| Bakersfield, California | |
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| Branding | KBFX (general) Eyewitness News (newscasts) |
| Channels | Digital: 29 (UHF) & KBAK-DT 33.2 (58.2) |
| Subchannels | 58.1 Fox 29.2[notes 1]This TV |
| Owner | Fisher Communications |
| Founded | August 23,1989 |
| Call letters' meaning | K Bakersfield Fox |
| Sister station(s) | KBAK-TV |
| Former callsigns | K58DJ (1989-1995) KMPH-LP (1995-1998) KBFX-LP (1998-2005) |
| Former channel number(s) | 58 (analog, 1989-2010) |
| Website | www.bakersfieldnow.com |
KBFX-CA Channel 58 is a Class A low-power digital television station serving Bakersfield, California. It is a Fox affiliate which used to broadcast on analog channel 58.
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The analog signal went off the air in August 2010. KBFX currently broadcasts in high definition on RF channel 29 which maps to virtual channel 58-1, and also as a subchannel of KBAK-DT (prime time FOX programs are letterboxed); this digital signal is RF channel 33-2 and virtual mapped channel 58-2. It is also available in high definition on Bright House Networks cable.
KBFX began in 1989 as a low-powered relay translator of KMPH-TV channel 26 broadcasting out of Visalia/Fresno. Later, the Fox network wanted to include a new separate affiliate station for the Bakersfield market. It changed call letters from KMPH-LP in 1998 and became KBFX-LP. Among the features on the new station was a KBAK-produced 10pm newscast, "Fox 58 News @ 10". It was so successful that KBAK's then-owner Westwind Communications bought the station outright in 2005 from KMPH's owners, Pappas Telecasting.
On August 6, 2007, Westwind Communications announced the sale of KBAK and KBFX-CA to Fisher Communications of Seattle [1], with the sale closing on January 1, 2008.
On February 28, 2010, Bright House Networks announced that KBFX will be carried in Tehachapi also on cable 6. KBFX just recently launched their new digital transmitter on RF channel 29. This signal carries This TV on its subchannel, which maps to virtual channel 29-2. In January 2011 KBFX began airing it's local news in high definition.
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