KVII-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KVII-TV / KVIH-TV
city =
station_
station_slogan = The Panhandle Spirit
Free To Be (DT2)
station_branding = ProNews 7
Amarillo's CW (DT2)
analog =
KVII: 7 (VHF)
KVIH: 12 (VHF)
digital =
KVII: 23 (UHF)
KVIH: 20 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = ABC
The CW (DT2)
network =
founded =
airdate = KVII: December 21, 1957
KVIH: December 2, 1956
location = KVII: Amarillo, Texas
KVIH: Clovis, New Mexico
callsign_meaning = KVII:
VII = Roman numeral 7
KVIH:
variation of KVII with an H
former_callsigns = KVII: none
KVIH:
KICA-TV (1956-1964)
KFDW-TV (1964-1979)
KMCC-TV (1979-1986)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Barrington Broadcasting Company, LLC
licensee = Barrington Amarillo License, LLC
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = KVII: none
KVIH: CBS (19??-1979)
effective_radiated_power = KVII:
316 kW (analog)
50 kW (digital)
KVIH:
178 kW (analog)
1000 kW (digital)
HAAT = KVII:
519 m (analog)
342 m (digital)
KVIH:
204 m (analog)
180 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = KVII: 40446
KVIH: 40450
coordinates = KVII:
coord|35|22|29.7|N|101|52|57.3|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
KVIH:
coord|34|11|33.9|N|103|16|47|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KVIH-TV
homepage = [http://www.kviionline.com/ www.kviionline.com]
[http://www.amarilloscw.com/ www.amarilloscw.com]

KVII-TV, better known as ProNews7, is an ABC affiliated television station in Amarillo, Texas that also operates satellite KVIH-TV channel 12 in Clovis, New Mexico. It was owned by Stanley Marsh 3 since 1967 until he sold it to Atlanta-based, New Vision Group in 2002. In 2005, New Vision Group's parent company sold the station to Barrington Broadcasting for $22.5 million. KVII-TV uses the "Circle 7 logo."

KVII and satellite station KVIH serve viewers across a four-state region including the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, eastern New Mexico and southwestern Kansas. The station is broadcast over-the-air and via cable carriage and several UHF translators. In addition to Amarillo and Clovis, cities served include Canyon, Dumas, Pampa, Borger, Hereford, Muleshoe, Dalhart, Clarendon and Childress, Texas; Clayton, Tucumcari, Logan, San Jon and Portales, NM; Guymon, Boise City and Beaver, Okla.; and Elkhart and Liberal, Kan.

KVII formerly operated another satellite, KVIJ-TV channel 8 in Sayre, Oklahoma from 1976 to 1992 -- that station ceased operations due to the fact that most viewers in its area of western Oklahoma received their network programming via cable which gave them access to stations from the Oklahoma City or Wichita Falls-Lawton DMAs including ABC affiliates KOCO and KSWO, respectively, and very few actually tuned in to KVIJ directly. The former studio and transmitter site of KVIJ now sit vacant northwest of Sayre at the intersection of state highways 6 and 152, at coord|35|25|23.9|N|99|50|35.2|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KVIJ-TV. Channel 8 began operations in 1961 as CBS affiliate KSWB-TV (licensed to Elk City, Oklahoma; its call sign related to original owner South West Broadcasting), and changed its call letters to KFDO-TV in 1966 when it became a satellite of Amarillo's CBS affiliate, KFDA-TV (at that time, channel 8 moved to Sayre). In 1976, it was sold to Marsh.

Also in 1976, KFDA's then-satellite station in Clovis, KFDW channel 12, was sold to Mel Wheeler (manager and a part owner of KFDA's then-ownership). The station remained a satellite of KFDA until 1979, when the station was sold to McAlister TV in Lubbock, Texas, and began operating as an adjunct to ABC affiliate KAMC (channel 28) in Lubbock under the call sign of KMCC. After death of Bill McAlister, KMCC was sold to Marsh in 1986 and became a KVII satellite, changing the call letters to KVIH in the process.

From 1999 to 2006, KVII helped provide an Amarillo affiliate station of The WB Television Network. KVII promoted and sold advertising for the network, while Amarillo's cable television operator broadcast the station on a cable channel. On September 18, 2006, KVII's DT2 subchannel became the area's new affiliates of The CW Television Network.

By mid-October, the digital signal was fully operating, coinciding with the introduction of a viewer-interactive newscast, in which viewers can send e-mails with questions and concerns in regards to the stories and features in the newscasts.

References

*cite news
first=
last=
author=George Schwarz
url=http://chat.amarillonet.com/stories/041205/bus_1691418.shtml
title=KVII changes ownership
publisher=Amarillo Globe-News
pages=
page=
date=January 20, 2005
accessdate=
*cite news
first=
last=
author= Greg Rohloff
url=http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/052202/new_marshset.shtml
title=Marsh set to sell station to TV group
publisher=Amarillo Globe-News
pages=
page=
date=January 20, 2005
accessdate=
*cite news
first=
last=
author= Chip Chandler
url=http://www.amarillo.com/stories/033099/ent_from.shtml
title=KVII benefitting from partnership with the WB
publisher=Amarillo Globe-News
pages=
page=
date=August 25, 2006
accessdate=

External links

* [http://www.kviionline.com/ KVII-TV's website]
* [http://www.amarilloscw.com/ Amarillo's CW website]
* [http://www.kvii.com/weather/sky_cam.aspx Storm Search 7 sky cam] -- live pictures of downtown Amarillo and surroundings from KVII's Sky Cam
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