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{{Short description|Television station in Phoenix, Arizona}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2024}}
{{Infobox television station
| callsign = KUTP
| city = 
| logo = KUTP Fox 10 Xtra (2017).svg
| logo_size = 200px
| branding = Fox 10 Xtra
| digital = 26 ([[UHF]])
| virtual = 45
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''45.1:''' [[MyNetworkTV]]|'''[[KSAZ-TV|10.2]]:''' [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| translators = ''see {{Section link||Translators}}''
| owner = [[Fox Television Stations]], [[LLC]]
| licensee = 
| location = [[Phoenix, Arizona]]
| country = United States
| founded = December 20, 1984
| airdate = {{start date and age|1985|12|23|p=y}}
| last_airdate = 
| callsign_meaning = [[United Television]] Phoenix, referring to the founding owner
| sister_stations = [[KSAZ-TV]]
| former_callsigns = 
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 45 (UHF, 1985–2009)}}
| former_affiliations = {{ubl|[[Independent station|Independent]] (1985–1995)|[[UPN]] (1995–2006)}}
| erp = 1,000 [[kW]]
| haat = {{convert|531.5|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id = 68886
| coordinates = {{coord|33|20|3.3|N|112|3|43.2|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|display=inline, title}}
| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
| website = {{URL|http://www.fox10phoenix.com/fox10xtra}}
}}

'''KUTP''' (channel 45), branded '''Fox 10 Xtra''', is a [[television station]] in [[Phoenix, Arizona]], United States, broadcasting the [[MyNetworkTV]] programming service. It is [[owned and operated]] by [[Fox Television Stations]] alongside [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] outlet [[KSAZ-TV]] (channel 10). The two stations share studios on West Adams Street in [[Downtown Phoenix]]; KUTP's transmitter is located atop [[South Mountains (Arizona)|South Mountain]].

==History==
===Early years===
In May 1984, the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) allocated channel 45 to Phoenix and began taking applications for the channel<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wilkinson |first=Bud |date=May 30, 1984 |title=Channel 10 to keep 'Body Language' under wraps |page=F5 |work=The Arizona Republic |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33724115/ |access-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101053333/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33724115/channel-10-to-keep-body-language/ |url-status=live }}</ref> after [[United Television]], a subsidiary of [[Chris-Craft Industries]], petitioned for the additional slot.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wilkinson |first=Bud |date=June 28, 1984 |title=KTVW plans more news under new management |page=G5 |work=The Arizona Republic |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88139272/ |access-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101053334/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88139272/ktvw-plans-more-news-under-new/ |url-status=live }}</ref> United soon got competition for the channel from another twelve applicants.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wilkinson |first=Bud |date=August 31, 1984 |title=Federal Communications Commission logs 13 applicants for Channel 45: Race heats up for license for new TV station in Phoenix |page=F7 |work=The Arizona Republic |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33724122/ |access-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101053431/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33724122/race-heats-up-for-license-for-new-tv/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Undeterred, United bought out all of the competitors for a reported $5 million and won a construction permit on December 20, 1984.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wilkinson |first=Bud |date=January 10, 1985 |title=FCC clears way for United Television's Phoenix entry |page=E10 |work=The Arizona Republic |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33724135/ |access-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101053334/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33724135/fcc-clears-way-for-united-televisions/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

United immediately set out to bring Phoenix its third [[independent station]] alongside the existing [[KPHO-TV]] and [[KNXV]]. It originally proposed to become KOLT-TV (as in "[[.45 Colt|Kolt 45]]"), but United could not convince radio station [[KOLT (1320 AM)|KOLT]] in [[Scottsbluff, Nebraska]], to give it the rights to share the designation.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wilkinson |first=Bud |date=June 19, 1985 |title=Interest in stereo TVs rises as Valley stations begin switch |page=F5 |work=The Arizona Republic |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88139562/ |access-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101053339/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88139562/interest-in-stereo-tvs-rises-as-valley/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On December 23, 1985, a year after obtaining the construction permit, KUTP came to air as the only station United would build and sign on from the ground-up in the company's history.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wilkinson |first=Bud |date=December 22, 1985 |title=Signing on: 'Movie intensive' Channel 45 makes Valley debut |page=Television 3 |work=The Arizona Republic |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33724166/ |access-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101053336/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33724166/signing-on-movie-intensive-channel/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Along with movies and syndicated programs, United commissioned a revival of ''The [[Lloyd Thaxton]] Show'', last seen in Los Angeles in the late 1960s, as a centerpiece of its programming efforts.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wilkinson |first=Bud |date=June 11, 1986 |title=Channel 45 brings back '60s talk-show host Lloyd Thaxton |page=E7 |work=The Arizona Republic |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88139765/ |access-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101053335/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/88139765/channel-45-brings-back-60s-talk-show/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1988, United made an even more consequential pickup when it signed a deal to telecast away games of the [[Phoenix Suns]]. The initial deal saw the station receive the rights to 25 road games for five years,<ref>{{Cite news|work=Broadcasting|title=Basketball '88: The National Basketball Association|page=42|id={{ProQuest|1016925563}}|date=October 24, 1988}}</ref> with the figure increasing to 30 beginning in the 1990–91 season<ref name="Ariz900831">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-republic-50-game-local-tv-packag/133416243/|date=August 31, 1990|page=D7|title=50-game local TV package Suns' most ambitious ever|newspaper=Arizona Republic|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 14, 2023}}</ref><!-- Fri --> and to 41 games by the mid-1990s, when the Suns were the station's chief viewership draw.{{r|Ariz950116}}

Under United Television ownership, the station carried programming from the [[Prime Time Entertainment Network]] programming service from January 1993 to January 1995.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Susan |first=King |date=January 23, 1994 |title=Space, 2258, in the Year 1994 |page=4 |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-01-23-tv-14354-story.html |access-date=June 25, 2009 |archive-date=July 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707005156/http://articles.latimes.com/1994-01-23/news/tv-14354_1 |url-status=live }}</ref> In the fall of 1994, United Television and [[Paramount Pictures]] announced the formation of the [[United Paramount Network]] (UPN), lining up independent stations that were owned by both companies at the time as charter affiliates; KUTP affiliated with UPN upon the network's January 16, 1995, debut.<ref name="Ariz950116">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-republic-upn-coming-network-6/133416277/|date=January 16, 1995|pages=C1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-republic-upn-network-debuts/133416285/ C3]|first=Dave|last=Walker|title=UPN coming: Network 6 - KUTP-TV's new programs are of Paramount concern|newspaper=Arizona Republic|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=October 14, 2023}}</ref><!-- Mon -->

In 2000, Paramount parent company [[Viacom (1952–2006)|Viacom]] bought Chris-Craft's 50% ownership interest in UPN (which Chris-Craft had wholly owned, until Viacom acquired a stake in the network in 1996). On August 12 of that year, Chris-Craft sold its UPN stations to the [[Fox Television Stations]] subsidiary of [[News Corporation]] for $5.5 billion;<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hofmeister |first=Sallie |date=August 12, 2000 |title=News Corp. to Buy Chris-Craft Parent for $5.5 Billion, Outbidding Viacom |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-aug-12-fi-3272-story.html |access-date=March 23, 2011 |archive-date=October 4, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004232639/http://articles.latimes.com/2000/aug/12/business/fi-3272 |url-status=live }}</ref> this resulted in the creation of Phoenix's second television duopoly with KSAZ.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Davis Hudson |first=Eileen |date=January 14, 2002 |title=Phoenix |pages=10–16 |work=Mediaweek |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Mediaweek/2002/Mediaweek-2002-01-14.pdf |access-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-date=March 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310035248/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Mediaweek/2002/Mediaweek-2002-01-14.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> KUTP merged its operations with KSAZ into that station's studio facilities on West Adams Street.

===From UPN to MyNetworkTV===
[[File:KUTP logo early 2006.svg|thumb|right|135px|Logo used when the station was re-branded as "PHX 45" from January to June 2006.]]
On January 24, 2006, the [[Warner Bros.]] unit of [[WarnerMedia|Time Warner]] and [[CBS Corporation]] announced that the two companies would shut down UPN and [[The WB]] and combine the networks' respective programming to create a new jointly owned broadcast network called [[The CW]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Seid |first=Jessica |date=January 24, 2006 |title='Gilmore Girls' meet 'Smackdown'; CW Network to combine WB, UPN in CBS-Warner venture beginning in September |url=https://money.cnn.com/2006/01/24/news/companies/cbs_warner/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170316043531/http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/24/news/companies/cbs_warner/ |archive-date=March 16, 2017 |access-date=August 3, 2020 |website=[[CNN Money]] |publisher=CNN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Carter |first=Bill |date=January 24, 2006 |title=UPN and WB to Combine, Forming New TV Network |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/24/business/media/24cnd-network.html?bl |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017035638/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/24/business/media/24cnd-network.html?bl |archive-date=October 17, 2015 |access-date=February 22, 2017 |website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

In unveiling the merged network, while WB and UPN affiliates owned by WB minority stakeholder [[Tribune Media|Tribune Broadcasting]] and by [[CBS Television Stations]] were announced as charter outlets, none of the Fox-owned UPN stations—many of which were competitors to these stations—were chosen. Even though neither of these groups were present in Phoenix, as with the rest of the chain, Fox took immediate steps to remove UPN branding and promotions from KUTP, which branded as "PHX 45" for six months. The next month, News Corporation then announced the creation of its own secondary network, [[MyNetworkTV]], to serve its own outgoing UPN stations as well as those that had not been selected for The CW.<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 22, 2006 |title=News Corp. to launch new mini-network for UPN stations |work=[[USA Today]] |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2006-02-22-fox-my-network_x.htm |access-date=January 21, 2013 |archive-date=September 23, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130923100154/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2006-02-22-fox-my-network_x.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=February 22, 2006 |title=News Corp. Unveils MyNetworkTV |work=[[Broadcasting & Cable]] |url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/102922-News_Corp_Unveils_My_Network_TV.php |access-date=September 24, 2012 |archive-date=April 17, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417165134/http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/102922-News_Corp_Unveils_My_Network_TV.php |url-status=live }}</ref> (Phoenix's WB affiliate, [[KASW]], then signed an affiliation agreement with The CW;<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 8, 2006 |title=Belo Signs With CW in Phoenix |work=Broadcasting & Cable |url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/103146-Belo_Signs_With_CW_in_Phoenix.php |access-date=September 24, 2012 |archive-date=September 27, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927174938/http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/103146-Belo_Signs_With_CW_in_Phoenix.php |url-status=live }}</ref> it is now an independent station.) Coinciding with the September 2006 launch of MyNetworkTV, Fox announced that KUTP would begin producing a local interactive dating show, ''My Dating Place'', which aired on weeknights.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Malone |first=Michael |date=September 9, 2007 |title=COVER STORY: Putting the 'My' in MyNetworkTV |work=Broadcasting & Cable |url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/cover-story-putting-my-mynetworktv-30636 |access-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414045624/https://www.nexttv.com/news/cover-story-putting-my-mynetworktv-30636 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:KUTP logo 2006.svg|thumb|125px|left|KUTP's logo as "My45", used from June 2006 to August 2017.]]

On August 7, 2017, KUTP was re-branded as ''Fox 10 Xtra'', a brand extension of KSAZ-TV, adding a two-hour block of the latter's live streaming [[YouTube]] channel ''Fox 10 News Now'' Monday through Friday between 10 a.m. and 12 noon.

==Local programming==

===Newscasts===
{{main|KSAZ-TV#News operation}}

Beginning in 2018, KSAZ-TV produced a 7 p.m. newscast, ''Fox 10 Xtra News at 7'', for air on KUTP; this program, the station's first regular newscast, debuted in July 2018.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Malone |first=Michael |date=April 12, 2018 |title=Fox Television Stations Expand News |work=Broadcasting & Cable |url=https://www.nexttv.com/news/fox-television-stations-expand-news |access-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211101053335/https://www.nexttv.com/news/fox-television-stations-expand-news |url-status=live }}</ref> In addition, the station airs two hours of LiveNow from Fox, the Fox television stations' over-the-top streaming news offering, which originated as ''Fox 10 News Now'' in Phoenix.

In February 2022, KUTP began simulcast programming from [[Fox Weather]]. This programming airs from 1 to 2 p.m. on weekdays, and from 4 to 6 a.m. on Sundays.<ref>{{Cite web|title=FOX Weather expands to new streaming platforms, local FOX TV stations|date=February 8, 2022 |url=https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/fox-weather-expands-to-new-streaming-platforms-tv-stations|access-date=February 8, 2022|language=en|archive-date=March 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319091506/https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/fox-weather-expands-to-new-streaming-platforms-tv-stations|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Sports programming===
For 23 years, from [[1988–89 Phoenix Suns season|1988]] to [[2010–11 Phoenix Suns season|2011]], KUTP served as the [[terrestrial television|over-the-air]] television home of the [[NBA]]'s Phoenix Suns, televising all road games that did not have exclusive rights held by a national broadcast or cable television network, as well as selected home games, averaging at least 45 game telecasts each season. KUTP produced its own broadcast graphics, in conjunction with the Suns until the 2010–11 NBA season; this role of the regional television broadcaster of Suns games was taken over thereafter by corporate sibling Fox Sports Arizona (later [[Bally Sports Arizona]]) without any over-the-air rights, from [[2011–12 Phoenix Suns season|2011]] to [[2022–23 Phoenix Suns season|2023]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sunnucks |first=Mike |date=February 23, 2011 |title=Fox Sports Arizona sole Phoenix Suns home |work=Phoenix Business Journal}}</ref>

Basketball returned to channel 45 in 2019 when [[Grand Canyon University]] entered into a deal to move [[Grand Canyon Antelopes men's basketball|men's basketball]] coverage from [[YurView Arizona]], a cable channel, to KUTP; the games are produced by Sneaky Big Studios for GCU and KUTP.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 12, 2019 |title=FOX 10 Xtra to broadcast games |url=https://gculopes.com/news/2019/9/12/mens-basketball-fox-10-xtra-to-broadcast-home-games.aspx |website=gculopes.com |access-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-date=June 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622111057/https://gculopes.com/news/2019/9/12/mens-basketball-fox-10-xtra-to-broadcast-home-games.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> The agreement was renewed for the 2021–22 season, adding women's basketball and men's baseball broadcasts.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hauser |first=Josh |date=October 6, 2021 |title=Home games return to FOX 10 Xtra |url=https://gculopes.com/news/2021/10/6/mens-basketball-home-games-return-to-fox-10-xtra.aspx |website=gculopes.com |access-date=November 1, 2021 |archive-date=October 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006190105/https://gculopes.com/news/2021/10/6/mens-basketball-home-games-return-to-fox-10-xtra.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> The agreement was expanded for the 2022–23 season, adding a softball broadcast for the first time.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hauser |first=Josh |date=September 28, 2022 |title=GCU, FOX 10 Xtra re-up for 2022-23 |url=https://gculopes.com/news/2022/9/28/mens-basketball-gcu-fox-10-xtra-re-up-for-2022-23.aspx |website=gculopes.com |access-date=October 31, 2022}}</ref>

==Technical information==

===Subchannels===
KUTP's transmitter is located on [[South Mountains (Arizona)|South Mountain]].{{r|FCC-LMS-68886}} The station's signal is [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of KUTP<ref>{{Cite web |title=RabbitEars TV Query for KUTP |url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KUTP#station |website=[[RabbitEars]] |accessdate=October 31, 2021 |archive-date=May 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210528163420/https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=kutp#station |url-status=live }}</ref>
! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope = "col" | Short name
! scope = "col" | Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 45.1 
| [[720p]] || rowspan="2"|[[16:9]] || KUTP || [[MyNetworkTV]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 45.2 
| rowspan="4"| 480i || Movies! || [[Movies!]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 45.3 
| [[4:3]] || BUZZR || [[Buzzr]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 45.4 
| rowspan="3"|16:9 || CatchyC || [[Catchy Comedy]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 45.5 
| START || [[Start TV]]
|- style="background-color: #E6FFF7;"
! scope = "row" | [[KSAZ-TV|10.2]] 
| [[720p]] || KSAZ HD || [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] ([[KSAZ-TV]])
|}
{{legend|#E6FFF7|Simulcast of subchannels of another station}}

===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KUTP shut down its analog signal, over [[UHF]] channel 45, at 8:30&nbsp;a.m. on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States [[Digital television transition in the United States|transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts]] under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 26, using [[virtual channel]] 45.<ref>{{Cite web |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds |url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 |access-date=March 24, 2012}}</ref>

===Translators===
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|27724|3=K18CB-D}}''' [[Bullhead City]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|27723|3=K16BP-D}}''' [[Cottonwood, Arizona|Cottonwood]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|68896|3=K28CW-D}}''' [[Flagstaff, Arizona|Flagstaff]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|68894|3=K14HG-D}}''' [[Kingman, Arizona|Kingman]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|68895|3=K15CR-D}}''' [[Lake Havasu City]]
*'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|68891|3=K14HC-D}}''' [[Prescott, Arizona|Prescott]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{official website|http://www.fox10phoenix.com/fox10xtra}}

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