KFSN-TV

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KFSN-TV is the ABC owned-and-operated television station (O&O) in Fresno, California. It broadcasts its analog signal on UHF channel 30, and its digital signal on VHF channel 9. Its signal covers the Central San Joaquin Valley and the mountain ranges on either side, including the Sierra Nevada mountains and Yosemite National Park. The station serves Fresno, Madera, Merced, Tulare, and Kings counties. The station's transmitter is located in Meadow Lakes, California.

KFSN is the only ABC O&O on an analog UHF signal, and one of the two network O&O television stations in the Fresno television market. (The other is KNSO, the NBC-owned Telemundo affiliated station.)

The station's newscasts are not called Eyewitness News like most of its other sister stations such as KTRK-TV and KABC-TV; instead they are called "ABC30 Action News" -- sister station WPVI in Philadelphia also uses this moniker. Like its sister stations KABC-TV in Los Angeles and KGO-TV in San Francisco, KFSN's syndicated programming lineup includes Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, The Rachael Ray Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Weekend shows include Teen Kids News, Hispanics Today, Ebert & Roeper, and Alias .

History

In the 1950s, KARM-AM and KFRE-AM competed for the channel 12 license, the sole VHF TV allocation in Fresno. KFRE won the license, and the station known today as KFSN-TV signed on the air for the first time on May 10, 1956 on channel 12 under the call letters KFRE-TV. The KFRE stations were acquired by Triangle Publications in 1959, and shortly thereafter, KFRE-TV moved to UHF channel 30, making Fresno an all-UHF television market. (Fresno is still a predominantly-UHF market to this day with all 12 full power analog signals operating on UHF channels. The exceptions are a few low-power and digital outlets, including KFSN's own digital signal on VHF 9.)

Capital Cities Communications acquired the KFRE stations from Triangle in 1971; the company sold off the AM and FM radio stations and kept the TV station, changing its calls from KFRE-TV to KFSN-TV. (The KFRE calls are now used on Fresno's WB affiliate; that station is unrelated to the current KFSN-TV.) The station, hitherto a CBS affiliate, became an ABC O&O in September 1985 following ABC's merger with CapCities; the CBS affiliation went to KJEO, channel 47 (now KGPE).

Logo Gallery

• Logo used in the 60s when known as KFRE
  Logo used in the 60s when known as KFRE
• KFRE logo with crosshair, from 1971
  KFRE logo with crosshair, from 1971
• Logo used when KFRE changed to KFSN
  Logo used when KFRE changed to KFSN

Newscasts

Weekdays

• Action News AM Live: 5:00-7:00 AM
  • Anchors: Jason Martinez, Margot Kim
  • Weather: Doug Collins
  • Traffic reports from the CHP

• Action News Midday: 11:00-11:30 AM
  • Anchors: Jason Martinez, Debra Steele

• Action News Live at Five: 5:00-5:30 PM
  • Anchors: Warren Armstrong, Nancy Osborne
  • Weather: Angelo Stalis
  • Sports: Dan Taylor

• Action News at 6: 6:00-6:30 PM
  • Anchors: Warren Armstrong, Graciela Moreno
  • Weather: Angelo Stalis
  • Sports: Dan Taylor

• Action News at 6:30: 6:30-7:00 PM
  • Anchors: Dale Yurong, Liz Harrison
  • Weather: Angelo Stalis
  • Sports: Dan Taylor

• Action News Live at 11: 11:00-11:35 PM
  • Anchors: Warren Armstrong, Graciela Moreno
  • Weather: Angelo Stalis
  • Sports: Dan Taylor

Weekends

• Action News AM Live Weekend: Saturday/Sunday 6:00-7:00 AM and Sunday 8:00-9:00 AM
  • Anchor: Itica Milanes
  • Weather: Ashlee Tate

• Valley Focus (public affairs show): Sunday 9:30 AM
  • Host: Beth Marney

• Action News at 6: 6:00-6:30 PM
  • Anchor: Maureen Naylor
  • Weather: Ashlee Tate
  • Sports: Jason Olivera

• Action News Live at 11: 11:00-11:35 PM
  • Anchor: Maureen Naylor
  • Weather: Ashlee Tate
  • Sports: Jason Olivera

Past Personalities

• Rich Rodriguez - anchor now at KSEE
• Juanita Stevenson - anchor-reporter now at KJWL-FM
• Craig Herrera - weather anchor 2000-2005 now at KNTV
• Ann Norteangelo - reporter 1998-2001 now at KPIX
• Joanne Feldman - weather anchor 2000-2002 now at WTVD
• John Wallace - anchor, now at KGPE
• Keith Garvin - reporter, now at ABC News
• Aaron Bender - reporter
• Ellis Levinson - consumer affairs reporter
• Kevin Cox - anchor/reporter
• Kevin Riggs - anchor/reporter, now at KCRA/KQCA
• Kate Mistol - anchor
• Dan Godwin - anchor/reporter
• Chris Nieto -sports
• Karen Lee - anchor/reporter
• Craig Fiegner -reporter
• Kevin Quinn - reporter
• Cindy Suryan - anchor/reporter, now employed by Community Hospitals of Cental California
• Richard Montano - sports
• Ken Shockley - reporter, now a spokesman for Fresno Fire Department
• Garrick Brenner - reporter

Reference

• BroadcastPioneers.com: A History of the WFIL Stations - accessed on January 20, 2006

External links

• KFSN ABC30 Homepage
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