KEYT-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KEYT-TV
city =
station_
station_slogan = Where The News Comes First / Your News, Your Team
station_branding = "Channel 3" (general)
"Key News" (newscast)
MyRTN
analog = 3 (VHF)
digital = 27 (UHF)
other_chs = KSBB-LP 17 Santa Barbara (city)
K57BC San Luis Obispo
affiliations = ABC
MyNetwork TV/RTN (DT2)
network =
founded =
airdate = July 24, 1953
location = Santa Barbara, California
callsign_meaning = KEY Television
or
KEY Channel Three
former_callsigns = KEYT (1953-1987)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Smith Media, LLC
licensee = Smith Media License Holdings, LLC
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = DuMont (1953-1954)
CBS
NBC
effective_radiated_power = 50.1 kW (analog)
250 kW (digital)
HAAT = 917 m (analog)
918 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 60637
coordinates = coord|34|31|31.5|N|119|57|32|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.keyt.com www.keyt.com]

KEYT-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for the Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, and San Luis Obispo, California areas. Licensed to Santa Barbara, California the station broadcasts on analog VHF channel 3 and digital UHF channel 27. KEYT's transmitter is located on top of Broadcast Peak, located between Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez, California in the Santa Ynez Mountains. KEYT is owned and operated by Smith Media, LLC. KEYT's studios are located at 730 Miramonte Dr. on TV Hill, overlooking downtown Santa Barbara.

KEYT operates the area's MyNetwork TV affiliate on its DT2 digital subchannel, branded as MyRTN. It is also offered on Central Coast cable systems on channel 13. MyRTN clears the entire MyNetwork TV programming schedule and airs programming from Retro Television Network, as well as a few syndicated shows.

During the 1950s, the station ran programming from all four TV networks: ABC, CBS, DuMont, and NBC [ [http://www.ellwanger.tv/collect/tvg/eds/l/la.html#031254 TV Guide: Los Angeles Metropolitan Edition ] ] . KEYT operates morning, afternoon, and evening newscasts. KEYT channel 3 has identified itself as KEY News since the 1980s. In the ratings game, KEYT is in second barely behind KSBY. KCOY is third.

Between KEYT's launch of its HDTV signal on March 2007 and September 2007, KEYT-HD was unavailable to cable subscribers in the Central Coast, due to a contract dispute with the local cable companies. KEYT has since reached an agreement with Cox Communications in Santa Barbara and Comcast in Santa Maria in providing its HDTV signal to them.

As of late October 2007, KEYT reached an agreement with Charter Cable in San Luis Obispo to carry its HDTV signal.

Present Personalities
*Jim Bunner (News Director)
*Rachel Acenas (Reporter)
*Martha Bull (Reporter)
*Mike DeFina (weekend sports Anchor/Reporter)
*Gerry Fall (Sports Director)
*Beth Farnsworth (Morning Anchor)
*Joe Gehl (Weeknight 5 anchor and 11 PM reporter)
*Mike Klan (Weekend Anchor)
*Tracy Lehr (Weekend Anchor/Ventura County Bureau Chief)
*Paula Lopez (6 and 11 PM anchor)
*Arti Nehru (reporter)
*John Palmentari (Senior Reporter)
*Alan Rose (Chief Meteorologist)
*Shawn Quien (Weekend Weather anchor)
*CJ Ward (6 and 11pm Anchor)
*Ryan Carmel (Morning News Anchor & Weather Anchor)

*Mike Waller (executive producer)
*Christina Heller (assignment editor)
*Jessica Ferrante (producer)
*Ilia Domon (producer)
*Mark Mester (producer)
*Bob Gabriel (producer)

Cathy Jacquemin (General Manager)

Past Personalities
*Rosemary Orozco, (Former anchor/traffic/weather 2002-2007 Now at KTXL FOX40 in Sacramento, CA.)
*Giselle Fernández (Reporter circa 1983)
*Bob Burton (6, 11 PM anchor 1996-2002)
*Debby Davidson (5, 6 PM anchor 1990-2006 now retired)
*Christine Craft(Reporter and anchor in 1970's)
*Lauren Glass (Morning/Midday anchor 1997-1999)
*Jennifer Bjorklund, (weekend anchor 1994-1997, now at KNBC in Los Angeles)
*Bill Huddy (Anchor in 1970's)
*Tess Rafols Morning/Midday anchor (1999-2001, now at KTVK in Phoenix, AZ)
*Edie Lambert, (Anchor/ Reporter (Now at KCRA-TV in Sacramento)
*Dan Elliott, (Sports Anchor/ Fill-in Anchor, Now at KXTV in Sacramento)
*Paul Vercammen (5, 11 PM anchor 2003-2006)
*Noelle Walker (Weekend Anchor 1996-1998, now at KNTV in San Jose/San Francisco)
*Michelle Franzen (Reporter/ Fill-in Anchor 1993-1994)
*Kate Wentzel (Chief Meteorologist 2005-2006 now at WPBF in West Palm Beach, FL)

Programming

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Post-analog shutdown

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf] , KEYT-TV will remain on its current pre-transition channel number, 27. [http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101232921&formid=387&fac_num=47535 CDBS Print ] ] However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display KEYT-TV's virtual channel as 3.

MyRTN

KEYT picked up the MyNetworkTV affilitaton on June 2006 and initially showed only MyNetworkTV programming, and a test pattern the rest of the time. [http://www.allbusiness.com/services/business-services-miscellaneous-business/4779599-1.html MyNetworkTV Adds 10 Affils | Business solutions from AllBusiness.com ] ] By Fall 2007, the station had managed to obtain syndication broadcast rights to Family Guy and South Park, and officially launched its DT2 subchannel branded as "MyNetworkTV Central Coast" on October 2007, replacing Los Angeles-based MyNetworkTV affiliate KCOP channel 13 on all Central Coast cable systems.

The channel initially simulcast the SD version of KEYT outside of MyNetwork TV programming. As of October 30, 2007, it has picked up the Retro Television Network affiliation and broadcasts RTN programming outside of MyNetwork TV. [http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-30-2007/0004693541&EDATE= RTN To Launch This Week in Santa Barbara ] ] It has subsequently changed its branding to "My RTN" to coincide with the new affiliation.

Rebroadcast Stations

KEYT also operates two translators to extend its coverage area. It operates a repeater station in San Luis Obispo, K57BC, on channel 57, and KSBB-LP, a Class A television station, in downtown Santa Barbara, on UHF channel 17. KSBB-LP is located at KEYT's studios and broadcasts a directional signal to downtown Santa Barbara, serving areas shielded from the main channel 3 signal by the Santa Ynez Mountains. The station initially rebroadcast KKFX-CA from its sign-on until July 1, 2006, when KKFX-CA terminated the agreement for the station to rebroadcast its programming. The station has since been a repeater station for KEYT.

None of KEYT's two translators operate digital signals as of yet.

News/Station Presentation

Newscast Titles

*"The Bill Huddy Report" (1971-1977)
*"TV-3 Action News" (1977-1984)
*"Key News" (1984-present)

External links

* [http://www.keyt.com/ Official KEYT Website]
*TVQ|KEYT
**TVQ|KSBB-LP
**TVQ|K57BC
*BIA|KEYT|TV|TV

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