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KMYA-DT, virtual channel 24 (UHF digital channel 49), is a Me-TV-affiliated television station serving Little Rock, Arkansas, United States that is licensed to Camden. The station is owned by 1 Squared Media, LLC. Prior KMYA maintains studio facilities located on Shackelford Drive in the Beverly Hills section of Little Rock, and its transmitter is located on Shinall Mountain, near the Chenal Valley neighborhood of Little Rock. The station's programming is simulcast on translator station KLRA-CD, virtual and UHF digital channel 20, in Little Rock and relayed on KWNL-CD (digital subchannel 31.2) in Winslow. ==History== The station's repeater, KLRA-CD, was founded on May 5, 1995 as K22FA; it later changed its callsign to KKYK-LP in 1996. The low-power station was originally an affiliate of Network One, but later became an affiliate of The WB. The full-power station now known as KMYA first signed on the air in Camden on June 7, 1999, as KKYK-TV, with KKYK-LP becoming its repeater. The station was originally owned by Equity Media Holdings, which was headquartered in Little Rock and housed the master control hub for all of the company's television stations. In 2001, the station changed its call letters to KYPX, and swapped affiliations with then sister-station KWBF (channel 42, now KARZ-TV), becoming an affiliate of Pax TV (now Ion Television). The station, and its repeater (which retained the KKYK-LP calls), remained affiliates of Pax TV until June 30, 2005, when it became i: Independent Television. KYPX disaffiliated from the newly rebranded network, and instead became the flagship station of the Retro Television Network. On June 30, 2006, the station modified its call sign to KKYK-DT, becoming one of the few U.S. television stations to bear the suffix. KKYK's analog repeater on UHF channel 20 in Little Rock, had been designated as a Class A station with its call letters being modified to KKYK-CA (formerly broadcasting on channel 22, KKYK-CA was forced to move to accommodate the digital signal of ABC affiliate KATV, channel 7). On January 4, 2009, a contract conflict between Equity and Luken Communications (which had acquired RTN in June 2008) resulted in the station losing RTN programming.〔(What’s Wrong with MyTV? )〕 As a result, Luken moved the Retro Television Network's operations to its headquarters in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and terminated all agreements with affiliates owned by Equity, including KKYK, immediately;〔(Financial Dispute Disrupts RTN Diginet ), ''TVNewsCheck'', January 5, 2009.〕 RTN (under its new modified initials RTV) later affiliated with KATV, being carried on that station's second digital subchannel. The station also reneged on a deal with the Southland Conference to carry Central Arkansas University basketball games in the interim.〔http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Sports/249737/〕 The station became an affiliate of This TV in February 2009, lasting five months until June of that year (This TV was not available at all in the Little Rock market from that point on until 2012, when it resurfaced on a digital subchannel of Fox affiliate KLRT-TV (channel 16), which later dropped the subchannel after it was sold to Nexstar Broadcasting Group partner company Mission Broadcasting in 2013). On April 10, 2009, Equity Media Holdings announced a fire sale of all television stations; KKYK was set for an asking price of $15 million, the highest price for any of the stations in the sale.〔(Equity Media Sets Auction For Stations ), ''Broadcasting & Cable'', April 10, 2009.〕 In the auction, which took place on April 16, the station was sold to the Bank of Little Rock, which acquired the station through the subsidiary〔(Report of the Bank Commissioner of Arkansas, 2008 )(p. 131 of PDF, numbered p. 125)〕〔(KKYK Asset Purchase Agreement ) (from (FCC sale application ))〕〔(FCC Form 314, Exhibit 12 ) (from (FCC sale application ))〕 Hallmark National Mortgage Corporation. On January 3, 2011, the repeater began broadcasting digitally as KKYK-CD, and then changed its call sign to the current KLRA-CD on February 28, 2013. The station's call letters were changed to KMYA-DT on July 8, 2011. That November, Hallmark National Mortgage Corporation announced that it would sell KMYA to Ellis-Wilson, LLC, a company controlled by two former Equity executives. The sale was consummated on March 30, 2012. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KMYA-DT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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