KENS-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KENS-TV
city =
station_
station_branding = KENS 5 (general)
KENS 5 Eyewitness News (newscasts)
analog = 5 (VHF)
digital = 39 (UHF)
digital_temporary = 55 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = CBS
network =
founded =
airdate = February 15, 1950
location = San Antonio, Texas
callsign_meaning = Express-News Service
former_callsigns = KEYL (1950-1954)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Belo Corporation
licensee = KENS-TV, Inc.
sister_stations = KCWX
former_affiliations = Both secondary:
DuMont (1950-1955)
ABC (1950-1957)
effective_radiated_power = 100 kW (analog)
825 kW (digital)
HAAT = 424 m (analog)
445 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 26304
coordinates = coord|29|16|11.5|N|98|15|55.9|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = Coming in Janurary 2009 KENS5.com

KENS-TV is the CBS television affiliate in San Antonio, Texas, owned by Belo Corporation. KENS also manages KCWX under a local marketing agreement (LMA). Its transmitter is located in Elmendorf, Texas.

History

KENS signed on the air on February 15, 1950, as KEYL, a CBS affiliate with secondary affiliations with ABC (shared with WOAI-TV) and DuMont. Four years later, KEYL changed its call letters to KENS after the "San Antonio Express-News" bought the station. KENS was the second station to begin broadcasting in San Antonio, three months behind WOAI-TV. DuMont ceased most network operations in 1955, but would honor network commitments until 1956; at that point, DuMont disappeared from the station's schedule. It lost ABC when KONO-TV (now KSAT-TV) signed on in 1957, leaving KENS as a full-time CBS affiliate.

In 1962, the "Express-News" and KENS-TV were purchased by Harte-Hanks Communications. Due to the Federal Communications Commission's tightening of cross-ownership rules, Harte-Hanks sold the newspaper in 1973 to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation while keeping KENS-TV. In 1993, Harte-Hanks acquired what at the time became KENS-AM. In September 1997, Harte-Hanks sold its remaining media properties, including the KENS stations, to the E. W. Scripps Company in order to concentrate on direct marketing. At the same time, Belo announced that it would swap its stake in the Food Network to Scripps in exchange for the KENS stations. The Harte-Hanks/Scripps deal and the transfer of Belo's stake in the Food Network to Scripps were both completed on October 15 of that year. At that time, Belo took over the operation of the KENS stations under a time brokerage agreement. KENS-AM/TV officially became Belo-owned stations on December 4 1997. KENS-AM was sold off to Disney/ABC in 2003, becoming Radio Disney station KRDY.

KENS is still closely associated with the "Express-News", even though the station and newspaper have been under separate ownership for many years. The station shares its main website with the newspaper.

In the mid-1980s, KENS broadcast a short-lived second channel, exclusively on Rogers Cablevision channel 24, called KENS II.

KENS is one of the broadcast homes of the NBA San Antonio Spurs, and has also been the home of game shows Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! for two decades.

Bob Rogers still is KENS most successful and longest running News Director. Rogers kept KENS in the number one ratings spot for over two decades. He was also responsible for hiring, coaching and helping the careers of many local and national news anchors, reporters and correspondents. He left KENS in the late 90's and retired.

Digital Television

Former On-Air Talent

News/Station Presentation

Newscast Titles

*"(Channel 5/KENS 5) Eyewitness News" (1970-1998)
*" KENS 5 Eyewitness News" (1998-present)

tation Slogans

*"Eyewitness News: San Antonio's Top-Rated (Satellite) Newscast" (1980s)
*"Coverage You Can Count On" (1998-present)
*"San Antonio's #1 Newscast" (2002-present)
*"San Antonio's Only High Definition Newscast" (2008-Present)

References

External links

* [http://www.mysanantonio.com/ mySA.com]
* [http://belo.com/pressRelease.x2?release=20080924-1670.html]
*TVQ|KENS
*BIA|KENS|TV|TV