KFSN-TV
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KFSN-TV is an ABC owned-and-operated television station (O&O) in Fresno, California. It broadcasts its analog signal on UHF channel 30, and its digital signal on VHF channel 9. Its signal covers the Central San Joaquin Valley and the mountain ranges on either side, including the Sierra Nevada mountains and Yosemite National Park. The station serves Fresno, Madera, Merced, Tulare, and Kings counties. KFSN is the only ABC O&O on a UHF signal, and one of the two network O&O television stations in the Fresno television market. (The second O&O is KNSO-TV, Channel 51, Merced/Fresno, the market's Telemundo affiliate, which is owned by NBC, the parent company of the Telemundo Spanish language network) The KFSN-TV transmitter is located in Meadow Lakes, California.
The station's newscasts are not called Eyewitness News like most of its other sister stations, but it is called "ABC30 Action News" -- sister station WPVI in Philadelphia uses this package. Like its sister stations KABC-TV in Los Angeles and KGO-TV in San Francisco, KFSN's syndicated programming lineup includes Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy! and The Oprah Winfrey Show.
History
In the 1950s, KARM-AM and KFRE-AM competed for the channel 12 license, the sole VHF TV allocation in Fresno. KFRE won the license, and the station known today as KFSN-TV signed on the air for the first time on May 10, 1956 on channel 12 under the call letters KFRE-TV. The KFRE stations were acquired by Triangle Publications in 1959, and shortly thereafter, KFRE-TV moved to UHF channel 30, making Fresno an all-UHF television market. (Fresno is still a predominantly-UHF market to this day with all 12 full power analog signals operating on UHF channels. the exceptions are a few low-power and digital outlets, including KFSN's own digital signal (Digital channel 9), KAIL-DT, Ch 7 and KNSO's future digital channel on VHF channel 5.Capital Cities Communications acquired the KFRE stations from Triangle in 1971; the company sold off the AM and FM radio stations and kept the TV station, changing its calls from KFRE-TV to KFSN-TV. (The KFRE calls are now used on Fresno's WB affiliate; that station is unrelated to the current KFSN-TV.) The station, hitherto a CBS affiliate, became an ABC O&O in September 1985 following ABC's merger with CapCities; the CBS affiliation went to KJEO, channel 47 (now KGPE).
Reference
- [BroadcastPioneers.com: A History of the WFIL Stations] - accessed on January 20, 2006
External links
| Broadcast television in the Fresno / Visalia market [(Nielsen DMA #56)] | |||
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| KVHF 4 (JTV) - KCWB 13 (AMV) - KHSC 16 (HSN) - KVPT 18 (PBS) - KFTV 21 (UNI) - KZMM 22 (MMA) - KSEE 24 (NBC) - KMPH 26 (Fox) - KFSN 30 (ABC) KJEO 32 (A1) - KSDI 33 (TSC) - KMCF 35 (AS) - KGMC 43 (Ind/JTV/A1) - KGPE 47 (CBS) - KNXT 49 (Ind) - KNSO 51 (TEL) - KAIL 53 (UPN/MNTV) KMSG 55 / KFAZ 8 (AZA) - KFRE 59 (The WB/The CW) - KTFF 61 (TFU) | |||
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