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KFSN-TV, channel 30, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in Fresno, California, USA. The station's transmitter is located in Meadow Lakes, California. Its signal covers the Central San Joaquin Valley and the mountain ranges flanking either side, including the Sierra Nevada mountains and Yosemite National Park. The station serves Fresno, Madera, Merced, Mariposa, Tulare, and Kings counties.

History

In the 1950s, KARM radio (AM 1430, now KFIG and FM 101.1, now KWYE) and KFRE radio (AM 940, now KYNO and FM 93.7, now KSKS) competed for the channel 12 license, the sole VHF TV allocation in Fresno. KFRE won the license, and the station signed on the air for the first time on May 10, 1956 on channel 12 as KFRE-TV. The station is Fresno's second-oldest television outlet, and upon signing-on KFRE-TV took the CBS affiliation from KJEO-TV (channel 47, now KGPE).

The KFRE stations were acquired by Triangle Publications in 1959. On February 17, 1961, KFRE-TV reluctantly moved to UHF channel 30 to make Fresno an all-UHF market under orders from the Federal Communications Commission in order to level the playing field in the market. The term "deintermixture" was used to describe the act of creating all UHF markets in areas that few available VHF channels for allotment and thus creating unfair competition in markets such as Fresno and Bakersfield. This move opened up channel 12 for an allocation in use by KCOY-TV in Santa Maria (Fresno is still a predominantly-UHF market to this day with all 12 full power analog signals operating on UHF channels; the exceptions are a few low-power and digital outlets).

Capital Cities Communications acquired the KFRE stations from Triangle in 1971 as part of Triangle's exit from broadcasting. The company sold off the AM and FM radio stations and kept the TV station, changing its call letters to KFSN-TV in April 1971. (The KFRE-TV calls are now used on Fresno's CW affiliate on channel 59; that station is unrelated to the current KFSN-TV).

On March 18, 1985 Capital Cities, announced it was purchasing ABC. Five months later, on August 4, 1985, KFSN swapped affiliations with KJEO and became an ABC affiliate. The transaction was finalized on January 3, 1986, making KFSN an ABC-owned station. In 1996, the Walt Disney Company acquired Capital Cities/ABC.

The station is one of three network owned television stations in the Fresno television market; the other two are Univision's KFTV (channel 21) and Telemundo's KNSO (channel 51). However, the latter station is managed by a third party via a time brokerage agreement.

With the sale of WTVG & WJRT-TV to SJL Broadcasting, KFSN is now the smallest station in the country that is an O&O of any major network, not counting semi-satellites (this includes WOGX in Ocala/Gainesville, Florida; which is a semi-satellite of WOFL in Orlando).

The station produces the programs Motion and My Family Recipe Rocks for the Live Well Network.

Digital programming

The station's digital signal is UHF 30, multiplexed:

On April 27, 2009 the station added the Live Well Network to its digital subchannel, Channel 30.2.

Analog-to-digital conversion

KFSN-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 30, on June 12, 2009 at noon, as part of the DTV transition in the United States. The station had been broadcasting its pre-transition digital signal over VHF channel 9, but returned to channel 30 for its post-transition operations.

News operation

The station's newscasts are not branded Eyewitness News, nor does it use the Eyewitness News music package, like several other ABC-owned stations. Instead, KFSN retains the Action News branding (ABC30 Action News,) along with sister station WPVI (channel 6) in Philadelphia. In 2003, the station began pooling resources with sister stations KABC-TV (channel 7) in Los Angeles and KGO-TV (channel 7) in San Francisco to hire a full time reporter and photographer to staff a Sacramento bureau following Arnold Schwarzenegger's election as Governor during the 2003 California recall election.

KFSN's newscasts have used the Action News name and format made famous at sister station WPVI since the 1970s. The station has led the news ratings in the San Joaquin Valley for more than 30 years. Its 5 PM newscast, "Live at Five," frequently attracts more viewers than all other local stations combined.

On April 23, 2007 starting with the 5 p.m. newscast, KFSN-TV became the sixth ABC owned-and-operated station to produce and broadcast their newscasts in High Definition following their sister stations KABC-TV, WPVI-TV, WABC-TV, WLS-TV and KGO-TV and update its branding to ABC 30 Action News HD.

Since 1994, KFSN has used the original version of 615 Music's "News One" music package, also used at the time by sister-station, KGO-TV.

KFSN has dominated the local news viewership ratings in the San Joaquin Valley for decades, dating back to its pre-ABC-merger years as a CBS affiliate.

On May 25, 2011, KFSN has announced that it will have a new 4 p.m. newscast starting September 12 (immediately following Oprah reruns). This follows the trend of the four other sister-stations (WABC-TV, WPVI-TV, WTVD & KGO) that have started its new 4 p.m. newscast after Oprah's final first-run episode.

News/station presentation

Newscast titles

• Channel 30 Action News (1976–1996)
• ABC-30 Action News (1996–present)

Station slogans

• The Valley's #1 Newscast (1986–1994)
• Stand Up and Tell'em Fresno's Great! (1985–1994; used during period station used Frank Gari's "Turn To News")
• You and Channel 30, We've Got the Touch (1983–1985; localized version of CBS ad campaign)
• You'll Love It on Channel 30 (1985–1986; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
• Together on Channel 30 (1986–1987; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
• Something's Happening on Channel 30 (1987–1989; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
• Fresno's Watching Channel 30 (1989–1992; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
• If It's Fresno, It Must Be Channel 30 (1992–1993; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
• Number One in Central California (1994–present)
• TV is Good, on Channel 30 (1997–1998; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
• We Love TV, on Channel 30 (1998–1999; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
• Live. Local. Latebreaking. (2000–present)

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On-air staff

Current on-air staff (as of June 2011)

Anchors

• Warren Armstrong - weeknights at 5, 6 and 11 p.m.
• Liz Harrison - weeknights at 11 p.m.; also reporter
• Jason Oliveira - weekday mornings "ABC 30 Action News AM Live" (4:30-7 a.m.); weekdays at 11 a.m.
• Margot Kim - weekday mornings "ABC 30 Action News AM Live" (4:30-7 a.m.)
• Graciela Moreno - weekdays at 4; weeknights at 6 and 6:30 p.m.
• Nancy Osborne - weeknights at 5 p.m.
• Christine Park - weekdays at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.; also consumer reporter
• Amanda Perez - weekends at 6 and 11 p.m.; also weeknight reporter
• Sara Sandrik - weekend mornings at 6 and 8 a.m.; also North Valley bureau chief
• Dale Yurong - weeknights at 6:30 p.m.; also reporter

ABC30 AccuWeather Team

• Angelo Stalis - chief weathercaster; weeknights at 5, 6 and 6:30 p.m.
• Doug Collins (AMS Member; NWA Member) - meteorologist; weekday mornings "ABC 30 Action News AM Live" (4:30-7 a.m.)
• Kevin Musso (AMS and NWA Seals of Approval) - meteorologist; weekdays at 4; weeknights at 11 p.m.
• Reuben Contreras - meteorologist; weekends; also news producer

Sports team

• OPEN - sports director; weeknights at 6 and 11 p.m.
• David Bataller - sports anchor; weekends at 6 and 11 p.m.; also sports reporter

Reporters

• Mariana Jacob - general assignment reporter
• Linda Mumma - general assignment reporter
• Tony Capozzi - legal and political consultant
• Gene Haagenson - general assignment reporter
• Amanda Venegas - general assignment reporter
• Corin Hoggard - court reporter
• Nannette Miranda - Sacramento bureau chief
• Rick Montanez - general assignment reporter
• Jessica Peres - South Valley bureau chief
• Gaby Rodriguez - traffic reporter
• Sontaya Rose - investigative reporter
• Tommy Tran - AM Live morning reporter
• Stephanie Stone - general assignment reporter

Former on-air staff

Laura Diaz - anchor (1981–1983; later at KCBS/KCAL in Los Angeles; now at rival KTTV)

See also

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References

• BroadcastPioneers.com: A History of the WFIL Stations - accessed on January 20, 2006

1. "KFRE-TV Fresno goes on the air." Broadcasting - Telecasting, May 14, 1956, pg. 9.
2. "Changing Hands." Broadcasting, November 24, 1958, pg. 96.
3. "KFRE-TV moves to uhf; backed deintermixture." Broadcasting, February 20, 1961, pg. 44.
4. "Legislative Histories" (PDF).
5. "Capcities buys 9 Triangle outlets." Broadcasting, February 16, 1970, pg. 9.
6. "Last minute clearance for Capcities." Broadcasting, March 1, 1971, pp. 19-20.
7. "Part of Capcities package comes in." Broadcasting, July 13, 1970, pg. 36.
8. "Capcities + ABC" and "FCC approval of CapCities/ABC deal likely." Broadcasting, March 25, 1985, pp. 31-34.
9. "In brief." Broadcasting, July 15, 1985, pg. 80.
10. http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
11. CDBS Print
12. http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/local&id=8152871

External links

• KFSN ABC30 Homepage
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• Television stations in Fresno, California
• Channel 30 digital TV stations in the United States
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