KKTQ-LD

KKTQ-LD (channel 16) is a low-power television station in Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States, affiliated with ABC.

The station is owned by Vision Alaska LLC, which operates Fox affiliate KLWY (channel 27) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with the Coastal Television Broadcasting Company.

Although identifying as a station in its own right, KKTQ-LD is considered a semi-satellite of ABC affiliate KTWO-TV (channel 2) in Casper.

As such, it simulcasts all network and syndicated programming as provided by its parent, but airs separate station identifications and commercials.

[10] Seven days earlier, Cheryl Kaupp, who controlled KTWO, began operating the station under a local marketing agreement with Equity.

KFNB was owned by Kaupp's father, Marvin Gussman under Wyomedia Corporation;[12] and KGWC was at the time being acquired by Mark III Media.

In April 2004, Nalbone announced KTWO would move studios from 2nd Street to Skyview Drive in Casper; where it now shares operations with KFNB, KGWC, and KWYF-LD.

On June 27, an equipment failure at KQCK's analog facilities caused ABC programming to start being broadcast on KDEV-LP.

[22][23] On February 21, 2011, about a year and a half before KDEV-LP was shut down, KTWO signed on yet another low-power repeater in Cheyenne, this time in digital.

[26] On October 8, 2019, Silverton announced that it would sell KTWO-TV and KKTQ-LD to Vision Wyoming, a subsidiary of Vision Alaska (run by Stephen Brisette); the sale was concurrent with Big Horn Television's purchase of KGWC-TV and Coastal Television Broadcasting Company's purchase of KFNB and KLWY.

Coastal Television's Alaska stations had moved to a NewsNet-based model the preceding April; in a June 28 interview with KTWO radio, Fielder said that the shift to NewsNet had been accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic.

[32] By April 2022, NewsNet was dropped in favor of the Coastal-owned and partly-centralized News Hub, recently acquired from Waypoint Media.