KMTV
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Omaha, Nebraska United States |
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| Branding | KMTV Action 3 News |
| Slogan | Omaha's Source for Local News, Sports and Weather. |
| Channels |
Digital: 45 (UHF) Virtual: 3 () |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Affiliations | CBS (since 1986, also from 1949–1956) |
| Owner |
E. W. Scripps Company (Scripps Broadcasting Holdings, LLC) |
| First air date | September 1, 1949 |
| Call letters' meaning |
May Broadcasting (the original owner) TeleVision |
| Sister station(s) | KEZO-FM, KKCD, KQCH, KSRZ, KXSP |
| Former callsigns | KMTV (1949–2009) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 3 (VHF, 1949–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Primary: NBC (1956–1986) Secondary: ABC (1949–1953, 1954–1957) DuMont (1949–1955) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 393.4 m (1,291 ft) |
| Facility ID | 35190 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°18′25″N 96°1′37″W / 41.30694°N 96.02694°WCoordinates: 41°18′25″N 96°1′37″W / 41.30694°N 96.02694°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KMTV-TV, virtual channel 3 (UHF digital channel 45), is a CBS-affiliated television station located in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. The station is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. The station's studios are located on Mockingbird Drive in southwest Omaha and its transmitter tower is located on a "tower farm" near North 72nd Street and Crown Point Avenue in north-central Omaha. KMTV is currently third in the Nielsen ratings for the Omaha area. It also doubles as the default CBS station in the Platte Purchase (northern portions of the St. Joseph, Missouri television market) since it does not have a CBS affiliate of its own.
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
KMTV was the last television station in the market to begin carrying a digital subchannel; digital subchannel 3.2 was originally affiliated with TheCoolTV starting in late 2010 or early 2011, but dropped the network on October 1, 2011, in favor of Live Well Network as part of a compensation dispute between Journal Broadcast Group and TheCoolTV's parent company Cool Music Network, LLC. In turn, Antenna TV took LWN's place on December 29, 2014.
KMTV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 3, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 45, using to display KMTV's virtual channel as 3 on digital television receivers. Although KMTV never had a "-TV" suffix affixed to its call sign from the beginning, it (along with other Journal-owned television stations which previously did not have a -TV suffix in their calls) officially added one to the callsign on June 19.
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