KASA-TV

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KASA-TV
Santa Fe / Albuquerque, New Mexico
Branding	KASA FOX2
Slogan	Your Home Team. There's Only One 2. Welcome Home.
Channels	2 (VHF) analog, 27 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	Fox
Owner	Raycom Media (sale to LIN TV pending)
Founded	May 8, 1981 (Began on Channel 14 & Moved to Channel 2 in 1993)
Call letters meaning	Based on Spanish word casa, meaning "home" or "House."
Former callsigns	KGSW-TV (1981-1993), KSAF-TV (1983-1985), KNMZ-TV (1985-1988) & KKTO (1988-1993)
Former affiliations	Independent (1981-1987)
Website	www.kasa.com/

KASA-TV is a television station in licemsed to Santa Fe and also serving the Albuquerque, New Mexico DMA. It's a Fox network affiliate and broadcasts on channel 2. It's owned by Raycom Media, which on July 27, 2006 announced its sale of the station to LIN TV for $55 million, making it a sister station to CBS affiliate KRQE.

The station runs first run programming and sports from Fox along with sitcoms. court shows, talk shows, and reality shows as well as some news.

In addition to the main KASA signal, there are several low-powered repeaters that carry its programming throughout New Mexico, such as K27BN in Truth or Consequences.

Contents 1 Station history 1.1 The KASA FOX2 Unit 1.2 Channel 2 History 2 Logos 3 Newscasts 4 External links

[edit] Station history

[edit] The KASA FOX2 Unit

The KASA intellectual unit began as KGSW-TV May 8, 1981, on channel 14. The callsign then was derived from the station's original owners, Galaxy Communications and Southwest Television. Initially the station on channel 14 carried drama shows, movies from the 40's through the 70's, sitcoms and religious shows. In the Fall of 1983 KGSW added more sitcoms and began running cartoons in the 7-9 a.m. and the 3-5 p.m. weekday slots.

In 1984, the Providence Journal Company bought KGSW from the original owners. The station affiliated with the Fox network when the network launched on April 5, 1987. The station continued a general entertainment format with a lot of cartoons, sitcoms and movies well into the 90's and after moving to Channel 2.

[edit] Channel 2 History

Channel 2 signed on as KSAF in 1983 as a general entertainment independent station locally owned. The station ran old movies, westerns, drama shows, and religious programming initially. In the spring of 1985 KSAF became known as KNMZ and began running cartoons, old sitcoms and other shows that previously aired on channel 23 KNAT which went dark at that time. 23 KNAT would sign back on with Trinity Broadcasting Network shows in 1986.

Channel 2 was sold in 1986 to New Mexico Media Limited License Holdings. The format stayed the same but by 1988 the station changed call letters to KKTO. The station though began to suffer financial problems and by 1991 2 KKTO was running an all barter lineup of a few classic sitcoms and first run cartoons as well as low budget movie packages.

In the Fall of 1992 after being unable to turn a profit KKTO went dark and the stronger programming which would include the Disney Afternoon cartoon block airing on 2 KKTO would move to 14 KGSW owned by Providence Journal. The channel 2 license was sold to Providence Journal late in the fall of 1992. Providence Journal Broadcasting moved the KGSW 14 intellectual unit to Channel 2 on April 5, 1993. The call letters would be changed to KASA, based on the Spanish word casa ("home"), and started a new era in station history as KASA would start competing better with KOB, KOAT, and KRQE. The license of Channel 14 was then turned into the FCC. A few years later Channel 14 signed on as a Pax TV affiliate and then sold to Univision and became a Telefutura affiliate.

KASA FOX2 began evolving its programming. Daytime sitcoms were gradually replaced with talk and reality shows though sitcoms still air in the evenings, currently many of the shows that would have been on KASA over a decade ago are now on KWBQ and KASY. A.H. Belo bought the Providence Journal Company, including KASA, in 1997.Later, in 1999, Raycom Media bought KASA, along with KHNL in Honolulu, Hawaii. The station phased out cartoons as Fox ended its weekday children's block in 2002.

After Raycom purchased The Liberty Corp. in August 2005, Raycom announced its intent to sell KASA and several other stations (most of which went to Barrington Broadcasting with one going to Quincy Newspapers). On July 27, 2006, Raycom announced that LIN TV, owner of CBS affiliate KRQE, was purchasing KASA for $55 million [1]. LIN took over operation of KASA on September 1, 2006 under a local marketing agreement while the sale is being finalized.

[edit] Logos

KASA's logo under Raycom ownership. Raycom's many Fox affiliates do not use the true "Fox" logo font as in this case.

KASA's logo after LIN's purchase. Uses the true Fox logo font, and modeled after KRQE's logo (note mountain background and "2" in place of "13".

[edit] Newscasts

KASA airs a one-hour nightly newscast, "News 13 on Fox 2", produced by LIN TV's KRQE.

For about six years, until September 15, 2006, KOB-TV produced the newscast (then known as "Fox 2 News at Nine"), using KOB's reporters and teasing ahead to KOB's 10 p.m. newscast.

KASA also airs a morning newscast called "KASA FOX2 News at Nine In the Morning," which is a partial rebroadcast of the nights previous newscast.

In case of breaking news, KASA carries special reports from Fox News while KRQE carries the same from CBS News. And under the new duopoly, KASA may air programs as an alternate CBS affiliate when KRQE is not able to do so such as in an emergency.

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for KASA
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K27BN

Broadcast television in the Albuquerque / Santa Fe market  (Nielsen DMA #45)
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 CW) - KNAT 23 (TBN) - KQDF-LP 25 (AZA) - KRPV 27 (GLC) - KAZQ 32 (LeSea/3ABN) - KTVS-LP 36 (Ind.) - KLUZ 41 (Univision) - K47DR 47 (TBN) - KASY 50 (MNTV) - KTEL-LP 53 (TEL)
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 (MNTV) - KTDO 48 (Telemundo)