KXII

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KXII is an English-language television station serving the Sherman, Texas – Ada, Oklahoma television market. Known on-air as "KXII 12", it is an affiliate of CBS. Licensed to Sherman, the station broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 12, and its digital signal on UHF channel 20. Its transmitter is located near Madill, Oklahoma. In addition to being a CBS affiliate, KXII serves as the MyNetworkTV and Fox affiliate for Sherman - Ada television market. The MyNetworkTV affiliate, known as "MyTexoma", operates on KXII's DT2 digital sunchannel and digital cable. The Fox affiliate, known as "Fox Texoma", operates on KXII's DT3 digital subchannel and digital cable.

History

KXII began in 1956 at Ardmore, Oklahoma as KVSO-TV, in common ownership with local radio station KVSO and a local newspaper, The Daily Ardmoreite. In its early years, Channel 12 was an NBC affiliate. Unable to afford a network feed, station engineers switched to and from the signal of WKY-TV (now KFOR-TV) in Oklahoma City whenever NBC programming was shown. The station often carried some of WKY-TV's non-network programming as well. It broadcast its own local newscast and advertising from its Ardmore studio to its viewing audience across Southern Oklahoma and North Texas.

In late 1958, the station was sold to Texoma Broadcasting and call letters changed to KXII (signifying the Roman numeral 12). In 1959, the transmitter was moved from its original location north of Ardmore to a point near Madill, Oklahoma about 25 miles southeast of Ardmore in order to provide better reception to viewers in Durant, Oklahoma and across the Red River to the Sherman-Denison, Texas area. In 1960, KXII-TV opened a new studio facility along U.S. Highway 75 halfway between Sherman and Denison, which later became the station's main studio. KXII retained the original Ardmore studio which is still in use today in conjunction with the Sherman-Denison facility.

During the 1960s and into the 1970s, KXII-TV was a primary NBC affiliate but also held a secondary affiliation with CBS which began in 1960. KXII's direct competitor, KTEN Channel 10 in Ada, Oklahoma was a primary ABC affiliate but also claimed NBC as a secondary affiliate. Though KXII and KTEN were considered direct competitors, the fact is that both stations had considerable differences in fringe coverage for many years due to the 75-mile distances between the two stations transmitters at Madill and Ada. This meant that viewers within the a 25-mile radius of KXII's transmitter at Madill including Ardmore and Durant were actually in the southern fringe of KTEN's transmitting range, resulting in poorer over-the-air reception on channel 10 than channel 12, and channel 10 did not even reach viewers in the Sherman-Denison area or other portions of North Texas served by KXII-TV. Similarly, KTEN's city of licensee, Ada, was in the northern fringe of KXII's transmitting range resulting in poor over-the-air reception of channel 12. To better compete with KXII, KTEN moved its transmitter in 1984 from Ada to a location near Bromide, Oklahoma which enabled better over-the-air reception to locations in far Southern Oklahoma near the Red River and now expanded to serve Sherman-Denison as well as other cities in North Texas. KTEN would also adopt KXII's mode of operating more than one studio by adding operations in Ardmore and Denison and later relocating the main studio from Ada to Denison.

By 1975, KXII-TV's program schedule included a larger proportion of CBS programming, making Channel 12 sort of a hybrid station with almost half the programming of both NBC and CBS for a few years. At the same time, KTEN added a larger proportion of NBC programming to its schedule to become a similar hybrid ABC/NBC station in the process. By 1977, KXII Channel 12 shifted its primary network affiliation to CBS and became an exclusive CBS affiliate in 1985 when the last NBC program on KXII's schedule, the Today show, was replaced by CBS This Morning and Today moved to KTEN, which shifted NBC to a primary and later an exclusive affiliation. Since the late 1990s, the two-station Sherman-Ada market has been represented entirely by one-network stations (not including digital subchannels).

Throughout 2006, the station celebrated being on the air for 50 years. In September, KXII debuted an all-new set for its "First News" broadcast with new colors and graphics to replace the previous set which had been in use since 1995.

In the summer of 2006, the station added programming from UPN on digital subcarrier 12.2 and cable. This programming flipped to My Network TV when UPN ceased operation on September 15, 2006. It has also added programming from the Fox Network on digital subcarrier 12.3 and cable.

Although KTEN broadcasts The CW on its digital subchannel and KXII broadcasts FOX and MyNetworkTV on both of its digital subchannels, the Ada-Sherman television market is one of the few TV markets in the country with affiliates of NBC, CBS, FOX, The CW and MyNetworkTV, with the setback of not having a local ABC affiliate. ABC programming for the Sherman-Ada market is provided by KTRK in Houston, via walkover.

Personalities

Current On-Air Talent

• FIRST NEWS ANCHORS

Name:	Present Position(s):	Previous Position(s):	Joined KXII On:
Charlie Haldeman	Weekday Evening Anchor/News Director	KBTX	January 2006
Maureen Kane	Weekday Evening Anchor	KYTX
Lisanne Anderson	Weekday Morning and Noon Anchor/Producer	KFOR	December 1997
Ryan Loyd	Weekday Morning Anchor/Host of First News Forum	KENS	January 2006
Nicole Holt	Weekday Morning Anchor	KLRT	September 2006

• FIRST NEWS REPORTERS AND PART TIME NEWS ANCHORS

Name:	Present Position(s):	Previous Position(s):	Joined KXII On:
Daniel Gotera	General Assignment Reporter for Sherman Newsroom/Weekend Anchor		June 2006
Emi FitzGerald	General Assignment Reporter for Sherman Newsroom/Weekend Anchor	TBN	October 2006
Stephanie Brletic	General Assignment Reporter for Sherman Newsroom	WTAE	November 2007
Robin Beal	Ardmore Bureau Chief	KTRK; KHWB; KTVT; KCAR	January 2008

• STORM TEAM

Name:	Present Position(s):	Previous Position(s):	Joined KXII On:
Steve LaNore	Chief Meteorologist	KEYE; KDAF	September 19, 2006
Megan Krannig	Weekend Meteorologist		June 2005
Tom Miller	Weekday Morning And Noon Meteorologist		February 1988

• SPORTS ANCHORS/REPORTERS

Name:	Present Position(s):	Previous Position(s):	Joined KXII On:
David Reed	Sports Anchor/Director	KTBC; KBTX; KCEN	July 2001
Mark Van Paasschen	Weekend Sports Anchor/Sports Reporter	KRHD	August 2005
Christina Melvin	Sports Reporter/Anchor		January 2008

Past Personalities

Name:	Position(s) Held:	New Location:	Span:
Mystic Matthews	General Assignment Reporter for Sherman Newsroom		October 1, 2007-June 4, 2008
Teddy Safo	General Assignment Reporter for Ardmore Newsroom		??-February 29, 2008
Norman Bennett	Norman Bennett & Guests	El Paso to be closer to family
Leila Rahimi	Sports Reporter/News Anchor	Sports Reporter KXAN Austin
Ellen Sawko	Weekday Morning Anchor/News Director	Denton ISD board of directors member
Todd Larkin	General Assignment Reporter/Bureau Chief - Ardmore Newsroom	Ardmore Chamber Of Commerce
Matt Brown	Weekday Evening News Anchor/News Director	Assistant News Director KXAN Austin
Jennifer Strand	Weekday Morning News Anchor;	KXAS Dallas
Shannon Wolfson	Reporter	Reporter KXAN Austin
Alan Crone	Chief Meteorologist	Morning Meteorologist KOTV-TV Tulsa
Diana Zoga	Reporter	Reporter KTUL-TV Tulsa
Zach Anderson		Assistant Director of Recruting University of Central Oklahoma
Beth Danziger	Reporter	Reporter Richmond, WWBT Richmond, VA
Jennifer Lindgren	Reporter	Reporter, WLTX Columbia, SC
Chris Sadeghi	Reporter	Reporter KENS San Antonio
Erin McLemore	Reporter	Reporter KRIS Corpus Christi
Paige Tebow		Hot Springs, Arkansas
Seth Kovar	Reporter	Reporter KXXV
Derek Cody	Ardmore Bureau Chief	Sports Director WCBI Columbus, MS
Whitney Wyatt		Waco, TX
Dayle Cedars		KMGH Denver
Kris Gutierrez		Fox News
Matt Lawson	Sports Director/Anchor	Sports Producer KDFW Dallas
Craig Porter	Weekend Meteorologist
Dale Jones	Chief Meteorologist
Craig Day		Anchor KOTV Tulsa
Loren Pharr
Earl Ellington	Anchor early 60s to Late 60s
Bill Lauderdale	Anchor late 50s to early 60s (KVSO T.V.)
"Tornado" Tom Tynes	Weatherman 70's
Pat Bolin	Anchor early 70s
George(Bucky)Sappenfield	Anchor early 70s
Rudy Dockray	Ag Reporter

News Presentation

Newscast Titles

• First News (1998-present)
• Action News (late 60's-early 70's)
• 12 News Service (early to mid 70's)

Station Slogans

• Coverage You Can Count On (1998-2007)
• Texoma's News Leader (2007-present)

External links

• KXII Website
• KXII DT2 "MyTexoma" Website
• KXII DT3 "Fox Texoma" Website
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