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The station airs "Armstrong & Getty" on weekday mornings with local Newsbreaks from 6-10am every half-hour anchored by Elisha Rivers, as well as "Headlines and Weather on the Hour" throughout the day. It also has local news on its website, KFTY.com. The station also airs a local commnunity affairs program called "Your Turn" and a go-green program called "TV50 Marketplace" hosted by reporter Nazy Javid. On November 16, 2006, Clear Channel announced that it would be selling all of its television stations, including KFTY, after being bought by private equity firms. On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group to Providence Equity Partners's Newport Television. Providence Equity initially announced that it would not keep KFTY or KVOS-TV in Bellingham, Washington; instead, those stations were to be resold to LK Station Group. However, LK could not obtain financing, and so KFTY was instead sold to High Plains Broadcasting, Inc. because of an ownership conflict (Providence Equity Partners also holds a 19 percent ownership stake in the Spanish-language network Univision, the owner of KDTV-DT and Telefutura station KFSF-DT). This sale was consummated on February 27, 2009. Newport Television continues to manage the station through a joint sales agreement (JSA), though High Plains now controls KFTY's programming. On January 26, 2007, KFTY cancelled its evening newscasts, saying there was insufficient revenue to support their continued broadcast. Management denied the move was related to Clear Channel's intent to divest the property, despite a similar incident at another Clear Channel station (Utica, New York's WUTR) in which all local newscasts were cancelled in August 2003, followed in early 2004 with the sale of that station. |
