KPTM

KPTM

Omaha, Nebraska Council Bluffs, Iowa United States
City	Omaha, Nebraska
Channels	Digital: 26 (UHF) Virtual: 42
Branding	Fox 42
Programming
Affiliations	42.1: Fox 42.2: MyNetworkTV/Dabl 42.3: The CW 42.4: Comet
Ownership
Owner	Sinclair Broadcast Group (KPTM Licensee, LLC)
Sister stations	KXVO
History
First air date	April 6, 1986 (38 years ago) (1986-04-06)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 42 (UHF, 1986–2009) Digital: 43 (UHF, 2002–2019)
Former affiliations	Independent (1986–1988)
Call sign meaning	Pappas Telecasting of the Midlands, founding owner
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	51491
ERP	800 kW
HAAT	475 m (1,558 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	41°4′15.9″N 96°13′32.3″W / 41.071083°N 96.225639°W / 41.071083; -96.225639
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	fox42kptm.com cwomaha.tv

KPTM (channel 42) is a television station in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with Fox and The CW. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to TBD outlet KXVO (channel 15) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Mitts Telecasting Company. Both stations share studios on Farnam Street in Omaha, while KPTM's transmitter is located on Pflug Road, south of Gretna and I-80.

KPTM went on air as Omaha's first independent station in 1986. It was built by and named for California-based Pappas Telecasting. KPTM affiliated with Fox in 1988, after Pappas originally sat out the network's launch, and began airing local newscasts in June 1990. After the bankruptcy of Pappas, Titan Broadcast Management acquired the station in 2009, selling most of its broadcasting properties to Sinclair in 2013. While KPTM aired a 9 p.m. newscast for more than 30 years, a major attempt at expansion in the late 1990s was rolled back for economic reasons less than 18 months later, and for the last decade, the news programs were presented by talent outside the Omaha market.