KASA-TV
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KASA-TV is the Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

 network affiliate for most of New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...

. It is licensed to the state capital, Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 67,947 in the 2010 census...

 and broadcasts on digital channel 27 but is displayed as channel 2, its former analog channel number. It is owned by LIN TV
LIN TV
LIN TV Corporation is an American holding company that operates 31 television stations.-History:LIN TV's roots trace back to the founding of its former parent, LIN Broadcasting Corporation, in 1961. LIN Broadcasting was engaged in radio, television, direct marketing, information and learning, music...

 and is a sister station to CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

 affiliate KRQE
KRQE
KRQE, digital channel 13, is the CBS-affiliated television station serving the Albuquerque, New Mexico television market; the station is owned by LIN TV Corporation and is sister station to Fox affiliate KASA-TV...

. The two stations share a studio on Broadcast Plaza in Albuquerque. Syndicated programming on KASA includes: The Real Housewives, The 700 Club
The 700 Club
The 700 Club is the flagship news talk show of the Christian Broadcasting Network, airing in syndication throughout the United States and Canada. In production since 1966, it is currently hosted by Pat Robertson, Terry Meeuwsen, Kristi Watts, and Gordon P. Robertson, two of whom will host on any...

, America's Funniest Home Videos
America's Funniest Home Videos
America's Funniest Home Videos is an American reality television program on ABC in which viewers are able to send in humorous homemade videotapes. The most common videos usually feature slapstick physical comedy arising from incidents, accidents and mishaps...

, and Extra
Extra (TV series)
Extra is an American entertainment television news program covering events and celebrities which debuted on September 5, 1994 in syndication. It is produced at Victory Studios in Glendale, California by Telepictures Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television Distribution...

.

The station runs first-run programming and sports from Fox along with sitcoms, court shows, talk shows, reality shows, and a nightly newscast produced by KRQE. Additionally, KASA may air programming as an alternate CBS affiliate when KRQE is airing non-CBS programming. For example, annually KASA will air CBS network coverage of the US Open tennis tournament, while KRQE is airing the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon
Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon
The MDA Labor Day Telethon is an annual telethon in the United States to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association . The first MDA telethon was during the Thanksgiving Day weekend of 1952 and titled Party for MDA. It has been held annually since 1966...

.

In addition to the main KASA signal, there are 41 low-powered repeaters that carry its programming throughout New Mexico and parts of Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

.

Intellectual unit

The KASA intellectual unit began as KGSW on May 8, 1981 on channel 14. It was the state's second English-language general entertainment station. The callsign was derived from the station's original owners, Galaxy Communications and Southwest Television. Initially, the station carried drama shows, movies from the 1940s through the 1970s, sitcoms, and religious shows. In the fall of 1983, KGSW added more sitcoms and began running cartoons in the 7-9 a.m. and the 3-5 p.m. weekday slots.

In 1984, the Providence Journal Company
The Providence Journal
The Providence Journal, nicknamed the ProJo, is a daily newspaper serving the metropolitan area of Providence, Rhode Island and is the largest newspaper in Rhode Island. The newspaper, first published in 1829 and the oldest continuously-published daily newspaper in the United States, was purchased...

 bought KGSW from the original owners. The station affiliated with the Fox network when the network launched on April 5, 1987. The station continued a general entertainment format with a lot of cartoons, sitcoms and movies well into the 1990s.

Channel 2 history

Channel 2 signed on as KSAF in 1983 as a locally-owned general entertainment independent station. The station initially ran old movies, westerns, drama shows, and religious programming. In the spring of 1985, channel 2 became known as KNMZ-TV and began running cartoons, old sitcoms and other shows that had previously aired on KNAT-TV
KNAT-TV
KNAT-TV is a religious television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico, broadcasting locally on digital channel 24 as an owned and operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. Founded October 17, 1975, the station is owned by Trinity Broadcasting Network...

 (channel 23), which had recently gone dark (it returned the next year as a TBN
Trinity Broadcasting Network
The Trinity Broadcasting Network is a major American Christian television network. TBN is based in Costa Mesa, California, with auxiliary studio facilities in Irving, Texas; Hendersonville, Tennessee; Gadsden, Alabama; Decatur, Georgia; Miami, Florida; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Orlando, Florida; and New...

 affiliate).

Channel 2 was sold in 1986 to New Mexico Media Limited License Holdings. The format stayed the same, but in 1989 the station changed call letters to KKTO-TV. Shortly afterwards, the station began to suffer financial problems, and by 1991 channel 2 was running an all-barter lineup of a few classic sitcoms and first run cartoons as well as low budget movie packages.

In the fall of 1992, after being unable to turn a profit, KKTO went dark, with the station's strongest programming (including The Disney Afternoon
The Disney Afternoon
The Disney Afternoon was a created-for-syndication two-hour television programming block which aired from September 10, 1990, until Fall 1999. At that time, it was taken out of syndication, and a new Disney weekday afternoon block was started on UPN. The Disney Afternoon was produced by The Walt...

) moving to KGSW. Later that fall, the channel 2 license was sold to the Providence Journal Company, which moved the KGSW intellectual unit to channel 2 on April 5, 1993. The call letters were changed to KASA-TV, based on the Spanish word casa ("home"). The move to the stronger channel 2 ushered in a new era for the station. With an over-the-air signal comparable to KOB-TV
KOB-TV
KOB, virtual channel 4 , is an NBC-affiliate television station based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, owned by Hubbard Broadcasting. Its transmitter is located on Sandia Crest, east of Albuquerque...

, KOAT-TV
KOAT-TV
KOAT-TV, channel 7, is an ABC network affiliated television station serving Albuquerque, New Mexico. Its transmitter is located on Sandia Crest, northeast of Albuquerque. Syndicated programming on KOAT includes: Entertainment Tonight, Ellen, The Dr...

, and KRQE and Fox coming into its own as a network, KASA became more competitive in New Mexico than ever before. The channel 14 license was then turned into the Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...

 (FCC) (the channel is now occupied by KTFQ-TV
KTFQ-TV
KTFQ-DT channel 14 is a television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The station is owned by Univisión and runs a Spanish Entertainment format consisting of programming from Univisión's secondary network, TeleFutura...

, a Telefutura
TeleFutura
TeleFutura is a U.S. Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by Univision with headquarters in Miami, Florida.-Overview:TeleFutura Is America’s #2 Spanish-Language Network in prime time...

 affiliate).

The station signed on from Peralta Ridge near Jemez Springs, New Mexico
Jemez Springs, New Mexico
Jemez Springs is a village in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 375 at the 2000 census. Named for the nearby Pueblo of Jemez, the village is the site of Jemez State Monument and the headquarters of the Jemez Ranger District...

, north of Albuquerque and about equidistant between it and Santa Fe. The power was 100 kilowatts and the height above average terrain was in excess of 1.900 feet (near the class maximum of 1,960'). The station signed on on with a Larcan transmitter and a circularly polarized antenna, giving the station (at least theoretically) the best chance for success. In practice, however, the site was too far from viewers, too low in the sky, obstructed somewhat by terrain, and lacking in fresnel clearance.

One factor in the station's later success was that the transmitter was relocated to the Sandia Crest site used by most other area stations.
KASA Fox 2 began evolving its programming. Daytime sitcoms were gradually replaced with talk and reality shows, though sitcoms still air in the evenings (many of the shows that would have been on KASA over a decade ago are now on KWBQ
KWBQ
KWBQ is a television station on ATSC channel 29 licensed to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in addition to serving most of the state, such as Albuquerque and Roswell . It is the market's affiliate of The CW...

 and KASY). A.H. Belo
Belo
Belo Corp. is a Dallas-based media company that owns 20 commercial broadcasting television stations and two regional 24-hour cable news television channels. The company was previously known as A.H. Belo Corp. after one of the early owners of the company, Alfred Horatio Belo, now the name of the...

 bought the Providence Journal Company, including KASA, in 1997. Later, in 1999, Raycom Media
Raycom Media
- History :Although Raycom Media dates its birth to 1996, the core of the company was formed in 1992 when Atlanta native Bert Ellis formed Ellis Communications. He eventually controlled 13 television stations and two radio stations....

 bought KASA, along with KHNL
KHNL
KHNL is the NBC-affiliated television station for the state of Hawaii that is licensed to Honolulu. The station broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 35 from a transmitter in Palehua...

 in Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii. Honolulu is the southernmost major U.S. city. Although the name "Honolulu" refers to the urban area on the southeastern shore of the island of Oahu, the city and county government are consolidated as the City and...

. The station phased out cartoons as Fox ended its weekday children's block
Fox Kids
Fox Kids was the Fox Broadcasting Company's American children's programming division and brand name from September 8, 1990 until September 7, 2002. It was owned by Fox Television Entertainment airing programming on Monday–Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings.Depending on the show, the...

 in 2002.

After Raycom purchased The Liberty Corporation in August 2005, Raycom announced its intent to sell KASA and several other stations (most of which went to Barrington Broadcasting
Barrington Broadcasting
Barrington Broadcasting Company, LLC , headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois is an entity wholly focused on broadcast television. The company's assets mainly consist of television stations in middle and small sized markets...

 with one going to Quincy Newspapers
Quincy Newspapers
Quincy Newspapers, Inc. is a family-owned media company that originated in the newspapers of Quincy, Illinois. The company's history can be traced back to 1835, when the Bounty Land Register was one of only four newspapers in all of Illinois. Over the next century, a number of mergers followed...

). On July 27, 2006, Raycom announced that LIN TV
LIN TV
LIN TV Corporation is an American holding company that operates 31 television stations.-History:LIN TV's roots trace back to the founding of its former parent, LIN Broadcasting Corporation, in 1961. LIN Broadcasting was engaged in radio, television, direct marketing, information and learning, music...

, owner of CBS affiliate KRQE, was purchasing KASA for $55 million http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=10442. LIN TV took over operation of KASA on September 15, 2006 under a local marketing agreement
Local marketing agreement
In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting, a local marketing agreement is an agreement in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another licensee...

, and LIN TV officially completed the purchase on February 22, 2007. http://www.lintv.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=282&Itemid=114 In most markets, a duopoly between two "Big Four" stations wouldn't have been allowed under the FCC's duopoly rules, which forbid one person from owning two of the four largest stations in a single market. However, the FCC allowed LIN TV to buy KASA since channel 2 was New Mexico's fifth-rated station at the time. To this day, KASA is the third-largest (or fourth-largest, if one includes WTTE
WTTE
WTTE is the Fox-affiliated television station for Columbus, Ohio. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 36 from a transmitter on Stimmel Road. The station can be seen on Insight, Time Warner, and WOW! channel 8. For high definition digital cable, it is offered on Insight...

 in Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...

, operated and effectively owned by the owner of that city's WSYX
WSYX
WSYX, channel 6, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Columbus, Ohio. WSYX is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which also operates Fox affiliate WTTE through a local marketing agreement...

, Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair Broadcast Group
The Sinclair Broadcast Group is an American telecommunications company that operates the largest number of local television stations in the United States. Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, it owns a total of 57 stations across the country in 35 primarily small and medium markets, many of...

) Fox affiliate owned in a duopoly with a "Big Three
Big Three Television Networks
The Big Three Television Networks are the three traditional commercial broadcast television networks in the United States: ABC, CBS and NBC...

" station — and the second-largest such duopoly that is owned by LIN TV.
Even though KASA redesigned its logo shortly after LIN took over, its old WorldNow-powered website continued to use the Raycom era format until it was shut down on July 20, 2007 and replaced with a redirect to KASA's then-new website which, like the websites of the other LIN-owned Fox affiliates, used Fox Interactive's MyFox interface. However, in late 2008, the Web site address reverted to kasa.com (with myfoxnewmexico.com serving as a redirect), using a new interface jointly developed by LIN and Fox Interactive.

On May 18, 2007, LIN TV announced that it was exploring strategic alternatives that could result in the sale of the company.http://www.lintv.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=298&Itemid=114

Newscasts

Debuting on September 16, 2006, KASA airs a one-hour nightly newscast produced by sister station KRQE
KRQE
KRQE, digital channel 13, is the CBS-affiliated television station serving the Albuquerque, New Mexico television market; the station is owned by LIN TV Corporation and is sister station to Fox affiliate KASA-TV...

. Originally titled News 13 on Fox 2, the newscast was renamed KRQE News 13 at 9 on August 8, 2010, the same evening KRQE began broadcasting all newscasts in true high definition. During KASA newscasts, and in cases of breaking news, KASA carries Fox News coverage, as it is a Fox affiliate, rather than the CBS News
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes. CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main...

 coverage used by KRQE, a CBS affiliate. Prior to September 16, 2006, KOB-TV
KOB-TV
KOB, virtual channel 4 , is an NBC-affiliate television station based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, owned by Hubbard Broadcasting. Its transmitter is located on Sandia Crest, east of Albuquerque...

 produced the newscast, titled Fox 2 News at Nine, for five years.

KRQE News 13 at 9 (9 to 10 P.M.)

Weeknights
  • Anchor:
    • Dean Staley
    • Jessica Garate
  • Weather:
    • Mark Ronchetti
  • Sports:
    • Van Tate

Weekends
  • Anchor:
    • Tim Maestas
  • Weather:
    • Travis Christy
  • Sports:
    • Adam Shadoff

Newscast titles

  • KGSW Newsroom (1981-1982)
  • TV-14 News (1982-1987)
  • Fox 14 News (1987-1993)
  • Fox 2 News at Nine (2001-2006)
  • News 13 on Fox 2 (2006-2010)
  • KRQE News 13 at 9 (2010-present)

Station slogans

  • Your Home Team (2001-present)
  • There's Only One 2 (2005-present; previously used by KTVU
    KTVU
    KTVU, virtual channel 2 , is the Fox-affiliated television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Licensed to Oakland, California, the station has been owned by Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises since 1964, making it the largest Fox affiliate by market size that is not owned and operated by the...

     in San Francisco)
  • Welcome Home (2006-present)


Digital TV

KASA has broadcasted it's digital signal on UHF channel 27 since 2002.

On October 27, 2010 KASA added TheCoolTV a music video channel on digital subchannel 2.2.
KASA had carried another music video channel called The Tube from 2005 until LIN TV took over in 2007 (the network ended later that year). No programming had aired on channel 2.2 since then.

Translators

KASA extends its coverage throughout the entire state of New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...

, plus parts of Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

, using a network of translator television stations listed below.
City |City |City K27HP Durango, CO KREZ-LD Portales, NM K14KO
Artesia, NM K46FE Eagle Nest, NM K20GO Raton, NM K40DI
Aztec, NM K44GC Espanola, NM K39EJ Romeo, CO K61AZ
Bayfield, CO K50FS Farmington, NM K27GJ Roswell, NM K15FT
Caballo, NM K31DR Gallup, NM K18HF Santa Rosa, NM K34GL
Capitan
Capitan, New Mexico
Capitan is a village in Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States, located north of the Lincoln National Forest between the Capitan and Sacramento Mountains at an elevation of 6,530 feet . The population was 1,443 at the 2000 census...

, Ruidoso, NM
K33GD Grants, NM K46FI Shiprock, NM K45CU
Carlsbad, NM K47FX Hillsboro, NM K18DY Silver City, NM K25DI
Carrizozo, NM K46HU Hobbs, NM K27GL Socorro, NM K44HJ
Chama, NM K40HC Las Vegas, NM K20GQ Taos, NM K12OG
Conchas Dam, NM K16DN Lordsburg, NM K31HQ Tohatchi, NM K41FK
Cortez, CO K51DB Lordsburg, NM K40HJ Truth Or Consequences, NM K27BN
Del Norte, CO K06KB Montoya, NM K22EU Tucumcari, NM
Tucumcari, New Mexico
Tucumcari is a city in and the county seat of Quay County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 5,989 at the 2000 census. Tucumcari was founded in 1901, two years before Quay County was founded.-History:...

K48EH
Deming, NM K43FU Pagosa Springs, CO K31FS Vallecito, CO K24GI
Dulce, NM K22GE Pagosa Springs, CO K48HA
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