KPTM

KPTM (channel 42) is a television station in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with Fox and The CW. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to Roar outlet KXVO (channel 15) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Mitts Telecasting Company. The two stations share studios on Farnam Street in Omaha; KPTM's transmitter is located on Pflug Road, south of Gretna and I-80.

KPTM went on air as Omaha's first independent station in 1986. It was built by and named for California-based Pappas Telecasting. KPTM affiliated with Fox in 1988, after Pappas originally sat out the network's launch, and began airing local newscasts in June 1990. After the bankruptcy of Pappas, Titan Broadcast Management acquired the station in 2009, selling most of its broadcasting properties to Sinclair in 2013. While KPTM aired a 9 p.m. newscast for more than 30 years, it was unsuccessful at growing its news department beyond that: between 1998 and 2000, the station aired and then canceled a morning newscast, and a 4 p.m. newscast lasted two years in the late 2000s. For the last decade of KPTM offering newscasts, the news programs were presented by talent outside the Omaha market.