KPNX explained

Callsign:KPNX
City:Mesa, Arizona
Logo Alt:At left, a sans serif 12 partially encased in an outline of the state of Arizona. At right, the NBC peacock and the letters KPNX in a sans serif.
Branding:12News
Digital:18 (UHF)
Virtual:12
Owner:Tegna Inc.
Licensee:Multimedia Holdings Corporation
Location:Mesa–Phoenix, Arizona
Country:United States
Callsign Meaning:"Phoenix"
Former Affiliations:DuMont (secondary, 1953–1956)
Erp:1,000 kW
Haat:535.10NaN0
Facility Id:35486
Licensing Authority:FCC

KPNX (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Mesa, Arizona, United States, serving the Phoenix area as an affiliate of NBC. The station is owned by Tegna Inc., and maintains studios at the Republic Media building on Van Buren Street in downtown Phoenix (which also houses formerly co-owned newspaper The Arizona Republic); its transmitter is located atop South Mountain on the city's south side.

KPNX is also broadcast on satellite station KNAZ-TV (channel 2) in Flagstaff, which formerly was a separate NBC affiliate, and a network of low-power translators across northern and central Arizona.

Channel 12 was the second TV station on the air in the Phoenix area, starting in 1953. Originally established in Mesa itself, it was acquired by Phoenix radio station KTAR (620 AM) in 1954 in a maneuver that ended a contest over channel 3 in Phoenix and was co-owned with that outlet for 25 years. It has been owned by Tegna and its predecessor, Gannett, since 1979, when it became KPNX.

History

Early years

On November 1, 1952, Harkins Broadcasting, Inc. filed an application to build a new television station on channel 12 in Mesa, Arizona. Harkins Broadcasting was a joint venture of two movie theater operators, Harkins Theatres and Harry Nace, and owned Mesa radio stations KTYL (1310 AM) and KTYL-FM 104.7. The Federal Communications Commission granted the construction permit on February 18, 1953.[1] At the end of March 1953, the city of Phoenix's parks board approved a South Mountain transmitter, reversing an earlier decision that would have denied television stations not licensed to Phoenix the use of the site and which was protested by television set owners who wanted to be assured reception of all stations from one site.[2]

With the site approved by the FCC and the city of Phoenix, construction began nearly immediately. Much of the studio equipment, installed at an expansion to the KTYL facilities on Main Street in Mesa, was already on hand.[3] The station began broadcasting on May 2, with its introductory program being a 19-hour telethon to benefit United Cerebral Palsy.[4] An NBC affiliate from the outset,[5] the station briefly maintained a Phoenix office which closed just two months after launch.[6]

Lurking under the embryonic Phoenix television landscape was the absence of one of the state's pioneer radio stations. In 1948, KTAR (620 AM) had filed for Phoenix's channel 3, only to see the FCC plunge television applications into a four-year-long freeze. As early as 1945, KTAR had arranged for exclusive rights to the South Mountain space that would later be used by all of the Phoenix TV stations as a transmitter site—a concession that was overturned in the run-up to KTYL-TV's launch. When the freeze was lifted in 1952, KTAR declared it would be on the air within three months of a construction permit grant, having already selected a site for and broken ground on a proposed television and radio studio at Central Avenue and Portland Street and contracted for equipment to furnish it.[7] [8] It was speculated that KPHO-TV owner Meredith Corporation—whose station was the only pre-freeze outlet in the state—might have decided to let KTYL-TV have NBC because of the sense that, as soon as KTAR won a television station, it would sign up with NBC, mirroring the radio station.[9]

However, KTAR's channel 3 picture became cloudy in February 1953, just as the FCC was about to hand down a decision. A new applicant, the Arizona Television Company, filed for the channel. This applicant added a major power broker to its ranks months later: Ernest McFarland, former senator and soon to be governor.[10] In February 1954, hearings were held on the channel 3 assignment.[11]

The channel 3 contest ended in April 1954, when KTAR announced it would buy KTYL-TV for $250,000, a decision that cleared the way for the Arizona Television Company to build KTVK.[12] [13] In announcing the purchase, KTAR owner John J. Louis explained that he wanted to give KTAR a television sister without going through hearings.

When the sale closed in July 1954, KTYL-TV became KVAR; immediately, KTAR-purchased equipment was added to the studios,[14] which were then moved to Phoenix in 1956 over KTVK's objection;[15] the station was also allowed to identify as "Phoenix/Mesa" in 1958. In 1960, a new tower and maximum-power transmitter were commissioned;[16] the prior facility was then sold to Arizona State University and used to launch educational station KAET on channel 8 in 1961.[17] [18] In April 1961, the call sign was changed to KTAR-TV, which had not been previously available to the television station because it was licensed to a different location from the radio station.

Growth

In 1968, the Louis family's KTAR and Eller Outdoor Advertising, owned by Karl Eller, merged into Combined Communications Corporation.[19] Combined then grew into owning other television and radio stations and owned a full complement of seven by 1974, when it merged with Pacific & Southern Broadcasting Company.[20]

In 1978, Combined Communications agreed to merge with the Gannett Company. The merged company opted to retain channel 12 and divest the Phoenix radio stations;[21] Combined's ownership of the KTAR stations had been grandfathered earlier in the decade when the FCC forbade common ownership of television and radio stations in top-50 markets, but with the Gannett merger, the KTAR cluster lost its grandfathered protection. The radio stations were traded to Pulitzer Broadcasting in 1979 for KSD radio in St. Louis and $2 million.[22] KTAR-TV then changed its call sign to KPNX on June 4, 1979, since the radio properties had held the KTAR call letters first.[23]

From 1977 to 1995, channel 12 was run by general manager C.E. "Pep" Cooney, who also did on-air editorials; he then became a senior vice president of Gannett for several years prior to his retirement in 1998.[24] [25] In 1985, it was the first Phoenix TV station to broadcast in stereo.[26]

The fact that KPNX was the only Phoenix station unaffected by a major realignment of network affiliations in 1994 and 1995 fueled a run of success for KPNX and its news department that lasted more than a decade. In 2005, the station had the highest revenue of any in Phoenix: $75 million, representing almost 20 percent of the market.[27]

Newspaper co-ownership

In 2000, Gannett merged with Central Newspapers, owner of The Arizona Republic, in the second-largest newspaper deal ever at the time.[28] While the FCC barred the common ownership of newspapers and television stations in the same market, Gannett successfully banked on a potential rule change; even as written at the time before being relaxed in 2003, the issue would not have been pressed until KPNX's license came up for renewal in 2006.[29] With Gannett owning the then-number-one station in Phoenix and the state's largest newspaper, the two merged their websites in 2001.[30]

In January 2011, KPNX left its longtime home on Central Avenue and consolidated its operations with The Republic at the Republic Media Building on East Van Buren Street in downtown Phoenix, with the station's local newscasts broadcasting from a streetside studio.[31] The Central Avenue facility was then significantly renovated and became the Parsons Center for Health and Wellness, the headquarters complex for the Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS.[32]

Tegna ownership

On June 29, 2015, the Gannett Company split in two, with one side specializing in print media and the other side specializing in broadcast and digital media. KPNX was retained by the broadcasting company, which took the name Tegna.[33] KPNX and The Republic continue to operate in the same building as separate entities; as a consequence of the split, KPNX regained a separate website, having shared azcentral.com with the newspaper.[34]

Local programming

Newscasts

KTAR-TV was the Phoenix pioneer of the so-called "happy talk" news format when it reformatted its newscasts under the Action News format in late 1973,[35] with longtime anchor Ray Thompson paired alongside Bob Hughes, weatherman Dewey Hopper (last with Air America Radio affiliate KPHX and a longtime weather forecaster in Sacramento) and sportscaster Ted Brown. By 1980, the station had moved into a solid second-place position behind KOOL-TV.[36] The "Action News" moniker was dropped in 1986.[37] KTVK's rise in the late 1980s and early 1990s led to a more competitive environment.[38]

In 1994, KPNX was the only station unaffected by a major realignment of network affiliations in the Phoenix market. This status and the strength of NBC in the late 1990s helped to catalyze a decade of ratings success for channel 12, which put together nearly 50 consecutive ratings book wins at 10 p.m. from 1996 to 2007, even while NBC's ratings faltered toward the end of the run.[39] It was the first station in the state to convert its news production to high definition in 2006.[40]

Channel 12 began using a helicopter in 1978; it was the market's second, and it was piloted by Jerry Foster, who was hired from KOOL-TV.[41] "Sky 12" was frequently called upon for search and rescue missions,[42] [43] and Foster received a Harmon Trophy in 1981. He left KPNX in 1988[44] and later worked at KTVK, his career ending when he was indicted on methamphetamine charges in 1996.[45] On March 1, 2009, KPNX began to share a news helicopter operated by Helicopters Inc., as part of an agreement with KPHO-TV and KTVK; the helicopter was named "News Chopper 20", as a combination of the channel numbers of the three stations (3, 5 and 12).[46] [47] [48] All four Phoenix television newsrooms now share a helicopter.[49]

Sports programming

Karl Eller, who owned the company that became Combined Communications, was also one of the original founding owners of the city's first major professional sports team, the NBA's Phoenix Suns. Channel 12 carried Suns games from the team's 1968 inception[50] until 1973; KPHO-TV aired the Suns for six seasons until they returned to KPNX from 1979[51] to 1985, when the game telecasts moved to then-independent station KNXV-TV.[52]

In 2017, KPNX acquired the rights to preseason games of the Arizona Cardinals and also began airing team-oriented programming.[53]

Notable former on-air staff

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

+ Subchannels of KPNX[66]
ChannelRes.AspectShort nameProgramming
12.1KPNX-HD Main KPNX programming / NBC
12.2Weather Shop LC
12.3Crime True Crime Network
12.4Quest Quest
12.5NEST The Nest
35.3480i 16:9 getTV Get (KFPH-CD)
61.2480i 16:9 Grit Grit (KASW)

On July 8, 2021—the same date that KPNX moved to UHF—the station's ATSC 3.0 signal also moved from the low-power KFPH-CD multiplex to KASW. As part of a simultaneous rebalancing of KASW's subchannels, KASW's subchannel of Grit was moved to the KPNX multiplex.[67]

Analog-to-digital conversion

In 1997, the FCC allocated UHF channel 36 as KPNX's companion digital channel, construction on the digital transmitter began the following year. KPNX signed on its digital signal in June 2000. KPNX shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 12, at 10:12 p.m. (during the station's 10 p.m. newscast) on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. At 10:38 p.m. on that date, the station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 36 to VHF channel 12.[68] [69]

In 2021, the FCC approved KPNX's move from VHF channel 12 to UHF channel 18, which went into effect on July 8.[70]

Translators

KPNX's signal is additionally rebroadcast over the following translators:[71]

External links

Notes and References

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  2. News: South Mountain TV Site Granted Mesa Station: KTYL Gets City Parks Board Okay. Orren. Beaty. The Arizona Republic. April 1, 1953. 1. September 23, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044434/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32885335/ktyl-gets-city-parks-board-okay/. live.
  3. News: Mesa KTYL-TV Sets April 25 For Debut. 2. The Arizona Republic. April 2, 1953. September 23, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044435/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32885363/mesa-ktyl-tv-sets-april-25-for-debut/. live.
  4. News: KTYL-TV Opener Draws 40,000, Raises $53,340 In Palsy Fight. The Arizona Republic. May 4, 1953. 15. September 23, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044435/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85830007/ktyl-tv-opener-draws-40000-raises/. live.
  5. News: . May 11, 1953. Seven More Report TV Starts. Broadcasting. 50.
  6. News: KTYL-TV Closes Office Here, Operates At Suburban Studio. Maggie. Wilson. The Arizona Republic. 12. July 13, 1953. September 23, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044434/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/44182763/ktyl-tv-closes-office-here-operates-at/. live.
  7. News: 2 New Stations Planned As U.S. Ends TV Freeze. 1, 2. The Arizona Republic. April 14, 1952. September 23, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044435/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85830443/2-new-stations-planned-as-us-ends-tv/. live.
  8. News: KTAR Marks 30th Anniversary As New Station Project Begins. Henry. Fuller. The Arizona Republic. June 15, 1952. II:6. September 23, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044436/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85849305/ktar-marks-30th-anniversary-as-new/. live.
  9. News: Networks Split Made Official. Maggie. Wilson. 3:6. The Arizona Republic. April 30, 1953. September 23, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044435/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85830286/networks-split-made-official/. live.
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  15. News: FCC Affirms KVAR (TV) Grant For Move of Its Main Studio. Broadcasting. July 29, 1957. 64. . September 23, 2021. March 8, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210308024129/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1957/1957-07-29-BC.pdf. live.
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  17. News: ASU Wants Channel 8 For Educational Use. The Arizona Republic. July 31, 1960. 8. September 23, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044439/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68802793/asu-wants-channel-8-for-educational-use/. live.
  18. News: Regents Okay Plans For Educational TV On Channel 8. January 28, 1960. Virgil. Meibert. The Arizona Republic. 18. September 23, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044437/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/68802700/regents-okay-plans-for-educational-tv/. live.
  19. News: Ad agency, broadcast merger OKd. 2-B. The Arizona Republic. October 18, 1968. September 23, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044436/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85830670/ad-agency-broadcast-merger-okd/. live.
  20. News: P&S goes under wing of CCC. April 23, 1973. Broadcasting. . 22–23. September 23, 2021. March 8, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210308035417/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1973/1973-04-23-BC.pdf. live.
  21. News: Combined Communications and Gannett Co. to merge. Joe. Cole. 1. May 9, 1978. The Arizona Republic. September 23, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044437/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85850336/combined-communications-and-gannett-co/. live.
  22. News: . In Brief. October 2, 1978. Broadcasting. 30. September 23, 2021. March 8, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210308033120/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1978/1978-10-02-BC.pdf. live.
  23. News: KPNX-TV was not an EZ PIK. Hardy. Price. The Arizona Republic. B-10. May 31, 1979.
  24. News: Channel 3 to air events from D-Backs' opener. The Arizona Republic. Dave. Walker. D17. April 3, 1998. September 24, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044549/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85886577/channel-3-to-air-events-from-d-backs/. live.
  25. News: Local TV icon 'Pep' Cooney dies at age 70. Dennis. Wagner. Connie. Cone Sexton. September 4, 2003. A1, A10. The Arizona Republic. September 24, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044550/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85886525/local-tv-icon-pep-cooney-dies-at-age/. live.
  26. News: June 14, 1985. E15. KPNX-TV becomes Valley's first stereo-active station. Bud. Wilkinson. The Arizona Republic. September 24, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044550/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85886125/kpnx-tv-becomes-valleys-first/. live.
  27. News: Phoenix. Eileen. Davis Hudson. May 29, 2006. Mediaweek. 10–16. September 24, 2021. March 10, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210310034517/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Mediaweek/2006/Mediaweek-2006-05-29.pdf. live. .
  28. News: Gannett acquiring 'Republic': $2.8 billion deal ends years of Pulliam control. Dawn. Gilbertson. A1, A8. June 29, 2000. The Arizona Republic. September 24, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044611/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85885100/gannett-acquiring-republic-28/. live.
  29. News: Gannett Co. buyout bets on FCC rule. . ProQuest. July 7, 2000. Anne. Robertson. Phoenix Business Journal. 1.
  30. News: Phoenix. January 14, 2002. Mediaweek. 10–16. Eileen. Davis Hudson. September 24, 2021. March 10, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210310035248/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Mediaweek/2002/Mediaweek-2002-01-14.pdf. live. .
  31. News: Lynn. Ducey. Local stations debut new shows; KPNX moving to downtown studio. Phoenix Business Journal. October 10, 2010. September 24, 2012. February 28, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140228122607/http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2010/10/11/story7.html?page=all. live.
  32. Web site: The Parsons Foundation Gives $5MM to Fight HIV/AIDS; Southwest Center to Build Parsons Foundation Center for Health, Education & Wellness. May 14, 2012. Businesswire. March 21, 2016. April 18, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160418125722/http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120514006301/en/Parsons-Foundation-5MM-Fight-HIVAIDS. live.
  33. Web site: Separation of Gannett into two public companies completed TEGNA. June 29, 2015 . Tegna. June 29, 2015. July 2, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150702005302/http://www.tegna.com/separation-of-gannett-into-two-public-companies-completed/. live.
  34. News: Divorce, separate bedrooms and bedbugs: Breaking down the Gannett breakup for 'Arizona Republic,' KPNX. Phoenix Business Journal. Mike. Sunnucks. July 6, 2015. September 24, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044612/https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/blog/business/2015/07/divorce-separate-bedrooms-and-bed-bugs-breaking.html. live.
  35. News: Thomas. Goldthwaite. The TV news tease. The Arizona Republic. B-11. November 7, 1973. September 24, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044551/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85888605/the-tv-news-tease/. live.
  36. News: Aftershocks of ABC affiliate switch in Atlanta might be felt in Phoenix. The Arizona Republic. Bud. Wilkinson. June 2, 1980. B5. September 24, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044551/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85885705/aftershocks-of-abc-affiliate-switch-in/. live.
  37. News: 2 stations revamp look of newscasts with new sets. The Arizona Republic. Bud. Wilkinson. April 29, 1986. C9. September 25, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044552/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28882279/2-stations-revamp-look-of-newscasts/. live.
  38. News: KTVK wins prime time, gains in news ratings. The Arizona Republic. Bud. Wilkinson. December 29, 1988. C6. September 25, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044648/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34063179/ktvk-wins-prime-time-gains-in-news/. live.
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  40. News: Local News Is Making Switch To HD. TWICE. Allison. Romano. January 3, 2007. September 24, 2021. January 17, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210117010131/https://www.twice.com/news/local-news-making-switch-hd-21352. live.
  41. News: Big names, helicopters aid in TV news battle. A-2. August 26, 1979. The Arizona Republic. September 24, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044552/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85921903/big-names-helicopters-aid-in-tv-news/. live.
  42. News: Jerry Foster to the rescue: 'Institution' saves family of 3. The Arizona Republic. Dick. Rose. B2. August 30, 1981. September 24, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044553/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85923588/jerry-foster-to-the-rescue/. live.
  43. News: Wrecked plane is found near Sedona; 4 are dead. John. Schroeder. The Arizona Republic. February 14, 1982. A8. September 24, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044613/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85923665/wrecked-plane-is-found-near-sedona-4/. live.
  44. News: Jerry Foster to give up controls of TV copter. July 1, 1988. Bud. Wilkinson. The Arizona Republic. E14. September 24, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044553/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85923781/jerry-foster-to-give-up-controls-of-tv/. live.
  45. News: Phoenix TV's Jerry Foster fell from grace. The Arizona Republic. March 6, 2014. Richard. Ruelas. September 25, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044553/https://www.azcentral.com/story/life/az-narratives/2014/03/06/phoenix-tv-star-jerry-foster/6138343/. live.
  46. News: 3 TV stations to share helicopter to cover the news. February 24, 2009. AZCentral.com. Belo. February 25, 2009. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044554/https://help.azcentral.com/. live.
  47. News: Channels 5, 3, 12 To Share Chopper. February 25, 2009. KPHO. February 25, 2009. June 14, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110614065823/http://www.kpho.com/news/18791257/detail.html#-. live.
  48. News: Phoenix TV stations to share news helicopter. February 25, 2009. KTAR. February 26, 2009. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090220223234/http://news.ktar.com/?nid=6. February 20, 2009.
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  50. News: KTAR to Air Suns. 67. June 27, 1968. The Arizona Republic. September 24, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044553/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85887809/radio-some-television-ktar-to-air-suns/. live.
  51. News: Suns sign 5-year pact with KTAR-TV. May 14, 1979. D-4. The Arizona Republic. September 24, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044621/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85888379/suns-sign-5-year-pact-with-ktar-tv/. live.
  52. News: Channel 15, Phoenix Suns agree on pact for '85–86 season. Bud. Wilkinson. The Arizona Republic. F12. May 24, 1985. September 24, 2021. September 25, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210925044555/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85888162/channel-15-phoenix-suns-agree-on-pact/. live.
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