KMSB
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| Tucson, Arizona | |
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| Branding | Fox 11 (general) Tucson News Now (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Tucson's News First |
| Channels | Digital: 25 (UHF) Virtual: 11 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 11.1 Fox 11.2 This TV |
| Affiliations | Fox This TV |
| Owner | Belo Corporation (operated through shared services agreement by Raycom Media) (KMSB-TV, Inc.) |
| First air date | February 1, 1967 |
| Call letters' meaning | Mountain States Broadcasting (former owner) |
| Sister station(s) | KTTU |
| Former callsigns | KZAZ (1967-1985) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 11 (VHF, 1967-2009) |
| Former affiliations | independent (1967-1986) |
| Transmitter power | 480 kW |
| Height | 1123 m |
| Facility ID | 44052 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°24′55.8″N 110°42′51.9″W / 32.4155°N 110.714417°W |
| Website | [1] |
KMSB is the Fox-affiliated television station serving Tucson, Arizona. The station broadcasts in digital on UHF channel 25 (11.1). Since it transmits from atop Mount Bigelow, there is no signal reception in the northern part of Tucson, Oro Valley and Marana.
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[edit] Digital programming
| Channel | Video | Aspect | Programming |
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| 11.1 | 720p | 16:9 | Main KMSB programming / FOX |
| 11.2 | 480i | 4:3 | This TV |
[edit] History
Tucson gained its first independent station when KZAZ signed on the air February 1, 1967.[1] It was licensed to Nogales and had its main studios there, but also had an office in Tucson, sharing facilities with a production company that was owned by a group headed by actor Danny Thomas. The same ownership group also owned KZAZ.[2] The station aired movies in both English and Spanish, dramas, sitcoms, cartoons and other general entertainment fare. It had a local news department and newscast.
The station was owned and operated by out of town investors, including Danny Thomas. Gene Adelstein, a Tucson resident, put together a group of investors as "Roadrunner Television" and bought KZAZ in 1977. By then, KZAZ had moved its main studios into a former Safeway on Tucson Boulevard north of Grant Road. As Bonnie Henry wrote in the Arizona Daily Star: "They held live wrestling matches in the studio, organized a paint-the-station day and ran a 24-hour 'Star Trek' marathon that sparked a run on blank videotape."[3] The sales manager, Hank Lominac, hosted the prime time movies. The sports anchor, Bill Roemer, anchored live sports from the U of A. Before the advent of the Fox Network, KZAZ was an independent station, showing reruns, movies, and occasional live TV. The hourlong newscast at 9 p.m. was anchored by former KOLD news director George Borozan and co-starred John Scott Ulm. It featured long interview segments, and its field reports were captured on one field camera/recorder.
In 1978, KZAZ bought a satellite downlink and started carrying the first half hour of WPIX New York's newscast, which was rebranded as Independent Network News. Borozan was cut to a half hour and either followed or led into (at various times) the INN report, which was tape delayed.
In 1984, the station was sold to Mountain States Broadcasting, a division of the Providence Journal Company, who changed the call letters to KMSB-TV on September 12, 1985. To cut costs, Providence Journal axed the station's news broadcasts once it took over. The station became a charter Fox affiliate when the network signed on October 9, 1986, and has been affiliated with Fox longer than any other station in Arizona.
In the early 1990s, KMSB began operating KTTU, which had been owned by Clear Channel Communications, and was allowed to move its city of license from Nogales to Tucson in 1991. Belo Corporation became the owner of KMSB after the company purchased Providence Journal's holdings in 1997.
KMSB retired from cartoons at the same time; 4Kids TV aired on KTTU until its shutdown on December 27, 2008, and stills airs Fox's new Saturday morning block, Weekend Marketplace.
In November 2011, Belo announced that it would enter into a shared services agreement with Raycom Media beginning in February 2012. This outsourcing arrangement will result in CBS affiliate KOLD-TV taking over daily operations of KMSB and KTTU and moving their advertising sales department into the big three outlet's studios. All remaining positions at the two stations will be eliminated and master control will move from KTVK in Phoenix to KOLD.[4] The transfer of KMSB's operations will occur in several stages, with newscasts moving to KOLD's studios on February 1 and other operations being taken over by KOLD in the following weeks.[5]
[edit] News operations
KMSB produces an hour-long 9 o'clock newscast each night. After not having a newscast for nearly 20 years, KMSB began a 9 p.m. newscast in 2003.[6] From the newscast's inception until August 2008, it was produced by sister station KTVK in Phoenix using KTVK news anchors and meteorologists, with live reports from KMSB reporters and NBC affiliate KVOA. Sports began originating entirely from the KMSB studios in Tucson in 2006.
In August 2008, the news portion of 9 p.m. newscast began originating out of the KMSB studios as well with Lou Raguse as anchor. In January 2009, the newscast expanded from 30 minutes to one hour nightly and began locally produced weathercasts, thus completing the transition of the newscast from Phoenix to Tucson. The station was one of the last top-100 market Fox affiliates to air late-evening news.
In March 2010, it was announced that KMSB's news partnership of seven years with KVOA would be ending.[7] KMSB's news staff, operating out of KVOA's building since 2003, would relocate to KMSB's studios. This move would unite the news staff with the sports department and weather announcers, both of whom have been working out of KMSB's building.
On February 1, 2012, KOLD-TV took over the operations of KMSB — taking over production responsibilities of KMSB's nightly prime time newscast at 9, as well as launching a two-hour weekday morning show (from 7 until 9), Fox 11 Daybreak, on the station. In addition, KTVK's Good Morning Arizona will no longer be seen on KMSB (the 5–7 a.m. portion will be replaced by syndicated programming), and Fox 11 Sports Force will be canceled (with the Sunday 9 p.m. newscast now airing for an hour).[8][9][5] The newscasts on both KOLD and KMSB were re-branded as Tucson News Now on the same day.[10] As a result, the newscasts on KMSB are now in high definition (prior to the beginning of the SSA, KMSB was the only Belo station that continued to air its late night newscast in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition).
[edit] News/station presentation
[edit] Newscast titles
- KZAZ Newsroom (1979–1985)
- Fox 11 News (2003–2012)
- Tucson News Now (2012-present)
[edit] Station slogans
- "11 Alive" (1979; used WPIX campaign)
- "Where the News Comes First" (2003–2007)
- "Tucson's News First" (2007–present)
[edit] Newscast music
- WXIA 1976 News Theme by Peters Productions (1979–1981)
- In-Sink (V.1,V.2,V.3,V.4) by 615 Music (2008–2012) when simulcasting the morning show from KTVK in Phoenix
- "Primetime News Theme" by Non-Stop Music (2008–2012)
- "The X Package" by Gari Communications (2012-present)
This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions.[edit] News team
Anchors
- Chris Holmstrom - weekends at 9 p.m.; also weekends at 5:30 and 10 p.m. on KOLD
- Mark Stine - weekday mornings 7-9 a.m.; also weekday mornings 4:30-7 a.m. on KOLD
- Gina Trunzo - weekday mornings 7-9 a.m.
- Scott Kilbury - weeknights at 9 p.m.; also weekdays at 4 p.m. on KOLD
Weather team
- Cuyler Diggs - meteorologist; Saturdays at 9 p.m.
- Chuck George - meteorologist; Fridays at 9 p.m.; also KOLD chief meteorologist
- Aaron Pickering - meteorologist; Sundays-Thursdays at 9 p.m.
Sports
- Dave Cooney - weekends at 9 p.m.; also weekends at 5:30 and 10 p.m. on KOLD
- David Kelly - weeknights at 9 p.m.; also sports reporter
Reporters KMSB uses news personnel from KOLD, see that article for a complete listing
[edit] Former on-air staff
This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions.[edit] References
- ^ "Channel 11 Will Start Telecasts", Tucson Daily Citizen: 13, 1967-01-31
- ^ "KZAZ-TV Will Have Office Here", Tucson Daily Citizen: 56, 1966-11-17
- ^ "Those Crazy, Hazy days At KZAZ", Arizona Daily Star, 2009-05-31
- ^ http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2011/11/15/55453/belo-turning-over-kmsb-kttu-to-kold
- ^ a b Hatfield, David (January 27, 2012). "KOLD will make Wednesday deadline to start doing KMSB newscasts". Inside Tucson Business. http://www.insidetucsonbusiness.com/media_technology/inside_media/kold-will-make-wednesday-deadline-to-start-doing-kmsb-newscasts/article_b258b294-4855-11e1-8521-001871e3ce6c.html. Retrieved January 30, 2012.
- ^ http://www.belo.com/pressRelease.x2?release=20030428-01.html
- ^ http://azbiz.com/articles/2010/03/12/media_technology/inside_media/doc4b9a6b9b3ebb0719764027.txt
- ^ http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/belo-shuts-down-kmsb-news-operations-dozens-of-layoffs-expected_b29282#more-29282
- ^ http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/111511_kmsb_newscast/fox-11-lay-off-news-staff-cancel-newscast-feb/
- ^ "Answering Your Questions about Tucson News Now". tusconnewsnow.com. KOLD-TV. http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/16644535/answering-your-questions-about-tucson-news-now. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
[edit] External links
- KOLD Website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KMSB
- Query TV Fool's coverage map for KMSB
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KMSB-TV
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