KTTW
KTTW (channel 7) is a religious television station in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States, owned and operated by Tri-State Christian Television (TCT). The station's studios are located on West 11th Street in Sioux Falls, and its transmitter is located in Rowena, South Dakota. KTTM (channel 12) in Huron operates as a full-time satellite of KTTW; this station's transmitter is located near Alpena, South Dakota. KTTM covers areas of south-central and southeastern South Dakota that receive a marginal to non-existent over-the-air signal from KTTW, although there is significant overlap between the  two stations' contours otherwise. KTTM is a straight simulcast of KTTW; on-air references to KTTM are limited to Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-mandated hourly station identifications during programming. Aside from the transmitter, KTTM does not maintain any physical presence locally in Huron. History. KTTW signed on May 29, 1987 as a Fox affiliate, the first non-Big Three network commercial station in South Dakota. The station was founded by Independent Communications, Inc., a consortium of local investors. For its first six years on the air, it was effectively South Dakota's first general entertainment independent station. Fox didn't air  a full week's worth of programming until 1993, and until then most early Fox affiliates were programmed as independents. Satellite station KTTM signed on in 1991 to serve the western portions of the Sioux Falls area that could not get a clear signal from KTTW. In early 1996, Rapid City-based KEVN-TV announced that it would switch from NBC to Fox once its affiliation contract with NBC expired in July of that year. Prior to the switch, KTTW was the only Fox affiliate to be based in South Dakota, while the western portion of the state received the  network's programming via either Foxnet or Denver-based KDVR. KTTW aired on analog channel 17 since its inception, then took advantage of the digital transition in 2009 to use their physical digital channel 7 as their permanent PSIP virtual channel in order to better brand itself. For most of its existence, especially since the turn of the millennium, it was mostly a pass-through for automated programming. It never produced a newscast, unlike most Fox affiliates; its studios were too small for an in-house news operation, and it never contracted with other stations to produce a newscast. On  November 2, 2020, KTTW's non-license assets were purchased by Gray Television, owner of ABC affiliate KSFY-TV (channel 13) and NBC affiliate KDLT-TV (channel 46); Fox programming moved to KDLT on digital subchannel 46.2. Cozi TV, which was also carried on KTTW, moved to subchannel 46.4. According to a local business publication, Independent Communications is exiting television altogether, and intends to sell or donate KTTW "to a nonprofit entity in the near future". On February 10, 2021, it was announced that Marion, Illinois–based Tri-State Christian Television would acquire the licensed assets of KTTW/KTTM for  $850,000. The transaction was completed on December 21; the stations switched to TCT programming the next day. Technical information. Subchannels. The stations' digital signals are multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion. Both stations shut down their analog signals for the 2009 analog shutoff date: Former translators. The programming of KTTW was also rebroadcast on the following translator stations: On November 4, 2020, KTTW's owner reached a deal to sell the translators to Gray Television for $1. The Lowry translator had already closed as a result of the disbanding of the Five County TV Translator District on January 31 , 2019.