chris Craft Industries' broadcast properties, which included then UPN affiliate KMSP TV. WFTC became the third station in the area to be owned and operated by a major network, but since KMSP had higher ratings and a stronger signal than WFTC, Fox switched the affiliations of the two stations on September 8, 2002: Fox programming returned to KMSP, while WFTC affiliated with UPN. Switch to MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that UPN and The WB would shut down and be replaced by a new network that would carry programs from both networks, The CW. Despite affiliating with most of CBS Corporation's UPN stations and Tribune Broadcasting's WB stations, Fox's UPN affiliates were not included in the new network. Although The CW did not sign its Twin Cities' affiliate until May 2006 (when KMWB TV, which changed its calls to WUCW by the network's launch in September, was announced as the network's local affiliate through an affiliation deal by its parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group), WFTC joined other Fox owned UPN stations in scrubbing all UPN branding the following day, becoming branded as simply "WFTC 29". It also stopped promoting UPN programming outside of network hours. On February 22, less than a month after the announcement of The CW, Fox announced that it would (in conjunction with its syndication division Twentieth Television) launch a new network called MyNetworkTV, with WFTC and the other Fox owned UPN stations (plus included in this deal is a Fox owned independent station in Dallas Fort Worth) as the nuclei. On June 2, 2006, WFTC officially changed its branding to "My 29", following its impending switch to the newly launched Fox owned network. Although MyNetworkTV announced its launch date to be September 5, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates that switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN's programming outside its regular prime time slot, the Fox owned stations (including WFTC) dropped the network entirely on August 31, 2006. On September 9, 2006, WFTC began carrying the 4Kids TV lineup for the first time since 2002, when the station was a Fox affiliate airing what was then Fox Kids. The station continues to air the Weekend Marketplace infomercial block on Saturday mornings while sister station KMSP aired Xploration Station'' which started in the fall of 2014.
Working Families Tax Credit
WFTC (channel 9.2) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KMSP TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie, while WFTC's transmitter is located in Shoreview, Minnesota. WFTC rebroadcasts its signal on full power satellite station KFTC (channel 26) in Bemidji (with transmitter near Lake Bemidji State Park) and several low power repeaters across Minnesota, including the Mankato market (via K23MF D in nearby St. James through the local municipal operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators), as that area does not have a MyNetworkTV affiliate of its own. History
Early history
The station signed on air in October 1982 as WFBT (for "Family Bible Television"). Channel 29 originally maintained a schedule offering reruns of classic family oriented series and Christian based religious programming. The station was started by a group led by Danny Koker, a gospel musician and father of Danny Koker II, star of History's Counting Cars. It first operated from studio facilities located on Aspen Lane North in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. On May 6, 1984, the station was sold to the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation, headed by prominent arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, who changed its call letters to KITN TV (which although it actually stood for "Independent Twenty Nine", colloquially meant "Kitten" as in, "The KITN That Roars!"). At that time, it transitioned into the market's second mainstream independent station (and first on the UHF dial), airing syndicated programs such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman and Star Trek. It also acquired broadcast rights to the NHL's Minnesota North Stars, as well as University of Minnesota college football games. In 1985, BHHC sold the station to Nationwide Communications, the broadcasting subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio–based Nationwide Insurance. As a Fox affiliate, then becoming a UPN station
In 1988, KMSP TV ended its affiliation with Fox, disappointed with the network's weak programming offerings that were bogging down the station's otherwise successful general entertainment lineup. Fox then shifted its affiliation to KITN, which adopted the moniker "Fox 29". The station again changed its call sign to WFTC on October 1, 1994 (for "We're Fox Twin Cities"), with the additional change using the "W" first letter identifier over the "K", allowed for by its transmitter location on the eastern side of the Mississippi River. The station later relocated its operations to a new studio located on Broadway Street Northeast in Minneapolis. Until 1998, it served as the de facto Fox affiliate for almost all of Minnesota; the state's other two markets, Duluth and Rochester, did not have Fox affiliates of their own until KXLT TV in Rochester joined the network in 1998, and KQDS TV debuted in Duluth one year later. Most areas in western Minnesota received Fox programming from Fargo, North Dakota's KVRR or Sioux Falls, South Dakota's KTTW. As part of its liquidation of its broadcasting interests, Nationwide Communications sold the station to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 1993 (it was the last remaining television station under Nationwide's ownership, the company having sold its other three stations, all of which were affiliated with ABC, to Young Broadcasting the year before). In 2001, Clear Channel traded the station to Fox Television Stations for KMOL TV (now WOAI TV) in San Antonio and KTVX in Salt Lake City. Both stations were acquired by Fox through its purchase of Chris Craft Industries' broadcast properties, which included then UPN affiliate KMSP TV. WFTC became the third station in the area to be owned and operated by a major network, but since KMSP had higher ratings and a stronger signal than WFTC, Fox switched the affiliations of the two stations on September 8, 2002: Fox programming returned to KMSP, while WFTC affiliated with UPN. Switch to MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that UPN and The WB would shut down and be replaced by a new network that would carry programs from both networks, The CW. Despite affiliating with most of CBS Corporation's UPN stations and Tribune Broadcasting's WB stations, Fox's UPN affiliates were not included in the new network. Although The CW did not sign its Twin Cities' affiliate until May 2006 (when KMWB TV, which changed its calls to WUCW by the network's launch in September, was announced as the network's local affiliate through an affiliation deal by its parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group), WFTC joined other Fox owned UPN stations in scrubbing all UPN branding the following day, becoming branded as simply "WFTC 29". It also stopped promoting UPN programming outside of network hours. On February 22, less than a month after the announcement of The CW, Fox announced that it would (in conjunction with its syndication division Twentieth Television) launch a new network called MyNetworkTV, with WFTC and the other Fox owned UPN stations (plus included in this deal is a Fox owned independent station in Dallas Fort Worth) as the nuclei. On June 2, 2006, WFTC officially changed its branding to "My 29", following its impending switch to the newly launched Fox owned network. Although MyNetworkTV announced its launch date to be September 5, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates that switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN's programming outside its regular prime time slot, the Fox owned stations (including WFTC) dropped the network entirely on August 31, 2006. On September 9, 2006, WFTC began carrying the 4Kids TV lineup for the first time since 2002, when the station was a Fox affiliate airing what was then Fox Kids. The station continues to air the Weekend Marketplace infomercial block on Saturday mornings while sister station KMSP aired Xploration Station'' which started in the fall of 2014.
1988 жылы KMSP TV Fox желісімен байланысын тоқтатты, себебі желідегі бағдарламалардың әлсіз ұсыныстары станцияның басқаша табысты ойын-сауық бағдарламаларын құлдыратып жіберді. Кейін Fox өзінің серіктестігін KITN-ге ауыстырды, ол "Fox 29" деген лақап есімді қабылдады. Станция 1994 жылғы 1 қазанда WFTC (We're Fox Twin Cities) деп қайтадан шақыру белгісін өзгертті. Бұл өзгеріс "W" әрпін "K" әрпімен алмастыруды қамтыды, бұл таратушысы Миссисипи өзенінің шығыс жағында орналасқандықтан рұқсат етілді. Кейіннен станция өз жұмысын Миннеаполис қаласының Бродвей көшесінің солтүстік-шығысында орналасқан жаңа студияға көшірді. 1998 жылға дейін ол Миннесотаның барлық аймақтары үшін де-факто Fox филиалы ретінде қызмет етті; штаттың басқа екі нарығында, Дулут пен Рочестерде 1998 жылы Рочестердегі KXLT телеарнасы желіге қосылғанға дейін Fox филиалдары болмаған, ал KQDS телеарнасы бір жылдан кейін Дулутта дебют жасады. Батыс Миннесотадағы көптеген аудандарда Фарго, Солтүстік Дакотаның KVRR немесе Сиукс-Фолс, Оңтүстік Дакотаның KTTW арналарынан Fox бағдарламалары тарады. Телерадио хабарларын тарату мүдделерін жою аясында 1993 жылы Nationwide Communications станцияны Clear Channel Communications (қазіргі iHeartMedia) компаниясына сатты (бұл Nationwide компаниясының меншігіндегі соңғы қалған телеарна болды, компания өзінің басқа үш станциясын, олардың барлығы ABC-ге тиесілі, Young Broadcasting компаниясына сатты). 2001 жылы Clear Channel Сан-Антониодағы KMOL TV (қазіргі WOAI TV) және Солт-Лейк-Ситидегі KTVX үшін Fox Television Stations телеарнасына арнаны сатты. Екі станцияны да Fox Chris Craft Industries телеарнасының меншігін сатып алған, оның ішінде UPN-нің еншілес компаниясы KMSP TV болды. WFTC аймақтағы үшінші станция болып, ірі желіге тиесілі және басқарылатын болды, бірақ KMSP жоғары рейтингке ие болғандықтан және WFTC-ге қарағанда күшті сигнал болғандықтан, Fox 2002 жылғы 8 қыркүйекте екі станцияның серіктестігін ауыстырды: Fox бағдарламалары KMSP-ге қайтып келді, ал WFTC UPN желісіне қосылды.
MyNetworkTV station in Minneapolis
Working Families Tax Credit
WFTC (channel 9.2) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KMSP TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie, while WFTC's transmitter is located in Shoreview, Minnesota. WFTC rebroadcasts its signal on full power satellite station KFTC (channel 26) in Bemidji (with transmitter near Lake Bemidji State Park) and several low power repeaters across Minnesota, including the Mankato market (via K23MF D in nearby St. James through the local municipal operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators), as that area does not have a MyNetworkTV affiliate of its own. History
Early history
The station signed on air in October 1982 as WFBT (for "Family Bible Television"). Channel 29 originally maintained a schedule offering reruns of classic family oriented series and Christian based religious programming. The station was started by a group led by Danny Koker, a gospel musician and father of Danny Koker II, star of History's Counting Cars. It first operated from studio facilities located on Aspen Lane North in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. On May 6, 1984, the station was sold to the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation, headed by prominent arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, who changed its call letters to KITN TV (which although it actually stood for "Independent Twenty Nine", colloquially meant "Kitten" as in, "The KITN That Roars!"). At that time, it transitioned into the market's second mainstream independent station (and first on the UHF dial), airing syndicated programs such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman and Star Trek. It also acquired broadcast rights to the NHL's Minnesota North Stars, as well as University of Minnesota college football games. In 1985, BHHC sold the station to Nationwide Communications, the broadcasting subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio–based Nationwide Insurance. As a Fox affiliate, then becoming a UPN station
In 1988, KMSP TV ended its affiliation with Fox, disappointed with the network's weak programming offerings that were bogging down the station's otherwise successful general entertainment lineup. Fox then shifted its affiliation to KITN, which adopted the moniker "Fox 29". The station again changed its call sign to WFTC on October 1, 1994 (for "We're Fox Twin Cities"), with the additional change using the "W" first letter identifier over the "K", allowed for by its transmitter location on the eastern side of the Mississippi River. The station later relocated its operations to a new studio located on Broadway Street Northeast in Minneapolis. Until 1998, it served as the de facto Fox affiliate for almost all of Minnesota; the state's other two markets, Duluth and Rochester, did not have Fox affiliates of their own until KXLT TV in Rochester joined the network in 1998, and KQDS TV debuted in Duluth one year later. Most areas in western Minnesota received Fox programming from Fargo, North Dakota's KVRR or Sioux Falls, South Dakota's KTTW. As part of its liquidation of its broadcasting interests, Nationwide Communications sold the station to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 1993 (it was the last remaining television station under Nationwide's ownership, the company having sold its other three stations, all of which were affiliated with ABC, to Young Broadcasting the year before). In 2001, Clear Channel traded the station to Fox Television Stations for KMOL TV (now WOAI TV) in San Antonio and KTVX in Salt Lake City. Both stations were acquired by Fox through its purchase of Chris Craft Industries' broadcast properties, which included then UPN affiliate KMSP TV. WFTC became the third station in the area to be owned and operated by a major network, but since KMSP had higher ratings and a stronger signal than WFTC, Fox switched the affiliations of the two stations on September 8, 2002: Fox programming returned to KMSP, while WFTC affiliated with UPN. Switch to MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that UPN and The WB would shut down and be replaced by a new network that would carry programs from both networks, The CW. Despite affiliating with most of CBS Corporation's UPN stations and Tribune Broadcasting's WB stations, Fox's UPN affiliates were not included in the new network. Although The CW did not sign its Twin Cities' affiliate until May 2006 (when KMWB TV, which changed its calls to WUCW by the network's launch in September, was announced as the network's local affiliate through an affiliation deal by its parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group), WFTC joined other Fox owned UPN stations in scrubbing all UPN branding the following day, becoming branded as simply "WFTC 29". It also stopped promoting UPN programming outside of network hours. On February 22, less than a month after the announcement of The CW, Fox announced that it would (in conjunction with its syndication division Twentieth Television) launch a new network called MyNetworkTV, with WFTC and the other Fox owned UPN stations (plus included in this deal is a Fox owned independent station in Dallas Fort Worth) as the nuclei. On June 2, 2006, WFTC officially changed its branding to "My 29", following its impending switch to the newly launched Fox owned network. Although MyNetworkTV announced its launch date to be September 5, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates that switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN's programming outside its regular prime time slot, the Fox owned stations (including WFTC) dropped the network entirely on August 31, 2006. On September 9, 2006, WFTC began carrying the 4Kids TV lineup for the first time since 2002, when the station was a Fox affiliate airing what was then Fox Kids. The station continues to air the Weekend Marketplace infomercial block on Saturday mornings while sister station KMSP aired Xploration Station'' which started in the fall of 2014.
Working Families Tax Credit
WFTC (channel 9.2) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KMSP TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie, while WFTC's transmitter is located in Shoreview, Minnesota. WFTC rebroadcasts its signal on full power satellite station KFTC (channel 26) in Bemidji (with transmitter near Lake Bemidji State Park) and several low power repeaters across Minnesota, including the Mankato market (via K23MF D in nearby St. James through the local municipal operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators), as that area does not have a MyNetworkTV affiliate of its own. History
Early history
The station signed on air in October 1982 as WFBT (for "Family Bible Television"). Channel 29 originally maintained a schedule offering reruns of classic family oriented series and Christian based religious programming. The station was started by a group led by Danny Koker, a gospel musician and father of Danny Koker II, star of History's Counting Cars. It first operated from studio facilities located on Aspen Lane North in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. On May 6, 1984, the station was sold to the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation, headed by prominent arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, who changed its call letters to KITN TV (which although it actually stood for "Independent Twenty Nine", colloquially meant "Kitten" as in, "The KITN That Roars!"). At that time, it transitioned into the market's second mainstream independent station (and first on the UHF dial), airing syndicated programs such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman and Star Trek. It also acquired broadcast rights to the NHL's Minnesota North Stars, as well as University of Minnesota college football games. In 1985, BHHC sold the station to Nationwide Communications, the broadcasting subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio–based Nationwide Insurance. As a Fox affiliate, then becoming a UPN station
In 1988, KMSP TV ended its affiliation with Fox, disappointed with the network's weak programming offerings that were bogging down the station's otherwise successful general entertainment lineup. Fox then shifted its affiliation to KITN, which adopted the moniker "Fox 29". The station again changed its call sign to WFTC on October 1, 1994 (for "We're Fox Twin Cities"), with the additional change using the "W" first letter identifier over the "K", allowed for by its transmitter location on the eastern side of the Mississippi River. The station later relocated its operations to a new studio located on Broadway Street Northeast in Minneapolis. Until 1998, it served as the de facto Fox affiliate for almost all of Minnesota; the state's other two markets, Duluth and Rochester, did not have Fox affiliates of their own until KXLT TV in Rochester joined the network in 1998, and KQDS TV debuted in Duluth one year later. Most areas in western Minnesota received Fox programming from Fargo, North Dakota's KVRR or Sioux Falls, South Dakota's KTTW. As part of its liquidation of its broadcasting interests, Nationwide Communications sold the station to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 1993 (it was the last remaining television station under Nationwide's ownership, the company having sold its other three stations, all of which were affiliated with ABC, to Young Broadcasting the year before). In 2001, Clear Channel traded the station to Fox Television Stations for KMOL TV (now WOAI TV) in San Antonio and KTVX in Salt Lake City. Both stations were acquired by Fox through its purchase of Chris Craft Industries' broadcast properties, which included then UPN affiliate KMSP TV. WFTC became the third station in the area to be owned and operated by a major network, but since KMSP had higher ratings and a stronger signal than WFTC, Fox switched the affiliations of the two stations on September 8, 2002: Fox programming returned to KMSP, while WFTC affiliated with UPN. Switch to MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that UPN and The WB would shut down and be replaced by a new network that would carry programs from both networks, The CW. Despite affiliating with most of CBS Corporation's UPN stations and Tribune Broadcasting's WB stations, Fox's UPN affiliates were not included in the new network. Although The CW did not sign its Twin Cities' affiliate until May 2006 (when KMWB TV, which changed its calls to WUCW by the network's launch in September, was announced as the network's local affiliate through an affiliation deal by its parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group), WFTC joined other Fox owned UPN stations in scrubbing all UPN branding the following day, becoming branded as simply "WFTC 29". It also stopped promoting UPN programming outside of network hours. On February 22, less than a month after the announcement of The CW, Fox announced that it would (in conjunction with its syndication division Twentieth Television) launch a new network called MyNetworkTV, with WFTC and the other Fox owned UPN stations (plus included in this deal is a Fox owned independent station in Dallas Fort Worth) as the nuclei. On June 2, 2006, WFTC officially changed its branding to "My 29", following its impending switch to the newly launched Fox owned network. Although MyNetworkTV announced its launch date to be September 5, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates that switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN's programming outside its regular prime time slot, the Fox owned stations (including WFTC) dropped the network entirely on August 31, 2006. On September 9, 2006, WFTC began carrying the 4Kids TV lineup for the first time since 2002, when the station was a Fox affiliate airing what was then Fox Kids. The station continues to air the Weekend Marketplace infomercial block on Saturday mornings while sister station KMSP aired Xploration Station'' which started in the fall of 2014.
MyNetworkTV-ге ауысу
MyNetworkTV station in Minneapolis
Working Families Tax Credit
WFTC (channel 9.2) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KMSP TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie, while WFTC's transmitter is located in Shoreview, Minnesota. WFTC rebroadcasts its signal on full power satellite station KFTC (channel 26) in Bemidji (with transmitter near Lake Bemidji State Park) and several low power repeaters across Minnesota, including the Mankato market (via K23MF D in nearby St. James through the local municipal operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators), as that area does not have a MyNetworkTV affiliate of its own. History
Early history
The station signed on air in October 1982 as WFBT (for "Family Bible Television"). Channel 29 originally maintained a schedule offering reruns of classic family oriented series and Christian based religious programming. The station was started by a group led by Danny Koker, a gospel musician and father of Danny Koker II, star of History's Counting Cars. It first operated from studio facilities located on Aspen Lane North in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. On May 6, 1984, the station was sold to the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation, headed by prominent arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, who changed its call letters to KITN TV (which although it actually stood for "Independent Twenty Nine", colloquially meant "Kitten" as in, "The KITN That Roars!"). At that time, it transitioned into the market's second mainstream independent station (and first on the UHF dial), airing syndicated programs such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman and Star Trek. It also acquired broadcast rights to the NHL's Minnesota North Stars, as well as University of Minnesota college football games. In 1985, BHHC sold the station to Nationwide Communications, the broadcasting subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio–based Nationwide Insurance. As a Fox affiliate, then becoming a UPN station
In 1988, KMSP TV ended its affiliation with Fox, disappointed with the network's weak programming offerings that were bogging down the station's otherwise successful general entertainment lineup. Fox then shifted its affiliation to KITN, which adopted the moniker "Fox 29". The station again changed its call sign to WFTC on October 1, 1994 (for "We're Fox Twin Cities"), with the additional change using the "W" first letter identifier over the "K", allowed for by its transmitter location on the eastern side of the Mississippi River. The station later relocated its operations to a new studio located on Broadway Street Northeast in Minneapolis. Until 1998, it served as the de facto Fox affiliate for almost all of Minnesota; the state's other two markets, Duluth and Rochester, did not have Fox affiliates of their own until KXLT TV in Rochester joined the network in 1998, and KQDS TV debuted in Duluth one year later. Most areas in western Minnesota received Fox programming from Fargo, North Dakota's KVRR or Sioux Falls, South Dakota's KTTW. As part of its liquidation of its broadcasting interests, Nationwide Communications sold the station to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 1993 (it was the last remaining television station under Nationwide's ownership, the company having sold its other three stations, all of which were affiliated with ABC, to Young Broadcasting the year before). In 2001, Clear Channel traded the station to Fox Television Stations for KMOL TV (now WOAI TV) in San Antonio and KTVX in Salt Lake City. Both stations were acquired by Fox through its purchase of Chris Craft Industries' broadcast properties, which included then UPN affiliate KMSP TV. WFTC became the third station in the area to be owned and operated by a major network, but since KMSP had higher ratings and a stronger signal than WFTC, Fox switched the affiliations of the two stations on September 8, 2002: Fox programming returned to KMSP, while WFTC affiliated with UPN. Switch to MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that UPN and The WB would shut down and be replaced by a new network that would carry programs from both networks, The CW. Despite affiliating with most of CBS Corporation's UPN stations and Tribune Broadcasting's WB stations, Fox's UPN affiliates were not included in the new network. Although The CW did not sign its Twin Cities' affiliate until May 2006 (when KMWB TV, which changed its calls to WUCW by the network's launch in September, was announced as the network's local affiliate through an affiliation deal by its parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group), WFTC joined other Fox owned UPN stations in scrubbing all UPN branding the following day, becoming branded as simply "WFTC 29". It also stopped promoting UPN programming outside of network hours. On February 22, less than a month after the announcement of The CW, Fox announced that it would (in conjunction with its syndication division Twentieth Television) launch a new network called MyNetworkTV, with WFTC and the other Fox owned UPN stations (plus included in this deal is a Fox owned independent station in Dallas Fort Worth) as the nuclei. On June 2, 2006, WFTC officially changed its branding to "My 29", following its impending switch to the newly launched Fox owned network. Although MyNetworkTV announced its launch date to be September 5, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates that switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN's programming outside its regular prime time slot, the Fox owned stations (including WFTC) dropped the network entirely on August 31, 2006. On September 9, 2006, WFTC began carrying the 4Kids TV lineup for the first time since 2002, when the station was a Fox affiliate airing what was then Fox Kids. The station continues to air the Weekend Marketplace infomercial block on Saturday mornings while sister station KMSP aired Xploration Station'' which started in the fall of 2014.
Working Families Tax Credit
WFTC (channel 9.2) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KMSP TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie, while WFTC's transmitter is located in Shoreview, Minnesota. WFTC rebroadcasts its signal on full power satellite station KFTC (channel 26) in Bemidji (with transmitter near Lake Bemidji State Park) and several low power repeaters across Minnesota, including the Mankato market (via K23MF D in nearby St. James through the local municipal operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators), as that area does not have a MyNetworkTV affiliate of its own. History
Early history
The station signed on air in October 1982 as WFBT (for "Family Bible Television"). Channel 29 originally maintained a schedule offering reruns of classic family oriented series and Christian based religious programming. The station was started by a group led by Danny Koker, a gospel musician and father of Danny Koker II, star of History's Counting Cars. It first operated from studio facilities located on Aspen Lane North in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. On May 6, 1984, the station was sold to the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation, headed by prominent arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, who changed its call letters to KITN TV (which although it actually stood for "Independent Twenty Nine", colloquially meant "Kitten" as in, "The KITN That Roars!"). At that time, it transitioned into the market's second mainstream independent station (and first on the UHF dial), airing syndicated programs such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman and Star Trek. It also acquired broadcast rights to the NHL's Minnesota North Stars, as well as University of Minnesota college football games. In 1985, BHHC sold the station to Nationwide Communications, the broadcasting subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio–based Nationwide Insurance. As a Fox affiliate, then becoming a UPN station
In 1988, KMSP TV ended its affiliation with Fox, disappointed with the network's weak programming offerings that were bogging down the station's otherwise successful general entertainment lineup. Fox then shifted its affiliation to KITN, which adopted the moniker "Fox 29". The station again changed its call sign to WFTC on October 1, 1994 (for "We're Fox Twin Cities"), with the additional change using the "W" first letter identifier over the "K", allowed for by its transmitter location on the eastern side of the Mississippi River. The station later relocated its operations to a new studio located on Broadway Street Northeast in Minneapolis. Until 1998, it served as the de facto Fox affiliate for almost all of Minnesota; the state's other two markets, Duluth and Rochester, did not have Fox affiliates of their own until KXLT TV in Rochester joined the network in 1998, and KQDS TV debuted in Duluth one year later. Most areas in western Minnesota received Fox programming from Fargo, North Dakota's KVRR or Sioux Falls, South Dakota's KTTW. As part of its liquidation of its broadcasting interests, Nationwide Communications sold the station to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 1993 (it was the last remaining television station under Nationwide's ownership, the company having sold its other three stations, all of which were affiliated with ABC, to Young Broadcasting the year before). In 2001, Clear Channel traded the station to Fox Television Stations for KMOL TV (now WOAI TV) in San Antonio and KTVX in Salt Lake City. Both stations were acquired by Fox through its purchase of Chris Craft Industries' broadcast properties, which included then UPN affiliate KMSP TV. WFTC became the third station in the area to be owned and operated by a major network, but since KMSP had higher ratings and a stronger signal than WFTC, Fox switched the affiliations of the two stations on September 8, 2002: Fox programming returned to KMSP, while WFTC affiliated with UPN. Switch to MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that UPN and The WB would shut down and be replaced by a new network that would carry programs from both networks, The CW. Despite affiliating with most of CBS Corporation's UPN stations and Tribune Broadcasting's WB stations, Fox's UPN affiliates were not included in the new network. Although The CW did not sign its Twin Cities' affiliate until May 2006 (when KMWB TV, which changed its calls to WUCW by the network's launch in September, was announced as the network's local affiliate through an affiliation deal by its parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group), WFTC joined other Fox owned UPN stations in scrubbing all UPN branding the following day, becoming branded as simply "WFTC 29". It also stopped promoting UPN programming outside of network hours. On February 22, less than a month after the announcement of The CW, Fox announced that it would (in conjunction with its syndication division Twentieth Television) launch a new network called MyNetworkTV, with WFTC and the other Fox owned UPN stations (plus included in this deal is a Fox owned independent station in Dallas Fort Worth) as the nuclei. On June 2, 2006, WFTC officially changed its branding to "My 29", following its impending switch to the newly launched Fox owned network. Although MyNetworkTV announced its launch date to be September 5, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates that switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN's programming outside its regular prime time slot, the Fox owned stations (including WFTC) dropped the network entirely on August 31, 2006. On September 9, 2006, WFTC began carrying the 4Kids TV lineup for the first time since 2002, when the station was a Fox affiliate airing what was then Fox Kids. The station continues to air the Weekend Marketplace infomercial block on Saturday mornings while sister station KMSP aired Xploration Station'' which started in the fall of 2014.
2006 жылғы 24 қаңтарда CBS Corporation және Time Warner UPN және The WB желілері жабылатынын және олардың орнына екі желіден де бағдарламаларды өткізетін жаңа желі, The CW пайда болатынын жариялады. CBS корпорациясының UPN станцияларының көпшілігімен және Tribune Broadcasting WB станцияларымен байланысқа қарамастан, Fox UPN филиалдары жаңа желіге енгізілген жоқ. CW 2006 жылғы мамырға дейін өзінің Твин-Сити серіктесіне қол қоймаса да (қыркүйек айында желі іске қосылғанда WUCW-ге қоңырау шалуды өзгерткен KMWB TV өзінің анасы Sinclair Broadcast Group-тің серіктестік келісімі арқылы желінің жергілікті филиалы болып жарияланды), WFTC Fox-қа тиесілі басқа UPN станцияларымен бірге UPN брендінің барлық элементтерін келесі күні жойды, жай ғана "WFTC 29" деп таныстырылды. Сондай-ақ, ол желілік уақыттан тыс UPN бағдарламаларын жарнамалауды тоқтатты. Ақпанның 22-сі, The CW жарияланғаннан бір айдан астам уақыт өткен соң, Fox өзінің синдикациялық бөлімі Twentieth Television компаниясымен бірлесіп, MyNetworkTV деп аталатын жаңа желіні іске қосатынын жариялады, WFTC және басқа Fox-қа тиесілі UPN станциялары (сонымен қатар Даллас-Форт-Уэрт қаласындағы Fox-қа тиесілі тәуелсіз станция да осы келісімге енді) осы желінің ядросы болды. 2006 жылғы 2 маусымда WFTC ресми түрде өзінің брендін "My 29" деп өзгертті, жаңадан құрылған Fox-қа тиесілі желіге ауысуға дайындық күйінде. MyNetworkTV өзінің іске қосылу күнін 5 қыркүйек деп жарияласа да, UPN 2006 жылғы 15 қыркүйекке дейін ел бойынша станцияларда тарады. MyNetworkTV-ге ауысқан кейбір UPN филиалдары UPN-нің соңғы екі апталық бағдарламаларын штаттық эфирден тыс уақытта көрсетсе де, Fox-қа тиесілі станциялар (WFTC қоса) 2006 жылғы 31 тамызда желіні толығымен тоқтатты. 2006 жылғы 9 қыркүйекте WFTC 2002 жылға дейін станция Fox филиалы болған кезде көрсетілген Fox Kids бағдарламаларын қайтадан көрсетуді бастады. Станция әлі де сенбі күндері Weekend Marketplace жарнамалық блогын көрсетуді жалғастыруда, ал әпкесі KMSP станциясы 2014 жылдың күзінде басталған Xploration Station бағдарламасын көрсетуде.
MyNetworkTV station in Minneapolis
Working Families Tax Credit
WFTC (channel 9.2) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KMSP TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie, while WFTC's transmitter is located in Shoreview, Minnesota. WFTC rebroadcasts its signal on full power satellite station KFTC (channel 26) in Bemidji (with transmitter near Lake Bemidji State Park) and several low power repeaters across Minnesota, including the Mankato market (via K23MF D in nearby St. James through the local municipal operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators), as that area does not have a MyNetworkTV affiliate of its own. History
Early history
The station signed on air in October 1982 as WFBT (for "Family Bible Television"). Channel 29 originally maintained a schedule offering reruns of classic family oriented series and Christian based religious programming. The station was started by a group led by Danny Koker, a gospel musician and father of Danny Koker II, star of History's Counting Cars. It first operated from studio facilities located on Aspen Lane North in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. On May 6, 1984, the station was sold to the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation, headed by prominent arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, who changed its call letters to KITN TV (which although it actually stood for "Independent Twenty Nine", colloquially meant "Kitten" as in, "The KITN That Roars!"). At that time, it transitioned into the market's second mainstream independent station (and first on the UHF dial), airing syndicated programs such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman and Star Trek. It also acquired broadcast rights to the NHL's Minnesota North Stars, as well as University of Minnesota college football games. In 1985, BHHC sold the station to Nationwide Communications, the broadcasting subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio–based Nationwide Insurance. As a Fox affiliate, then becoming a UPN station
In 1988, KMSP TV ended its affiliation with Fox, disappointed with the network's weak programming offerings that were bogging down the station's otherwise successful general entertainment lineup. Fox then shifted its affiliation to KITN, which adopted the moniker "Fox 29". The station again changed its call sign to WFTC on October 1, 1994 (for "We're Fox Twin Cities"), with the additional change using the "W" first letter identifier over the "K", allowed for by its transmitter location on the eastern side of the Mississippi River. The station later relocated its operations to a new studio located on Broadway Street Northeast in Minneapolis. Until 1998, it served as the de facto Fox affiliate for almost all of Minnesota; the state's other two markets, Duluth and Rochester, did not have Fox affiliates of their own until KXLT TV in Rochester joined the network in 1998, and KQDS TV debuted in Duluth one year later. Most areas in western Minnesota received Fox programming from Fargo, North Dakota's KVRR or Sioux Falls, South Dakota's KTTW. As part of its liquidation of its broadcasting interests, Nationwide Communications sold the station to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 1993 (it was the last remaining television station under Nationwide's ownership, the company having sold its other three stations, all of which were affiliated with ABC, to Young Broadcasting the year before). In 2001, Clear Channel traded the station to Fox Television Stations for KMOL TV (now WOAI TV) in San Antonio and KTVX in Salt Lake City. Both stations were acquired by Fox through its purchase of Chris Craft Industries' broadcast properties, which included then UPN affiliate KMSP TV. WFTC became the third station in the area to be owned and operated by a major network, but since KMSP had higher ratings and a stronger signal than WFTC, Fox switched the affiliations of the two stations on September 8, 2002: Fox programming returned to KMSP, while WFTC affiliated with UPN. Switch to MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that UPN and The WB would shut down and be replaced by a new network that would carry programs from both networks, The CW. Despite affiliating with most of CBS Corporation's UPN stations and Tribune Broadcasting's WB stations, Fox's UPN affiliates were not included in the new network. Although The CW did not sign its Twin Cities' affiliate until May 2006 (when KMWB TV, which changed its calls to WUCW by the network's launch in September, was announced as the network's local affiliate through an affiliation deal by its parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group), WFTC joined other Fox owned UPN stations in scrubbing all UPN branding the following day, becoming branded as simply "WFTC 29". It also stopped promoting UPN programming outside of network hours. On February 22, less than a month after the announcement of The CW, Fox announced that it would (in conjunction with its syndication division Twentieth Television) launch a new network called MyNetworkTV, with WFTC and the other Fox owned UPN stations (plus included in this deal is a Fox owned independent station in Dallas Fort Worth) as the nuclei. On June 2, 2006, WFTC officially changed its branding to "My 29", following its impending switch to the newly launched Fox owned network. Although MyNetworkTV announced its launch date to be September 5, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates that switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN's programming outside its regular prime time slot, the Fox owned stations (including WFTC) dropped the network entirely on August 31, 2006. On September 9, 2006, WFTC began carrying the 4Kids TV lineup for the first time since 2002, when the station was a Fox affiliate airing what was then Fox Kids. The station continues to air the Weekend Marketplace infomercial block on Saturday mornings while sister station KMSP aired Xploration Station'' which started in the fall of 2014.
Working Families Tax Credit
WFTC (channel 9.2) is a television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service to the Twin Cities area. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KMSP TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios on Viking Drive in Eden Prairie, while WFTC's transmitter is located in Shoreview, Minnesota. WFTC rebroadcasts its signal on full power satellite station KFTC (channel 26) in Bemidji (with transmitter near Lake Bemidji State Park) and several low power repeaters across Minnesota, including the Mankato market (via K23MF D in nearby St. James through the local municipal operated Cooperative TV (CTV) network of translators), as that area does not have a MyNetworkTV affiliate of its own. History
Early history
The station signed on air in October 1982 as WFBT (for "Family Bible Television"). Channel 29 originally maintained a schedule offering reruns of classic family oriented series and Christian based religious programming. The station was started by a group led by Danny Koker, a gospel musician and father of Danny Koker II, star of History's Counting Cars. It first operated from studio facilities located on Aspen Lane North in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. On May 6, 1984, the station was sold to the Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation, headed by prominent arbitrageur Ivan Boesky, who changed its call letters to KITN TV (which although it actually stood for "Independent Twenty Nine", colloquially meant "Kitten" as in, "The KITN That Roars!"). At that time, it transitioned into the market's second mainstream independent station (and first on the UHF dial), airing syndicated programs such as The Beverly Hillbillies, Batman and Star Trek. It also acquired broadcast rights to the NHL's Minnesota North Stars, as well as University of Minnesota college football games. In 1985, BHHC sold the station to Nationwide Communications, the broadcasting subsidiary of Columbus, Ohio–based Nationwide Insurance. As a Fox affiliate, then becoming a UPN station
In 1988, KMSP TV ended its affiliation with Fox, disappointed with the network's weak programming offerings that were bogging down the station's otherwise successful general entertainment lineup. Fox then shifted its affiliation to KITN, which adopted the moniker "Fox 29". The station again changed its call sign to WFTC on October 1, 1994 (for "We're Fox Twin Cities"), with the additional change using the "W" first letter identifier over the "K", allowed for by its transmitter location on the eastern side of the Mississippi River. The station later relocated its operations to a new studio located on Broadway Street Northeast in Minneapolis. Until 1998, it served as the de facto Fox affiliate for almost all of Minnesota; the state's other two markets, Duluth and Rochester, did not have Fox affiliates of their own until KXLT TV in Rochester joined the network in 1998, and KQDS TV debuted in Duluth one year later. Most areas in western Minnesota received Fox programming from Fargo, North Dakota's KVRR or Sioux Falls, South Dakota's KTTW. As part of its liquidation of its broadcasting interests, Nationwide Communications sold the station to Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) in 1993 (it was the last remaining television station under Nationwide's ownership, the company having sold its other three stations, all of which were affiliated with ABC, to Young Broadcasting the year before). In 2001, Clear Channel traded the station to Fox Television Stations for KMOL TV (now WOAI TV) in San Antonio and KTVX in Salt Lake City. Both stations were acquired by Fox through its purchase of Chris Craft Industries' broadcast properties, which included then UPN affiliate KMSP TV. WFTC became the third station in the area to be owned and operated by a major network, but since KMSP had higher ratings and a stronger signal than WFTC, Fox switched the affiliations of the two stations on September 8, 2002: Fox programming returned to KMSP, while WFTC affiliated with UPN. Switch to MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced that UPN and The WB would shut down and be replaced by a new network that would carry programs from both networks, The CW. Despite affiliating with most of CBS Corporation's UPN stations and Tribune Broadcasting's WB stations, Fox's UPN affiliates were not included in the new network. Although The CW did not sign its Twin Cities' affiliate until May 2006 (when KMWB TV, which changed its calls to WUCW by the network's launch in September, was announced as the network's local affiliate through an affiliation deal by its parent, Sinclair Broadcast Group), WFTC joined other Fox owned UPN stations in scrubbing all UPN branding the following day, becoming branded as simply "WFTC 29". It also stopped promoting UPN programming outside of network hours. On February 22, less than a month after the announcement of The CW, Fox announced that it would (in conjunction with its syndication division Twentieth Television) launch a new network called MyNetworkTV, with WFTC and the other Fox owned UPN stations (plus included in this deal is a Fox owned independent station in Dallas Fort Worth) as the nuclei. On June 2, 2006, WFTC officially changed its branding to "My 29", following its impending switch to the newly launched Fox owned network. Although MyNetworkTV announced its launch date to be September 5, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates that switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN's programming outside its regular prime time slot, the Fox owned stations (including WFTC) dropped the network entirely on August 31, 2006. On September 9, 2006, WFTC began carrying the 4Kids TV lineup for the first time since 2002, when the station was a Fox affiliate airing what was then Fox Kids. The station continues to air the Weekend Marketplace infomercial block on Saturday mornings while sister station KMSP aired Xploration Station'' which started in the fall of 2014.
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Команда 1989 жылы құрылғаннан бастап, станция Миннесота Тимбервулвз командасының хабар тарату құқығын алды, KSTP TV (5-арна) және NBC филиалы KARE (11-арна) арқылы таңдалған ойындарды көрсетті. Команданың станциямен арақатынасы 1993–94 маусымынан кейін аяқталды, осыдан кейін команданың эфирдегі хабарлары KLGT TV-ге (23-арна, қазір CW филиалы WUCW) көшті. 1994 жылы Fox желісі NFL ойындарына (NFC ойындары, және осымен қатар Миннесота Викингс ойындарына) құқық алғаннан кейін, 29-арна WCCO TV-нің орнына команданың ресми емес үй станциясы болды. Ол бұл рөлді 2001 жылғы маусым соңына дейін сақтап тұрды (2002 жылдан бастап, көптеген ойындар KMSP TV телеарнасында көрсетіледі). 2023 жылдың күзінде WFTC Сент-Томас Университетінің Томмис командаларының ресми медиа өкілі атанды. Станция футбол, ерлер және әйелдер баскетбол командаларының, сондай-ақ ерлер және әйелдер хоккей командаларының таңдалған үй ойындарын көрсетеді.
Upon the team's founding in 1989, the station acquired the broadcast rights to the Minnesota Timberwolves, carrying a select number of games along with KSTP TV (channel 5) as well as NBC affiliate KARE (channel 11). The team's relationship with the station would end after the 1993–94 season, when the team's over the air broadcasts moved to KLGT TV (channel 23, now CW affiliate WUCW). With the Fox network gaining rights to NFL games (NFC games, and with it, Minnesota Vikings games) in the 1994 season, channel 29 succeeded WCCO TV as the unofficial home station of the team. It would hold this role until the end of the 2001 season (since 2002, most games are broadcast on KMSP TV). In fall 2023, WFTC became the official media outlet for the University of St. Thomas Tommies athletics teams. The station broadcasts select home competitions for the football, men's and women's basketball, and men's and women's hockey teams.
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2009 жылдың 5 ақпанында WFTC-нің Бемидж қаласында орналасқан спутниктік станциясы KFTC тек цифрлық сигналды таратуды бастады. WFTC 2009 жылдың 12 маусымында UHF 29-шы арнадағы аналогтық сигналын тоқтатты, бұл АҚШ-тағы толық қуатты телеарналардың федералдық талап бойынша аналогтан цифрлық хабарлауға көшкен ресми күні болды. Станцияның цифрлық сигналы көшу алдындағы UHF 21-ші арнадан UHF 29-шы арнаға, ал KFTC (цифрлық көшуге дейін қосымша цифрлық арна алған жоқ) UHF 26-шы арнадағы бұрынғы аналогтық арнаға бірден цифрлық форматқа көшті.
On February 5, 2009, WFTC's Bemidji based satellite station KFTC began broadcasting its signal in digital only. WFTC shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 29, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre transition UHF channel 21 to former UHF analog channel 29 for post transition operations, while KFTC (which did not receive a companion digital channel prior to the digital transition) flash cut to digital on its former analog channel assignment of UHF channel 26.