KTTO

Not to be confused with the real KTTO 970 in Spokane, WA.
 is a television station in El Paso, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. The station is owned by BIG Media. It is licensed to El Paso and has its transmitter facilities on top of the Franklin Mountains by the El Paso city limits, with their studios a few miles away from it in an old movie theater off of I-10.
==History ==
KTTO signed on at 9 AM on October 24, 1980, as a general entertainment independent station owned by Finnish-Amercian businessman Onni Syrjäniemi, who immigrated to America by Ellis Island with his parents in 1930. The station's original callsign was KIMF, which stood for "I miss Finland", but it was changed to KTTO a few months before launch. It ran an English-language general entertainment schedule. Over the next two years, Syrjäniemi and his station manager went in a power struggle, with the schedule gradually adding more Spanish-language programs until it was 50/50.
In 1986, the station became a charter member of Fox. All Spanish-language programming was dropped by this point. In 1992, Onni Syrjäniemi died, and his son Gregory would inherit the station.
The station was sold to Sinclair Broadcast Group in 1998.
In 2008, Fox 33 News debuted their new high-definition newsroom.
KTTO was slated to become an affiliate of the never-realized .2 Network. Its second subchannel currently airs a looping weather radar, originally a placeholder but has since become permanent.
On May 11, 2024, Sinclair sold KTTO to Big Media for $24 million.
==Programming==
Syndicated programming on KTTO include America's Court with Judge Ross, Judge Judy, American Dad, The King of Queens, and House M.D. among others. 
== News Operation==
As of May 2024, KTTO airs 49 hours of locally-produced news programming a week (with 8 hours each weekday, 6 hours on Saturdays and 3 hours on Sundays).
One of the initial broadcasts on Channel 33 was a 9 pm newscast hosted by Onni Syrjäniemi. However, the station received numerous complaints in the following weeks due to new viewers struggling to understand his very thick Finnish accent. As a result, the newscast was discontinued after just a few months.
In 1998, new owners Sinclair Broadcast Group launched a second 9 pm newscast. Ever since, KTTO's news operation has expanded and is usually placed in between 2nd and 3rd in ratings.
===Current On-air Staff===
Howie Lacroix - News Director
*Amelia Lunsford - anchor; weekday mornings
* Samantha Goss - anchor; weeknights at 5 and 9
* Tyler Merullo - anchor; weeknights at 5 and 9
*Darlene Hawthorne - anchor; weekend evenings
===First Warning Weather Meteorologists===
*Austin Melcher - meteorologist; weekday mornings
*Charley Distel - chief meteorologist (AMS Seal of Approval); weeknights at 5 and 9
*Katie Jewett - meteorologist; weekend evenings
===Sports===
*Matt Parr - sports director; weeknights at 5 and 9
*Jordan Putnoi - sports reporter; weekends at 9
===Reporters===
* Carla Rizzuto - general assignment reporter
* Steve Velussi - general assignment reporter
*Liz Landreth - general assignment reporter
*Shelby Barrios - general assignment reporter
*Kristy Pippenger - general assignment reporter
*Janelle Perlin - general assignment reporter
==Technical Information==
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel	Video	Aspect	Short Name	Programming
33.1 	720p 	16:9 	KTTO 	Fox/Main KTTO programming
33.2 	480i 	16:9 	KTTOWX 	24 hour weather radar
33.3 	480i 	16:9 	SYRJANIEMI	GermanTV
33.4 	480i 	16:9 	GRIT 	Grit
33.5 	480i 	16:9 	GET 	Get TV
33.6 	480i 	16:9 	BEIN 	beIN Sports Xtra
33.7 	480i 	16:9 	CHEDDAR 	Cheddar
33.8 	480i 	4:3 	FANDUEL 	Fanduel TV
33.9 	480i 	4:3 	ONTV4U 	OnTV4U (Infomericals)
33.10 	480i 	16:9 	VTV4 	VTV4 (Vietnamese)
 	 	16:9 	 	
=== Analog Sign-off===
KTTO stopped transmitting on its analog signal, over UHF channel 33, 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 remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 5. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former analog channel 33. 
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