KTTU-TV

KTTU-TV is a full-service television station in Tucson, Arizona, broadcasting locally in analog on UHF channel 18 and in digital on UHF channel 19 (18.1) as a MyNetworkTV affiliate. Founded March 21 1983, the station is owned by Belo Corp. KTTU was granted a construction permit on March 21, 1983 and went on the air on December 31, 1984 as KDTU, a family-friendly independent station under the ownership of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson. Its call letters meant K Diocese of TUcson, its first owner. Its programming consisted of the typical independent station fare: cartoons, old sitcoms and dramas, and old movies. It was one of two UHF independent stations that signed on the air around the same time in the Tucson market (the other was KPOL Channel 40, now Telemundo O&O; KHRR). KDTU offered only half an hour a day of religious programming except on Sunday, when they offered several hours. In fact, KDTU offered the second least amount of religious shows of all the commercial...