KJTV-TV (channel 34) is a television station in Lubbock, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Fox network.
It is owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting alongside Wolfforth-licensed low-power, Class A news-formatted independent station KJTV-CD (channel 32).
The stations share studios at 98th Street and University Avenue in south Lubbock; KJTV-TV's transmitter is located near the interchange of I-27 and Slaton Highway.
Channel 34 first appeared in 1967 as KKBC-TV, owned by the KB Company (Chester and Clarance Kissell), operating from a control room and transmitter at the tallest downtown building.
The station signed on with a few films, some NBC and CBS programs declined by KCBD and KLBK-TV, and The Mike Douglas Show.
Local engineer Alvie Ivey built the facility from used equipment gathered from stations in the region.
After a few years' operations, Ramar decided to file for a new channel 34 license using the old tower, feed line, and antenna.
[2] Prior to the Fox network beginning seven-nights-per-week programming in 1993, locally produced programming included The Cowboy Picture Show, a Wednesday night airing of a Western film that usually had a local sponsor (e.g., KLLL-FM); and a prime time movie aired most weeknights at 7 p.m., not unlike other Fox affiliates in the Central Time Zone during these years.
In recent years, Klotzman anchored the weekday newscasts alongside former KLBK and KOSA-TV newsman Kurt Kiser.
However, Klotzman retired after the February 28, 2019, newscast after the Lubbock Independent School District hired him as part of their community relations department.
As he had also retired from the station's news directorship, chief meteorologist Matt Ernst replaced him in said capacity.
The station's signal is multiplexed: KJTV-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 34, on February 17, 2009, the original target date on which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009).