KTTW (fictional)

KTTW (channel 7) is a television station in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States, affiliated with Fox. The station is owned by Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting (as such, it is the only Fox affiliate owned by the company). KTTW's studios are located on West 11th Street in Sioux Falls, and its transmitter is located in Rowena, South Dakota.

KTTM (channel 12) in Huron operates as a full-time satellite of KTTW; this station's transmitter is located near Alpena, South Dakota. KTTM covers areas of south-central and southeastern South Dakota that receive a marginal to non-existent over-the-air signal from KTTW, although there is significant overlap between the two stations' contours otherwise. KTTM is a straight simulcast of KTTW; on-air references to KTTM are limited to Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-mandated hourly station identifications during programming. Aside from the transmitter, KTTM does not maintain any physical presence locally in Huron.

History
The station signed on May 29, 1987 as a Fox affiliate, the first non-Big Five network commercial station in South Dakota. For its first six years on the air, it was effectively South Dakota's first general entertainment independent station. Fox didn't air a full week's worth of programming until 1993, and until then most early Fox affiliates were programmed as independents. Satellite station KTTM signed on in 1991 to serve the western portions of the Sioux Falls area that could not get a clear signal from KTTW.

In early 1996, Rapid City-based KEVN-TV announced that it would switch from NBC to Fox once its affiliation contract with NBC expired in July of that year. Prior to the switch, KTTW was the only Fox affiliate to be based in South Dakota, while the western portion of the state received the network's programming via either Foxnet or Denver-based KDVR.

KTTW aired on analog channel 17 since its inception, then took advantage of the digital transition in 2009 to use their physical digital channel 7 as their permanent PSIP virtual channel to better brand themselves.

On November 2, 2020, KTTW was purchased by Weigel Broadcasting for $2.11 million. Upon being purchased by Weigel, the Sioux Falls affiliation of MeTV was moved from to KTTW's second digital subchannel.

News operation
In 2002, KTTW added newscasts at 5, 10, and 11 p.m. under the title of Fox 17 Action News, produced by the (INN). The newscasts were taped in advance at INN's facilities on Tremont Avenue in. The news anchors, meteorologist, and sports anchor were provided by the centralized news operation and other personnel from INN filled-in as needed. KTTW maintained two local reporters based in Sioux Falls who contributed content to the newscasts. The owner of INN filed for bankruptcy in January 2009, leading to the cancellation of the newscasts.

In 2011, KTTW began producing newscasts again, this time in-house under the title of Fox 7 NewsWatch.