NBA season; this role of the regional television broadcaster of Suns games was taken over thereafter by corporate sibling Fox Sports Arizona (now Bally Sports Arizona), starting with the 2011–12 season. Basketball returned to channel 45 in 2019 when Grand Canyon University entered into a deal to move men's basketball coverage from YurView Arizona, a cable channel, to KUTP; the games are produced by Sneaky Big Studios for GCU and KUTP. The agreement was renewed for the 2021–22 season, adding women's basketball and men's baseball broadcasts. The agreement was expanded for the 2022–23 season, adding a softball broadcast for the first time. Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion KUTP shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 45, at 8:30 a.m. on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 26. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 45. Translators References External links Fox Television Stations Buzzr affiliates Movies! affiliates MyNetworkTV affiliates Decades (TV network) affiliates Start TV affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1985 1985 establishments in Arizona UTP