KOB (TV)
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KOB-TV is a television station based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is an NBC network affiliate, and broadcasts on channel 4. KOB is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc.. Its transmitter is located on Sandia Crest, east of Albuquerque.
Station history
KOB-TV started operations on September 13, 1948, after Albuquerque Journal owner and publisher Tom Pepperday won a television license on his second try. Pepperday, who also owned KOB-AM-FM, had previously applied for one in 1943. It became the first television station between the Mississippi River and the West Coast, and the first in the state of New Mexico. Initially KOB TV ran programming from NBC, ABC, CBS, and DuMont.
Later, in May 1952, the station was purchased by Time Life (now Time Inc.) and former FCC chairman Wayne Coy. It was Time Life’s first television asset. In 1953 as each network gradually increased its schedule and as two new TV stations signed on within a week KOB TV would drop programming of ABC and CBS. DuMont went out of business in 1956. CBS programming would move to 13 KGGM (now KRQE) and ABC programming moved to 7 KOAT. KOB TV retained NBC affiliation which they still have today.
Stanley E. Hubbard, founder of Hubbard Broadcasting, bought KOB-TV from Time Life in 1957. KOB's radio cousins were later sold off and are now known as KKOB-AM-FM, owned by Citadel Broadcasting; many people still confuse the television and radio stations today.
In 2005, KOB-TV entered into a news partnership with KKOB-AM.
Former logos
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KOB-TV logo circa 1971
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KOB-TV logo circa 1975
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TV DX photo with KOB-TV logo circa 1980.
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KOB-TV logo circa 1983.
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From 1987, Heres a DX Photo of the station promo with Bill Cosby, the then-current KOB-TV logo and the 6 feathered NBC peacock.
Old KOBR-TV Logos
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KSWS logo circa 1978; unclear if it still repeated KCBD, if it switched to KOB, or if it was its own station.
Satellite stations
Three stations rebroadcast KOB's signal and insert local content for other parts of the media market:
- KOBF, Farmington, New Mexico (analog channel 12, digital channel 17)
- KOBR, Roswell, New Mexico (analog channel 8, digital channel 38)
- KOBG, Silver City, New Mexico (analog channel 6)
KOBF broadcasts a short Four Corners news segment, "Eyewitness News 12," during some KOB news broadcasts. A news bureau is also set up at KOBR.
KOBG has a license to broadcast a digital signal on channel 8, but has not begun digital broadcasts.
The last letter of the satellite station callsigns stands for the city or county where the station is located. KOBG is in Grant County.
In addition to KOB and its three satellite stations, there are dozens of low-powered repeaters that carry KOB's programming throughout New Mexico, as well as a handful in Colorado and Arizona. [1]
News
Ordinarily, KOB airs five hours of local news each weekday, three hours each Saturday, and an hour each Sunday. During the school year, KOB broadcasts a weekly 15-minute sportscast, "New Mexico Gameday," dedicated to high school sports. Also, during the fall of 2006, KOB broadcasts the Lobo Coaches Show, a 30-minute sportscast dedicated to the University of New Mexico football team.
KOB produced an hourlong newscast for Albuquerque's Fox affiliate, KASA-TV, through September 14, 2006. The next day, CBS affiliate KRQE took over production of that newscast as that station's parent company, LIN TV, began taking over KASA's operations as it purchased the station.
KOB's newscasts identify themselves as "Eyewitness News 4".
Newscast Lineup
- Eyewitness News 4 Today - 5 AM-7 AM weekdays
- Eyewitness News 4 Today (weekends) - 7 AM-9 AM weekends (often varies with NBC programming)
- Eyewitness News 4 Midday - Noon-1 PM weekdays
- Eyewitness News 4 Live at Four - 4 PM-4:30 PM weekdays
- Eyewitness News 4 at Five - 5 PM-5:30 PM weekdays and Sunday
- Eyewitness News 4 at Six - 6 PM-6:30 PM weekdays and Saturday
- Eyewitness News 4 at Ten - 10 PM-10:35 PM seven nights a week
- New Mexico Gameday - 10:30-10:45 PM Fridays
- Lobo Coaches Show - 9:30-10 PM Sundays (filling timeslot between end of NBC Sunday Night Football and the 10 p.m. news broadcast)
Trivia
- Many "Today in History" websites ([2][3][4]) say KOB-TV ceased transmission on October 28, 1986 - the same day the KOB radio stations changed callsigns to KKOB. KOB did not stop broadcasting on that date.