KAGS-TV

KAGS-TV
Bryan / College Station, Texas
City of license Bryan
Channels Digital: 23 (UHF)
Affiliations NBC
Owner London Broadcasting Company
(KCEN License Company, LLC)
First air date October 17, 2011
Call letters' meaning KAGS AGgieS (Texas A&M Aggies)
Sister station(s) KCEN
Former callsigns KAGS-LD
Transmitter power 2.1 kW
Height 199 meters (653 ft)
Facility ID 10246
Website kagstv.com

KAGS-TV is the NBC affiliate located in Bryan, Texas. It is the second NBC affiliate in the Waco-Bryan-Killeen Media Market assigned by Nielsen Media Research as Designated Market Area 88 for the 2011-2012 rankings list [1].

KAGS is a sister station to KCEN-TV, another NBC affiliate located in DMA 88, but broadcast from separate studios near Waco, Texas[2].

Contents

History

KAGS-TV began airing local newscasts at 6 and 10 p.m. from its studios in Bryan, Texas in October of 2011. Newscasts are broadcast in High Definition on virtual sets created with chroma key technology.[3]

Digital television

Channel Resolution Programming
23.1 1080i Main KAGS Programming / NBC HD

News operation

News team[4]

Anchors
Matthew LeBlanc - News Director/6 p.m. Anchor
Steven Romo - 10 p.m. Anchor
Emily Jaster - 6 and 10 p.m. Anchor

Weather team
Jared Plushnick - Chief Meteorologist

Sports team
Dan Seed - Sports Anchor/Reporter
Luke Simons - Sports Anchor/Reporter

Reporters
Corey Lazar - Reporter
Leah Uko - Reporter
Chris Vlahos - Reporter

References

  1. ^ Media Market Profiles, Nielsen Media Research, Nov 2011
  2. ^ New NBC TV station coming to BCS this fall, Gayle Kiger, The Bryan/College Station Eagle, July 3 2011
  3. ^ New NBC TV station coming to BCS this fall, Gayle Kiger, The Bryan/College Station Eagle, July 3 2011
  4. ^ [1], KAGSTV.com.

External links

Waco/Temple/Killeen

KCEN (6.1 NBC, 6.2 MyTX) • KWTX (10.1 CBS, 10.2 The CW) • KXXV (25.1 ABC, 25.2 TMD, 25.3 Weather Now) • KPLE 31 (TBN) • KDYW 34 (silent; to be Daystar) • KWKO 38 (Ind.) • KWKT (44.1 Fox/MNTV) • KNCT (46.1 PBS, 46.2 Pentagon, 46.3 Create) • KAKW (62.1 UNI)
Bryan/College Station

KYLE (28.1 Fox/MNTV) • KBTX (3.1 CBS, 3.2 The CW) • KAMU (12.1 PBS, 12.2 Weather, 12.3 PBS Kids) • KSCM 18 (A1) • KAGS (23.1 NBC) • KRHD (40.1 ABC) • K47ED 47 (TBN)
Adjacent locals
Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television

Houston: KUHT (8.1 PBS)
Dallas: WFAA (8.1 ABC) • KERA (13.1 PBS)

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
NBC Network Affiliates in the state of Texas

KPRC 2 (Houston) • KFDX 3 (Lawton / Wichita Falls) • KSAN 3 (San Angelo) • KAMR 4 (Amarillo) • WOAI 4 (San Antonio) • KXAS 5 (Fort Worth / Dallas) •
KCEN 6 (Temple) • KRIS 6 (Corpus Christi) • KTAL 6 (Texarkana) • KGNS 8 (Laredo) • KRBC 9 (Abilene) • KTSM 9 (El Paso) •
KWES 9 / KWAB 4 (Midland / Big Spring) • KTEN 10 (Sherman) • KCBD 11 (Lubbock) • KBMT-DT 12.2 (Beaumont) • KMOL-LP 17 (Victoria) • KAGS 23 (Bryan / College Station) • KVEO 23 (Brownsville) •
KXAN 36 (Austin) • KETK 56 / KETK-LP 53 (Tyler / Jacksonville)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, ION, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Texas