KENS-TV

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

KENS-TV
San Antonio, Texas
Branding	KENS 5 (KENS pronounced as one word)
Slogan	Coverage You Can Count On, San Antonio's News Leader
Channels	5 (VHF) analog, 55 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	CBS
Owner	Belo Corporation
Founded	February 15, 1950
Call letters meaning	Express-News Service
Former callsigns	KEYL (1950-54)
Former affiliations	DuMont (1950-56), ABC (1950-57)
Website	www.mysanantonio.com

KENS-TV, "KENS 5" is the CBS television affiliate in San Antonio, Texas, owned by Belo Corporation. KENS also manages KCWX under a local marketing agreement (LMA). Its transmitter is located in Elmendorf, Texas.

Contents 1 History 2 Newscasts 2.1 Newscast lineup 2.2 Newscast titles 2.3 Eyewitness Newsreel 2.4 Newsteam 2.5 Former newscasters 3 Former station logos 4 External links

[edit] History

KENS signed on the air on February 15, 1950, as KEYL, a CBS affiliate with secondary affiliations with ABC and DuMont. Four years later, KEYL changed its call letters to KENS after the San Antonio Express-News bought the station. KENS was the second station to begin broadcasting in San Antonio, three months behind WOAI-TV. DuMont ceased most network operations in 1955, but would honor network commitments until 1956; at that point, DuMont disappeared from the station's schedule. It lost ABC when KONO-TV (now KSAT-TV) signed on in 1957, leaving KENS as a full-time CBS affiliate.

For many years, KENS-TV was owned by Harte-Hanks Communications, along with KENS-AM 1160 (now Radio Disney owned and operated station KRDY). In 1973, Harte-Hanks (which had bought the Express-News in the 1960s) sold the newspaper to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation while retaining ownership of KENS-AM/TV (the newspaper has since been acquired by the Hearst Corporation). In 1988, Harte-Hanks sold then sister stations WFMY-TV in Greensboro, North Carolina, and WTLV in Jacksonville, Florida (both of which Harte-Hanks acquired in the mid-1970s), to Gannett but held on to KENS-AM/TV until they (along with Harte-Hanks' remaining media properties) were sold to the E. W. Scripps Company in September 1997. (Harte-Hanks is now a direct marketing company.) Scripps, in turn, swapped KENS-AM/TV to Belo in December 1997 in exchange for a majority stake in the Food Network and cash.

KENS is still closely associated with the Express-News, even though the station and newspaper have been under separate ownership for many years. The station shares its main website with the newspaper.

In the mid-1980s, KENS broadcasted a short-lived second channel, exclusively on Rogers Cablevision channel 24, called KENS II.

KENS is one of the broadcast homes of NBA San Antonio Spurs and also home of game shows for two decades with Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!.

[edit] Newscasts

[edit] Newscast lineup

Weekdays

• KENS5 Eyewitness News at 5 AM - 5AM-7AM
• KENS5 Eyewitness News at 7 AM shared with Early Show - 7AM-8AM
• Great Day S.A. - 9AM-10AM
• KENS5 Eyewitness News at Noon - NOON-12:30PM
• KENS5 Eyewitness News at 5 - 5PM-5:30PM
• KENS5 Eyewitness News at 6 - 6PM-6:30PM
• KENS5 Eyewitness News at 10 - 10PM-10:35PM

Weekends

• KENS5 Eyewitness News - 7:30AM-9AM Saturdays, 7AM-8AM Sundays (KENS is among the few CBS affiliates that do not carry The Early Show on Saturday mornings.)
• KENS5 Eyewitness News at 5:30 - 5:30PM-6PM Sundays
• KENS5 Eyewitness News at 6 - 6PM-6:30PM Saturdays
• KENS5 Eyewitness News at 10 - 10PM-10:35 Saturdays and Sundays

[edit] Newscast titles

• Eyewitness News (1970-present)

[edit] Eyewitness Newsreel

A long-running, occasional segment of the news is the "Eyewitness Newsreel" in which anchor Chris Marrou narrates a faux, old-style newsreel at the end of the 10 p.m. newscast. The Newsreel usually consists of humorous segments of local news juxtaposed with out-of-context snips of CBS news anchors, politicians or celebrities "commenting" on the situation.

[edit] Newsteam

Personalities:

• Megan Alexander, traffic reporter
• Bob Ballou, weekend sports anchor
• Vicki Buffolino, weekend evening anchor
• Joe Conger, weeknight/Saturday morning reporter
• Barry Davis, Sunday morning anchor
• Ainsley Earhardt, morning anchor
• Karen Grace, reporter
• Itza Gutierrez, weekend morning anchor
• Marvin Hurst, reporter
• Fred Lozano, morning anchor
• Ryan Loyd, reporter
• Sarah Lucero, anchor 6 and 10 p.m.
• Chris Marrou, anchor 5, 6 and 10 p.m.
• Deborah Knapp, anchor 5 p.m. (former wife of Congressman Henry Bonilla)
• Paul Mireles, morning meteorologist
• James Munoz, reporter
• Brandy Ralston, I-Team reporter
• Joe Reinagel, sports director
• Wendy Rigby , medical reporter at 5 p.m.
• Drew Roesgen, reporter
• Jared Silverman, weekend meteorologist
• Bridget Smith, Bridget's Beat at 6 p.m.
• Amanda Taylor, reporter
• Bill Taylor, chief meteorologist 5, 6, and 10 p.m.

[edit] Former newscasters

• Bob Salter
• Jud Ashmore
• Dan Cook
• Glenn Glazer
• Gary DeLaune
• Albert Flores
• Gene Tuck
• Ron Taylor
• Sylvan Rodriguez (died in 2000)
• Kelly Chapman
• Lynn Russell
• Alex Garcia
• Maclovio Perez
• Paul Thompson

[edit] Former station logos

Old KENS 5 logo used until 1998.

[edit] External links

• MySA.com
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KENS

Broadcast television in the San Antonio market  (Nielsen DMA #37)
KCWX 2 (The CW) - WOAI 4 (NBC) - KENS 5 (CBS) - KLRN 9 (PBS) - KSAT 12 (ABC) - K14LM 14 (3ABN) - KNIC-CA 17 (TFU) - KHCE 23 (TBN) - KPXL 26 (i) - KABB 29 (Fox) - KVDF-CA 31 (AZA) - KMYS 35 (MNTV) (The Tube on DT2) - KWEX 41 (UNI) - KQVE-LP 46 (DS) - K52EA 52 (Multimedios) - KVDA 60 (TEL)
See also, Broadcast television in Del Rio / Eagle Pass