KKOP-TV

(channel 18) is a television station in Los Santos, San Andreas, United States, serving as the market's MyNetworkTV outlet. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KIFT (channel 13).
==Programming==
KKOP-TV may air Fox network programming should it be preempted by KIFT for long-form breaking news or severe weather coverage or other special programming.
===Sports coverage===
Channel 18 served as the broadcast home of the Los Santos Marathon from its inception in 1986 until 2001, the NBA's Los Santos Clippers from 1991 to 1996, and the Los Santos Dodgers from 2002 to 2005, the Los Santos Angels from 2006 to 2019 and two Los Santos Chargers regular season games in 2017. In 2021, KKOP started televising Los Santos FC regular season soccer matches on weekends that are not nationally televised.
Like many local stations in the earlier years of television, KKOP hosted its own weekly Studio Wrestling show for many years during the 1970s. Stars such as Freddie Blassie, John Tolos, Rocky Johnson, André the Giant and The Sheik headlined the shows, with longtime local announcer Dick Lane behind the microphone calling the action. In later years, pro wrestling returned to KKOP by way of the World Wrestling Entertainment program Smackdown, which aired on the station from 1999 to 2006 (as a UPN affiliate) and again from 2008 to 2010 (as a MyNetworkTV affiliate). In the past, Channel 13 also aired other wrestling programs, including World Class Championship Wrestling and the NWA. Channel 13 also televised live boxing matches, originating from the Grand Olympic Auditorium in downtown Los Santos, on and off from the late 1960s until as recently as the mid-1990s, with legendary Los Santos sportscaster Jim Healy calling the action in the early years.
From 2005 to 2007, KKOP carried St. Louis Rams preseason games produced by now-former corporate siblings Fox Sports Midwest and KTVI. Back in the 1950s during the team's early years in Los Santos, the station broadcast many Rams regular season games before NFL games became more exclusive to the major broadcast networks (such as CBS, NBC and DuMont). However, in July 2008, the NFL's broadcast committee decided to no longer allow teams to broadcast preseason games beyond even their secondary markets. This was done more so to protect the league's broadcast partners, including KCBL-TV and KTLS, the respective local broadcasters of San Diego Chargers and San Fierro Raiders preseason games.
From 2006 to 2011, KKOP held the broadcast television rights to Los Santos Little Angels baseball; the team and Fox Sports West (now Bally Sports West) signed a 20-year broadcast deal beginning with the 2012 season, making 150 annual Angels telecasts exclusive to Fox Sports West, with a selected portion of that schedule airing on Prime Ticket, although KKOP aired a game between the Angels and the Minnesota Twins on May 9, 2012 due to scheduling conflicts with other sports events on Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket. Due to its relationship with their corporate sibling regional sports networks, KKOP serves as an overflow channel for Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket, as it aired five Los Santos Kings hockey games during the 2010–11 season, as well as televising selected late-season games from the 2011–12 season, plus the first two games of the Kings' first-round playoff series against the Vancouver Canucks. In the time since, KKOP will occasionally air selected Kings games, as well as those of the team's crosstown rival, the Los Santos Ducks. The Ducks discontinued their over-the-air partnership with KDOL-TV after the 2013–14 season, as the team elected to take its local television schedule exclusively on cable to Prime Ticket, with occasional games on KKOP and Fox Sports West, as part of a new broadcast agreement signed in October 2014
In the 2020–21 NHL season, KKOP served as a home for several Kings and Ducks games due to the NHL season being delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. KKOP aired six Kings broadcasts and four Ducks broadcasts.
In the 2021 MLB season, KKOP is scheduled to air at least four Angels games due to the NHL and NBA seasons being delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On April 8, 2011, KKOP televised its first Clippers game since 1996 (a road game versus the Dallas Mavericks), as a last-minute scheduling addition to the team's television schedule. During the 2011–12 season, also as a last-minute addition, the station televised two Clipper games; a road contest versus the Denver Nuggets on April 18, and game six of their playoff series versus the Memphis Grizzlies on May 11.
As a Fox-owned station, KKOP was granted special rights to two Fox NFL games during the 2017 regular season, both home contests featuring the Chargers, newly relocated to Los Santos from San Diego. The broadcasts occurred on weekends when CBS had the doubleheader, but the Rams were on KIFT.
==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The station's signal is multiplexed:
 Subchannels of KKOP-TV
Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming 	ATSC 1.0 host
18.1 	720p	16:9 	KKOP-DT 	MyNetworkTV 	KTLS
18.2 	480i	16:9 	BUZZR 	Buzzr 	KCBL-TV
18.3 	480i	16:9 	MOVIES! 	Movies! 	KNBL
18.4 	480i	16:9 	HEROES 	Heroes & Icons	KIFT
On November 4, 2011, Fox Television Stations signed an affiliation agreement with Bounce TV for KKOP and its Liberty City-area sister station WRLL-TV. KKOP began carrying Bounce TV on digital subchannel 13.2 on March 8, 2012 (WRLL added the network on its 9.3 subchannel two weeks earlier on February 24). The network has also been added to the subchannels of Fox-owned MyNetworkTV stations in five other markets: WUTB in Baltimore, KUTP in Phoenix, WRBW in Orlando, KDFI in Dallas–Fort Worth and WFTC in Minneapolis–Saint Paul; the Baltimore affiliation had since moved to a subchannel of ABC affiliate WMAR-TV, soon after Fox sold-off MyNetworkTV outlet WUTB to Deerfield Media. In three other markets where Fox owns MyNetworkTV stations (WPWR-TV in Chicago, KTXH in Houston and WDCA in Washington, D.C.), Bounce TV is carried on the subchannel space of other competing stations in those markets.
As a result of Bounce TV signing a new carriage agreement with Univision Communications in 2014, the network moved to the third subchannel of Univision owned-and-operated station KMXC-DT (channel 34) on March 9, 2015.  Buzzr, a new digital multicast network focusing on classic game shows, which is a joint venture of FremantleMedia (most notably, the owners of the Mark Goodson and Reg Grundy libraries among others) and KKOP's parent company, Fox Television Stations, debuted on channel 20.2 on June 1, 2015.
On September 18, 2015, Weigel Broadcasting and Fox Television Stations announced an affiliation agreement to carry diginet Heroes & Icons on subchannels of Fox-owned stations in Liberty City, Los Santos, Dallas, San Fierro, Washington, D.C., Phoenix, Detroit, Tampa, Orlando and Charlotte beginning October 1, 2015.
===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KKOP shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 20, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal relocated from its transition period UHF channel 66, which was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to UHF channel 17.
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