KTVI
Fox television affiliate in St. Louis
KTVI (channel 2) is a television station in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside CW station KPLR-TV (channel 11); Nexstar's Tegna subsidiary owns NBC affiliate KSDK (channel 5). KTVI and KPLR-TV share studios on Ball Drive in Maryland Heights; KTVI's transmitter is located in Sappington, Missouri.
History
As WTVI
The station first signed on the air by Signal Hill Telecasting Corporation on August 10, 1953, as WTVI, broadcasting on UHF channel 54. It was originally licensed to Belleville, Illinois (across the Mississippi River from St. Louis), and was the second television station in the St. Louis market after KSD-TV (channel 5, now KSDK) on February 8, 1947. The station's first broadcast was a baseball game between the St. Louis Browns and Cincinnati Reds, announced by Buddy Blattner, Bill Durney and Milo Hamilton.
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