KBAK-TV
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| Bakersfield, California | |
| Branding | 29 Eyewitness News |
| Slogan | 29, The Eyewitness News Station |
| Channels | Digital: 33 (UHF) |
| Subchannels | 29.1 CBS (HD) 58.2 KBFX-CA (Fox) |
| Affiliations | CBS (1996-present) |
| Owner | Fisher Communications, Inc. (Fisher Broadcasting - California TV, LLC) |
| First air date | August 1953[1] |
| Call letters’ meaning | BAKersfield |
| Former callsigns | KAFY-TV (1953-1959) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 29 (UHF, 1953-2009) |
| Former affiliations | CBS (1953-1974) ABC (1974-1996) |
| Transmitter Power | 110 kW |
| Height | 1128 m |
| Facility ID | 4148 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | 35°27′10.1″N 118°35′28.1″W / 35.452806°N 118.591139°W |
| Website | www.bakersfieldnow.com |
KBAK-TV is a CBS-affiliate television station serving Bakersfield, California, broadcasting digital-only on UHF channel 33. KBAK also operates the local Fox affiliate, KBFX-CA, from a shared facility in Bakersfield, using an identical staff.
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[edit] History
KBAK was the first television station on the air in Bakersfield, initiating broadcast in August 1953. KERO followed one month later. At its inception, KBAK had been a CBS affiliate, under the call letters KAFY. In 1959, those call letters were changed to KBAK; and in 1974 changed its network affiliation to ABC, swapping with KJTV (now present NBC affiliate KGET-TV). [1] [2] As a CBS and later ABC affiliate, KBAK had aired all of its color programs in color, and went to full color in 1967.
During the 1970s and into the 1980s, KBAK was owned by Chicago-based Harriscope Broadcasting, which also owned WSNS in Chicago (now a Telemundo O&O) and a partial stake in KRQE in Albuquerque (now owned by LIN TV). In the late 1980s, KBAK started signing off only on Fridays, and Saturdays, which as a CBS affiliate it continued to do until May 2008, when the sign-offs on KBAK and KBFX were discontinued and were replaced by a simulcast of the Kern Weather Channel, which is also available on digital cable systems in the Bakersfield area.
In 1986, Harriscope sold KBAK to Burnham Broadcasting, which also owned KHON-TV in Honolulu and would later acquire WVUE in New Orleans, WALA-TV in Mobile, Alabama and WLUK in Green Bay. In 1995, Burnham sold most of its stations to SF Broadcasting, a joint venture between Fox and Savoy Pictures, but KBAK was not included in the sale to SF Broadcasting, and was instead spun off to Westwind Communications, a locally-based company linked to former Burnham executives.
In 1995, McGraw-Hill cut an affiliation deal with ABC which stripped KBAK of its affiliation when it ran out in March 1996. Then-CBS affiliate KERO-TV was included in the deal. Largely by default, KBAK rejoined CBS when KERO picked up ABC.
On August 6, 2007, Westwind Communications announced the sale of KBAK and KBFX-CA to Fisher Communications of Seattle. [3] The deal closed on January 1, 2008. This marked a re-entry to a California-based market for Fisher, who previously bought and sold KJEO (now KGPE) in Fresno in the late 1990s.
[edit] 29 Eyewitness News Team
- Anchors
- John Dabkovich - 5a/6a anchor
- Leyla Santiago - 5a/6a/noon anchor
- Kurt Rivera - 5p/6p/11pm anchor
- Lisa Krch - 5p/6pm anchor
- Sabrina Rodriguez - 5/6/11pm weekend anchor
- Weather
- Aaron Perlman - 5a/6a/noon weathercaster
- Miles Muzio - 5p/6p/11pm chief meteorologist
- Anthony Bailey - 5p/6p/11pm weekend weathercaster/reporter
- Sports
- Greg Kerr - 5p/6p/11pm sports director
- John Franchi - 5p/6p/11pm weekend sports
- Reporters
- Carol Ferguson - reporter/fill-in anchor
- James Koh - reporter/fill-in anchor
- Betsy Lambert - reporter/fill-in anchor
- Kate Larsen - reporter/fill-in anchor
- Jose Gaspar - reporter/fill-in anchor
[edit] News/Station Presentation
[edit] Newscast titles
- KAFY Television Newsreel (1953–1959)
- The Big News (1959–1966)
- The Night Report (1966–1969)
- The Television 29 News (1969–1973)
- The Hal Lafoon News (1973–1974)
- 29 TV ABC News (1974–1977)
- The News Today (1977–1979)
- TeleNews 29 (1979–1981)
- NewsForce 29 (1981–1985)
- News 29 (1985–1992)
- 29 Eyewitness News (1992–present[update])
[edit] Station Slogans
- 29 TV's the One (late 1970s; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
- 29 is New for You (1980)
- We're Comin' on Strong (1981)
- Our Strength is Our People (1982)
- See the Difference (1986)
- The Hometown Team (1988)
- The Southern Valley's News Leader (1990s)
- Experience You Can Trust (1997-2003)
- Live, Local, Latebreaking (1999-2000)
- CBS 29 and You (2001-2003)
- 29, The Eyewitness News Station (2003-present)
- Investigating Stories Others Don't (2006-present)
- Breaking News, Alerts and Investigations (2008)
[edit] News themes
| Package | Composer | Years Used |
| Fanfare for the Common Man | Aaron Copland, Arrangement by Emerson Lake and Palmer | 1979–1980 |
| Allegro | Frank Gari Communications | 1989–1997 |
| Millennium 3 | Shelly Palmer | 1997–2001 |
| Impact (V.1, V.2, V.3, V.4) | 615 Music | 2001–2003 |
| Right Here, Right Now | 615 Music | 2003–2008 |
| The Viper | 615 Music | 2008–Present[update] |
[edit] References
- ^ The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says August 23, while the Television and Cable Factbook says August 20.
- ^ KBAK intends to make DTV switch Feb. 17, KBAX/KBFX, Feb 4, 2009
[edit] External links
- CBS 29/Fox 58 website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KBAK
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KBAK-TV
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