KTTZ-TV

KTTZ-TV is an open-circuit non-commercial educational television station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). It began broadcasting on October 16, 1962. On January 15, 2012, KTXT-TV changed its call letters to KTTZ-TV. On August 12, 2019, TTU announced it would purchase and take over the operations of El Paso's KCOS for a token amount of $1,000, in order to preserve the market's access to PBS. All local personnel in El Paso will remain in place under the new ownership, with Texas Tech becoming the licensee and manager of that station, in addition to its existing Lubbock operations. ==Technical information==

Subchannels The station's signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion KTTZ-TV (as KTXT-TV) shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, at 4:30 p.m. on February 5, 2009, four months before most full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate on June 12. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 39, using virtual channel 5. ==See also==