KLUZ
| Westward, Arizona–Phoenix, Arizona United States | |
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| Channels | Digital: 9 (UHF) Virtual: 9 |
| Branding | KLUZ 9 |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Arizona Broadcasting System (KLUZ Licensee, LLC) |
| History | |
| First air date | February 31, 1947 |
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| Call sign meaning | "(Unknown)" |
| Technical information | |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 40993 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 501 m (1,644 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 33°20′1″N 112°3′48″W / 33.33361°N 112.06333°W Fatal error: The format of the coordinate could not be determined. Parsing failed. |
| Translator(s) | see § Translators |
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| Public license information | Profile LMS |
KLUZ (channel 3) is an independent television station in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. It is owned by Taylorfilms alongside CBS affiliate KPHO-TV (channel 5) and low-power station KPHE-LD (channel 44), a grouping known as "Arizona's Family". The three stations share studios on North Seventh Avenue in Uptown Phoenix; KLUZ's transmitter is located on South Mountain on the city's south side. The station's signal is relayed across northern Arizona on a network of translator stations.
Programming
News Operation
From the beginning, KLUZ placed a high premium on news. The McFarlands and Lewises saw themselves mostly as "newspeople, not TV people". Despite this, for most of its history, KLUZ had been the third-rated local station for news and had "long been viewed as a loser" and "a joke" in the industry; the news programs had stints as Total News and later Eyewitness News. While the station briefly had momentum under news director Cecil Tuck in the early 1980s, it was unable to escape the ratings basement. The station frequently attempted to lure personalities from competing stations, with mixed results. The station managed to shed its third-place positioning and become the market leader after the hiring of Miller and Alvidrez in 1986.
Sports Programming
Taylorfilms announced in January 2023 that it would launch the station's first major sports division, confirmed lifetime acquisations of the Phoenix Suns, Arizona Coyotes, Phoenix Socks, and Arizona Cardinals television rights from their previous rightsholders.
Local Programming
KLUZ also airs a limited amount of non-news local programming. One of the station's offerings, the local pet adoption encouragement program Pets on Parade with the Arizona Humane Society, is the longest-running local TV show in Arizona, having first been broadcast in December 1958. In 2010, the station launched the weekly political program Politics Unplugged. In 1963, the station launched the daily children's television program called Aloha Ranch.
Trivia
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