KGUN-TV

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KGUN-TV
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Tucson, Arizona
Branding KGUN 9 (general)
KGUN 9 News (newscasts)
(pronounced "K-GUN")
Slogan On Your Side
Channels Digital: 9 (VHF)
Translators K16EO Oro Valley
K65DM Duncan
Affiliations ABC
Owner Journal Broadcast Group, Inc.
(Journal Broadcast Corporation)
First air date June 3, 1956
Call letters' meaning former owner's interest in GUN collecting and the Westerns that were filmed in Tucson
Former callsigns KDWI-TV (1956-1957)
KGUN-TV (1957-1987)
KGUN (1987-2009)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
9 (VHF, 1956-2009)
Digital:
35 (UHF, 2005-2009)
Transmitter power 10.3 kw
Height 1140 m
Facility ID 36918
Transmitter coordinates 32°24′55.7″N 110°42′53.2″W / 32.415472°N 110.714778°W / 32.415472; -110.714778
Website www.kgun9.com

KGUN-TV, channel 9, is the ABC-affiliated television station serving Tucson, Arizona, owned by Journal Broadcast Group, Inc.. It broadcasts its digital signal on VHF channel 9 from Mount Bigelow, located northeast of Tucson. It is known locally as "K-GUN".

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[edit] Digital programming

Channel Video Aspect Programming
9.1 720p 16:9 Main KGUN programming / ABC
9.2 480i 4:3 Mexicanal
9.3 Live Well Network

In January 2009, KGUN launched a Spanish-language station, Mexicanal, on its digital channel 9.2.

[edit] Analog-to-digital transition

In 1997, the Federal Communications Commission assigned UHF channel 35 to KGUN for digital operations. The station was granted an application to build its digital operations in October 2001 and, after several extensions, brought KGUN-DT to air in August 2005.

KGUN has selected channel 9 for its post-transition digital operations, and since the analog television shutdown, on June 12, 2009, KGUN broadcasts in digital from channel 9.[1] As with all of Journal's television stations, following the digital transition, as of June 19, 2009, KGUN added the -TV suffix to its callsign (the station had previously used the KGUN-TV callsign from 1957 to 1987, when it dropped the suffix).

[edit] History

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The station was founded in 1955 by rancher D.W. Ingram, who gave the station his initials, KDWI-TV. It began broadcasting June 3, 1956.[2] Shortly afterward, Ingram sold it to H. U. Garrett, who changed the station's call sign to KGUN on March 14, 1957.[2] Garrett sold the station to Henry S. Hilberg in 1960, and Hilberg sold it to Gilmore Broadcasting in 1964. The station came under the ownership of May Broadcasting in 1968.[3] May would sell its television holdings (KGUN and KMTV in Omaha, Nebraska) to Lee Enterprises in 1986, which, in turn, sold both stations to Emmis Communications in 2000. In 2005, Emmis liquidated all of its television properties, sending KGUN and control of KMTV to the Milwaukee based Journal Broadcast Group, which already owned four radio stations in Tucson.[4] The sale was finalized in December 2005.

[edit] Programming

An ABC affiliate, KGUN broadcasts the network's schedule, supplemented by syndicated and local programming, most of which is local news. Syndicated programming currently featured on KGUN-TV includes: Wheel of Fortune, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Jeopardy!, Law & Order, Live With Regis and Kelly and Inside Edition.

On April 26, 2010, KGUN began producing a lifestyle and entertainment magazine program called The Morning Blend[5], a program which was adapted from Journal flagship station WTMJ-TV. The program airs weekdays from 11 a.m. to noon and is hosted by Ann Lauricello and Alex Miranda; the show replaced KGUN's 11 a.m. newscast.

[edit] News operation

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In 1997, KGUN added a 5:30 p.m. newscast, moving ABC's World News Tonight to 6 p.m. and expanding its news department.[6] On April 23, 2011, KGUN became the third station in Tucson to begin airing local newscasts in high definition.

[edit] News/station presentation

[edit] Newscast titles

  • News in Action (1970s)
  • NewsCenter 9 (1980s–1994)
  • KGUN 9 News (1994–present)[7]

[edit] Station slogans

  • In Touch with Tucson (1994–2003)
  • Clear. Accurate. To the Point (2003–2006)
  • On Your Side (2006–present)
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[edit] News team[8]

Anchors

  • Guy Atchley - weeknights at 5, 6, 9 (on KWBA) and 10 p.m.
  • Steve Núñez - weekday mornings Good Morning Tucson (5-7 a.m.)
  • Kimberly Romo - weekday mornings Good Morning Tucson (5-7 a.m.)
  • Tammy Vo - weekends at 5 and 10 p.m.; also weeknight reporter
  • Jennifer Waddell - weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.

Weather team

  • Erin Christiansen (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist Seal of Approval; member, NWA) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 6, 9 (on KWBA) and 10 p.m.
  • April Madison - meteorologist; weekday mornings Good Morning Tucson (5-7 a.m.)
  • Aaron Brackett - meteorologist; weekends at 5 and 10 p.m., also weeknight reporter

Sports team

  • Jake Knapp - sports anchor; weekends at 5 and 10 p.m., also weeknight sports reporter

Reporters

  • Marcelino Benito - general assignment reporter
  • Valerie Cavazos - general assignment reporter
  • Jessica Chapin - general assignment reporter
  • Claire Doan - general assignment reporter
  • Corinne Hautala - general assignment reporter
  • Allen "Big Al" Kath - weekday morning traffic reporter
  • Kevin Keen - general assignment reporter
  • Stephani Ruiz - general assignment reporter
  • Craig Smith - general assignment reporter

[edit] Management

  • Julie Brinks - general manager
  • Forrest Carr - news director
  • David Rush - executive producer

[edit] References

  1. ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds". FCC CDBS database. http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf. Retrieved 2009-01-12. 
  2. ^ a b "Journal of Wis. to purchase KGUN-TV". Arizona Daily Star. 2005-08-23. http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/printDS/89805. Retrieved 2009-01-12. 
  3. ^ "TV Transfers". 1972 Broadcasting Yearbook. http://www.davidgleason.com/Broadcasting%201972%20Yearbook%20Section%20Guide_files/1972%20Broadcasting%20Yearbook%20TV%20Allocation%20and%20Trsnsfers.pdf. Retrieved 2009-01-12. 
  4. ^ "Emmis Announces Sale of Nine Television Stations". Emmis Press Release. 2005-08-22. http://www.emmis.com/press/Release.aspx?ID=44572. Retrieved 2009-01-12. 
  5. ^ http://www.tucsonmorningblend.com/
  6. ^ Rademacher, Kevin. "KGUN to introduce hour-long newscast tonight." Inside Tucson Business 6 Jan. 1997: 9-10.
  7. ^ KGUN Tucson - 2006 Late Night Open
  8. ^ The KGUN 9 Team

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