KMSB
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| Tucson, Arizona | |
|---|---|
| Branding |
Fox 11 (general) Fox 11 Tucson Now (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Tucson's News First |
| Channels |
Digital: 25 (UHF) Virtual: 11 (PSIP) DirecTV (Southern Arizona only): 11 Cox (Tucson): 11 |
| Subchannels |
11.1 Fox 11.2 Movies! |
| Affiliations |
Fox Movies! |
| Owner |
Sander Media, LLC (operated through SSA by Raycom Media, joint sales agreement by Gannett) (Sander Operating Co. V, LLC D/B/A KMSB Television) |
| First air date | February 1, 1967 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Mountain States Broadcasting (former owner) |
| Sister station(s) |
KOLD-TV KTTU |
| Former callsigns | KZAZ (1967-1985) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 11 (VHF, 1967-2009) |
| Former affiliations |
independent (1967-1986) This TV |
| Transmitter power | 480 kW |
| Height | 1123 m |
| Facility ID | 44052 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°24′55.8″N 110°42′51.9″W / 32.415500°N 110.714417°W |
| Website | |
KMSB is a Fox-affiliated television station that is licensed to Tucson, Arizona. Owned by Sander Media, LLC and operated by Raycom Media through a shared services agreement with CBS affiliate KOLD-TV, it is a sister to MyNetworkTV affiliate KTTU. It broadcasts an ATSC digital signal on UHF channel 25 (remapped to virtual channel 11.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter located atop Mount Bigelow; as a result of the transmitter's location, residents in the northern part of Tucson, Oro Valley and Marana cannot receive adequate reception of the station. Its studios are located with KOLD-TV on North Arizona Pavilions Drive (off of Interstate 10) on the northwest side of Tucson, near the Casos Adobes neighborhood.
History
Tucson gained its first independent station when KZAZ signed on the air February 1, 1967.[1] It was licensed to Nogales, but had its main studios in Tucson.[2] The station aired movies in both English and Spanish, dramas, sitcoms, bull fights, cartoons and other general entertainment fare. It had a local news department and newscast.
The station was owned and operated by out of town investors, including Danny Thomas and Monty Hall, and had its facilities in a former Safeway Supermarket on Tucson Blvd, just north of Grant Road. Gene Adelstein, a Tucson resident, put together a group of investors as "Roadrunner Television" and bought KZAZ in 1977. As Bonnie Henry wrote in the Arizona Daily Star: "They held live wrestling matches in the studio, organized a paint-the-station day and ran a 24-hour 'Star Trek' marathon that sparked a run on blank videotape."[3] The sales manager, Hank Lominac, hosted the prime time movies. The sports anchor, Bill Roemer, anchored live sports from the University of Arizona. The hour-long newscast at 9 p.m. was anchored by former KOLD news director George Borozan and co-starred John Scott Ulm. It featured long interview segments, and its field reports were captured on one field camera/recorder.
In 1978, KZAZ bought a satellite downlink and started carrying the first half-hour of WPIX/New York's newscast, which was rebranded as Independent Network News. Borozan was cut to a half hour and either followed or led into (at various times) the INN report, which was tape delayed.
In 1984, the station was sold to Mountain States Broadcasting, a division of the Providence Journal Company, who changed the call letters to KMSB-TV on September 12, 1985. To cut costs, Providence Journal axed the station's news broadcasts once it took over. The station became a charter Fox affiliate when the network signed on October 9, 1986, and has been affiliated with Fox longer than any other station in Arizona.
In the early 1990s, KMSB began operating KTTU, which had been owned by Clear Channel Communications, and was allowed to move its city of license from Nogales to Tucson in 1991. Belo Corp. became the owner of KMSB after the company purchased Providence Journal's holdings in 1997.
KMSB retired from cartoons at the same time; 4Kids TV aired on KTTU until its shutdown on December 27, 2008, and stills airs Fox's new Saturday morning block, Weekend Marketplace.
In November 2011, Belo announced that it would enter into a shared services agreement with Raycom Media beginning in February 2012. This outsourcing arrangement resulted in CBS affiliate KOLD-TV taking over daily operations of KMSB and KTTU and moving their advertising sales department into the KOLD studios (however, they remained employees of Belo). All remaining positions at the two stations were eliminated and master control moved from KTVK in Phoenix to KOLD.[4] The transfer of KMSB's operations occurred in several stages, with newscasts moving to KOLD's studios on February 1 and other operations being taken over by KOLD in the following weeks.[5][6]
On June 13, 2013, the Gannett Company announced that it would acquire Belo. However, since Gannett holds a partial ownership stake in the publisher of the Arizona Daily Star, the KMSB license will instead be acquired by Sander Media, LLC, operated by a former Belo executive, Jack Sander. While the other Belo stations to be acquired by Sander in the deal will have various shared services agreements with Gannett, Raycom Media will continue to operate the two stations, while the sales staff would become Gannett employees.[6][7] The sale was completed on December 23.[8]
Digital television
| Channel | Video | Aspect | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11.1 | 720p | 16:9 | Main KMSB programming / FOX |
| 11.2 | 480i | 4:3 | Movies![9] |
News operations
KMSB produces an hour-long 9 o'clock newscast each night. After not having a newscast for nearly 20 years, KMSB began a 9 p.m. newscast in 2003.[10] From the newscast's inception until August 2008, it was produced by sister station KTVK in Phoenix using KTVK news anchors and meteorologists, with live reports from KMSB reporters and NBC affiliate KVOA. Sports began originating entirely from the KMSB studios in Tucson in 2006.
In August 2008, the news portion of 9 p.m. newscast began originating out of the KMSB studios as well with Lou Raguse as anchor. In January 2009, the newscast expanded from 30 minutes to one hour nightly and began locally produced weathercasts, thus completing the transition of the newscast from Phoenix to Tucson. The station was one of the last top-100 market Fox affiliates to air late-evening news.
In March 2010, it was announced that KMSB's news partnership of seven years with KVOA would be ending.[11] KMSB's news staff, operating out of KVOA's building since 2003, would relocate to KMSB's studios. This move would unite the news staff with the sports department and weather announcers, both of whom have been working out of KMSB's building.
On February 1, 2012, KOLD-TV took over the operations of KMSB—taking over production responsibilities of KMSB's nightly prime time newscast at 9, as well as launching a two-hour weekday morning show (from 7 until 9), Fox 11 Daybreak, on the station. In addition, KTVK's Good Morning Arizona will no longer be seen on KMSB (the 5–7 a.m. portion will be replaced by syndicated programming), and Fox 11 Sports Force will be canceled (with the Sunday 9 p.m. newscast now airing for an hour).[12][13][5] The newscasts on both KOLD and KMSB were re-branded as Tucson News Now on the same day.[14] As a result, the newscasts on KMSB are now in high definition (prior to the beginning of the SSA, KMSB was the only Belo station that continued to air its late night newscast in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition because its then in-house news production lacked widescreen- or high-definition-capable cameras).
News/station presentation
Newscast titles
- KZAZ Newsroom (1979–1985)
- Fox 11 News (2003–2012)
- Fox 11 Tucson Now (2012–present)
Station slogans
- "11 Alive" (1979; used WPIX campaign)
- "Where the News Comes First" (2003–2007)
- "Tucson's News First" (2007–present)
- "It's About Time, Your Time" (2012–present)
Newscast music
- WXIA 1976 News Theme by Peters Productions (1979–1981)
- Primetime News by Non-Stop Music (2008–2012)
- In-Sink (V.1, V.2, V.3, V.4) by 615 Music (2008–2012; when simulcasting KTVK's morning newscast)
- The X Package by Gari Communications (2012–present)
This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions.News team
Anchors
- Concetta Callahan - weekday mornings (7:00-9:00 a.m.)
- Teresa Jun - weeknights at 9:00 p.m.
- Craig Thomas - weeknights at 9:00 p.m.
- Mark Stine - weekday mornings (7:00-9:00 a.m.)
- Paige Hansen - weekends at 9:00 p.m.
First Alert Weather
- Dan Bronis - meteorologist; weekday mornings (7:00-9:00 a.m.)
- Cuyler Diggs - meteorologist; Saturdays at 9:00 p.m.
- Chuck George - chief meteorologist; Fridays at 9:00 p.m.
- Aaron Pickering - meteorologist; Sundays-Thursdays at 9:00 p.m.
Sports
- Damien Alameda - sports director; weeknights at 9:00 p.m.
- Dave Cooney - sports anchor; weekends at 9:00 p.m.; also sports reporter
- David Kelly - fill-in sports anchor/reporter
Reporters
- Lydia Camarillo - weekday morning reporter (7:00-9:00 a.m.)
- Ryan Foran - weekday morning reporter (7:00-9:00 a.m.)
- Joan Lee - weekday morning traffic reporter (7:00-9:00 a.m.); also fill-in weather anchor
- Bryan Navarro - weekday morning reporter (7:00-9:00 a.m.)
KMSB uses news personnel from KOLD, see that article for a complete listing
Former on-air staff
This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions.- Chris Holmstrom - reporter (now at KOIN in Portland, Oregon)
References
- ↑ "Channel 11 Will Start Telecasts", Tucson Daily Citizen, 1967-01-31: 13
- ↑ "KZAZ-TV Will Have Office Here", Tucson Daily Citizen, 1966-11-17: 56
- ↑ "Those Crazy, Hazy days At KZAZ", Arizona Daily Star, 2009-05-31
- ↑ http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2011/11/15/55453/belo-turning-over-kmsb-kttu-to-kold
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Hatfield, David (January 27, 2012). "KOLD will make Wednesday deadline to start doing KMSB newscasts". Inside Tucson Business. Retrieved January 30, 2012.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Hatfield, David (June 13, 2013). "Little change on Tucson TV expected from Belo's sale to Gannett". Inside Tucson Business. Retrieved June 13, 2013.
- ↑ Brown, Lisa (June 13, 2013). "Gannett to buy TV station owner Belo for $1.5 billion". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved June 13, 2013.
- ↑ Gannett Completes Its Acquisition of Belo, TVNewsCheck, Retrieved 23 December, 2013
- ↑ Movies! TV Network - Where to Watch Retrieved November 3, 2013
- ↑ http://www.belo.com/pressRelease.x2?release=20030428-01.html
- ↑ http://azbiz.com/articles/2010/03/12/media_technology/inside_media/doc4b9a6b9b3ebb0719764027.txt
- ↑ http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/belo-shuts-down-kmsb-news-operations-dozens-of-layoffs-expected_b29282#more-29282
- ↑ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/111511_kmsb_newscast/fox-11-lay-off-news-staff-cancel-newscast-feb/
- ↑ "Answering Your Questions about Tucson News Now". tucsonnewsnow.com. KOLD-TV. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
External links
- KOLD Website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KMSB
- Query TV Fool's coverage map for KMSB
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KMSB-TV
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