KAET

Not to be confused with the real KAET. A PBS Member Station in nearby Phoenix.
KAET, virtual channel 25 (UHF digital channel 27), is a Central TVUS-affiliated station that serves the Eloy/Casa Grande/Florence, AZ area. The station is owned by The E.W. Scripps Company since 1984.
==History==
===CapStates Ownership (1972-1984)===
The station launched on January 7, 1972 under the ownership of Capitol States Broadcasting Company. The following year, CapStates acquired its radio sister station KAZZ-AM (1532 AM). The company would eventually own the two for more than a decade.
===Scripps years (1984-present)===
When Capitol States announced its acquisition of the Central Television Network in March 1985, it was required to divest stations to stay within Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ownership limits of the era. The company announced the sale of KAET to Cincinnati, OH-based E.W. Scripps Company in July of that year; the sale of the station would be completed in early 1986, shortly after Capitol States completed its acquisition of Central. As a result, its radio sister was sold off to Entercom Communications (now Audacy, Inc.)
Until 1997, KAET was the local station to air the Arizona Lottery, when it was transferred to NBC O&O KWFG-TV (channel 18). In 2004, KAET re-branded from Channel 25 to Central Action News, derived from its real-life sister station WFTS-TV in Tampa Bay, FL.
====Possible duopoly with KGQA====
On September 24, 2020, a consortium made up of Scripps and Berkshire Hathaway announced the proposed purchase of Ion Media. If the deal is successfully closed, as there are no regulatory complications within the Eloy market, Ion Television station KGQA (channel 47) would become a sister station to KAET.
== Digital Television ==
=== Digital channels ===
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel	Video	Aspect Ratio	PSIP Short Name	Programming
25.1 	1080p	16:9 	KAET-HD 	Main KAET programming / Central
25.2 	1080p	16:9 	NWLD 	NewsWorld
25.3 	480i 	16:9 	Court TV 	Court TV
25.4 	480i 	16:9 	AVG 	Avant Garde Network
=== Analog-to-digital conversion ===
KAET discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF digital channel 25, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal moved from its pre-transition UHF channel 31 to UHF digital channel 27. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 25.
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