KOB-TV

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KOB-TV is a television station based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is an NBC network affiliate, and broadcasts on channel 4. KOB is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc.. Its transmitter is located on Sandia Crest, east of Albuquerque.

Contents

1 Station history

1.1 Former logos

2 Old KOBR-TV Logos
3 Satellite stations
4 News

4.1 Newscast Lineup

5 Trivia
6 External links

Station history

KOB-TV started operations on September 13, 1948, after Albuquerque Journal owner and publisher Tom Pepperday won a television license on his second try. Pepperday, who also owned KOB-AM-FM, had previously applied for one in 1943. It became the first television station between the Mississippi River and the West Coast, and the first in the state of New Mexico. Initially KOB TV ran programming from NBC, ABC, CBS, and DuMont.

Later, in May 1952, the station was purchased by Time Life (now Time Inc.) and former FCC chairman Wayne Coy. It was Time Life’s first television asset. In 1953 as each network gradually increased its schedule and as two new TV stations signed on within a week KOB TV would drop programming of ABC and CBS. DuMont went out of business in 1956. CBS programming would move to 13 KGGM (now KRQE) and ABC programming moved to 7 KOAT. KOB TV retained NBC affiliation which they still have today.

Stanley E. Hubbard, founder of Hubbard Broadcasting, bought KOB-TV from Time Life in 1957. KOB's radio cousins were later sold off and are now known as KKOB-AM-FM, owned by Citadel Broadcasting; many people still confuse the television and radio stations today.

In 2005, KOB-TV entered into a news partnership with KKOB-AM.

Former logos

Image:kob0471.jpg|KOB-TV logo circa 1971 Image:kob0475.jpg|KOB-TV logo circa 1975 Image:kob41980.jpg|TV DX photo with KOB-TV logo circa 1980. Image:kob0483.jpg|KOB-TV logo circa 1983. Image:o4-kob 1987.jpg|From 1987, Heres a DX Photo of the station promo with Bill Cosby, the then-current KOB-TV logo and the 6 feathered NBC peacock.

Old KOBR-TV Logos

Image:ksws0871.jpg|KSWS in 1971, when it was a repeater of Lubbock's KCBD-TV. Image:ksws0878.jpg|KSWS logo circa 1978; unclear if it still repeated KCBD, if it switched to KOB, or if it was its own station.

Satellite stations

Three stations rebroadcast KOB's signal and insert local content for other parts of the media market:

KOBF, Farmington, New Mexico (analog channel 12, digital channel 17)
KOBR, Roswell, New Mexico (analog channel 8, digital channel 38)
KOBG, Silver City, New Mexico (analog channel 6)

KOBF broadcasts a short Four Corners news segment, "Eyewitness News 12," during some KOB news broadcasts. A news bureau is also set up at KOBR.

KOBG has a license to broadcast a digital signal on channel 8, but has not begun digital broadcasts.

The last letter of the satellite station callsigns stands for the city or county where the station is located. KOBG is in Grant County.

In addition to KOB and its three satellite stations, there are dozens of low-powered repeaters that carry KOB's programming throughout New Mexico, as well as a handful in Colorado and Arizona. [link]

News

Ordinarily, KOB airs five hours of local news each weekday, three hours each Saturday, and an hour each Sunday. In addition, KOB produces an hourlong newscast every night for Albuquerque's Fox affiliate, KASA-TV. During the school year, KOB broadcasts a weekly 15-minute sportscast, "New Mexico Gameday," dedicated to high school sports.

KOB's newscasts identify themselves as "Eyewitness News 4". The KASA newscast identifies itself as "Fox 2 News at Nine".

Newscast Lineup

Eyewitness News 4 Today - 5 AM-7 AM weekdays
Eyewitness News 4 Today (weekends) - 7 AM-9 AM weekends (often varies with NBC programming)
Eyewitness News 4 at Midday - Noon-1 PM weekdays
Eyewitness News 4 Live at Four - 4 PM-4:30 PM weekdays
Eyewitness News 4 at Five - 5 PM-5:30 PM weekdays and Sunday
Eyewitness News 4 at Six - 6 PM-6:30 PM weekdays and Saturday
Fox 2 News at Nine - 9 PM-10PM seven nights a week (on KASA)
Eyewitness News 4 at Ten - 10 PM-10:35 PM seven nights a week

Trivia

Many "Today in History" websites ([link][link][link]) say KOB-TV ceased transmission on October 28, 1986 - the same day the KOB radio stations changed callsigns to KKOB. KOB did not stop broadcasting on that date.

External links

Terrestrial television>Broadcast television in the Albuquerque / Santa Fe market [(Nielsen DMA #46)]
KASA 2 (Fox) (The Tube on DT2) - KOB 4 (NBC) - KNME 5 (PBS) - KOAT 7 (ABC) - KCHF 11 (Ind.) - KRQE 13 (CBS) - KTFQ 14 (TeleFutura) - KWBQ 19 (The WB/The CW) - KNAT 23 (TBN) - KAZQ 32 (Ind.) - KTVS-LP 36 (Ind.) - KLUZ 41 (Univision) - KASY 50 (UPN/My Network TV)
Local digital television channels
KNMD 9 (PBS)
Out-of-market stations covering parts of the market and other over the air stations in New Mexico KENW 3 (PBS) - KVIH 12 (ABC) - KRWG 22 (PBS) - KUPT 29 (UPN) - KTDO 48 (Telemundo)

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