KVTI

KVTI, virtual and VHF digital channel 2, is a television station licensed to Hedgeton, Kansas, United States, serving as an ABC affiliate. It is owned by the Microsoft Television Stations subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation.
==History==
The station signed-on the air on December 2, 1953, under the ownership of Victor Television and Radio, Inc., the company that owned KVRI radio. The station initially operated as an NBC affiliate, owing to KVRI's longtime association with the NBC Red Network. However, the station also carried select programs from CBS and the DuMont Television Network. The station would lose CBS programming to KHDG-TV when it signed on a few months later, and then DuMont when that network shut down in 1956, leaving KVTI as a standalone NBC affiliate. On March 15, 1958, KVTI became the first television station in Hedgeton to broadcast in color.
Victor Television and Radio sold KVTI to the Combined Communications Corporation of Phoenix, Arizona, in September 1970.
==Microsoft ownership==
On May 12, 1999, Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Corporation purchased the station for $35 million.
Category:ABC network affiliates
Category:Microsoft
Category:Microsoft Television Stations
Category:Channel 2
Category:Former NBC affiliates
Category:Former NBC Affiliates