- KFDA-TV
Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KFDA-TV
city =
station_
station_slogan = The Most Watched News In The Panhandle
station_branding = NewsChannel 10
analog = 10 (VHF)
digital = 9 (VHF)
other_chs = (see article)
affiliations =CBS Telemundo (DT2)
independent (DT3)LATV (DT4)
network =
founded =
airdate =April 4 ,1953
location =Amarillo, Texas
callsign_meaning =
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Drewry Communications Group
(sale pending to London Broadcasting)
licensee = Panhandle Telecasting Company
sister_stations =
former_affiliations =UPN (subchannel, to 2006)
effective_radiated_power = 316 kW (analog)
20.8 kW (digital)
HAAT = 466 m (both)
class =
facility_id = 51466
coordinates = coord|35|17|34.2|N|101|50|43.3|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.newschannel10.com/ www.newschannel10.com]KFDA-TV NewsChannel 10 is an
CBS affiliatedtelevision station in Amarillo,Texas , USA. In2002 , KFDA-TV is the first Amarillo station to simulcast inHDTV . Its transmitter is located in Amarillo. The station is broadcast throughout its coverage area across the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, eastern New Mexico and southwestern Kansas over-the-air as well as cable carriage and through a network of 19 additional UHF translators in distant locations. The station is currently owned by the Drewry Communications Group, but is being sold to London Broadcasting, a sale that is expected to be finalized by the end of 2008. [http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/07/01/07012008wacKXXVsale.html]Digital subchannels
Drewry also operates
independent station KZBZ on digital channel 9-3 (10-3). Previously, KZBZ wasUPN Amarillo, which launched to replaceKCPN-LP as that network's affiliate. A digital subchannel ofKVII-TV gained the affiliation for the new CW network, which merged the programming assets of both UPN and The WB, while former independent KCPN-LP affiliated with theNews Corporation -ownedMyNetworkTV .KTMO-LP , theTelemundo affiliated station's digital signal, occupies channel 9-2.Past Newscast Titles
*"KFDA News" (1980s-early 1990s)
*"KFDA NewsChannel 10" (1990s)
*"NewsChannel 10" (1990s-Present)Rebroadcasters
KFDA is rebroadcast on the following low power stations:
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K26CD K26CD]Clovis, New Mexico
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K33CQ K33CQ] Canadian, Etc., Texas
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K39AN K39AN]Mobeetie, Texas
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K41CA K41CA] Kress/Tulia, Texas
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K41HQ K41HQ]Quanah, Texas
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K42AL K42AL] Memphis, Etc., Texas
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K44CC K44CC]Gruver, Texas
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K46BY K46BY] Capulin, Etc., New Mexico
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K49FE K49FE]Altus, Oklahoma
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K50CQ K50CQ]Childress, Texas
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K51CB K51CB]Clarendon, Texas
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K51BC K51BC]Follett, Texas
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K58DF K58DF] Turkey, Etc., Texas
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K59GF K59GF] Guymon, Etc., Oklahoma
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K63GN K63GN] Bovina, Etc., Texas
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K64AC K64AC]Perryton, Texas Former satellite/repeater stations
KFDA operated satellite stations during the 1960s and 1970s in
Clovis, New Mexico and inSayre, Oklahoma .The Clovis station was KFDW-TV Channel 12, which was a KFDA satellite from 1964 to 1976 and is currently KVIH-TV, a satellite of Amarillo's ABC affiliate,
KVII-TV . The Sayre station was KFDO-TV Channel 8 and operated as a KFDA repeater from 1966 to 1976, when it was sold to ABC affiliate KVII and operated as satellite station KVIJ-TV until it ceased operations in 1992.References
*cite news
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url=http://amarillo.com/stories/091502/new_cablechannel.shtml
title=Cable channel shuffle heralds area's HDTV era
publisher=Amarillo Globe-News
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date=September 15, 2002
accessdate=Past Personalities
*David Alan (Anchor, now anchor in Norfolk, VA)
*Jeff Barger (Former Sports Director Private Life Dallas, TX
*Laura Brewster (Reporter, now Methodist minister in South Texas)
*Randy Brock (Weather anchor now Meteorologist atKTTC-TV &KXLT-TV ) inRochester, MN
*Jeff Castle (Weather anchor now Meteorologist atWAFF-TV inHuntsville, AL )
*Meranda Carter-Cohn
*Jason Cohn
*Ama Daetz (Former Morning & Noon Anchor, now atWDIV-TV in Detroit)
*Terry FitzPatrick (I-Team reporter and anchor now married to South Africa's most prominent newswoman and living there after reporting for NPR from virtually everywhere in world)
*Noelle Gardner (Former Anchor, Health Reporter) Now Morning Anchor atKLFY-TV CBS in Lafayette, LA
*Adrienne Graham (Former Anchor)
*Allan Gwyn (Former Meteorologist Now Meteorologist at sister stationKXXV-TV in Waco)
* John Harris (Former Morning Meteorologist Now Meteorologist atKAMR inAmarillo, Texas )
*John Holcomb (Former Sports anchor, now atKOTV in Tulsa
*Kari King (Long time news anchor and news director for KFDA-TV Now an Executive Producer atKWTV , News 9 in Oklahoma City.
*Kevin Long (former Sports Director, now Sports Radio Talk Show Host at SportsFan 990, KFCD in Dallas after stints as Sports Director at KMAC in Lubbock and WAKA in Montgomery, AL)
*Robin Marsh (News anchor now morning news anchor forKWTV in Oklahoma City)
*Gizmo McCracken (Former Photojournalist/Sports Anchor now working in Iowa as Program Director)
*David Nancarrow (Former Sports Anchor & Reporter, now atKKTV inColorado Springs, CO
*Tiffany Saunders (Former Sports Director)
*Dan True (Weather anchor during early-to-mid 1960s, best remembered for "TrueView Weather" presentation).
*Byron Webre (Weather anchor now Chief Meteorologist for KEYE in Austin)
*Barbara West (EMMY and Edward R. Morrow award-winning anchor and medical reporter atWFTV in Orlando)
*Wade West (Former I-Team reporter and anchor. Now conducts fundraising auctions nationwide based in Orlando. Was media trainer for US State Department and Department of Justice)
*Brian Wilson (Fox News correspondent) (News anchor for theFox News Channel in Washington, D.C.)External links
* [http://www.newschannel10.com/ KFDA's website]
*TVQ|KFDA
*BIA|KFDA|TV|TV
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