KPNX

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KPNX
City Mesa, Arizona
Channels
Branding12News
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
May 2, 1953(71 years ago) (1953-05-02)
Former call signs
  • KTYL-TV (1953–1954)
  • KVAR (1955–1961)
  • KTAR-TV (1961–1979)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 12 (VHF, 1953–2009)
  • Digital: 36 (UHF, 2000–2009), 12 (VHF, 2009–2021)
DuMont (secondary, 1953–1956)
Call sign meaning
"Phoenix"
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 35486
ERP 1,000 kW
HAAT 535.1 m (1,756 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 33°20′0″N112°3′51″W / 33.33333°N 112.06417°W / 33.33333; -112.06417
Translator(s)
Links
Public license information
Website www.12news.com

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.

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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

KTYL-TV was the first Phoenix-area TV station to broadcast from South Mountain South Mountain Towers (32196913494).jpg
KTYL-TV was the first Phoenix-area TV station to broadcast from South Mountain

On November 1, 1952, Harkins Broadcasting, Inc. filed an application to build a new television station on channel 12 in Mesa, Arizona. [2] 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. [3] 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. [4]

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. [5] The station began broadcasting on May 2, with its introductory program being a 19-hour telethon to benefit United Cerebral Palsy. [6] An NBC affiliate from the outset, [7] the station briefly maintained a Phoenix office which closed just two months after launch. [8]

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. [4] 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. [9] [10] 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. [11]

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. [3] This applicant added a major power broker to its ranks months later: Ernest McFarland, former senator and soon to be governor. [12] In February 1954, hearings were held on the channel 3 assignment. [13]

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. [14] [15] In announcing the purchase, KTAR owner John J. Louis explained that he wanted to give KTAR a television sister without going through hearings. [14]

When the sale closed in July 1954, KTYL-TV became KVAR; immediately, KTAR-purchased equipment was added to the studios, [16] which were then moved to Phoenix in 1956 over KTVK's objection; [17] the station was also allowed to identify as "Phoenix/Mesa" in 1958. [2] In 1960, a new tower and maximum-power transmitter were commissioned; [18] the prior facility was then sold to Arizona State University and used to launch educational station KAET on channel 8 in 1961. [19] [20] 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. [2]

Growth

KTAR-TV logo used from 1970 to 1973. KPNX circa 1970.jpg
KTAR-TV logo used from 1970 to 1973.

In 1968, the Louis family's KTAR and Eller Outdoor Advertising, owned by Karl Eller, merged into Combined Communications Corporation. [21] 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. [22]

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; [23] 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. [24] KTAR-TV then changed its call sign to KPNX on June 4, 1979, since the radio properties had held the KTAR call letters first. [25] [a]

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. [26] [27] In 1985, it was the first Phoenix TV station to broadcast in stereo. [28]

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. [29]

KTAR-TV logo from 1973. Based on the lettering used by NBC News at the time, the "12" logo survived until early 1986, long after the station became KPNX. KPNX circa 1973.jpg
KTAR-TV logo from 1973. Based on the lettering used by NBC News at the time, the "12" logo survived until early 1986, long after the station became KPNX.

Newspaper co-ownership

Southwest corner of the Republic Media Building in 2013 Republic Media Building.jpg
Southwest corner of the Republic Media Building in 2013

In 2000, Gannett merged with Central Newspapers, owner of The Arizona Republic , in the second-largest newspaper deal ever at the time. [30] 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. [31] With Gannett owning the then-number-one station in Phoenix and the state's largest newspaper, the two merged their websites in 2001. [32]

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. [33] 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. [34]

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. [35] 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. [36]

Local programming

Newscasts

The KPNX streetside studio in 2013 KPNX 12 News Studios.jpg
The KPNX streetside studio in 2013

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, [37] 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. [38] The "Action News" moniker was dropped in 1986. [39] KTVK's rise in the late 1980s and early 1990s led to a more competitive environment. [40]

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. [41] It was the first station in the state to convert its news production to high definition in 2006. [42]

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. [43] "Sky 12" was frequently called upon for search and rescue missions, [44] [45] and Foster received a Harmon Trophy in 1981. [46] He left KPNX in 1988 [47] and later worked at KTVK, his career ending when he was indicted on methamphetamine charges in 1996. [46] 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). [48] [49] [50] All four Phoenix television newsrooms now share a helicopter. [51]

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 [52] until 1973; KPHO-TV aired the Suns for six seasons until they returned to KPNX from 1979 [53] to 1985, when the game telecasts moved to then-independent station KNXV-TV. [54]

In 2017, KPNX acquired the rights to preseason games of the Arizona Cardinals and also began airing team-oriented programming. [55]

Former on-air staff

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KPNX [68]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
12.1 1080i 16:9 KPNX-HDMain KPNX programming / NBC
12.2 480i ShopLC Shop LC
12.3Crime True Crime Network
12.4Quest Quest
12.5NEST The Nest
35.3 480i16:9getTV Get (KFPH-CD)
61.2 480i16:9Grit Grit (KASW)
  Broadcast on behalf of another station

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. [69]

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. [70] [71]

In 2021, the FCC approved KPNX's move from VHF channel 12 to UHF channel 18, which went into effect on July 8. [72]

Translators

KPNX's signal is additionally rebroadcast over the following translators: [73]

Notes

  1. ↑ At the time, broadcast stations with different owners could not share the same call letters.

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