KFSN-TV

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KFSN-TV
Fresno, California
Branding	ABC30 Action News
Slogan	Central California's News Leader
Channels	30 (UHF) analog, 9 (VHF) digital
Affiliations	ABC (since 1985)
Owner	Disney/ABC
Founded	May 10, 1956
Call letters meaning	K FRESNO
Former callsigns	KFRE-TV (1956-71)
Former affiliations	CBS (1956-85)
Website	www.abc30.com

KFSN-TV is the ABC owned television station in Fresno, California. The station transmits 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 flanking either side, including the Sierra Nevada mountains and Yosemite National Park. The station serves Fresno, Madera, Merced, Tulare, and Kings counties. The station's transmitter is located in Meadow Lakes, California.

Out of ten ABC owned stations, KFSN is the only one using a UHF channel to carry its analog signal. The station os one of the two network owned television stations in the Fresno television market. (The other is KNSO, the NBC-owned Telemundo affiliated station.)

The station's newscasts are not branded Eyewitness News like most of its other owned stations; instead they are called "ABC30 Action News". Sister station WPVI in Philadelphia also uses this moniker. In late 2003, the station began pooling resources with sister stations KABC-TV in Los Angeles and KGO-TV in San Francisco to hire a full time reporter and photographer to staff a Sacramento bureau following Arnold Schwarzenegger's election to the office of Governor during the 2003 California recall election).

Like its sister stations KABC-TV KFSN's syndicated programming lineup includes The Oprah Winfrey Show, Wheel of Fortune, and Jeopardy!. Other syndicated programming carried by the station includes The Rachael Ray Show and weekend shows Teen Kids News, Hispanics Today, Ebert & Roeper, and Alias.

Contents 1 History 2 Newscasts 3 Past Personalities 4 Reference 5 External links

[edit] 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 on VHF 9.)

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 CW 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).

[edit] Newscasts

Weekdays

• Action News AM Live: 5:00-7:00 AM
  • Anchors: Jason Martinez, Margot Kim
  • Weather: Doug Collins
  • Traffic reports from the CHP

• Action News Midday: 11:00-11:30 AM
  • Anchors: Jason Martinez, Debra Steele

• Action News Live at Five: 5:00-5:30 PM
  • Anchors: Warren Armstrong, Nancy Osborne
  • Weather: Angelo Stalis
  • Sports: Dan Taylor

• Action News at 6: 6:00-6:30 PM
  • Anchors: Warren Armstrong, Graciela Moreno
  • Weather: Angelo Stalis
  • Sports: Dan Taylor

• Action News at 6:30: 6:30-7:00 PM
  • Anchors: Dale Yurong, Liz Harrison
  • Weather: Angelo Stalis
  • Sports: Dan Taylor

• Action News Live at 11: 11:00-11:35 PM
  • Anchors: Warren Armstrong, Graciela Moreno
  • Weather: Angelo Stalis
  • Sports: Dan Taylor

Weekends

• Action News AM Live Weekend: Saturday/Sunday 6:00-7:00 AM and Sunday 8:00-9:00 AM
  • Anchor: Itica Milanes
  • Weather: Ashlee Tate

• Valley Focus (public affairs show): Sunday 9:30 AM
  • Host: Beth Marney

• Action News at 6: 6:00-6:30 PM and Action News Live at 11: 11:00-11:35 PM

• • Anchor: Maureen Naylor
  • Weather: Ashlee Tate
  • Sports: Jason Olivera

[edit] Past Personalities

• Rich Rodriguez - anchor now at KSEE
• Juanita Stevenson - anchor-reporter now at KJWL-FM
• Craig Herrera - weather anchor 2002-2005 now at KNTV
• Ann Norteangelo - reporter 1998-2001 now at KPIX
• Joanne Feldman - weather anchor 2000-2002 now at WTVD
• John Wallace - anchor, now at KGPE
• Keith Garvin - reporter, now at ABC News
• Aaron Bender - reporter
• Ellis Levinson - consumer affairs reporter
• Kevin Cox - anchor/reporter
• Kevin Riggs - anchor/reporter, now at KCRA/KQCA
• Kate Mistol - anchor
• Dan Godwin - anchor/reporter
• Chris Nieto -sports
• Karen Lee - anchor/reporter
• Craig Fiegener -reporter, now at KCBS/KCAL
• Kevin Quinn - reporter, now at KTRK
• Cindy Suryan - anchor/reporter, now employed by Community Hospitals of Cental California
• Richard Montano - sports
• Ken Shockley - reporter, now a spokesman for Fresno Fire Department
• Gerrick Brenner - reporter, now at WTVD
• Laura Diaz - anchor 1981-83, now at KCBS/KCAL
• Lisa Gonzales - morning anchor 2001-2005, now at KOVR/KMAX

[edit] Reference

• BroadcastPioneers.com: A History of the WFIL Stations - accessed on January 20, 2006

[edit] External links

• KFSN ABC30 Homepage
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KFSN-TV

Broadcast television in the Fresno / Visalia market  (Nielsen DMA #56)
KVHF-LP 4 (JTV) - K12OZ 12 (3ABN) - KCWB-LP 13 / KVVG-LP 54 (Tvida) - KHMM-CA 14 (MTV Tr3s) - KHSC-LP 16 (HSN) - KVPT 18 (PBS) - KFTV 21 (UNI) - KZMM-CA 22 (MTV Tr3s) - KSEE 24 (NBC) - KMPH 26 (Fox) - KFSN 30 (ABC) - KJEO-LP 32 / KBID-LP 31 (A1) - KSDI-LP 33 (TSC) - KMCF-LP 35 (AS) - KMSG-LP 39 / KFAZ-LP 8 (AZA) - KGMC 43 (Ind/JTV/A1) - KGPE 47 (CBS) - KNXT 49 (Ind) - KNSO 51 (TEL) - KAIL 53 (MNTV) - KFRE 59 (The CW) - KTFF 61 (TFU)