KTMA (fictional)

KTMA (channel 23) is an independent television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, serving the Twin Cities area. It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside CBS station WCCO-TV (channel 4). Both stations share studios on South 11th Street along Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis; KTMA's transmitter is located at the Telefarm site in Shoreview. The station is perhaps best known for originating the cult cable television series Mystery Science Theater 3000, which began as a locally produced program on channel 23.

Return to independence (2023)
On October 3, 2022, Nexstar Media Group acquired majority ownership of The CW. Under the agreement, CBS was given the right to pull its affiliations from WUCW and its other CW stations. On May 5, 2023, CBS announced that it would exercise that right and WUCW would cease airing the network's programming that September, becoming an independent station; on June 14, Hubbard Broadcasting-owned KSTC-TV, then an independent station, was announced to assume the CW affiliation.

On July 18, 2023, CBS News and Stations filed a request to change WUCW's call letters to KTMA as of September 1, 2023, resurrecting the heritage callsign and branding of the station.

Following the station's return to independence, it replaced The CW programming with additional syndicated programming, including reruns of Mystery Science Theater 3000, which originated at the station.

Programming
Syndicated programming on KTMA includes Extra, The People's Court, Debt Court with Adam Baranski, The Steve Wilkos Show, Two and a Half Men, Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Family Feud, among others.