| San Antonio, Texas | |
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| Branding | Fox 29; Fox San Antonio (general) Fox 29 News (news) |
| Channels | Digital: 30 (UHF) Virtual: 29 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | Fox (1995-2012) |
| Owner | Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (KABB Licensee, LLC) |
| Founded | 1987 |
| First air date | December 16, 1987 |
| Call letters' meaning | Alamo Broadcasting |
| Sister station(s) | KMYS |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 29 (UHF, 1987-2009) |
| Former affiliations | independent (1987-1995) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 441 m |
| Facility ID | 56528 |
| Website | www.foxsanantonio.com |
KABB is the Fox Network affiliate television station in San Antonio, Texas. It is co-owned with The CW Television Network affiliate KMYS (channel 35) by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. KABB's studios are located in Northwest San Antonio off Loop 410 and its transmitter is located in Elmendorf, Texas.
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KABB was launched as an independent station on December 16, 1987 — The now sister KMYS (then KRRT) became a charter Fox affiliate a year earlier in 1986. KABB was initially owned by the Alamo Broadcasting Corporation before it was sold to River City Broadcasting in 1989. In 1995, after KRRT gave up Fox for UPN affiliation, KABB picked up the Fox affiliation and has been a Fox station ever since. River City merged with Sinclair in 1996. The next year, Glencairn, Ltd. bought KRRT, which had entered into a local marketing agreement with KABB two years earlier. However, Glencairn's stock was almost completely controlled by Sinclair's principals, making it a shell corporation for Sinclair (see Cunningham Broadcasting). Sinclair bought KRRT outright in 2001.
Sinclair and Fox cut a six-year affiliation contract extension for Sinclair's 19 Fox affiliates; thus, Fox will remain on KABB at least through March 2012.
Logowise, the station is currently known as Fox 29, but on-air it is known as "Fox San Antonio."
In late 2006, 4Kids TV programming moved to sister station KMYS to accommodate an expansion of the morning newscast "Fox News First." This follows part of a 12-year trend of Fox affiliates pre-empting network Kids programming from its days as Fox Kids.
KABB shut down its analog signal on June 12, 2009,[1] as part of the DTV transition in the United States. KABB remained on its current pre-transition channel number, 30 [2] using PSIP to display KABB's virtual channel as 29.
KABB-TV broadcasts mostly syndicated programming during the daytime such as Dr.Phil, Jerry Springer, Divorce Court, and Maury as broadcasts Fox programming in the evening.[3]
The station debuted its 9 p.m. newscast in 1995. On January 2, 2006, the weekday morning newscast Fox News First was launched. On September 8, 2008 Fox News First expanded to four hours from 6-9 a.m., to running from 5-9 a.m.
The nightly newscast on KABB is also simulcast on Fox affiliates KIDY (channel 6) in San Angelo and KXVA (channel 15) in Abilene, Texas nightly at 9 p.m. Abilene's MyNetworkTV affiliate KIDZ, also re-airs the newscast nightly on a one hour delay at 10 p.m. KIDY and KXVA also began simulcasting Fox News First weekday mornings in October 2010.
KABB was the only major English-language network-affiliated television station in San Antonio without 16:9 widescreen or high-definition newscasts. This changed on August 3, 2011, when KABB introduced a new set and began broadcasting its newscasts in high definition. This made it the fourth San Antonio station to begin airing newscasts in high definition.
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