KXAS-TV

KXAS-TV ("NBC5") is a television station based in Fort Worth, Texas. With its transmitter located in Cedar Hill, the station's analog broadcasts are on channel 5 while its HDTV broadcasts are on channel 41. The station is one of two joint ventures of NBC Universal (76%) and LIN Television (24%) - its only other sister station under this co-ownership is KNSD in San Diego.

History

The station was launched on September 28, 1948, by Amon G. Carter, owner of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He named the station WBAP-TV after WBAP-AM. It was the first television station in Texas.

Even though it was clear Dallas and Fort Worth would be a single television market, Carter didn't care whether people in Dallas saw WBAP. The station reportedly moved its transmitter to Cedar Hill with the other Metroplex stations only after NBC threatened to yank its affiliation.

The station was owned by the Star-Telegram until 1974, when the FCC barred common ownership of newspapers and TV stations in all but a few cases. WBAP-TV was then sold to LIN Television, who changed the calls to KXAS. (The Star-Telegram and WBAP-AM were sold to Capital Cities Communications at that time; the newspaper is now owned by the McClatchy Company, while the radio station is now part of ABC Radio.) LIN wholly-owned the station until 1997, when it sold 76% of KXAS to NBC, in exchange for 24% of KNSD in San Diego (which NBC had recently purchased from New World Communications, who had also owned channel 5's rival KDFW until it and the other Fox affiliates owned by New World were sold to Fox).

KXAS is locally known for its weather coverage. It claims to be the first station to have hired only full-time meteorologists. One of its first, Harold Taft, broadcast for over 40 years.

Newscasts

Weekdays
* NBC5 Today - 5:00 - 7:00AMDeborah Ferguson, Brendan Higgins, Rebecca Miller (weather)
* NBC5 DFW Today - 10:00 - 11:00AMDeborah Ferguson, Brendan Higgins, Rebecca Miller (weather)
* NBC5 First at Four - 4:00 - 5:00PMBrian Curtis, Kristi Nelson, David Finfrock (weather)
* NBC5 News at 5 - 5:00 - 5:30PMMike Snyder, Meridith Land, David Finfrock (weather)
* NBC5 News at 6 - 6:00 - 6:30PMJane McGarry, Mike Snyder, David Finfrock (weather), Newy Scruggs (sports)
* NBC5 News at 10 - 10:00 - 10:35PMJane McGarry, Mike Snyder, David Finfrock (weather), Newy Scruggs (sports)

Saturday
* NBC5 Saturday Today - 6:00-7:00AM & 9:00-10:00AMTodd Wallace, Loriana Hernandez, James Aydelott (weather)
* NBC5 News at 6 - 6:00-7:00PMKevin Cokely, Meredith Land, Steve MacLaughlin (weather), Derek Castillo (sports)
* NBC5 News at 10 - 10:00-10:30PMKevin Cokely, Meredith Land, Steve MacLaughlin (weather), Derek Castillo (sports)

Sunday
* NBC5 Sunday Today - 6:00-7:00AM & 8:00-9:00AMTodd Wallace, Loriana Hernandez, James Aydelott (weather)
* NBC5 News at 5 - 5:00-5:30PMKevin Cokely, Meredith Land, Steve MacLaughlin (weather), Derek Castillo (sports)
* NBC5 News at 10 - 10:00-10:20PMKevin Cokely, Meredith Land, Steve MacLaughlin (weather), Derek Castillo (sports)
* NBC5 Sports Extra - 10:20-11:00PMhosted by Newy Scruggs

Trivia

On November 24, 1963, a WBAP-TV remote unit set up at Dallas Police Headquarters fed the live images of accused Presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald being gunned down by Jack Ruby to the NBC network. It was the first time a murder had been witnessed live on network television in the United States. It was also notable that, during NBC's network coverage of the assassination, news reports from WBAP-TV's studios were transmitted in color, with NBC broadcasting the coverage in New York from a black and white studio. (WBAP-TV was one of the earliest local stations to convert its local programming to color.)

KXAS has used its "Star 5" logo since 1974--the longest-used numeric logo in the market and one of the longest-used numeric logos in the country. It was a part of its 1975 campaign, "Super Season."

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KXAS-TV

History

Newscasts

Trivia

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Station Slogans

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