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First air date | May 9, 1999 |
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Call sign meaning | Pappas Telecasting of the Heartland, from founding owner[1] |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 77451 |
| ERP | 871 kW |
| HAAT | 613 m (2,011 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°35′12″N 96°13′19″W / 42.58667°N 96.22194°W |
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| Website | siouxlandnews |
KPTH (channel 44) is a television station in Sioux City, Iowa, United States, affiliated with Fox and CBS. It is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to Dabl affiliate KMEG (channel 14) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with Waitt Broadcasting. The two stations share studios along I-29 (postal address says Gold Circle) in Dakota Dunes, South Dakota; KPTH's transmitter is located in unincorporated Plymouth County, Iowa, east of James and US 75 along the Woodbury County line.
KPTH has been the Fox affiliate for Sioux City since its construction by Pappas Telecasting in 1999. Its operations were merged with KMEG, then the CBS affiliate, in 2005. After Pappas filed for bankruptcy protection, the station was sold to Titan TV Broadcast Management in 2009 and again to Sinclair in 2013. KPTH absorbed the CBS programming previously on KMEG in 2021. KPTH aired local news from 2006 to 2023.
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