A digital TV receiver includes an apparatus for generating a skew corrected clock. The apparatus consists of a fixed frequency, free running oscillator (22) for producing a signal (FFOS) having a frequency which is a fixed integer multiple K of the desired nominal frequency of the skew-corrected clock signal, and a divide-by-K circuit (30) which is reset once every horizontal line. The divide-by-K circuit comprises a divide-by-m circuit connected in series with a flip-flop (50), with said divide-by-m circuit (40) being reset by a first control signal (FCS) once every horizontal line. The apparatus additionally includes means (Fig. 2/SCS) for preventing the output of the flip-flop (50) from changing while the divide-by-m circuit is reset in response to the first control signal (FCS). In accordance with another aspect of this invention, the state of the divide-by-K circuit (30) is captured (150/SES) and saved for use in a chroma demodulation apparatus (Fig. 6) just before it is reset.