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MyNetworkTV в Миннеаполисе
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.
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 (канал 9.2) – телевизионная станция, лицензированная в Миннеаполисе, штат Миннесота, США, вещающая программу MyNetworkTV в районе Близнецов. Станция принадлежит и управляется Fox Television Stations совместно с Fox KMSP TV (канал 9). Обе станции совместно используют студии на Викинг-Драйв в Эден-Прейри, а передатчик WFTC расположен в Шорвью, штат Миннесота. WFTC ретранслирует свой сигнал на спутниковой станции KFTC (канал 26) в Бемиджи (с передатчиком вблизи государственного парка озера Бемиджи) и нескольких маломощных ретрансляторах по всей Миннесоте, включая рынок Манкато (через K23MF D в близлежащем Сент-Джеймсе через местную муниципальную сеть переводчиков Cooperative TV (CTV), поскольку в этом регионе нет собственного партнера MyNetworkTV).
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.
История
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.
Ранняя история
Станция начала вещание в октябре 1982 года как WFBT (от "Family Bible Television"). Канал 29 изначально предлагал повторы классических семейных сериалов и христианские религиозные программы. Станция была основана группой во главе с Дэнни Кокером, госпел-музыкантом и отцом Дэнни Кокера II, звезды шоу History "Counting Cars". Первоначально вещание осуществлялось из студий, расположенных на Аспен-Лейн-Норт в Бруклин-Парке, штат Миннесота. 6 мая 1984 года станция была продана Beverly Hills Hotel Corporation, возглавляемой известным арбитражером Иваном Боэски, который изменил ее позывной на KITN TV (хотя он фактически означал "Independent Twenty Nine", в разговорной речи его понимали как "Kitten" – "The KITN That Roars!"). В то время станция стала вторым независимым общенациональным каналом на рынке (и первым в диапазоне UHF), транслируя синдицированные программы, такие как "The Beverly Hillbillies", "Batman" и "Star Trek". Она также приобрела права на трансляцию игр хоккейной команды "Minnesota North Stars" из НХЛ, а также футбольных матчей университета Миннесоты. В 1985 году BHHC продала станцию Nationwide Communications, вещательному подразделению Nationwide Insurance, базирующейся в Колумбусе, штат Огайо.
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.
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.
Как партнер Fox, а затем UPN
В 1988 году KMSP TV прекратила сотрудничество с Fox, разочаровавшись в слабой программной сетке, которая ухудшала успешную общую развлекательную линейку станции. Затем Fox перенесла сотрудничество на KITN, которая приняла прозвище "Fox 29". 1 октября 1994 года станция снова изменила свой позывной на WFTC (от "We're Fox Twin Cities"), с дополнительным изменением, использовавшим идентификатор первой буквы "W" вместо "K", что было разрешено расположением передатчика на восточной стороне реки Миссисипи. Позже станция перенесла свою деятельность в новую студию, расположенную на Бродвей-стрит Северо-Восточной в Миннеаполисе. До 1998 года она фактически являлась партнером Fox почти для всей Миннесоты; другие два региона штата, Дулут и Рочестер, не имели собственных партнеров Fox до тех пор, пока KXLT TV в Рочестере не присоединилась к сети в 1998 году, а KQDS TV дебютировала в Дулуте годом позже. Большинство районов западной Миннесоты получали программы Fox из KVRR в Фарго, Северная Дакота, или KTTW в Сиу-Фолс, Южная Дакота. В рамках ликвидации своих вещательных активов Nationwide Communications продала станцию Clear Channel Communications (ныне iHeartMedia) в 1993 году (это была последняя оставшаяся телевизионная станция в собственности Nationwide, компания продала свои три другие станции, все из которых были связаны с ABC, Young Broadcasting годом ранее). В 2001 году Clear Channel обменяла станцию Fox Television Stations на KMOL TV (ныне WOAI TV) в Сан-Антонио и KTVX в Солт-Лейк-Сити. Обе станции были приобретены Fox в результате покупки вещательных активов Chris Craft Industries, включая тогдашнего партнера UPN KMSP TV. WFTC стала третьей станцией в этом районе, принадлежащей и управляемой крупной сетью, но поскольку KMSP имела более высокие рейтинги и более сильный сигнал, чем WFTC, Fox переключила партнерство двух станций 8 сентября 2002 года: программирование Fox вернулось на KMSP, а WFTC стала партнером UPN.
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.
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.
Переход к MyNetworkTV
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.
24 января 2006 года CBS Corporation и Time Warner объявили о закрытии UPN и The WB и их замене новой сетью, которая будет транслировать программы из обеих сетей – The CW. Несмотря на сотрудничество с большинством станций UPN корпорации CBS и станциями WB Tribune Broadcasting, партнеры UPN Fox не были включены в новую сеть. Хотя The CW не подписала партнерство с филиалом в районе Близнецов до мая 2006 года (когда KMWB TV, которая изменила свой позывной на WUCW к запуску сети в сентябре, была объявлена местным партнером сети через соглашение о партнерстве со своим владельцем, Sinclair Broadcast Group), WFTC присоединилась к другим станциям UPN, принадлежащим Fox, в удалении всего брендинга UPN на следующий день, став просто "WFTC 29". Она также прекратила продвижение программ UPN вне сетевого эфира. 22 февраля, менее чем через месяц после объявления о The CW, Fox объявила о запуске новой сети под названием MyNetworkTV (совместно со своим синдикационным подразделением Twentieth Television), в которой WFTC и другие станции UPN, принадлежащие Fox (а также независимая станция Fox в районе Даллас-Форт-Уэрт), станут ядром. 2 июня 2006 года WFTC официально изменила свой брендинг на "My 29", в преддверии перехода на новую сеть, принадлежащую Fox. Хотя MyNetworkTV объявила дату запуска 5 сентября, UPN продолжала вещание на станциях по всей стране до 15 сентября 2006 года. В то время как некоторые партнеры UPN, перешедшие на MyNetworkTV, транслировали последние две недели программ UPN вне своего обычного прайм-тайма, станции, принадлежащие Fox (включая WFTC), полностью прекратили вещание сети 31 августа 2006 года. 9 сентября 2006 года WFTC впервые начала транслировать линейку 4Kids TV с тех пор, как станция была партнером Fox и транслировала то, что тогда было Fox Kids. Станция продолжает транслировать блок рекламных роликов Weekend Marketplace по субботам утром, в то время как ее партнерская станция KMSP транслирует Xploration Station, запущенную осенью 2014 года.
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.
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.
Спортивные программы
После основания команды в 1989 году станция приобрела права на трансляцию матчей «Миннесоты Тимбервулвз», показывая избранные игры совместно с KSTP TV (канал 5) и телеканалом, аффилированным с NBC, KARE (канал 11). Сотрудничество команды со станцией прекратилось после сезона 1993–94, когда эфирные трансляции команды перешли на KLGT TV (канал 23, ныне филиал CW – WUCW). В сезоне 1994 года, когда телесеть Fox получила права на трансляцию игр НФЛ (игр NFC, а вместе с ними и игр «Миннесоты Вайкингс»), канал 29 сменил WCCO TV в качестве неофициального основного телеканала команды. Он сохранял эту роль до конца сезона 2001 года (с 2002 года большинство игр транслируются на KMSP TV). Осенью 2023 года WFTC стал официальным медиапартнером спортивных команд Университета Сент-Томаса. Станция транслирует избранные домашние соревнования по американскому футболу, мужскому и женскому баскетболу, а также мужскому и женскому хоккею.
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.
Аналого-цифровое преобразование
5 февраля 2009 года спутниковая станция WFTC, расположенная в Бемиджи, KFTC начала вещание своего сигнала исключительно в цифровом формате. WFTC прекратила аналоговое вещание на УВЧ канале 29 12 июня 2009 года – официальной дате перехода телевизионных станций в США с аналогового на цифровое вещание в соответствии с федеральным предписанием. Цифровой сигнал станции был перенесен с УВЧ канала 21, использовавшегося до перехода, на бывший аналоговый УВЧ канал 29 для дальнейшей работы, а KFTC (которая не получила дополнительный цифровой канал до перехода) мгновенно перешла на цифровое вещание на своем прежнем аналоговом канале УВЧ 26.
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.