KTVI

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KTVI-DT-St. Louis, MO
Image:KTVIHD.gif
Channels:43 digital (UHF)
Slogan:Coverage You Can Count On
St. Louis' Newsroom
The Most Powerful Name in Local News
Founded: August 13, 1953
Affiliation: FOX
Website: www.fox2now.com

KTVI-DT Channel 2, is the Fox-affiliate television station serving the St. Louis, Missouri, designated market area, The Station is owned by Local TV LLC, the Media arm of private equity firm Oak Hill Capital Partners, under a local marketing agreement with Tribune-owned CW affiliate KPLR (Channel 11), Its transmitter is located in Sappington, Missouri, in the field behind Lindbergh High School, Its studios are located at 2250 Ball Drive in Maryland Heights, Missouri, The Station's former studios were located off Interstate 64/U.S. 40 at the intersection of Berthold Ave, Oakland Ave and Hampton Ave in the meighborhood of western Clayton-Tamm/Dogtown neighborhood of Western St. Louis, that property is now vacant, The station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF Channel 43, using the current former assignment of Channel 2 as its virtual digital channel via PSIP.

KTVI Runs about 53 hours a week of locally produced newscasts, as well as first-run primetime and sports programming from Fox, It also runs off-network sitcoms, talk shows, reality shows, sports, and court shows.


KTVI broadcasts in stereo and broadcasts a Secondary Audio Program (SAP) channel, used mainly for Descriptive Video Service (DVS). KTVI airs also about 42 hours of local news per week.

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History

KTVI began on August 13, 1953 as WTVI, channel 54 in Belleville, Illinois. It was the CBS affiliate for St. Louis, with a secondary ABC affiliation. When KWK-TV (now KMOV) signed on and took the CBS affiliation, WTVI became a full ABC affiliate. It moved its studios and license across the Mississippi River to St. Louis on April 9,1955 and, kept the last few letters of the callsign as "TVI," dropped the W for K, thus KTVI, broadcasting on channel 36. KTVI moved to channel 2 on April 15, 1957, where it remains to this day. WTVI are currently the call letters of a PBS member affiliate in Charlotte.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Times Mirror owned the station. As part of a group deal, KTVI was sold to Argyle Broadcasting in [993. In 1994, the Fox network took over the contract from CBS to carry the NFC game package. This inspired a conglomerate called New World Communications to reach an affiliation agreement with the network by switching all of its stations to Fox in the winter of 1994. Then New World bought out Argyle, and cut another deal to switch KTVI and sister stations KDFW in Dallas, WVTM in Birmingham, Alabama and KTBC in Austin, Texas in the summer of 1995. (But WVTM would remain an NBC affiliate because former ABC affiliate WBRC was directly sold to Fox; WVTM would be subsequently sold to NBC Universal, then to that station's current owner Media General). The new owners moved Fox programming to KTVI on August 7, 1995, allowing the former Fox affiliate, KDNL channel 30, to become St. Louis' ABC affiliate. Distinctively, when New World merged with Fox Television Stations Group under Newscorp in 1996, KTVI was the first major network O&O in St. Louis since KMOX-TV was sold by CBS to Viacom, and became KMOV in 1986. It stayed that way until 2003 when KPLR was sold to Tribune.

KTVI didn't pick up Fox Kids at first, so it moved to KNLC. However, in the fall of 1996, due to Reverend Larry Rice's refusal to air commercials on Fox Kids (replacing them with ministry messages), Fox pulled Fox Kids from KNLC and was picked up by KTVI. KTVI was the only New World station to take Fox Kids. Shortly thereafter, KTVI and the New World Fox affiliates were sold to Fox' parent, News Corporation, becoming Fox O&Os. (However, like many of their FOX sister stations including those in Tampa, Cleveland, and Atlanta, KTVI still use "NEW WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC." as their end tag after their newscasts) Programming changed very slightly as Fox began buying more expensive syndicated shows for KTVI.

In the fall of 1998, KTVI reduced the weekday Fox Kids programs to just two hours (from three) and, in 2000, dropped weekday Fox Kids completely while Saturday mornings were continued. At the end of 2001, Fox Kids weekdays ended nationwide, and the weekends were revamped as 4Kids TV. KTVI now airs Fox's entire schedule including 4Kids TV; as of Fall 2006 it airs 2 hours earlier than most affiliates now to accommodate an expanded newscast lineup on Saturday Mornings.

KTVI's introduced its current logo on April 10, 2006. The station is the fourth to use this logo style (which is similar to that of the Fox News Channel), which is gradually being adopted by the other Fox O&Os.

News Operations

KTVI leads the 9 p.m. news ratings race against KPLR but comes in third behind KSDK and KMOV's 10 p.m. news. KTVI is able to emphasize a broad array of stories from major national and local reports to small-town local stories/investigations because of the many extra hours of news (7.5 hours per day as opposed to 5 on KSDK and KMOV) that need to be filled. Also because of this, the station features more regular segments such as The Jaco Report, a segment where noted reporter Charles Jaco gives either an editorial or introduces an investigative piece, or You Paid For It, where Elliot Davis finds tax abuse in local governments and closes the segment by giving the phone number of the mayor's office in that municipality, signing off with the locally famous line "Call and speak your mind: after all, you paid for it." KTVI devotes a larger segment of its sports coverage to local high-school sports (once joining with the Post-Dispatch to air the "Prep Sports Show" on Saturdays, now canceled) and is the home of Scott Linehan's weekly St. Louis Rams review show on Mondays.

Before Dick Ford retired in December 2005, all four of KTVI's main male anchors (Dick Ford, Tom O'Neal, Dan Gray and John Pertzborn) were once anchors at KSDK.

KTVI-DT Newscasts

Weekdays

  • FOX 2 News in the Morning with Kevin Steincross (5am-7am), Randi Naughton (5am-7am), John Pertzborn (7am-9am), Margie Ellisor (7am-9am)
  • Glenn Zimmerman, Meteorologist
  • Monica Adams, Traffic Reporter - 5:00 am - 9:00 am
  • FOX 2 News at Eleven with April Simpson
  • Glenn Zimmerman, Meteorologist - 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • FOX 2 News at Five with Dan Gray and Mandy Murphey
  • Dave Murray, Chief Meteorologist
  • Martin Kilcoyne, Sports Director (Monday-Thursday), Rob Desir (Friday) - 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
  • FOX 2 News at Six with Tom O'Neal and Sandy Miller
  • Dave Murray, Chief Meteorologist
  • Martin Kilcoyne, Sports Director (Monday-Thursday), Rob Desir (Friday) - 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
  • FOX 2 News at Nine with Tom O'Neal and Mandy Murphey
  • Dave Murray, Chief Meteorologist
  • Martin Kilcoyne (Monday-Thursday), Rob Desir (Friday) 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Saturdays

  • FOX 2 News Saturday Morning with Andy Banker and Theresa Woodward
  • Angela Hutti, Meteorologist
  • Maurice Drummond, Sports - 9:00 am - 10:00 am
  • FOX 2 News at Five with Elliot Davis and Shirley Washington
  • Chris Higgins, Meteorologist
  • Rob Desir, Sports - 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
  • FOX 2 News at Nine with Elliot Davis and Shirley Washington
  • Chris Higgins, Meteorologist
  • Rob Desir, Sports - 9:00 pm - 9:40 pm
  • Sports Final with Rob Desir, Martin Kilcoyne, Chris Pelikan, and Martin Kilcoyne - 9:40 pm - 10:00 pm

Sundays

  • FOX 2 News Sunday Morning with Andy Banker and Theresa Woodward
  • Angela Hutti, Meteorologist
  • Maurice Drummond, Sports 8:00 am - 9:00 am
  • FOX 2 News at Five with Tom O'Neal and Shirley Washington
  • Mark Geldmeier, Meteorologist
  • Martin Kilcoyne, Sports Director 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
  • FOX 2 News at Nine with Tom O'Neal and Shirley Washington
  • Chris Higgins, Meteorologist
  • Martin Kilcoyne, Sports Director - 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm
  • Sports Final with Rob Desir, Martin Kilcoyne, Chris Pelikan, and Maurice Drummond - 9:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Other

KTVI News Sets / Graphics Packages

On March 31, 2006, KTVI used their set, originally constructed in 1998, for the last time; at 10:00 p.m. crews began tearing down the set and weather center. Fox 2 broadcasted from the newsroom and a temporary set while a new set and weather center were under construction in the old studio. The old news desk was donated to Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and the old weather center was donated to the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The new set, along with new graphics, music, and a new logo, debuted for FOX 2 News at 9 on Monday, April 10, 2006.

The theme music that KTVI uses is OSI Music's FOX O&O News Theme, formally known as WTVT NewsEdge Theme. This theme is being used by other FOX O&O stations that have made identical modifications to their identity.

With the new set, music, and graphics that first aired in April 2006, the weather graphics were altered in September 2006 with a new background, and other features to better fit the My Fox theme.

KTVI-DT On-Air Personalities

KTVI Current On-Air

Fox 2 News Anchors

Fox 2 Reporters


Fox 2 Sports

FOX 2 FutureCast Meteorologists

KTVI Fox 2 News Past Personalities

Contact Information

2250 Ball Drive
Maryland Heights, MO
(314) 647-2222

External Links


TV Stations in and around St. Louis  (Nielsen DMA #21)

KTVI 2 (Fox) • KMOV 4 (CBS) • KSDK 5 (NBC) • KPTN-LP 7 (HSN) • WSIU 8 (PBS) • KETC 9 (PBS) • KPLR 11 (The CW) • KFVS 12 (CBS) • WPXS 13 (I) • K22HG 22 (TBN) • KNLC 24 (FamilyNet) • KEFN 28 (EWTN) • W29CI 29 (3ABN) • KDNL 30 (ABC) • WRBU 46 (MNTV) • W50CH 50 (REL) • KUMO 51 (RTN) • KDTL 64 (DS)

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