KUTP (channel 45), branded on-air as Fox 10 Xtra, is a television station in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, broadcasting the MyNetworkTV programming service. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KSAZ-TV (channel 10). Both stations share studios on West Adams Street in Downtown Phoenix, while KUTP's transmitter is located atop South Mountain. History Early years In May 1984, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allocated channel 45 to Phoenix and began taking applications for the channel after United Television, a subsidiary of Chris-Craft Industries, petitioned for the additional slot. United soon got competition for the channel from another twelve applicants, Undeterred, United bought out all of the competitors for a reported $5 million and won a construction permit on December 20, 1984. United immediately set out to bring Phoenix its third independent station. It originally proposed to become KOLT-TV (as in "Kolt 45"), but United could not convince radio station KOLT in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, to give it the rights to share the designation. On December 23, 1985, a year after obtaining the construction permit, KUTP came to air. Along with movies and syndicated programs, United commissioned a revival of The Lloyd Thaxton Show, last seen in Los Angeles in the late 1960s, as a centerpiece of its programming efforts. In 1988, United made an even more consequential pickup, one that served as the face of the station for viewers for more than 20 years: road games of the Phoenix Suns. Under United Television ownership, the station carried programming from the Prime Time Entertainment Network programming service from January 1993 to January 1995. In the fall of 1994, United Television and Paramount Pictures announced the formation of the United Paramount Network (UPN), lining up independent stations that were owned by both companies at the time as charter affiliates; KUTP affiliated with UPN upon the network's January 16, 1995, debut. In 2000, Paramount parent company Viacom bought Chris-Craft's 50% ownership interest in UPN (which Chris-Craft had wholly owned, until Viacom acquired a stake in the network in 1996); the deal effectively stripped KUTP of its status as one of the network's owned-and-operated stations in the process. On August 12 of that year, Chris-Craft sold its UPN stations to the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of News Corporation for $5.5 billion; this resulted in the creation of Phoenix's second television duopoly with KSAZ. KUTP merged its operations with KSAZ into