KXII
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| KXII | |
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| Sherman, Texas/Ada, Oklahoma | |
| Branding | KXII 12 First News MyTexoma (DT2) Fox Texoma (DT3) |
| Slogan | Coverage You Can Count On |
| Channels | Analog: 12 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | CBS MyNetworkTV (DT2) Fox (DT3) |
| Owner | Gray Television, Inc. (Gray Television Licensee, Inc.) |
| First air date | 1956[1] |
| Call letters’ meaning | XII = Roman numeral 12 |
| Former callsigns | KVSO-TV (1956-1958) |
| Former affiliations | Primary: NBC (1956-1977) Secondary: CBS (1960-1977) NBC (1977-1985) |
| Transmitter Power | 224 kW (analog) 425 kW (digital) |
| Height | 543 m (analog) 503.5 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 35954 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | |
| Website | www.kxii.com |
KXII is an English-language television station serving the Sherman, Texas - Ada, Oklahoma television market. Known on-air as "KXII 12", it is an affiliate of CBS. Licensed to Sherman, the station broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 12, and its digital signal on UHF channel 20. Its transmitter is located near Madill, Oklahoma. In addition to being a CBS affiliate, KXII serves as the MyNetworkTV and Fox affiliate for Sherman - Ada television market. The MyNetworkTV affiliate, known as "MyTexoma", operates on KXII's DT2 digital sunchannel and digital cable. The Fox affiliate, known as "Fox Texoma", operates on KXII's DT3 digital subchannel and digital cable.
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[edit] History
KXII began in 1956 at Ardmore, Oklahoma as KVSO-TV, in common ownership with local radio station KVSO and a local newspaper, The Daily Ardmoreite. In its early years, Channel 12 was an NBC affiliate. Unable to afford a network feed, station engineers switched to and from the signal of WKY-TV (now KFOR-TV) in Oklahoma City whenever NBC programming was shown. The station often carried some of WKY-TV's non-network programming as well. It broadcast its own local newscast and advertising from its Ardmore studio to its viewing audience across Southern Oklahoma and North Texas.
In late 1958, the station was sold to Texoma Broadcasting and call letters changed to KXII (signifying the Roman numeral 12). In 1959, the transmitter was moved from its original location north of Ardmore to a point near Madill, Oklahoma about 25 miles southeast of Ardmore in order to provide better reception to viewers in Durant, Oklahoma and across the Red River to the Sherman-Denison, Texas area. In 1960, KXII-TV opened a new studio facility along U.S. Highway 75 halfway between Sherman and Denison, which later became the station's main studio. KXII retained the original Ardmore studio which is still in use today in conjunction with the Sherman-Denison facility.
During the 1960s and into the 1970s, KXII-TV was a primary NBC affiliate but also held a secondary affiliation with CBS which began in 1960. KXII's direct competitor, KTEN Channel 10 in Ada, Oklahoma was a primary ABC affiliate but also claimed NBC as a secondary affiliate. Though KXII and KTEN were considered direct competitors, the fact is that both stations had considerable differences in fringe coverage for many years due to the 75-mile distances between the two stations transmitters at Madill and Ada. This meant that viewers within the a 25-mile radius of KXII's transmitter at Madill including Ardmore and Durant were actually in the southern fringe of KTEN's transmitting range, resulting in poorer over-the-air reception on channel 10 than channel 12, and channel 10 did not even reach viewers in the Sherman-Denison area or other portions of North Texas served by KXII-TV. Similarly, KTEN's city of licensee, Ada, was in the northern fringe of KXII's transmitting range resulting in poor over-the-air reception of channel 12. To better compete with KXII, KTEN moved its transmitter in 1984 from Ada to a location near Bromide, Oklahoma which enabled better over-the-air reception to locations in far Southern Oklahoma near the Red River and now expanded to serve Sherman-Denison as well as other cities in North Texas. KTEN would also adopt KXII's mode of operating more than one studio by adding operations in Ardmore and Denison and later relocating the main studio from Ada to Denison.
By 1975, KXII-TV's program schedule included a larger proportion of CBS programming, making Channel 12 sort of a hybrid station with almost half the programming of both NBC and CBS for a few years. At the same time, KTEN added a larger proportion of NBC programming to its schedule to become a similar hybrid ABC/NBC station in the process. By 1977, KXII Channel 12 shifted its primary network affiliation to CBS and became an exclusive CBS affiliate in 1985 when the last NBC program on KXII's schedule, the Today show, was replaced by CBS This Morning and Today moved to KTEN, which shifted NBC to a primary and later an exclusive affiliation. Since the late 1990s, the two-station Sherman-Ada market has been represented entirely by one-network stations (not including digital subchannels).
Throughout 2006, the station celebrated being on the air for 50 years. In September, KXII debuted an all-new set for its "First News" broadcast with new colors and graphics to replace the previous set which had been in use since 1995.
In the summer of 2006, the station added programming from UPN on digital subcarrier 12.2 and cable. This programming flipped to My Network TV when UPN ceased operation on September 15, 2006. It has also added programming from the Fox Network on digital subcarrier 12.3 and cable.
Although KTEN broadcasts The CW on its digital subchannel and KXII broadcasts FOX and MyNetworkTV on both of its digital subchannels, the Ada-Sherman television market is one of the few TV markets in the country with affiliates of NBC, CBS, FOX, The CW and MyNetworkTV, with the setback of not having a local ABC affiliate. ABC programming for various locations within the Sherman-Ada market depending on city and cable or satellite operator is sourced from stations in surrounding markets such as KOCO-TV, Oklahoma City; KTUL-TV, Tulsa; or WFAA-TV, Dallas-Fort Worth.
[edit] Personalities
[edit] Current On-Air Talent
- FIRST NEWS ANCHORS
| Name: | Present Position(s): | Previous Position(s): | Joined KXII On: |
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| Charlie Haldeman | Weekday Evening Anchor/News Director | KBTX | January 2006 |
| Maureen Kane | Weekday Evening Anchor | KYTX | |
| Lisanne Anderson | Weekday Morning and Noon Anchor/Producer | Writer/Sunday morning Anchor; KFOR | December 1997 |
| Ryan Loyd | Weekday Morning Anchor/Host of First News Forum | KENS | January 2006 |
| Nicole Holt | Weekday Morning Anchor | KLRT | September 2006 |
- FIRST NEWS REPORTERS
| Name: | Present Position(s): | Previous Position(s): | Joined KXII On: |
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| Daniel Gotera | General Assignment Reporter/Weekend Anchor | June 2006 | |
| Emi FitzGerald | General Assignment Reporter/Weekend Anchor | TBN | October 2006 |
| Stephanie Brletic | General Assignment Reporter | WTAE | November 2007 |
| Robin Beal | Ardmore Bureau Chief | KTRK; KHWB; KTVT; KCAR | January 2008 |
- FIRST WEATHER METEOROLOGISTS
| Name: | Present Position(s): | Previous Position(s): | Joined KXII On: |
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| Steve LaNore | Chief Meteorologist | KEYE; KDAF | September 19, 2006 |
| Megan Krannig | Weekend Meteorologist | June 2005 | |
| Tom Miller | Weekday Morning And Noon Meteorologist | February 1988 |
- SPORTS ANCHORS/REPORTERS
| Name: | Present Position(s): | Previous Position(s): | Joined KXII On: |
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| David Reed | Sports Anchor/Director | KTBC; KBTX; KCEN | July 2001 |
| Mark Van Paasschen | Weekend Sports Anchor/Sports Reporter | KRHD | August 2005 |
| Christina Melvin | Sports Reporter/Anchor | January 2008 |
[edit] Past Personalities
| Name: | Position(s) Held: | New Location: | Span: |
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| Mystic Matthews | General Assignment Reporter | October 1, 2008-June 4, 2008 | |
| Teddy Safo | General Assignment Reporter for Ardmore Newsroom | ??-February 29, 2008 | |
| Norman Bennett | Norman Bennett & Guests | El Paso to be closer to family | |
| Leila Rahimi | Sports Reporter/News Anchor | Sports Reporter KXAN Austin | |
| Ellen Sawko | Weekday Morning Anchor/News Director | Denton ISD board of directors member | |
| Todd Larkin | General Assignment Reporter/Bureau Chief - Ardmore Newsroom | Ardmore Chamber Of Commerce | |
| Matt Brown | Weekday Evening News Anchor/News Director | Assistant News Director KXAN Austin | |
| Jennifer Strand | Weekday Morning News Anchor; | KXAS Dallas | |
| Shannon Wolfson | Reporter KXAN Austin | ||
| Alan Crone | Chief Meteorologist | Morning Meteorologist KOTV-TV Tulsa | |
| Diana Zoga | Reporter KTUL-TV Tulsa | ||
| Zach Anderson | Assistant Director of Recruting University of Central Oklahoma | ||
| Beth Danziger | Reporter Richmond, WWBT Richmond, VA | ||
| Jennifer Lindgren | Reporter Columbia, WLTX Columbia, SC | ||
| Chris Sadeghi | Reporter KENS San Antonio | ||
| Erin McLemore | Reporter KRIS Corpus Christi | ||
| Paige Tebow | Hot Springs, Arkansas | ||
| Seth Kovar | Reporter KXXV | ||
| Derek Cody | Ardmore Bureau Chief | Sports Director WCBI Columbus, MS | |
| Whitney Wyatt | Waco | ||
| Dayle Cedars | KMGH Denver | ||
| Kris Gutierrez | Fox News | ||
| Matt Lawson | Sports Director/Anchor | Sports Producer KDFW Dallas | |
| Craig Porter | Weekend Meteorologist | ||
| Dale Jones | Chief Meteorologist | ||
| Craig Day | Anchor KOTV Tulsa | ||
| Loren Pharr | |||
| Earl Ellington | Anchor early 60s to Late 60s | ||
| Bill Lauderdale | Anchor late 50s to early 60s (KVSO T.V.) | ||
| "Tornado" Tom Tynes | Weatherman 70's | ||
| Pat Bolin | Anchor early 70s | ||
| George(Bucky)Sappenfield | Anchor early 70s | ||
| Rudy Dockray | Ag Reporter |
[edit] News Presentation
[edit] Newscast Titles
- First News (1998-present)
- Action News (late 60's-early 70's)
- 12 News Service (early to mid 70's)
[edit] Station Slogans
- Coverage You Can Count On (1998-2007)
- Texoma's News Leader (2007-present)
[edit] External links
- KXII Website
- KXII DT2 "MyTexoma" Website
- KXII DT3 "Fox Texoma" Website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KXII
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KXII-TV
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