History
The station began broadcasting on UHF channel 36 on July 18, 1994, under the call sign KROZ. It changed its calls to the current KTVC on September 4, 1998.
Under ownership of Equity Broadcasting, KTVC became an affiliate of Equity's Retro Television Network effective September 2006, when the UPN and WB television networks ceased broadcasting. A newly-created digital subchannel of NBC affiliate KMTR carries the CW Television Network, a merger of the two disbanding networks' programming assets, while KEVU-LP is affiliated with MyNetworkTV, a network from News Corporation, the parent company of Fox.
On January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity Media Holdings Corporation and RTN interrupted the programming on many RTN affiliates. As a result, Luken Communications restored a national RTN feed from its headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with individual customised feeds to non-Equity-owned affiliates to follow on a piecemeal basis. As a result, KTVC lost its RTN affiliation immediately, though Luken vows to find a new affiliate for RTN in the area.
KTVC was sold at auction to Better Life TV on April 16, 2009. Upon the closure of the sale, the station began to air religious programming from new sister station KBLN, including 3ABN programming.
The KTVC calls were previously used on what is now KBSD-TV in Dodge City, Kansas, from 1957 to 1989.
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