KTVT
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KTVT, channel 11, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station based in Fort Worth, Texas, and serving the Dallas-Fort Worth designated market area. The station is co-owned with independent station KTXA (channel 21), and the two stations share facilities in Fort Worth and Dallas. Prior to joining CBS in 1995, KTVT was the leading independent station in the Dallas-Fort Worth market.
KTVT has two buildings in the Metroplex: one is located in North Dallas, and is sometimes used for filming; the other, which houses its main news studio, is located in Fort Worth. The station's transmitter is located in Cedar Hill.
History
The station signed on in 1955 as KFJZ-TV, the first independent station in Texas. It was owned by a group of Fort Worth businessmen, and was a sister station to KFJZ radio (1270 AM, now at 870), and later (in 1959) KFJZ-FM (97.1; now KEGL). In 1960, the station's original owners sold channel 11 to NAFI Corporation (who also owned Chris-Craft Industries at the time), who changed the call letters to the current KTVT.
The Oklahoma City-based WKY Television System, a subsidiary of Oklahoma Publishing Company, purchased KTVT in 1971. Oklahoma Publishing would later rename its broadcasting arm Gaylord Broadcasting. Under Gaylord's watch, channel 11 became the leading independent station in the Southwest, carrying a broad range of cartoons, off-network sitcoms and westerns, drama shows, movies, and public affairs programming. KTVT was further aided in its status as it was a VHF station, whereas its future competitiors were UHF stations. KTVT's main competitor in the 1970s was KXTX-TV (channel 39), which was owned by the Christian Broadcasting Network and ran a number of religious shows. While the station gained three additional competitors in the 1980s, KTVT was the only independent station that was profitable. It was also the first station in Dallas to offer a primetime newscast, airing at 9:00 p.m.
KTVT's popularity also spread outside of the Metroplex, as the station became one of the first superstations. Following in the footsteps of Atlanta's WTBS, Chicago's WGN-TV, and WOR-TV in New York City, KTVT broadcast its signal via satellite to 400 cable systems across the country, mostly in the southwestern United States, from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. This status hampered Edward L. Gaylord's efforts in the 1980s to buy Major League Baseball's Texas Rangers. The other owners already had to contend with superstation coverage of the Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs and New York Mets, and weren't about to have a third team join them.
Channel 11 was also the flagship station of Saturday Night Wrestling, a highly-popular Dallas pro wrestling show, and aired a two-hour Saturday night wrestling program titled Championship Sports.
In July 1995, New World Communications acquired longtime CBS affiliate KDFW (channel 4), which then took the Fox affiliation as part of a nationwide deal. CBS found itself without an affiliate in the Metroplex, and as a result approached Gaylord for an affiliation. The two parties came to an agreement, and KTVT became the market's new CBS affiliate. As such, CBS was able to remain on VHF in the Metroplex. In many markets where New World owned the CBS affiliate, CBS had to affiliate with (and in the case of Detroit, purchase) a UHF station -- and the same thing happened with NBC in Kansas City, Missouri (see KSHB-TV) and ABC in 4 other markets: St. Louis (see KDNL-TV), Memphis (see WPTY-TV), the Piedmont Triad (see WXLV-TV), and Birmingham (see WBMA-LP); although in the latter 2 markets, Fox bought the former ABC affiliate directly. KTVT had already been carrying some CBS shows since 1994; it had picked up The Price is Right and The Bold and the Beautiful when KDFW dropped them in favor of Donahue and an expanded midday newscast.
By the time KTVT got used to being the new CBS affiliate, the superstation status was a thing of the past. KTVT added more newscasts and began acquiring local rights to first-run talk and reality shows for its broadcast schedule. Now it carries a high profile syndication lineup with shows such as King World-produced Inside Edition, Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune - the latter two formerly aired on WFAA-TV. As part of a nationwide deal, Gaylord sold KTVT to CBS in 1999. Two years later, Viacom, owner of KTXA, bought CBS, making KTVT and KTXA sister stations. KTXA moved from its studios in Dallas to KTVT's facility in Fort Worth.
Of note, KTVT (and sister stations KCBS-TV in Los Angeles and WBBM-TV in Chicago) is one of few CBS affiliates in the Central, Mountain or Pacific Time Zones to air The Young and the Restless at 11:30 AM instead of 11 AM like most affiliates. This is really the recommended time slot for the soap opera by the network because this reflects the 12:30 PM timeslot that most affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone air the show.
Digital Television
| Channel | Programming |
|---|---|
| 11.1 / 19.1 | Main KTVT programming |
In 2009, KTVT will move to digital channel 11 and leave digital channel 19.[1]
Starting September 24th, 2007, KTVT and sister station KTXA's newscasts have been produced in high definition. The transition made KTVT and KTXA the 3rd and 4th stations in the Dallas/Fort Worth market to produce newscasts in HD (behind WFAA and KXAS-TV)
Personalities
Current On-Air Talent
CBS 11 News Anchors
- Ginger Allen: CBS 11 News This Morning Anchor/Reporter
- Maria Arita: CBS 11 News at 4:00 Anchor/Reporter
- Karen Borta: CBS 11 News at 5:00, 6:00, 10:00 Anchor/Reporter
- Doug Dunbar: CBS 11 News at 4:00, 10:00 Anchor/Reporter
- Nerissa Knight: CBS 11 News Saturday/Sunday Morning Anchor/Reporter
- Tracy Rowlett: CBS 11 News at 5:00, 6:00 Anchor/Reporter
- Kaushal Patel: CBS 11 News at 6:00 (Saturday), CBS 11 News at 5:30 (Sunday), CBS 11 News at 10:00 (weekend) Anchor/Reporter
- Chris Salcedo: CBS 11 News at 6:00 (Saturday), CBS 11 News at 5:30 (Sunday), CBS 11 News at 10:00 (weekend) Anchor/Reporter
- Scott Sams: CBS 11 News This Morning Anchor/Reporter
- Joel Thomas: CBS 11 News Saturday/Sunday Morning Anchor/Reporter
CBS 11 News Reporters
- Rance Adams: Entertainment Reporter/On-Air Personality
- Kimberly Ball: Reporter
- Katherine Blake: Nightside Reporter
- Clif Caldwell: Reporter
- Jack Fink: Reporter
- Teresa Frosini: Traffic Reporter
- Bud Gillett: Senior Reporter
- Jay Gormley: Reporter
- Mark Johnson: Reporter
- Stephanie Lucero: Senior Reporter
- J.D. Miles: Reporter
- Sandie Newton: Entertainment Reporter
- Robbie Owens: CBS 11 News This Morining Reporter
- Steve Pickett: Reporter
- Brooke Richie: Reporter
- Beth Wagner: CBS 11 News This Morning Reporter
The Investigators
- Robert Riggs: Investigative Reporter
- Ginger Allen: Investigative Reporter
- Bennett Cunningham: Consumer Investigative Reporter
CBS 11 Stormteam
- Kristine Kahanek: CBS 11 News at 4:00 (Wednesday-Friday), CBS 11 News at 5:00, CBS 11 News at 6:00, CBS 11 News at 10:00 Chief Meteorologist
- Mike Burger: CBS 11 News at 6:00 (Saturday), CBS 11 News at 5:30 (Sunday), CBS 11 News at 10:00 (weekend) Meteorologist
- Jeff Jamison: CBS 11 News at 4:00 (Monday-Tuesday), CBS 11 News This Morning (weekend) Meteorologist
- Julie Bologna: CBS 11 News This Morning Meteorologist
- Charmaine Blanchard: Fill-In Meteorologist, Weather Producer
CBS 11 Sports (shared with TXA 21)
- Babe Laufenberg: CBS 11 News at 6:00, CBS 11 News at 10:00 Sports Director, Host of The Score and Blitz
- Bill Jones: CBS 11 News at 6:00, CBS 11 News at 10:00 (weekend) Sports Anchor
- Steve Dennis: Reporter
- Chuck Fisher: Reporter
- Derek Harper: Sports Reporter
- Gina Miller: Sports Reporter
KTVT Alumni
- Sarah Dodd: Anchor/Reporter (2000-2007)
- Regent Ducas: Vice President/News Director (2007-2007; Fired)
- Raquel Eatmon: Reporter (2005-2007)
- Bob Goosmann: Chief Meteorologist (now chief meteorologist at KDAF; Dallas)
- Cameron Harper: Anchor (now at WPTY; Memphis)
- Michael Hill: Anchor
- Midge Hill: Anchor
- John Honoré: Meteorologist (now at KSAT; San Antonio)
- Ken Malloy" Anchor/Reporter (2000-2004, now at KGPE; Fresno)
- Howard McNeil: Weather Anchor (now retired)
- Betty Nguyen: Anchor (now with CNN)
- Tracey Packard: Meteorologist
- Mary Stewart: Senior Reporter
- Brenda Teele: Weather Anchor, Host of Positively Texas (1995-2000, now at WFAA-TV; Dallas)
- Jim Walker: Reporter
- Mike Hambrick: Anchor
- Bobby Estill: Sports Director
- Timm Matthews: Sports Anchor
- Jerry Jenkins: Weekend Anchor/Reporter
- Beth McKay: Anchor/Sports Reporter
- Tameron Hall: Reporter
- Rene Syler: Anchor/Reporter
- Gewn Tolbart: Meteorologist
- Leslie Mouton: Anchor/Reporter
- John Willing: Chief Meteorologist
- Neal Barton: Chief Meteorologist
- Robbie Chavez: Reporter
- Amy Gardner: Meteorologist
News/Station Presentation
Newscast Titles
- Newswatch Eleven (1990)
- The Seven O' Clock News (1990)
- The Nine O' Clock News (1992)
- 11 News (1995-1999 as CBS affiliate)
- 11 on Eleven at Ten (1995-1998)
- CBS 11 News (2000-present)
Station Slogans
- Channel 11, The Super-Ones (1980s-1995)
- 11News, The Eye of Texas (1995-2000)
- 11News, Looking Out For You (1997-2000)
- CBS 11, The Eye of Texas (2000-2004)
- CBS 11, Reporting the News (2002-2004)
- CBS 11 News, Coverage You Can Count On (2004-present)
Logos
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KTVT's 1975 logo
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KTVT logo from 1995-00, after it joined CBS. A similar logo was used by sister station KSTW from 1995-97. The numeric "11" survived until 2004.
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KTVT logo from 2000 to 2004, after CBS bought the station
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Current logo, used since 2004
References
- Shannon, Mike (January, 2004). Dallas-Fort Worth TV Station History. The History of Dallas-Fort Worth Radio and Television.