Originally signed on the air on August 10, 1953 as WTVI, a primary CBS affiliate on UHF channel 54 and was initially licensed to Belleville, Illinois. It was also the second television station in the St. Louis market after Pulitzer's KSD-TV (VHF channel 5, now KSDK) on February 8, 1947.
1954–1955[]
KTVI[]
1955–1957[]
The station moved to UHF channel 36, and relocated its city of license to St. Louis on April 9, 1955, keeping the base "TVI" letters as part of its callsign while flipping the first assigned letter from "W" to "K" with this switch of sides of the Mississippi River, thus changing to the current KTVI.
1957–1963[]
As the FCC would not require television sets to include UHF tuners until 1961, on April 15, 1957, KTVI moved to VHF channel 2, something it had attempted to do soon after moving to St. Louis–the channel 2 allocation had been reassigned from Springfield, Illinois under pressure from the Truman Administration, originally done so as not to interfere with CBS-ownedWBBM-TV in Chicago.
1963–1965[]
1965–1973[]
1973–1976[]
1976–1978[]
Alternate logo with ABC "circle" emblem. Note the "abc" wordmark is smaller.
1978–1979[]
1979–2006[]
1979–1995[]
1979–1982[]
Station Ident (1979)
Station Ident (1979)
1982–1987[]
KTVI IDs 1981
Station ID (1981-1982)
Station ID (1982–1985)
Station ID (1987-1988)
Station ID/Tornado Watch graphic (1982–1987)
Logo used on station letterhead
1987–1995[]
1987–1990[]
Station ID seen during newscasts (1987–1989)
Station ID (1987)
Station ID (1987–1988)
Station ID (1988–1990)
Station ID from ABC's "Something's Happening" campaign (1988)
Station ID shown during ABC Monday Night Movie bumper
1990–1995[]
Station ID seen during newscast open (1990–1994)
Station ID seen during newscast open (1994–1995)
1995–1996[]
On August 7, 1995, as part of a multi-station affiliation deal with New World Communications, KTVI switched from ABC to Fox. ABC moved its programming to charter Fox affiliate KDNL-TV on that date.
Print version
1996–2006[]
"Here's 2 St. Louis" promo (1995)
Station ID (2002–2006)
In May 1996, KTVI rebranded itself as "Fox 2" for general station promotion and adopted Fox 2 News as the title of its newscasts, becoming among the few New World-owned stations (along with KTBC, WITI, WJBK and WTVT) to adopt network-standardized branding prior to Fox's purchase of the group later that year.
2006–2015[]
Station ID seen during news open (2006–2009)
Station ID (2006–2009)
Print logo
Website logo (2009-present); based off of the "MyFox" logos at the same time
Fox Television Stations sold KTVI and seven other stations to Local TV (operated by Oak Hill Capital Partners) on December 22, 2007, which the sale was finalized on July 14, 2008. Chicago-based Tribune Broadcasting purchased KTVI outright on July 1, 2013, as part of its $2.75 billion acquisition of Local TV; the sale was finalized on December 27, forming a legal duopoly between KDVR and CW affiliate KPLR-TV.
2015–present[]
2015–2020[]
2020–present[]
After then-owner Tribune Broadcasting was acquired by Irving, Texas-based Nexstar Media Group on September 19, 2019, the Fox wordmark was changed to the current one used since 2019.
1Owns a 75% stake of the network, the other 12.5% stake is co-owned between Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery. 2Joint venture with Warner Bros. Discovery, in which Nexstar owns 31% while Warner Bros. Discovery owns the remaining 69%. 3Nexstar operates these stations owned by Mission Broadcasting. 4Nexstar operates this station owned by Cunningham Broadcasting. 5Nexstar operates this station owned by White Knight Broadcasting through an SSA. 6Nexstar operates this station owned by Vaughan Media. 7Predecessor company of LIN Media. 8Currently a repeater for WWLP. 9Nexstar operates this station owned by Londen Media Group. 10Sale of this station to Sullivan's Landing, LLC, pending FCC approval.