KSAZ-TV

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KSAZ-TV
Phoenix, Arizona
Branding	FOX10
Channels	10 (VHF) analog, 31 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	Fox (since December 1994)
Owner	Fox Television Stations Group
Founded	1953
Call letters meaning	K Spirit of AriZona
Former callsigns	KOY-TV/KOOL-TV (1953-55) KOOL-TV (1955-80) KTSP-TV (1980-94)
Former affiliations	ABC (secondary 1953-55) CBS (1953-1995)
Transmitter Power	105 kW
Height	500 m
Website	www.MyFoxPhoenix.com

KSAZ-TV is the owned-and-operated FOX station in Phoenix, Arizona. It is co-owned with sister KUTP. The station broadcasts on Channel 10 in Phoenix and on numerous translators throughout Northern Arizona. Its transmitter is located on South Mountain in Phoenix.

Contents 1 History 2 Newscasts 3 News personalities 3.1 FOX 10 News Arizona Morning 3.2 FOX 10 News @ Noon 3.3 FOX 10 News at 5 3.4 FOX 10 News Live at 6 3.5 FOX 10 News at 9 3.6 FOX 10 News at 10 3.7 FOX 10 News Weekend 3.8 General Assignment Reporters 3.9 Fox 10 Investigative Newsteam 3.10 SKYFOX (Helicopter) 3.11 Former personalities 4 Slogans 5 Translators 6 References 7 External links

[edit] History

Channel 10 was founded in 1953 as a shared-time signal between KOY-TV and KOOL-TV; the two later merged to become simply KOOL-TV. Gene Autry was one of the station's owners. The station was originally a limited-schedule ABC affiliate until 1955, when KTVK signed on and took the ABC affiliation. KOOL then took the CBS affiliation away from KPHO-TV. As a result, the station was now able to feature Autry's show on its schedule.

The station was sold to Gulf Broadcasting in 1980, and changed its callsign to KTSP-TV. It had been said that the call sign stands for Tempe/Scottsdale/Phoenix, but some have also claimed that the call sign was simply changed to match WTSP in Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida, which the company also owned. KTSP's logo at the time was similar to WTSP's "Sunset 10" logo.

KTSP was sold to Taft Broadcasting in 1984, as part of a corporate deal. In 1989, KTSP newscaster Shelly Jamison left the station after appearing nude and on the cover of Playboy magazine.^[1]

Taft sold most of its network affiliates to Great American Broadcasting. The station was then sold to New World Communications late in 1993.

The station changed its call sign to KSAZ on February 12, 1994 to match its new slogan, "The Spirit of Arizona". It remained as CBS network's Phoenix affiliate; however, as a result of a deal reached between New World and Fox, 4 commercial stations in the Phoenix market swapped network affiliations at different times. KSAZ dropped the CBS affiliation in December of 1994 which went to KPHO 5.

FOX network's prime time and sports programming moved to the station from KNXV in December 1994, although the FOX KIDS programming moved to KTVK and in 1997 to KASW. KSAZ became known as "10 NEWS" in the Fall of 1994 and in December "FOX 10 NEWS". With several top-rated syndicated shows moving to other stations in 1995, KSAZ was up to about 50 hours a week of local news. The remaining syndicated programming on the station was rather low-rated, and as a result KSAZ did not have good ratings in its early days as a FOX affiliate. Much of the news audience went to KTVK, the former ABC affiliate which also took on a news-intensive format. In the fall of 1995, KSAZ added 3 hours of talk shows jointly produced by New World and FOX.

Fox bought out New World late in 1996, making KSAZ a fully owned-and-operated station, or "O&O". KSAZ has since been known as Fox 10. Fox then began to upgrade the station's programming, adding some high-rated off-network sitcoms such as M*A*S*H, Seinfeld, and King Of The Hill. The station also added higher-rated court shows and reality shows. FOX KIDS though stayed with KTVK and then KASW.

KSAZ and KUTP became sister stations in 2001, following Fox's purchase of the latter. This makes both the only network O&Os in the Phoenix market, although KUTP did not become an O&O of any network until fall 2006, when it joined FOX's second network, My Network TV. Even though Fox owns both KSAZ and KUTP, neither run the Saturday morning cartoon block known as 4Kids TV. This still runs on KASW. Its possible after KUTP becomes My Network TV that 4Kids TV could move there but nothing has been decided yet.

On July 31, 2006, KSAZ launched its new 6PM newscast. The newscast is anchored by Troy Hayden, who also anchors the 10PM newscast. Alongside the launch of the newscast was the debut of a brand new look for KSAZ, taking on the generic Fox O&O graphics and logo first used by WTVT and WNYW.

[edit] Newscasts

Weekdays

• FOX10 Arizona Morning - 5:00-9:00AM
• FOX10 News @ Noon - 12:00-12:30PM
• FOX10 News @ 5:00 - 5:00-5:30PM
• FOX10 News @ 5:30 - 5:30-6:00PM
• FOX10 News @ 6:00 - 6:00-6:30PM
• FOX10 News @ 9:00 - 9:00-10:00PM,
• FOX10 News @ 10:00 - 10:00-10:30PM,
• FOX10 News @ 9:00 - (Rebroadcast) - 2:00AM-3:00AM
• FOX10 News @ 10:00 - (Rebroadcast) - 3:00AM-3:30AM

Weekends

• FOX10 News @ 5:00 - 5:00-5:30PM
• FOX10 News @ 5:30 - 5:30-6:00PM
• FOX10 News @ 9:00 - 9:00-10:00PM
• FOX10 News @ 10:00 - 10:00-10:30PM
• FOX10 Sports Night - 10:30-11:00PM (Sunday)

[edit] News personalities

[edit] FOX 10 News Arizona Morning

• Rick D'Amico
• Ron Hoon
• Weather Authority FOXCaster Cory McCloskey
• Chief Traffic Authority Andrea Robinson
• Alexis DelChiaro

[edit] FOX 10 News @ Noon

• Rick D'Amico
• Alexis DelChiaro
• Weather Authority FOXCaster Cory McCloskey

[edit] FOX 10 News at 5

• John Hook
• Kari Lake
• Chief Weather Authority Dave Munsey
• Sports Director Jude LaCava

[edit] FOX 10 News Live at 6

• Troy Hayden
• Chief Weather Authority Dave Munsey
• Sports Director Jude LaCava

[edit] FOX 10 News at 9

• John Hook
• Kari Lake
• Chief Weather Authority Dave Munsey
• Sports Director Jude LaCava

[edit] FOX 10 News at 10

• Troy Hayden
• Chief Weather Authority Dave Munsey
• Sports Director Jude LaCava

[edit] FOX 10 News Weekend

• Linda Williams
• Marc Martinez -- promoted to newsanchor
• Meteorologist Jayme King
• Gayle Jansen
• Richard Saenz

[edit] General Assignment Reporters

• Sarah Acevedo
• Yetta Gibson
• Sabra Gertsch
• Andrew Hasbun
• Steve Krafft
• Allie Rasmus
• Alex Savidge
• Diane Ryan
• Laura Sambol
• Tammy Vo

[edit] Fox 10 Investigative Newsteam

• Bruce Dunbar
• Keith Yaskin

[edit] SKYFOX (Helicopter)

• Don Hooper -- pilot of SKYFOX
• Rick Crabbs -- pilot of SKYFOX; recently returned to FOX 10
• Dave Sterman -- cameraman; operator of SKYFOX POWERCAM

[edit] Former personalities

Name	Position at KSAZ	Years Active	Whereabouts
Stepanie Angelo	General Assignment Reporter	Unknown	Married FOX 10 News Live at 6 Anchor Troy Hayden, now an interior designer in Phoenix.
Kathleen Bade	Host of FOX 10 Arizona Morning	to 2000s	Now working at KFMB-TV
Kristin Bruenig	Traffic Reporter	to 2000s	Unknown
Bob Bruce	FOX 10 News @ 6 & 10 Anchor	Unknown	'Morning Anchor for WPXI'
Jennifer Burgess	FOX 10 Arizona Morning Co-Anchor	to mid-2000s	Reporting for KNXV-TV
Ilona Carson	FOX 10 Arizona Morning Co-Anchor	to 2000s	Anchoring 13 Eyewitness News at Four at KTRK-TV in Houston, Texas
Bill Close	Primetime Anchor for KTSP-TV (now KSAZ)	Unknown	In retirement
Donna Cordova	Weeknight anchor at KTSP ((now KSAZ-TV)	1989-1993	Anchoring news at 10PM weeknights on KTXL in Sacramento, CA
Steve Deshler	Co-Anchor of FOX 10 NEWS 6am to 9am, weather presenter	Unknown	Residing in Chicago, Illinois
Pat Flannigan	Weather presenter	Unknown	Unknown
Heidi Foglesong	Co-host of FOX 10 Arizona Morning	Unknown	Created LIFE A TO Z on KTVK-TV, now afternoon news co-anchor at KTAR Radio in Phoenix
Marlene Galan	Co-host of FOX 10 Arizona Morning, Co-anchor of FOX 10 News @ 6 & 10	Unknown	In Retirement and married to former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods
Robin Garrison	FOX 10 News at 5 and 9 Co-Anchor; Arizona Prime News Co-Anchor	Until late 1990s	Residing in Phoenix as a stay-at-home mom
J.D. Hayworth	Evening sports anchor	to 1994	Became US Congressman in 1994. Unseated in 2006 midterm election.
Kirby Maus	Weekend sports	Unknown	Residing in Palm Springs, California
Dennis McBroom	Traffic reporter	Unknown	Now on KUPD radio in Phoenix
Terry McSweeney	Co-Anchor for FOX 10 News @ 6 & 10	to 2001	Moved to WTEN in Albany, NY as evening anchor (2000-2006), presently in California
Corrie O'Connor	Traffic reporter	Unknown	Working for Clear Channel Communications in Phoenix
Dave Patterson	Co-Anchor of FOX 10 NEWS 6am to 9am	Unknown	In retirement
Rob Piercy	Weekend news Co-Anchor	To mid-2000s	Became North Bureau Chief and substitute anchor at KING-TV in Seattle, WA
Randy Rauch	Weekend weather presenter	Unknown	Currently at WTSP-TV in Florida as a meteorologist
Sherry Ray	Co-host of FOX 10 Arizona Morning, meteorologist on FOX 10 Arizona Morning and FOX 10 News @ NOON	To 2000s	Currently at WTSP-TV in Florida as the weekend meteorologist
Stephanie Sandoval	Fox 10 News @ 10 co-anchor	Late 2002 to Early 2007	Currently ABC15 Sonoran Living Live Host
Jim Schnebelt	Weather anchor	Unknown	Unknown
Claren Scott	Co-anchor of FOX 10 News @ 5	Unknown	Now working for KAET-TV
Tyler Sieswerda	Weekend anchor	Unknown	Now at KVUE-TV in Austin, TX
"Skippy" (Tony McGraw)	Co-host od FOX 10 Arizona Morning	Unknown	Weekend DJ at KOOL-FM 94.5
Mary Zeal-Stoddard	Traffic reporter	Unknown	Occasionally appears on KPNX-TV 12 NEWS Today
Gina Sutter	Traffic reporter	Unknown	Unknown
Ashlee Tate	Investigative reporter	2000-2002	weekend weather and substitute anchor at KFSN-TV
Susan Taylor	Anchor of FOX 10 News @ NOON & Arizona Prime News	Unknown	Lead anchor at KNSD
June Thomson	Anchor of FOX 10 NEWS @ 6 & 10	Unknown	Originally went to KPHO-TV, whereabouts unknown as of 2007
Olga Villaverde	Co-anchor of FOX 10 NEWS 6am to 9am	Unknown	Unknown
Mary Jo West	Lead Anchor, first female to assume such position in Phoenix	1970s	Working for local supermarket chain Bashas'
Jayme West	Traffic reporter	Unknown	Now at KTAR-FM
Todd Withorne	Co-host of FOX 10 Arizona Morning	Unknown	Unknown

[edit] Slogans

• "The Spirit of Arizona" (Early 1990s)
• "Just You Watch!" (Late 1990s)
• "Just You Watch The Best" (2000 to present; still used for programming and news promo after the first 10 minutes of the newscast.)
• "The Most Powerful Name in Local News" (2006, promotional for new look)
• "Let The News Begin" (2006, promotional for new look)

[edit] Translators

• K31FE Blythe, California/Quartzsite
• K04JC Bouse
• K07YJ Bullhead City
• K11UC Carrizo
• K11UA Cedar Creek
• K11UB Cibecue
• K36AE Clarkdale/Cottonwood/Prescott Valley
• K49CH Duncan/Clifton
• K39FC East Flagstaff/Leupp
• K48GI Flagstaff
• K54EQ Fort Apache
• K48AY Kingman
• K38IR Lake Havasu City
• K31EA Littlefield
• K55BW Madera Peak/Globe/Miami
• K17BN Needles, California/Bullhead City
• K42CP Peach Springs
• K04AI Prescott
• K07OJ Snowflake/Show Low
• 940415CF Whiteriver (Special Temporary Authorization)
• K43IE Williams
• K09JZ Winslow

[edit] References

1. ^ "On the Rink of A Vervous Breakdown", By Dewey Webb, Phoenix New Times, August 30, 1989. Retrieved March 09, [[[2007]].

[edit] External links

• "MyFoxPhoenix" Fox 10 Website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KSAZ-TV