KKYK-DT

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KKYK-DT
city =
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding =
analog = None
(formerly 49)
digital = 49 (UHF) (formerly 44)
other_chs = KKYK-CA 20 Little Rock
affiliations = RTN
network =
founded =
airdate = June 1999
location = Camden, Arkansas
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns = KKYK-TV (1999-2001)
KYPX (2001-2006)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Equity Media Holdings Corporation
licensee = Arkansas 49, Inc.
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = The WB (1999-2001)
Pax TV (2001-2005)
effective_radiated_power = 1000 kW
HAAT = 183 m
class =
facility_id = 86534
coordinates = coord|33|16|15.2|N|92|42|14.2|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage =

KKYK-DT is a television station in Camden, Arkansas, serving the Little Rock, Arkansas market on digital channel 49 as an affiliate of the Retro Television Network. The station also has an analog repeater inside Little Rock, KKYK-CA channel 20. Owned by Equity Media Holdings with sister station KWBF, the stations share broadcast and news operations. Additionally, Little Rock is Equity's corporate headquarters and the master control for all its television stations.

The station's repeater, KKYK-CA, was founded on May 5,1995 as K22FA, later becoming KKYK-LP in 1996. The low-power station was originally an affiliate of Network One, but later became an affiliate of The WB. In 1999, the full power station, KKYK-TV signed on in Camden, and KKYK-LP became its repeater.

In 2001, the station became KYPX, and swapped affiliations with sister-station KWBF. The station, and its repeater, remained affiliates of PAX until 2005, when PAX became i. The station opted out of this new network, and instead became the flagship station of the Equity-owned Retro Television Network.

On June 30, 2006, the station ceased analog operations, and began broadcasting in digital on its former analog assignment, UHF channel 49. The station also changed call signs, and became KKYK-DT, one of the few stations in the United States to bear the suffix. KKYK can still be seen on analog channel 20 in Little Rock, however, via its repeater KKYK-CA. (Formerly broadcasting on channel 22, KKYK-CA was forced to move to accommodate the digital signal of ABC affiliate KATV.) It also can be seen on KWBF's digital signal as channel 42.2 (ATSC UHF 44).

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*TVQ|KKYK-DT
*TVQ|KKYK-CA
*BIA|KKYK|TV|TV