February 22, 2022, Tegna announced that it would be acquired by Standard General and Apollo Global Management for $5.4 billion. As a part of the deal, KTBU and KHOU, along with their Austin sister station KVUE and Dallas sister stations WFAA and KMPX, would be resold to Cox Media Group. Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion KTBU discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 55, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 42, using PSIP to display KTBU's virtual channel as 55 on digital television receivers, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition. See also Channel 33 digital TV stations in the United States Channel 55 virtual TV stations in the United States References External links FCC Public Inspection File: KTBU Technical and ownership information for KTBU at RabbitEars Television channels and stations established in 1999 1999 establishments in Texas Tegna Inc. TBU Conroe, Texas Quest (American TV network) affiliates Twist (TV network) affiliates Vietnamese-language television stations in Texas