KOAT-TV
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| Albuquerque/Santa Fe, New Mexico | |
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| City of license | Albuquerque/Santa Fe |
| Branding | KOAT 7 (general) Action 7 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Coverage You Can Count On |
| Channels | Digital: 7 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner | Hearst Television, Inc. (KOAT Hearst Television, Inc.) |
| First air date | September 28, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | COAT or KO Albuquerque Television |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 7 (VHF, 1953–2009) Digital: 21 (UHF, 2002–2009) |
| Former affiliations | Secondary: DuMont (1953–1955) |
| Transmitter power | 26.5 kW |
| Height | 1292 m |
| Facility ID | 53928 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°12′53.3″N 106°27′2.7″W / 35.214806°N 106.450750°W |
| Website | www.koat.com |
KOAT-TV, channel 7, is an ABC network affiliated television station serving Albuquerque, New Mexico. Its transmitter is located on Sandia Crest, northeast of Albuquerque. Syndicated programming on KOAT includes: Entertainment Tonight, Ellen, The Dr. Oz Show, and Live! with Kelly and Michael.
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History [edit]
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Television [edit]
KOAT signed on September 28, 1953, less than a week before KGGM-TV (now KRQE). It was locally owned by AM Caldwell & Walter Stiles. The station signed on as an ABC affiliate. In 1957 KOAT was sold to Alvarado Television (the owner of KVOA in Tucson, Arizona),[1] and in 1962 both stations were sold to Steinman Stations, who owned WGAL-TV in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and later acquired WTEV (now WLNE-TV) in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Steinman sold both KOAT and KVOA to Pulitzer, the then-owner of KSD-TV (now KSDK) in St. Louis, in 1969.[2] [3] This made KOAT Pulitzer's second television station acquisition outside of its home city of St. Louis; the KOAT acquisition was consummated a year after Pulitzer closed on its purchase of KVOA. A decade later, the other two Steinman stations were sold to Pulitzer as well, reuniting them with KOAT (KVOA was spun off in 1972).
In 1999, Pulitzer sold its entire broadcasting division, including KOAT and WGAL, to Hearst-Argyle. In mid-2009 the Hearst Corporation, already majority owner of what was Hearst-Argyle Television, bought out all of the then-publicly traded shares and changed the broadcasting group's name to Hearst Television.
KOAT uses a version of the Circle 7 logo used by many other ABC stations, both owned-and-operated stations and affiliates. The "Circle 7" logo has been used at KOAT since 1971 and the Action News title since 1974.[4]
Radio [edit]
KOAT AM went on the air in 1946 at 1450 kHz on the ABC network.[5][6]
A KOAT radio remote appears frequently in the 1951 Billy Wilder film, Ace in the Hole.[7]
1450 kHz in Albuquerque is now KRZY.
Digital television [edit]
| Channel | Name | Video | Aspect | Programming |
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| 7.1 | KOAT-DT | 720p | 16:9 | Main KOAT-TV programming / ABC |
| 7.2 | KOAT-ET | 480i | 4:3 | Estrella TV |
KOAT is one of four ABC-affiliated Hearst stations that do not offer "The Local AccuWeather Channel"
KOAT-TV moved its digital signal to its old analog frequency, channel 7, when the analog to digital transition was completed on June 12, 2009.
Satellite stations [edit]
KOAT-TV formerly operated three satellite stations, which rebroadcast its signal and add local content for other parts of the broadcast market:
| Station | City of license | Channels (Digital) |
Channels (Virtual) |
First air date | Last air date | Former callsigns | ERP (Digital) |
HAAT (Digital) |
Facility ID | Transmitter Coordinates |
| KOCT | Carlsbad | 19 (UHF) | 6 | August 24, 1956 | July 18, 2012 | KAVE-TV (1956–1987) KVIO-TV (1987–1993) |
15 kW | 333 m | 53908 | 32°47′38″N 104°12′29″W / 32.79389°N 104.20806°W |
| KOFT1 | Farmington | 8 (VHF) | 3 | 2002 | November 2007 | 40 kW | 165.9 m | 53904 | 36°40′17″N 108°13′52.7″W / 36.67139°N 108.231306°W | |
| KOVT | Silver City | 10 (VHF) | 10 | September 19872 | July 18, 2012 | KWNM-TV (1987–1992) | 3.2 kW | 485 m | 53911 | 32°51′46″N 108°14′28″W / 32.86278°N 108.24111°W |
Notes:
- 1. KOFT never operated its analog signal; its digital station was operated via Special Temporary Authorization.
- 2. The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says KOVT signed on September 9, while the Television and Cable Factbook says it signed on September 10.
KOCT, formerly KAVE-TV and KVIO-TV, became part of the KOAT-TV operation in 1993 after previously serving as a satellite of El Paso ABC affiliate KVIA-TV.[8] The Carlsbad station began in 1956 as KAVE-TV, a CBS/NTA Film Network[9] affiliate with studio and transmitter facilities on Church Street in Carlsbad. In 1966, when Roswell, New Mexico station KBIM-TV became the CBS affiliate for southeastern New Mexico, KAVE became a satellite station of then-ABC affiliate KMOM-TV in Monahans, Texas (now NBC affiliate KWES-TV, Midland-Odessa, Texas) and then of KVIA-TV in El Paso in 1976.
Hearst-Argyle surrendered the license of KOFT to the FCC on November 13, 2007,[10] though its license was not canceled until May 5, 2010.[11] Hearst then informed the FCC on July 18, 2012 that it would discontinue the operations of KOCT and KOVT; their licenses were canceled on August 1.[12][13] The move was made to eliminate the need to maintain the KOCT and KOVT public files in their respective cities due to FCC regulations which went into effect on that date; both stations were promptly replaced with KOAT translator stations on the same channels to continue providing service to both cities.[14]
In addition, there are several low-powered repeaters that carry KOAT's programming throughout New Mexico, northeastern Arizona and southern Colorado.
News operation [edit]
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Ordinarily, KOAT produces just over four hours of local news each weekday, and 4½ hours each on Saturdays and Sundays. The station's newscasts, known as Action 7 News, have led the ratings in New Mexico for over 30 years. Weather forecaster Howard Morgan worked at KOAT for 28 years before retiring in 1999.
KOAT is also one of six ABC affiliates and one of three Hearst-owned ABC stations to have an hour-long 10 p.m. newscast, along with KITV in Honolulu and WISN in Milwaukee; as well as KRGV in Weslaco, Texas, KSTP in Saint Paul, Minnesota, KIFI in Idaho Falls, Idaho and WEAR in Pensacola, Florida.
KOAT does not broadcast in high definition; however on June 13, 2010, the station began broadcasting its newscasts in 16:9 standard definition widescreen. The station plans to air its newscasts in high definition, but no date has been confirmed as to when. Rival KRQE (along with sister station KASA) is the only newscast in the Albuquerque market to broadcast in true high definition, while other rival KOB now also airs local news in 16:9 standard definition widescreen.
News/station presentation [edit]
Newscast titles [edit]
- Your Esso Reporter (1953–1960)
- Newsroom (1960–1962)
- TV-7 News (1962–1971)
- Big 7 News (1971–1974)
- TV-7 Action News (1974–1976)
- Action 7 News (1976–present)
Station slogans [edit]
- Action News is Everywhere (1978)
- Working Hard For You (1978)
- New Mexico's News Leader (1980s-early 1990s)
- The Area's #1 News Source (early 1990s)
- Coverage You Can Count On (1998–present)
- New Mexico's #1 Newscast (2011-present)
Current on-air staff [edit]
Anchors
- Royale Da - weekend evenings; also weekday reporter
- Doug Fernandez - weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.
- Shelly Ribando - weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.
- Melissa Mahan - weekday mornings "More in the Morning" (4:30-7am); also reporter
- Marisa Maez - weekday mornings "More in the Morning" (4:30-7am)
- Tanya Mendis - weekend mornings "More in the Morning" (6-9 a.m.); also weekday reporter
First Alert Weather Team
- Joe Diaz (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and NWA Seals of Approval) - Chief Meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.
- Eric Green (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist Seal of Approval) Seal of Approval - Meteorologist; weekday mornings "More in the Morning" (4:30-7 a.m.)
- Byron Morton (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and NWA Seals of Approval) - Meteorologist; weekend mornings "More in the Morning" (6-9 a.m.), Saturdays and Sundays at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.
Sports team
- John Salazar - Sports Anchor; Saturdays at 6, Sundays at 5:30 and weekends at 10 p.m.
Reporters
- Will Carr - general assignment reporter
- Alana Greenfogel - general assignment reporter
- Christie Ileto - general assignment reporter
- Amber Lee - general assignment reporter
- Liz McKernan - general assignment reporter
- Dr. Barry Ramo - health reporter
- Todd Unger - general assignment reporter
- Anna Velasquez - general assignment reporter
- Lauren Zakalik - general assignment reporter
Hearst Television Washington Bureau
- Sally Kidd - Washington Bureau correspondent
- Laurie Kinney - Washington Bureau correspondent
- Traci Mitchell - Washington Bureau correspondent
References [edit]
- ^ KOAT Purchase is for $12,500 Plus Its Debts, Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, NM) Jan. 12, 1957 pg. 1-2
- ^ "$20 million in TV sales approved." Broadcasting, May 12, 1969, pg. 48. [1]
- ^ FCC Approves KOAT-TV Sale For $5 million, Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, NM) May 9, 1969 pg. F8
- ^ Advertisement: Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, NM), Aug. 19, 1974 pg. A-9
- ^ US Network-Affiliated AM Radio Stations, 1949
- ^ Directory of AM, FM and TV Staions of the US
- ^ Radio truck seen in Ace in the Hole, IMCDb
- ^ KOAT to buy Carlsbad station, Roswell Daily Record (Roswell, NM) May 28, 1993 pg. 27
- ^ "Require Prime Evening Time for NTA Films", Boxoffice, November 10, 1956: 13
- ^ KOFT-DT request to FCC to cease operation
- ^ Pendarvis, Clay C. (May 5, 2010). "Re: KOFT, Farmington, New Mexico" (PDF). CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
- ^ Harding, Kevin R. (August 1, 2012). "In Re: BLCDT-20090616ABK" (PDF). CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
- ^ Harding, Kevin R. (August 1, 2012). "In Re: BLCDT-20090616ABR" (PDF). CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
- ^ "Request for Waiver of Filing Freeze" (PDF). CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. July 7, 2011. Retrieved August 12, 2012.
External links [edit]
- KOAT.com - Official Website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KOAT
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KOAT-TV
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