KGNS-TV

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KGNS-TV
Laredo, Texas
Branding	Pro 8 News
Channels	Digital: 8 (VHF)
Affiliations	NBC KTXW/The CW (DT2) Telemundo (DT3)
Owner	SagamoreHill Broadcasting, LLC (SagamoreHill Broadcasting of Texas, LLC)
First air date	January 7, 1956
Call letters’ meaning	Good Neighbor Station
Former callsigns	KHAD-TV (1956-1958)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 8 (1956-2009) Digital: 15 (2004-2009)
Former affiliations	Both secondary: CBS (1956-1973) ABC (1956-?)
Transmitter Power	20 kW (digital)
Height	312 m (digital)
Facility ID	10061
Transmitter Coordinates	27°40′21″N 99°39′51″W / 27.6725°N 99.66417°W / 27.6725; -99.66417
Website	www.pro8news.com

KGNS-TV is the NBC television affiliate for Laredo, Texas as well as surrounding areas in both Texas and Mexico. The station is owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting. KGNS also operates digital subchannels offering Telemundo and KTXW (The CW), both also available on Time Warner Cable channels 25 and 19, respectively.

Contents 1 History 2 Digital Services 3 News 3.1 Laredo's First News at 9 on KTXW 4 Personalities 4.1 Current on-air talent 5 News/Station presentation 5.1 Newscast titles 5.2 Station slogans 6 External links 7 References

[edit] History

KGNS originally went on air January 7, 1956, as KHAD-TV. Donrey Media Group (now Stephens Media Group bought the station on September 1, 1958. One of its first moves was to change the call letters to KGNS-TV. The new calls, standing for "Good Neighbor Station," came from the winning entry of a contest among students on both sides of the Rio Grande to rename the station. On April 8, 2004, KGNS-TV started broadcasting in digital.

KGNS is currently owned and operated by SagamoreHill Broadcasting. Since KVTV shut down its news department in 2006, it has operated the only English-language news department in the market.

In 2008, KGNS began producing a nightly 9 pm newscast for KTXW.

[edit] Digital Services

KGNS-TV began broadcasting in HDTV on channel 8.1, and carries CW programming on sub-channel 8.2 and Telemundo programming on digital sub-channel 8.3 in October 2008.^[1]

DT	Callsign	Network
8.1 (1080i)	KGNS	NBC-HD
8.2 (480i)	KTXW	The CW
8.3 (480i)	KGNS-DT3	Telemundo

[edit] News

KGNS's "Pro 8 News," provides the Laredo market with more news than any other station in town with three hours of news every weekday and one hour per day on weekends. Considered by many in television to be a "starter" market, the station employs a number of recent college graduates.

According to Nielsen Media Research, KGNS competes closely with Spanish-language station KLDO.

[edit] Laredo's First News at 9 on KTXW

KGNS also produces "Laredo's First News at 9" for KTXW (The CW) channel 19 on Time Warner Cable, airing weeknights at 9PM. Produced by KGNS's news staff, the half-hour news program is anchored by Victoria Marshall. The target audience for this news program is viewers between the ages of 21 through 34, which is the largest growing demographic in the Laredo-Nuevo Laredo Metropolitan Area. The newscast debuted June 21, 2008.^[2]

[edit] Personalities

[edit] Current on-air talent

Anchors

• Tim Gutierrez - Weeknight Anchor
• Ann Hutyra - Weeknight Anchor
• Joey Horta - Morning and Noon Anchor
• Mindy Casso - Morning and Noon Anchor
• Concetta Callahan - Weekend Anchor/Reporter

Reporters

• Noraida Negron - General Assignments
• Annette Garcia - General Assignments

Weather

• Richard "Heatwave" Berler - Chief Meteorologist
• Victoria Marshall - Meteorologist/Reporter

Sports

• Michael Blake - Weeknight Sports Anchor

[edit] News/Station presentation

[edit] Newscast titles

• Pro 8 News (1998-present)

[edit] Station slogans

• Coverage You Can Count On (1998-present)

[edit] External links

• Pro 8 News
• Company Profile
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KGNS-TV
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KGNS-TV

[edit] References

Coordinates: 27°34′05″N 99°29′55″W / 27.5681°N 99.4986°W / 27.5681; -99.4986

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Laredo Borderplex (Laredo / Nuevo Laredo) American stations KGNS-TV (8.1 NBC, 8.2 CW, 8.3 TMD) • KVTV (13.1 CBS) • KETF 25 (TFU) • KLDO (27.1 UNI, 27.2 TFU, 27.3 FOX/MNTV, 27.4 LATV) • KXOF 39 (FOX/MNTV/LATV) • KNEX 55 (AZA) • KLMV 68 (Ind.) Mexican stations XEFE 2 (Televisa XHGC/XHTV) • XHBR 11 (Televisa XEW) • XHLNA 21 (TV Azteca 13) • XHLAT 33 (TV Azteca 7) • XHNAT 45 (Multimedios)  • XHNAN 55 (TVNL, Anahuac)  • XHLAR 57 (Televisa local) San Antonio stations available on cable KENS 5 (CBS) • KLRN 9 (PBS) • KSAT 12 (ABC) Texas Broadcast television areas by city: Abilene/Sweetwater • Amarillo (Texas Panhandle) • Austin • Beaumont/Port Arthur • Corpus Christi • Dallas-Fort Worth • Del Rio, TX • El Paso • Houston • Laredo • Lubbock • Midland-Odessa (Permian Basin) • Rio Grande Valley • San Angelo • San Antonio • Sherman/Ada, OK • Texarkana/Shreveport, LA  • Tyler/Longview (East Texas) • Victoria • Waco/Bryan (Brazos Valley) • Wichita Falls/Lawton, OK

v • d • e NBC Network Affiliates in the state of Texas KPRC 2 (Houston) - KFDX 3 (Lawton / Wichita Falls) - KSAN 3 (San Angelo) - KAMR 4 (Amarillo) - WOAI 4 (San Antonio) - KXAS 5 (Fort Worth / Dallas) - KRIS 6 (Corpus Christi) - KTAL 6 (Texarkana) - KGNS 8 (Laredo) - KCEN 9 / KMAY-LP 23 (Temple / Bryan) - KRBC 9 (Abilene) - KTSM 9 (El Paso) - KWES 9 / KWAB 4 (Midland / Big Spring) - KCBD 11 (Lubbock) - KBMT-DT 12.2 (Beaumont) - KMOL-LP 17 (Victoria) - KVEO 23 (Brownsville) - KXAN 36 / KBVO 14 (Austin / Llano) - KETK 56 / KETK-LP 53 (Tyler / Jacksonville) See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, ION, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Texas

v • d • e CW Network Affiliates in the state of Texas KCWX 2 (Fredericksburg/San Antonio) - KFDM-DT 6.2 (Beaumont) - KAUZ-DT 6.2 (Wichita Falls) - KVIA-DT 7.2 (El Paso) KVII-DT 7.2 (Amarillo) - KTEN-DT 10.2 (Ada, OK/Sherman) - KWTX-DT 10.2 / KBTX-DT 3.2 (Waco/Bryan) - KTXS-DT 12.2 (Abilene) KRIS-DT 13.2 (Corpus Christi) - "KWSA" 14 (San Angelo, cable-only) - KTXW-DT 15.2 (Laredo) - KLCW 22 (Lubbock) - KWWT 30 (Odessa) KDAF 33 (Dallas) - KIAH 39 (Houston) - KCEB 54 (Longview) - KNVA 54/KBVO-CA 51 (Austin) - KSFE-LP 67 (McAllen) See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, ION, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Texas

v • d • e Telemundo Network Affiliates in the state of Texas KTMO-LP 36 (Amarillo) - K68DJ 68 (Corpus Christi) - KXTX 39 (Dallas) - KTMD 47 (Galveston) - KGNS DT 8.3 (Laredo) - KTLE-LP 20 / KTLD-LP 49 (Odessa) - KTLM 40 (Rio Grande City) - KEYE-DT 42.2 (Austin) - KVDA 60 (San Antonio) See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, ION, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Texas Also see: Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Religious and Other Spanish Language stations in Texas

v • d • e SagamoreHill Broadcasting KGNS-TV (NBC) · KGWN-TV (CBS) · KXLT-TV (Fox)1 · KZTV (CBS)3 · WBMM (CW) · WLTZ (NBC) · CW Ga-Bama (CW, WLTZ-DT 2) · WNCF (ABC) · WWMB (CW) 2 1KXLT-TV is operated by Quincy Newspapers under a Local Marketing Agreement (LMA). 2WWMB is operated by Barrington Broadcasting under an LMA. 3KZTV is operated by Evening Post Publishing Company under an LMA(Sale Pending)