branding fox 34 general fox 34 news news slogan it s news at nine . at ten it s history . channels digital 35 uhf virtual 34 psip subchannels 34.1 fox 34.2 fox 34 news now affiliations fox 1986 present owner ramar communications ii ltd. first air date december 11 1981 ; 34 years ago 1981 12 11 sister station s kjtv cd klbb lp kxtq cd kmyl klcw tv kjtv am kttu fm kxtq fm klzk klbb fm klbb lp former callsigns kjaa 1981 1985 kjtv 1985 2000 former channel number s analog 34 uhf 1981 2009 former affiliations independent 1981 1986 pten secondary transmitter power 1000 kw height 273.9 m facility id 55031 transmitter coordinates 33 30 8.7 n 101 52 21.5 w 33.502417 n 101.872639 w 33.502417 ; 101.872639 coordinates 33 30 8.7 n 101 52 21.5 w 33.502417 n 101.872639 w 33.502417 ; 101.872639 licensing authority fcc public license information profile cdbs website www.fox34.com kjtv tv is the fox affiliated television station serving lubbock texas . it is owned by ramar communications and is the flagship property of the locally based media corporation . kjtv was a charter station for its network having broadcast the network since its launch on october 9 1986 . it broadcasts on uhf digital channel 35 . the station also operates a low powered sister station on channel 32.1 kjtv cd branded as fox 34 news now also on kjtv s digital 34.2 subchannel . the station has studios located at 98th street and university avenue in south lubbock which also houses mynetworktv affiliate kmyl ld the cw affiliate klcw tv telemundo affiliate kxtq cd branded as telemundo lubbock me tv affiliate klbb ld and seven radio stations 1 on am and 6 on fm . just yards from the studio kjtv s transmissions emanate from a 950 foot 290 m tower with an effective radiated power of 1 million watts for its digital signal . syndicated programming on kjtv includes two and a half men friends ellen how i met your mother and agday . contents 1 history 2 digital television 2.1 digital channels 2.2 analog to digital conversion 3 news operation 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit channel 34 first appeared in 1967 as kkbc tv owned by the kb company chester and clarance kissell operating from a control room and transmitter at the tallest downtown building . it had approximately 25 kilowatts of visual power from an antenna about 320 feet 98 m above average terrain . the station signed on with a few films some network programs declined by kcbd and klbk tv and the mike douglas show . local engineer alvie ivey built the facility from used equipment gathered from stations in the region . soon after channel 34 signed on a station on channel 28 signed on with much better facilities . ksel tv now kamc had 2 megawatts of power an 875 foot 267 m tower located in south lubbock near other station s towers and had support from sister stations ksel am 950 now kjtv am and ksel fm 93.7 now klbb fm both of which ironically are today sister stations to kjtv tv . this provided the impetus to move kkbc to a taller location with greater power . new owners took over channel 34 and a taller tower was built at 98th and university avenue . local station kwgo fm now kqbr rented a spot on the tower as it was going up . the improved kkbc tv developed a power of more than 4 megawatts . however ksel still had the lead as it obtained a full time abc affiliation while channel 34 affiliated with spanish international network by bicycled tapes and changed calls to kmxn tv . the station continued until sometime in 1973 . legend has it that the board of directors met at the station assessed their shaky financial footing and ordered the station shut down on the way out . the film on the air was interrupted and the station signed off . the license was then returned to the federal communications commission fcc . the tower and land was later acquired by ramar for use by a radio station the company was starting ktez now kone . after a few years operation ramar decided to file for a new channel 34 license using the old tower feed line and antenna . that was granted around 1980 81 and on december 11 1981 kjaa was launched as an independent station . on august 16 1985 the station became kjtv the kjtv call letters were previously used by kcit now the fox affiliate in nearby amarillo and in 1986 it switched to fox as one of its charter stations . for a time the station secondarily aired programming from the prime time entertainment network . on october 2 2000 kjtv added a tv suffix to its call letters . for a time in the early 1990s the station aired maury then known as the maury povich show and live with kelly formerly live with regis and kathie lee . 1 prior to the fox network beginning seven nights per week programming in 1993 locally produced programming included the cowboy picture show a wednesday night airing of a western film that usually had a local sponsor e.g. klll fm digital television edit digital channels edit the station s digital channel is multiplexed channel video aspect psip short name programming 2 34.1 720p 16 9 fox34 main kjtv tv programming fox 34.2 480i 4 3 fox34nn fox 34 news now analog to digital conversion edit kjtv tv shut down its analog signal over uhf channel 34 on february 17 2009 the original target date in which full power television stations in the united states were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate which was later pushed back to june 12 2009 . the station s digital signal remained on its pre transition uhf channel 35 . 3 4 through the use of psip digital television receivers display the station s virtual channel as its former uhf analog channel 34 . news operation edit this section needs expansion with further information on kjtv s newscast history . you can help by adding to it . july 2011 in 2000 kjtv launched a local newscast at 9 p.m. using a virtual set which was also used for news on kxtq ca . on october 1 2008 . kjtv launched a morning newscast good day lubbock from 6 9 a.m. weekday mornings . kjtv discontinued its virtual set in 2008 . in 2010 kjtv launched ag day lubbock a daily local newscast covering agricultural issues complimenting the syndicated farm news show ag day which precedes it . this is also when kjtv expanded good day lubbock to 5 30 9 a.m. in 2012 kjtv added three hours of news and information from 6 9 p.m. on fox 34 news now 32.1 kjtv cd 34.2 kjtv tv . citation needed see also edit kupt tv klcw tv references edit university daily texas tech university october 30 1990 p. 4 https swco ir.tdl.org swco ir handle 10605 242590 rabbitears tv query for kjtv http lubbockonline.com stories 021009 loc 386586348 . shtml dtv tentative channel designations for the first and the second rounds pdf . retrieved 2012 03 24 . external links edit www.fox34.com query the fcc s tv station database for kjtv biafn s media web database information on kjtv tv v t e television stations in the greater lubbock levelland area stations kttz 5.1 pbs 5.2 create kfmp lp 6 ind kcbd 11.1 nbc 11.2 this tv 11.3 grit klbk 13.1 cbs 13.2 laff kptb 16.1 glc kdkw ld 21.1 mundomax klcw 22.1 cw 22.2 mntv 22.3 tmd k24gp multimedios ktgb lp 26.1 insp kamc 28.1 abc 28.2 escape 28.3 bounce tv kupt kmyl ld 29.1 14.1 mntv kjtv cd 32.1 news weather 32.2 weathernation tv kjtv 34.1 fox 34.2 news weather k44hh tbn kxtq cd 46 tmd klbb ld 48.1 metv 48.2 h & i 48.3 movies kylu lp 49 mtv2 kbzo ld 51.1 uni defunct kglr lp 30 fn k38hp ind. texas broadcast television areas by city abilene sweetwater amarillo texas panhandle austin hill country beaumont port arthur corpus christi dallas fort worth north texas ciudad acu a del rio eagle pass el paso west texas houston laredo lubbock south plains midland odessa permian basin rio grande valley san angelo san antonio sherman ada ok texarkana shreveport la tyler longview east texas victoria waco bryan brazos valley wichita falls lawton ok v t e fox network affiliates in the state of texas xhrio 2.2 mcallen kbtv 4 beaumont kdfw 4 dfw kidy 6 san angelo ktbc 7 austin kxii dt 12.3 sherman kcit 14 amarillo kfox 14 el paso las cruces new mexico kxva 15 abilene kjtl 18 wichita falls kvct 19 victoria kpej tv 24 odessa kriv 26 houston kabb 29 san antonio kjtv 34 32 lubbock kuqi 38 corpus christi kxof cd 39 laredo kwkt 44 waco bryan kfxk 51 tyler longview kfxv ld 67 mcallen see also abc cbs cw fox ion mynetworktv nbc pbs other stations in texas retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title kjtv tv & oldid 729847051 categories fox network affiliatestelevision channels and stations established in 1981television stations in lubbock texas1981 establishments in texashidden categories coordinates on wikidataarticles to be expanded from july 2011all articles to be expandedarticles using small message boxesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from october 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history 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