- KAMC
Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KAMC
city =
station_
station_slogan = FIRST. LIVE. AND LOCAL.
station_branding = KAMC 28
analog = 28 (UHF)
digital = 27 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = ABC
network =
founded =
airdate = November 1968 [The "Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook" saysNovember 12 , while the "Television and Cable Factbook" saysNovember 11 .]
location =Lubbock, Texas
callsign_meaning = station calls are pronounced K-Mac
former_callsigns = KSEL-TV (1968-1974)
KMCC (1974-1979)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Mission Broadcasting, Inc.
"(operated by Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc.)"
licensee =
sister_stations =KLBK-TV
former_affiliations = independent (1968)
effective_radiated_power = 2000 kW (analog)
1000 kW (digital)
HAAT = 256 m (analog)
219.4 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 40820
coordinates = coord|33|30|57.8|N|101|50|55.9|W|type:landmark_scale:2000 (analog)
coord|33|31|33.8|N|101|52|8.6|W|type:landmark_scale:2000 (digital)
homepage = [http://www.everythinglubbock.com/ www.everythinglubbock.com]KAMC is the ABC network affiliated television station serving the entire
Lubbock, Texas metropolitan area. Its transmitter is located in Lubbock.KAMC is licensed to broadcast on UHF channel 28 at 2,000
kilowatt s and digitally on channel 27, also on the UHF dial. It is licensed to operate at less than one kilowatt under a Special Temporary Authority, but has filed a construction permit to increase power to 1,000 kilowatts as authorized by theFederal Communications Commission .KAMC was acquired by Mission Broadcasting in late 2003 as part of Nexstar's acquisition of Quorum Broadcasting; most Mission stations have local marketing agreements with Nexstar stations in the same market; in this case, it is
KLBK in Lubbock. KAMC’s syndicated programming includes Entertainment Tonight, Montel Williams, and Rachael Ray.History
KAMC first began broadcasting in the fall of 1968 as KSEL-TV. Originally an independent station, KSEL soon began broadcasting some ABC programming which was previously split between
CBS affiliate KLBK andNBC affiliateKCBD . After a few months of sharing secondary affiliations with the local CBS and NBC affiliates, KSEL became the primary and exclusive ABC affiliate for the Lubbock market in the fall of 1969. A few years later the station changed its call letters to KMCC, then later to the current KAMC. From 1979 to 1986, KAMC applied the former KMCC call sign to a satellite station on Channel 12 in Clovis, New Mexico that is currently operating as KVIH-TV, now a satellite ofAmarillo, Texas ABC affiliateKVII-TV .KMCC is now the callsign for the unrelated NTSC channel 34 and ATSC channel 32 inLaughlin, Nevada .KSEL-TV entered as a competitor to established KLBK (as noted above, a full-time CBS and part-time ABC affiliate) and NBC affiliate KCBD, and recent sign-on (and, with regards to signal, weaker) channel 34, KKBC-TV (later KMXN-TV). KKBC operated from 1967 to 1973. A new channel 34, KJAA, signed on in 1981; it is now Fox affiliate
KJTV-TV .KSEL drew resources from sister stations KSEL-AM (now KJTV), 950 AM, and KSEL-FM (now
KXTQ-FM ), 93.7 FM. The stations had unified sales staffs (spots were sold on both radio and TV by one sales force, which often voiced spots or appeared in commercials or as on camera talent, i.e. Bill Maddox was sales manager and late news anchor). All stations were owned by R.B. Mac McAlister, his son Bill, and the department heads at the stations (A.C. Ace Wimberly, Bill Maddox, Lew Dee, Bill Baker, etc).KSEL filled air time with many movies, each acommpanied by an on camera host. Lew Dee, also known as Lewis T. D'Elia, hosted a movie show, in addition to cohosting "This, That and the Other" on radio and KSEL-TV. The news department gathered and delivered news for all three stations.
The radio stations were sold to other interests in 1974-75, and moved out of the shared building at 1201 84th Street in south Lubbock (in picture), though the FM transmitter remains at this site. KSEL-TV changed its
call sign to KMCC and invested in better equipment (RCA TCR-100 video cartridge player) and programming, including "M*A*S*H" reruns. Between growth of ABC's ratings in the late 1970s, an improving news operation, and the syndicated product, the station became a real player in the early 1980s.A satellite station was added in 1979. KFDW-TV, channel 12 in
Clovis, New Mexico , had been a satellite station ofKFDA-TV in Amarillo for many years, under the same ownership (once the Bass Brothers) from 1966 to 1976 and under Mel Wheeler from 1976 to 1979. The McAlisters changed KFDW's call sign to KAMC, which triggered a complaint from NBC affiliateKAMR-TV , which was carried on cable systems in Clovis. The call signs were exchanged: the repeater in Clovis took the KMCC calls, while channel 28 in Lubbock became KAMC.Personalities
Current On-Air Talent
KAMC Anchors
*Karla Leslie: Weekday Evening Anchor
*Bill Maddox: Weekday Evening Anchor
*Emily Leonard: Morning AnchorFormer KAMC meteorologist Matt Laubhan shocked his girlfriend of two and a half years, KAMC Morning Anchor Emily Leonard, in an on-air proposition to wed, clips of which first surfacing on various websites in early October, 2008.
*Julie Musgrave: Weekend AnchorKAMC Reporters
*Lisa Carr: General Assignment Reporter
*Julie Musgrave: General Assignment Reporter
*Amy Montalvo: General Assignment Reporter
*Kristen Kennedy: General Assignment ReporterKAMC Meteorologists
*Ron "Mr. Game 7" Roberts: Chief Meteorologist
*Adam Young: Morning Meteorologist
*Damon Shaw: Weekend MeteorologistSports Anchors/Reporters
*David Collier: Sports Director
*Brandon Rawe: Weekend Sports AnchorNews/Station Presentation
Newscast Titles
*"KAMC Action News" (1980s)
*"News 28"
*"ABC 28 News" (-2004)References
External links
* [http://www.kamc28.com/ KAMC ABC 28]
*TVQ|KAMC
*BIA|KAMC|TV|TV
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/in_depth/7663350.stm/ "Weatherman's On-air proposal" - BBC]
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