KTRE

KTRE (channel 9) is a television station licensed to Lufkin, Texas, United States, affiliated with ABC and Telemundo.

The station is owned by Gray Media, and maintains studios and transmitter facilities on TV Road (near US 69) in the unincorporated community of Pollok.

Although KTRE maintains its own facilities, master control and some internal operations are based at KLTV's studios on West Ferguson Street in downtown Tyler.

Until 1984, the station had an unusual "joint primary" arrangement with all three networks, with a slight favor towards ABC programming.

[citation needed] On another front, the new transmitter antenna was directional to minimize overlap with KLTV to comply with FCC duopoly rules, which until 2000, prohibited one company from owning stations in adjacent markets that had significant signal overlap (constituting them as an illegal duopoly, even though they were located in different television markets).