KSAT-TV

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KSAT-TV
Ksat.png
San Antonio, Texas
Branding KSAT 12 (general)
KSAT 12 News (newscasts)
(pronounced "K-Sat")
Slogan Live. Local. Latebreaking.
Channels Digital: 12 (VHF)
Affiliations ABC
LATV (DT2)
.2 Net (DT3)
Owner Post-Newsweek Stations, Inc.
(Post-Newsweek Stations, San Antonio, Inc.)
First air date January 21, 1957
Call letters' meaning San Antonio, Texas; also the ICAO code for San Antonio International Airport
Former callsigns KONO-TV (1957-1969)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
12 (VHF, 1957-2009)
Digital: 48 (UHF)
Transmitter power 17.6 kW
Height 455 m
Facility ID 53118
Transmitter coordinates 29°16′11″N 98°15′31″W / 29.26972°N 98.25861°W / 29.26972; -98.25861
Website www.ksat.com/

KSAT-TV channel 12 is the local ABC affiliate television station in the greater San Antonio area. Its transmitter is located in Elmendorf, Texas. The station calls itself KSAT 12, pronounced as "K-Sat".

In the San Antonio area, KSAT is broadcast on cable channel 13 on Time Warner Cable. The station also serves as the default ABC affiliate for the Laredo market, which does not have an ABC affiliate of its own.

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[edit] History

KSAT first went on the air as KONO-TV Channel 12 on January 21, 1957, owned by the Roth family with KONO-AM-FM. It has been an ABC affiliate since its launch.

KSAT-TV logo from 1994.

The station was purchased by The Outlet Company of Providence, Rhode Island in 1968, who changed its call letters to the present day KSAT-TV in 1969. Outlet was taken private in 1986 and the new owners sold KSAT to H&C Communications. In 1994, it was sold with KPRC-TV in Houston to current owner Post-Newsweek Stations, a subsidiary of the Washington Post Company. On June 12, 2009 KSAT 12 Signed off for the last time as an analog station and kept the channel number as digital.

In June of 2010, during 10 o'clock Breaking News report, a News 4 WOAI clip was shown proven by WOAI's microphone flag. No charges have been made against them.[citation needed]

[edit] Digital television

KSAT 12 Studio on N. St. Mary's

KSAT-DT broadcasts on digital channel 12.

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Digital channel

Channel Name Programming
12.1 KSAT-DT main KSAT-TV/ABC programming
12.2 KSAT-DT2 LATV

KSAT was proposed as one of the flagship stations for the .2 Network, but it has never come to the air and most of its programming rights have been distributed to other subchannel networks.

[edit] Analog-to-digital conversion

KSAT-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 12, on June 12, 2009,[1] as part of the DTV transition in the United States. The station had been broadcasting its pre-transition digital signal over UHF channel 48, but returned to channel 12 for its post-transition operations.[2]

[edit] Programming

KSAT-TV broadcasts Inside Edition, Live with Kelly, The Nate Berkus Show, Entertainment Tonight, and ABC programming.[3]

[edit] News operation

[icon] This section requires expansion with:
further information on the history of KSAT's news department.

KSAT broadcasts a total of 24.5 hours of local news per week (with 4½ hours on weekdays, and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). Unusual for a television station, traffic reports during KSAT's morning newscasts are provided by officers from the San Antonio Police Department, Robert Dart and Marcus Trujillo.

As of the May 2011 ratings period, KSAT's newscasts are in last place in all time slots. No ratings for the First News At Four newscast have been released.[4]

On February 5, 2009, KSAT became the second station in San Antonio (behind KENS) to broadcast its newscast in high definition; KSAT originally did not broadcast in true high definition, broadcasting in upconverted 16:9. Several months later the newscast began broadcasting (in studio) in HD. Some field reports still remain in SD up-converted 16:9.

On May 26, 2011, KSAT began to broadcast a 4PM hard news broadcast dubbed "First News At Four"; this half hour newscast is followed by Inside Edition. The timeslot previously was home to The Oprah Winfrey Show which ended its run on May 25, 2011.

On September 12, 2011, in a move announced in May 2011, KSAT-12 became the first San Antonio station to expand it's 10 o'clock newscast to one hour. This move is in line with other television stations in other major markets across the United States who currently have a one hour ten (or eleven) o'clock newscast. Also coinciding with the expanded newscast, "Inside Edition" was no longer aired twice a day, as the newscast took over that timeslot; "Nightline" remained in its timeslot at 11:05.

[edit] Leslie Mouton

In 2004, weeknight co-anchor Leslie Mouton was interviewed on The Oprah Winfrey Show (which airs on KSAT), talking about her battle with breast cancer and her decision to anchor the news without a wig while she was going through chemotherapy. The talk show featured clips of Mouton's first anchoring appearance after she lost her hair, including the explanation she gave on-air of what she was going through at the time. Mouton chronicled her treatment and recovery on KSAT, earning accolades from local oncologists and cancer patients.

[edit] News/station presentation

[edit] Newscast titles

  • Your Esso Reporter (1957–1962)
  • KONO-TV News (1962–1968)
  • 12 News Final (1968–1970)
  • 12 Star Final (1970–1976)
  • NewsWatch 12 (1976–1987)[5]
  • KSAT 12 News (1987–present)[6]
  • KSAT 12 News Nightbeat (10 p.m. newscast; 1994–present)

[edit] Station slogans

  • San Antonio's NewsChannel (1991–1994)
  • San Antonio's #1 Choice for News (1994–1996)
  • Live. Local. Latebreaking. (1996–present)
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[edit] On-air staff

[edit] Current on-air staff[7]

[edit] Anchors
  • Mark Austin - weekday mornings "Good Morning San Antonio" and noon; "Behind the Kitchen Door" reporter
  • Charles Gonzalez - Saturdays at 5, Sundays at 5:30 and weekends at 10 p.m.; weekday general assignment reporter
  • Leslie Mouton - weekday mornings "Good Morning San Antonio" and noon
  • Ursula Pari - weeknights at 4, 5, 6 p.m.
  • Isis Romero - weeknights at 10 p.m.
  • Steve Spriester - weeknights at 4, 5, 6 and 10 p.m.
[edit] KSAT 12 Weather Team
  • Steve Browne (AMS member) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 4, 5, 6 and 10 p.m.
  • John Honoré (AMS Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; Saturdays at 5, Sundays at 5:30 and weekends at 10 p.m.; weekday general assignment reporter
  • Mike Osterhage (AMS Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekday mornings "Good Morning San Antonio" and noon; general assignment reporter
[edit] Sports Team
  • Larry Ramirez - sports anchor; Wednesday-Fridays at noon, Wednesday-Fridays at 6, Saturdays at 5, Sundays at 5:30 and weekends at 10 p.m.; sports reporter
  • Greg Simmons - sports director; Monday-Tuesdays at 4, 5, 6 and 10 p.m.
[edit] Traffic (provided by officers from the San Antonio Police Department)
  • Detective Robert Dart - weekday mornings
  • Officer Marcus Trujillo - weekday mornings
[edit] Reporters
  • Jessie Degollado - general assignment reporter
  • Jennifer Dodd - general assignment reporter
  • Tim Gerber - general assignment reporter; fill-in anchor
  • Eileen Gonzales - general assignment reporter; fill-in anchor
  • Simon Gutierrez - general assignment reporter
  • Jenna Hiller - general assignment reporter
  • Justin Horne general assignment reporter; fill-in meteorologist
  • April Molina - general assignment and "Defenders" investigative reporter; fill-in anchor
  • Marilyn Moritz - "12 On Your Side" consumer reporter
  • Brian Mylar - general assignment and "Defenders" investigative reporter; fill-in anchor
  • Matt Rivers - general assignment reporter
  • David Sears - general assignment reporter; fill-in anchor
  • Stephenie Serna - general assignment reporter
  • Paul Venema - general assignment reporter
  • Katrina Webber - general assignment reporter

[edit] Station branding

Post-Newsweek adopted a "Local Mandate" meaning that all its stations carry the "Local" branding. KSAT 12 was briefly called "Local 12" in 2004 before reverting back to the current brand used before. This means that KSAT does not follow this station standardization, but Local is mentioned in the station's slogan: "Live, Local, Latebreaking", & periodocally during newscasts the station bug does cycle between both names (mimicking a similar behavior at sister stations KPRC-TV and WDIV, cycling between the station call letters/channel and "Local 4" or "Local 2" on the animated bug).

In the Summer of 2011 KSAT updated it's graphics package with a Post-Newsweek produced package including lower-thirds, a new open, as well as several other items. It appears that graphics for the sports department are still produced in-house.

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf
  2. ^ CDBS Print
  3. ^ "KSAT Programs". KSAT. KSAT.Com. http://www.ksat.com/your-favorite-shows/index.html. Retrieved 2010-08-16. 
  4. ^ http://www.mysanantonio.com/entertainment/entertainment_columnists/jeanne_jakle/article/Jeanne-Jakle-Rating-TV-networks-news-Idol-1397661.php
  5. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLTTTnRipDM
  6. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQLAWok8GwQ
  7. ^ http://www.ksat.com/newsteam/index.html

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