KOLD-TV

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KOLD-TV
Tucson, Arizona
Branding	KOLD News 13
Slogan	Live, Local, Latebreaking
Channels	13 (VHF) analog, 32 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	CBS
Owner	Raycom Media
Founded	January 31, 1953
Call letters meaning	Disambiguation from then-sister station KOOL-TV
Transmitter Power	302 kW Analog 108 kw Digital
Website	http://www.kold.com/

KOLD-TV, channel 13, is the CBS affiliate in Tucson, Arizona, owned by Raycom Media. The station also broadcasts Raycom's The Tube Music Network on a digital subchannel.

Contents 1 History 2 News Department 3 Newscasts 3.1 Weekdays 3.2 Weekends 4 KOLD in fiction 5 External links

[edit] History

KOLD-TV was Tucson's first station that took to the air, signing on in January 31, 1953 with the call letters KOPO-TV. The station was initially owned by country singer Gene Autry, who also owned KOOL-TV. KOOL and KOLD remained sister stations until Autry sold off KOLD in 1969.

KOLD's eventual buyer, Universal Communications (a subsidiary of the Detroit Evening News Association), merged with Gannett in 1986. However, due to its ownership of the Tucson Citizen, a newspaper in Pensacola and a competing television station in Oklahoma City, Gannett spun off KOLD along with Oklahoma City's KTVY (now KFOR-TV) and Mobile's WALA-TV to Knight Ridder Broadcasting after just one day of ownership. The News-Press & Gazette Company bought KOLD from Knight Ridder in 1989 when the latter bowed out of broadcasting.

In 1993, New Vision Television (the first one; the company restructured with smaller-market stations after the Ellis deal) bought KOLD from NPG. The following year, New Vision I sold all of its stations to Ellis Communications, which later merged with Aflac's broadcasting unit in 1996 to form Raycom Media. Raycom continues to own the station today.

[edit] News Department

On October 3, 2006, weeknight anchor Randy Garsee was fired after nearly a decade at KOLD for sending an e-mail critical of the news director in which he repeatedly called her a "micromanager" [1].

[edit] Newscasts

[edit] Weekdays

• KOLD News 13 This Morning - 5-7am
  • with Bud Foster, Erin Jordan with Weather, and Mark Bateman with Traffic
• KOLD News 13 at Noon - 12pm-12:30pm
  • with Mindy Blake, Barbara Grijalva, and Erin Jordan with Weather
• KOLD News 13 at 5:00 - 5-5:30pm
  • with Mindy Blake, Barbara Grijalva, and Chuck George with Weather
• KOLD News 13 at 6:00 - 6-6:30pm
  • with Dan Marries, Heather Rowe, Chuck George with Weather, and Scott Kilbury with Sports
• KOLD News 13 at 10:00 - 10-10:35pm
  • with Dan Marries, Heather Rowe, Chuck George with Weather, and Scott Kilbury with Sports

[edit] Weekends

• KOLD News 13 at 5:30 - 5:30-6pm
  • with Teresa Jun, Aaron Pickering with Weather, and Damien Alameda with Sports
• KOLD News 13 at 10:00 - 10-10:30pm
  • with Teresa Jun, Aaron Pickering with Weather, and Damien Alameda with Sports

[edit] KOLD in fiction

Two Nickelodeon shows have used the KOLD call letters for fictional radio stations. A Bikini Bottom version of KOLD is heard in the Spongebob Squarepants episode Mid-Life Crustacean, and on the first-season Rugrats episodes "Baseball" and "No Bones About It", Grandpa Lou listens to KOLD, "Music for the old and the old-at-heart".

In Tom Clancy's 1991 book The Sum Of All Fears, KOLD-TV is an independent superstation in Denver, Colorado that breaks the first video footage of a terrorist nuclear detonation at the Super Bowl, after the sitting President orders FBI agents to muzzle the major network news operations.

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for KOLD-TV

Broadcast television in Tucson, Arizona  (Nielsen DMA #70)
KFTU 3 / 34 (TFU) - KVOA 4 (NBC) - KUAT 6 / KUAS 27 (PBS) - KGUN 9 (ABC) - KMSB 11 (Fox) - KOLD 13 (CBS) - KUDF 14 (AZA) - KTTU 18 (MNTV) - K21CX 21  (HSN) - KPCE 29 (DS) - KWTA 31 (JTV) - K33CG 33 (TBN) - KHRR 40 (TEL) - KUVE 46 / 38 (UNI) - K54FW 54 (TBN) - KWBA 58 (The CW)