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KCBD
Channels
BrandingKCBD 11;KCBD NewsChannel 11
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KLCW-TV,KJTV-TV,KJTV-CD,KABI-LD,KLBB-LD,KMYL-LD,KXTQ-CD
History
First air date
May 10, 1953(71 years ago)(1953-05-10)
Former call signs
KCBD-TV (1953–2003)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:11 (VHF, 1953–2009)
  • Digital:9 (VHF, 2002–2009)
ABC(secondary, 1953–1969)
Call signmeaning
Caprock Broadcasting Company (original owners of station)
Technical information[3]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID27507
ERP
HAAT
  • 234 m (768 ft)
  • 282.1 m (926 ft) (CP)
Transmitter coordinates
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.kcbd.com

KCBD(channel 11) is atelevision stationlicensed toLubbock, Texas,United States, affiliated withNBC.It is ownedGray TelevisionalongsideWolfforth-licensedCW+affiliateKLCW-TV(channel 22) and fourlow-powerstations—MyNetworkTVaffiliateKMYL-LD(channel 14),Snyder-licensedHeroes & IconsaffiliateKABI-LD(channel 42),Class ATelemundoaffiliateKXTQ-CD(channel 46) andMeTVaffiliateKLBB-LD(channel 48). Gray also provides certain services toFoxaffiliateKJTV-TV(channel 34) and low-power Class AindependentKJTV-CD(channel 32) under ashared servicesagreement (SSA) withSagamoreHill Broadcasting.The stations share studios at 98th Street and University Avenue in south Lubbock; KCBD's transmitter is located at its former studios near the interchange ofI-27andSlaton Highway.

History[edit]

KCBD-TV signed on the air on May 10, 1953, as the second television station in Lubbock, after KDUB-TV (nowKLBK-TV). It was owned by a group headed by Joe Bryant, owner of KCBD radio (AM 1590). For a short time thereafter, Jim Reese was a broadcaster on KCBD.[4]KCBD was a primary NBC affiliate with a secondaryABCaffiliation. KCBD became a sole NBC affiliate in 1969 when KSEL (nowKAMC) signed on and took the ABC affiliation. KCBD was also the first station in Lubbock to broadcast incolor.From 1968 to 1983, KCBD-TV also operated KSWS-TV (channel 8) inRoswell, New Mexico,as a repeater orsatellite station.The Roswell station is nowKOBR,asemi-satelliteofAlbuquerqueNBC affiliateKOB.

Bryant sold both KCBD and KSWS toState Telecasting CompanyofColumbia, South Carolina,in 1971; at the same time, WUSN-TV inCharleston, South Carolina,was also purchased, and STC decided to re-call that stationWCBD-TVto coordinate with KCBD. The radio station was spun off to separate owners who changed the calls to KEND (at the then-end of the radio dial). It is nowKDAV.State Telecasting sold the station to Caprock Broadcasting in 1983.

In early 1984, KCBD retired theEyewitness Newsbranding and the "11 KCBD-TV" logo[5]in favor of theNews 11branding (see below) that it would use until around late 1993 or early 1994. In place of the "11 KCBD-TV" logo that they had used since the early 1970s, they introduced a new logo that featured a graphic of the outline of Texas with an "11" placed about where Lubbock would lay on that outline. The "11" would be to the right of and slightly above the "KCBD". In 1991, they would modify the logo, retiring the Texas outline while retaining the "KCBD11" logo. They would gradually phase it out over the second half of 1993 and first half of 1994 as they jettisoned theNews 11branding in favor of the currentNewsChannel 11branding.[6]

Caprock Broadcasting sold the station to theHolsumbakery in 1986. Holsum sold KCBD to Cosmos Broadcasting, the broadcasting arm of South Carolina-based insurerLiberty Corporation,in 2000. Liberty exited the insurance business later that year, bringing the Cosmos stations directly under the Liberty banner. Liberty merged withRaycom Mediain 2006.

In May 2002, KCBD became the first station in the Lubbock market to begin broadcasting a digital signal. Later that year, the station became the first to broadcast network programming in trueHigh Definition.

Since 2002,Jeopardy!andWheel of Fortunehave aired on KCBD. Prior to that, they both aired on KLBK, although in late 1999,Wheelmoved to KAMC.Live with Regis and Kellyhad also aired on KAMC before moving to KCBD in 2004, though that show has returned to KAMC.

2015 plane crash into transmitter[edit]

On the evening of February 4, 2015, a small plane crashed into KCBD's tower, damaging the structure and killing one passenger. There were no injuries at the station's nearby studios, but its power was taken out by the crash, disrupting its operations.[7]The station continued to transmit on local cable providerSuddenlink Communications,and that night's 10 p.m. newscast originated from the facilities of theLubbock Independent School District's "LISD TV" educational channel. By February 5, the remnant of the tower had been deliberately dropped, power was restored and operations had returned to the building. KCBD arranged a feed to another station in Lubbock and operated as a multicast of the other station. After rescanning receivers, virtually all viewers (including cable, Dish, DirecTV and off air) could see the station in standard definition.[8]

Sale to Gray Television[edit]

On June 25, 2018,Atlanta-basedGray Televisionannounced it had reached an agreement with Raycom to merge their respective broadcasting assets (consisting of Raycom's 63 existing owned-and/or-operated television stations, including KCBD and sister stations in nearby AmarilloKFDA-TVandKEYU,and Gray's 93 television stations) under Gray's corporate umbrella. The cash-and-stock merger transaction valued at $3.6 billion – in which Gray shareholders would acquire preferred stock currently held by Raycom – resulted in KCBD gaining a newsister stationin theOdessa–Midlandmarket as Gray planned to retain ownership of CBS affiliateKOSA-TVin exchange for selling fellow NBC affiliateKWES-TV(which would be sold to an independent company to comply with FCC ownership rules prohibiting common ownership of two of the four highest-rated stations in a single market, instead KWES andWTOLinToledo, Ohio,would be sold toTegna Inc.).[9][10][11][12]The sale was approved on December 20,[13]and was completed on January 2, 2019.[14][15]

Programming[edit]

KCBD has served as the South Plains' television partner for theChildren's Miracle Networksince the charity's inaugural 1984telethon.[16]

Starting with the 1989–90 season and ending with its final season (2010–11), KCBD broadcastThe Oprah Winfrey Showto viewers in the South Plains. KLBK had aired the show for the previous two seasons.Oprahwas not cleared in Lubbock during its first season (1986–87).[17]

News operation[edit]

On April 10, 2011, KCBD began broadcasting their newscasts in high definition.

KCBD's stability, especially in terms of its anchor staff, has contributed to its relative standing in the Lubbock media market. Since 1984, when it switched from theEyewitness Newsbranding toNews 11(one it would keep through about 1993 or 1994) KCBD's newscasts have routinely ranked #1 in the Lubbock market. Abner Euresti has been at the station since the mid-1970s when he anchored with Jane Prince. Euresti was paired with Karin McCay in 1980 under news director Carl Skip Watson (guiding light of the Lubbock food bank initiative) and have worked together since. Not far behind is chief meteorologist John Robison, who came to the station in 1983. Sharon Hibner Maines was the main anchor at cross town KLBK-TV from 1975-82 until she left for KAMC, where she would co-anchor the evening newscasts there until 1989. Between her departure from KAMC and her arrival at KCBD in 1996, she worked in public relations for Furr's Supermarkets. She resurfaced at KAMC and later came to KCBD. Maines, the wife of noted local musician Kenny Maines, is only one of a handful of media personalities (along with Texas Tech football color commentator John Harris, who served as KCBD's sports director from 1989 to 1995; and current KAMC evening anchor Bryan Mudd, who served as a KCBD sports anchor in the late 1990s) to have anchored either news, sports, or weather at all of Lubbock's Big Three affiliates.[18][19][20][21][22]

One-time weather anchor Clyde Robert "Bob" Stephens was founder of 99.5 FM KWGN inAbernathy, Texas.It was later called KWGO and is nowadays Lubbock'sKQBR.Former sports anchor Bob Howell was a co-founder of a Texas oriented sports channel for cable that is now at the heart of the present dayFox Sports Southwestnetwork.

KCBD broadcast Dr.Red Duke's syndicated medical reports to viewers on the South Plains for much of the 1980s and 1990s.

Starting with the 1990–91 season, KCBD-TV, in conjunction withMethodist Hospital,produced a weekly program titledHealth Matters.Hosted by evening co-anchor and health reporter Karin McCay, the program focused on a single health-related topic and featured interviews with medical practitioners from a wide array of specialties. Airing Saturdays at 5 p.m., the program was telecast for the first half of the decade. The program can effectively be viewed as a long-form version of McCay's "Healthwise" segments that have appeared during the station's evening newscasts since the early 1980s.[23]

Technical information[edit]

Subchannels[edit]

The station's digital signal ismultiplexed:

Subchannels of KCBD[24]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
11.1 1080i 16:9 KCBD Main KCBD programming /NBC
11.2 480i Outlaw Outlaw
11.3 Grit Grit
11.4 Escape Ion Mystery
11.5 LAFF Laff
11.6 DABL Dabl
11.7 Defy TV

In April 2005, KCBD along with other Raycom-owned NBC affiliates began carryingNBC Weather Plusknown as "NewsChannel 11 Weather Plus" on their DT2 subchannel feeds, the affiliation lasted until December 2008 when Weather Plus ceased operations due toNBCUniversal's purchase ofThe Weather Channel.KCBD along with fellow NBC affiliateKAMR-TVinAmarillowere the only two stations carrying the network in the southernTexas Panhandle.A year later in 2006, the station began offeringThe Tube Music Networkon digital subchannel 11.3, that affiliation lasted until 2007 when The Tube ceased operations.

Analog-to-digital conversion[edit]

KCBD shut down its analog signal, overVHFchannel 11, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcastsunder federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition VHF channel 9 to channel 11.[25][26]

References[edit]

  1. ^"Channel Substitution/Community of License Change".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.February 10, 2021.RetrievedFebruary 11,2021.
  2. ^"Report & Order",Media Bureau,Federal Communications Commission,April 26, 2021, Retrieved April 26, 2021.
  3. ^"Facility Technical Data for KCBD".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
  4. ^"Mayor Jim Reese of Odessa and theRepublican Partyin the Permian Basin ",TheWest Texas Historical AssociationYear Book,Vol. LXXXVII (October 2011), p. 128
  5. ^Consult the Lubbock Evening Journal issues from January and February 1984.
  6. ^Regarding the 1984-94 KCBD logo, including the 1991 redesign, see, for example, Southwest Digest (Lubbock, TX), November 6, 1986, p. 4 (https://swco-ir.tdl.org/swco-ir/bitstream/handle/10605/3984/Southwest_Digest__1986-11-06.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y) and University Daily (Texas Tech University), December 2, 1991, p. 4 (https://swco-ir.tdl.org/swco-ir/handle/10605/242764).
  7. ^Staff report (February 4, 2015)."KCBD tower struck by small plane, power out at station".KCBD.com.Raycom Media.RetrievedFebruary 5,2015.
  8. ^"KCBD broadcasting from alternate location tonight at 10; available on Suddenlink".KCBD.com.Raycom Media.RetrievedFebruary 5,2015.
  9. ^Miller, Mark K. (June 25, 2018)."Gray To Buy Raycom For $3.6 Billion".TVNewsCheck.NewsCheckMedia.RetrievedJune 25,2018.
  10. ^"GRAY AND RAYCOM TO COMBINE IN A $3.6 BILLION TRANSACTION".Raycom Media(Press release). June 25, 2018. Archived fromthe originalon June 25, 2018.RetrievedJuly 31,2018.
  11. ^John Eggerton (June 25, 2018)."Gray Buying Raycom for $3.6B".Broadcasting & Cable.NewBay Media.
  12. ^Dade Hayes (June 25, 2018)."Gray Acquiring Raycom For $3.65B, Forming No. 3 Local TV Group".Deadline Hollywood.Penske Media Corporation.
  13. ^"FCC OK with Gray/Raycom Merger",Broadcasting & Cable,December 20, 2018, Retrieved December 20, 2018.
  14. ^"Gray Closes On $3.6 Billion Raycom Merger".TVNewsCheck.NewsCheckMedia. January 2, 2019.RetrievedJanuary 3,2019.
  15. ^"Gray Completes Acquisition of Raycom Media and Related Transactions",Gray Television,January 2, 2019, Retrieved January 2, 2019.
  16. ^"Karin & Abner look back over 30 years with CMN".
  17. ^Consult, among others,University Daily(TTU)issues from September 1989 through December 1991 (swco-ir.tdl.org → Newspapers → University Daily). Compare withUDissues from January–May 1989. See also, for example, Lockney (TX)Beacon,December 11, 1986, 7 (swco-ir.tdl.org → Newspapers → Lockney Beacon).
  18. ^"Goodbye Sharon".YouTube.Archivedfrom the original on December 5, 2021.
  19. ^"Sharon Maines - KCBD NewsChannel 11 Lubbock".Archived fromthe originalon April 20, 2016.RetrievedApril 10,2016.
  20. ^"Bryan Mudd".June 12, 2019.
  21. ^http://www.texastech.com/sponsorship/radio-bios.html[permanent dead link]
  22. ^"John Robison".
  23. ^One example of the program's promotion in newspapers can be found in the Muleshoe {TX}Journal,January 3, 1991, p. 4 (https://swco-ir.tdl.org/handle/10605/269121). Another is theSouthwest Digest(Lubbock, TX), October 6, 1994, p. 4 (https://swco-ir.tdl.org/handle/10605/4351).
  24. ^RabbitEars TV Query for KCBD
  25. ^"KCBD to Delay Big Switch Until June 12, 2009 - KCBD NewsChannel 11 Lubbock".Archived fromthe originalon March 4, 2012.RetrievedDecember 26,2010.
  26. ^"DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on August 29, 2013.RetrievedMarch 24,2012.

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