KFDA-TV

KFDA-TV


Amarillo, Texas
Branding NewsChannel 10
Slogan The Most Watched News In The Panhandle
Channels Digital: 10 (VHF)
Subchannels 10.1 CBS
10.2 News Channel 10 Too
10.3 Telemundo
10.4 LATV
(to be Me-TV, January 1, 2012)
Translators (see article)
Affiliations CBS Television Network
Owner Drewry Communications Group
(Panhandle Telecasting Company)
First air date April 4, 1953
Former channel number(s) Analog:
10 (VHF, 1953-2009)
Digital: 9 (VHF)
Former affiliations UPN (subchannel, to 2006)
Transmitter power 20.8 kW
Height 466 meters (1,529 ft)
Facility ID 51466
Website www.newschannel10.com

KFDA-TV NewsChannel 10 is an CBS affiliated television station in Amarillo, Texas, USA. In 2002, KFDA-TV was the first Amarillo station to simulcast in HDTV. Its transmitter is located in Amarillo. The station is broadcast throughout its coverage area across the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, eastern New Mexico and southwestern Kansas over-the-air as well as cable carriage and through a network of 19 additional UHF translators in distant locations. The station is currently owned by the Drewry Communications Group. Syndicated programming on KFDA includes: Dr. Phil, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Jeopardy!, and The Doctors.

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History

The station signed on the air on April 4, 1953 and the station beats KAMR-TV within little over 2 Weeks. The Station's owner is KFDA, Inc. In 1959 KFDA-TV Sold to The Martin Theaters Company. In 1971 KFDA-TV sold The Martin Theaters Company of Stations to Cosmos Broadcasting Company (Orion Television) and in 1986 KFDA-TV selling Cosmos Broadcasting to The Drewry Communications Group. Drewry had planned to sell its stations to London Broadcasting in 2008[1]; however, by January 2009, the deal fell through.[2]

On February 23, 2011 KFDA-TV/DT was the 1st television station in the west Texas region to go full HDTV with its newscasts and syndicated program.[3]

Digital subchannels

Drewry also operates independent station KZBZ on digital channel 10-2. Previously, KZBZ was UPN Amarillo, which launched to replace KCPN-LP as that network's affiliate. A digital subchannel of KVII-TV gained the affiliation for the new CW network, which merged the programming assets of both UPN and The WB, while KCPN affiliated with the News Corporation-owned MyNetworkTV.

KTMO-LP, the Telemundo affiliated station's digital signal, occupies channel 10-3.

KFDA's broadcasts became digital-only, effective June 12, 2009.[4]

Rebroadcasters

KFDA is rebroadcast on the following low power stations:

Former satellite/repeater stations

KFDA operated satellite stations during the 1960s and 1970s in Clovis, New Mexico and in Sayre, Oklahoma.

The Clovis station was KFDW-TV Channel 12, which was a KFDA satellite from 1964 to 1976 and is currently KVIH-TV, a satellite of Amarillo's ABC affiliate, KVII-TV. The Sayre station was KFDO-TV Channel 8 and operated as a KFDA repeater from 1966 to 1976, when it was sold to KVII and operated as satellite station KVIJ-TV until it ceased operations in 1992.

On-air staff

Current on-air staff

Anchors

Reporters

Storm Track Weather Team

Sports team

Former on-air staff

Newscast music

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References

  1. ^ "NewsChannel 10 is purchased by London Broadcasting". NewsChannel 10. June 30, 2008. http://www.newschannel10.com/Global/story.asp?S=8582337. Retrieved October 22, 2009. 
  2. ^ "London adds a market, leaves a crater". Television Business Report. January 16, 2009. http://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/tv_deals/12348.html. Retrieved October 22, 2009. 
  3. ^ George Winslow, "West Texas Gets Hi-Def News," Broadcasting & Cable, March 7, 2011.
  4. ^ http://www.newschannel10.com/Global/story.asp?S=9797488

External links

Amarillo
and surrounding area

KACV (2.1 PBS, 2.2 V-Me) • KAMR (4.1 NBC, 4.2 KCPN-LP) • KXIT-LP 6 (Ind) • KVII (7.1 ABC, 7.2 CW, 7.3 WX) • KFDA (10.1 CBS, 10.2 KZBZ-LP, 10.3 KTMO-LP, 10.4 LATV) • KWET (12.1 PBS/OETA, 12.2 OETA Okla) • KCIT (14.1 Fox, 14.2 This TV) • K17HI-D (3ABN)  • KPTF (18.1 GLC)  • K25GI (TBN)  • KEYU (31.1 UNI, 31.2 KAMT-LP)  • KAMM-LP 30 (Tr3́s) • KCPN-LP 33 (MNTV) • KTMO-LP 36 (TMD) • KZBZ-LP 46 (Ind) • KAMT-LP 50 (TFU)
Defunct: KTXD-LP 43 (AZA)
Northeastern New Mexico

KENW 3 (PBS, Portales) • KVIH (12.1 ABC, 12.2 The CW, Clovis) • KCVP 34 (GLC, Clovis)
Albuquerque channels with repeaters in region:
KASA 2 (FOX)  • KOB 4 (NBC)  • KOAT 7 (ABC)  • KRQE 13 (CBS)
Oklahoma Panhandle

K16AB 16 / K55BV 55 / K56AY 56 (PBS/OETA)
Southwest Kansas channels available in region:
KSWK 3 (PBS) • KBSD 6 (CBS) • KSNG 11 (NBC) • KUPK 13 (ABC) • KLKT 41 (A1)

Texas Broadcast television areas by city: Abilene/Sweetwater • Amarillo (Texas Panhandle) • Austin • Beaumont/Port Arthur • Corpus Christi • Dallas-Fort Worth • Del Rio • Eagle Pass • El Paso • Houston • Laredo • Lubbock • Midland-Odessa (Permian Basin) • Presidio • Rio Grande Valley • San Angelo • San Antonio • Sherman/Ada, OK • Texarkana/Shreveport, LA  • Tyler/Longview (East Texas) • Victoria • Waco/Bryan (Brazos Valley) • Wichita Falls/Lawton, OK

New Mexico Broadcast television areas by city: Albuquerque/Santa Fe  • Amarillo, TX  • El Paso, TX  • Odessa/Midland, TX

Oklahoma Broadcast television areas by city: Ada/Sherman, TX  • Amarillo, TX  • Fort Smith, AR (Eastern OK)  • Joplin, MO (Northeast OK)  • Lawton/Wichita Falls, TX  • Oklahoma City Metro  • Texarkana, TX-AR/Shreveport, LA  • Tulsa (East Central OK)
CBS Network Affiliates in the state of Texas

KDBC 4 (El Paso) - KGBT 4 (Harlingen) - KENS 5 (San Antonio) - KAUZ 6 (Wichita Falls) - KFDM 6 (Beaumont) - KOSA 7 (Odessa) - KLST 8 (San Angelo) - KFDA 10 (Amarillo) - KWTX 10 / KBTX 3 (Waco / Bryan) - KZTV 10 (Corpus Christi) - KHOU 11 (Houston) - KTVT 11 (Fort Worth / Dallas) - KXII 12 (Sherman) - KLBK 13 (Lubbock) - KVTV 13 (Laredo) - KYTX 19 (Nacogdoches / Tyler) - KTAB 32 (Abilene) - KUNU 41 (Victoria) - KEYE 42 (Austin)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, ION, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Texas
Other Spanish-Language Television Stations in the state of Texas
Multimedios Television

K24FW 24 (Lubbock)  • K26KJ 40.1 (El Paso)  • KHLM 43.1 (Houston)  • K45HW 45 (San Angelo)  • XHNAT 45.1 (Laredo)  • K51JF 51 (San Antonio)  • K54JS 54 (Corpus Christi)  • K69IT 69 (Midland)
Other stations

KZFW 6 (Religious, Royse City / Dallas)  • KTSM-TV 9.2 (Estrella TV, El Paso)  • KFDA 10.4 (LATV, Amarillo)  • KLMV-LP 15.1 (Religious, Laredo)  • KVAW 16 (Tr3́s, Eagle Pass)  • KVAT-LD 17.1 (17.1 Mexicanal, Garfield / Austin)  • KODF 26.1 (Mega TV, Britton / DFW)  • KLDO 27.3 (LATV, Laredo)  • KUGB-CA 28.1 (Uniglobe, Houston)  • KYVV 28 (VasalloVision, Del Rio)  • KMPX 29 (Estrella TV, Decatur / DFW)  • KAMM 30 (Tr3́s, Amarillo) - K31GL 31.2 (Genesis, DeSoto / DFW)  • KAZD 55.4 (LATV, DFW)  • KVFW 38 (Religious, Fort Worth)  • KZHO 38 (Religious, Houston)  • KATA 50 (Tr3́s, Mesquite / DFW)  • KTBU 55.1 (Mega TV, Conroe / Houston)  • KZJL 61 (Estrella TV, Houston)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, ION, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Texas
Also see: Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Azteca América, religious and other Spanish language stations in Texas
LATV stations
LATV

KWBA-TV 58.2 (Sierra Vista, AZ) • KTVU 2.2 (San Jose, CA) • KSEE 24.3 (Fresno, CA) • KTXL 40.2 (Sacramento, CA) • KJLA 57.1/57.2 (Los Angeles, CA)1 • WUVN 18.4 (Hartford, CT) • WFTX 36.2 (Fort Myers/Cape Coral, FL) • WJXT 4.3 (Jacksonville, FL) • WPLG 10.2 (Miami, FL) • WKMG-TV 6.2 (Orlando, FL) • WVEA-TV 62.2 (Venice, FL) • WOCK-CD 13.3 (Chicago, IL) • WANE-TV 15.2 (Fort Wayne, IN) • WUNI-TV 27.2 (Boston, MA) • KLUZ-TV 41.2 (Albuquerque, NM) • WPIX 11.2 (New York City, NY) • WSJP-LP 30 (Aguadilla, PR) • KFDA-TV 10.4 (Amarillo, TX) • KINT-TV 26.3 (El Paso, TX) • KTFN-DT 65.3 (El Paso, TX) • KRGV-TV 5.2 (Weslaco, TX) • KPRC-TV 2.3 (Houston, TX) • KSAT-TV 12.2 (San Antonio, TX) • KLDO 27.4 (Laredo, TX) • KXOF-CA 39/KLDO-TV 27.3 (Laredo, TX)2 • KWES-TV 9.2 (Odessa, TX) • KAZD 55.4 (Dallas/Fort Worth, TX) • KWAB-TV 33.2 (Big Spring, TX)3 • KORO 28.3 (Corpus Christi, TX)
1flagship station
2 shared affiliation between KLDO-TV and KXOF-CA, airs overnight on KXOF-CA
3KWAB is a full-power repeater of KWES-TV