KBAK-TV
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| KBAK-TV | |
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| Bakersfield, California | |
| Branding | CBS 29 |
| Channels | Analog: 29 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | CBS |
| Owner | Fisher Communications, Inc. (Fisher Broadcasting - California TV, LLC) |
| First air date | August 1953[1] |
| Call letters’ meaning | BAKersfield |
| Former callsigns | KAFY-TV (1953-1959) |
| Former affiliations | CBS (1953-1974) ABC (1974-1996) |
| Transmitter Power | 1700 kW (analog) 110 kW (digital) |
| Height | 1138.1 m (analog) 1128 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 4148 |
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| Website | www.bakersfieldnow.com |
KBAK-TV is a television station serving Bakersfield, California. It's a CBS affiliate,and transmits on UHF channel 29. KBAK also operates the local Fox affiliate, KBFX-CA, from a shared facility in Bakersfield, using an identical staff.
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[edit] History
KBAK was the first television station on the air in Bakersfield, initiating broadcast in August of 1953. KERO followed one month later. At its inception, KBAK had been a CBS affiliate, under the call letters KAFY. In 1959, those call letters were changed to KBAK; and in 1974 changed its network affiliation to ABC, swapping with KJTV (now present NBC affiliate KGET-TV). [1] [2] As a CBS and later ABC affiliate, KBAK had aired all of its color programs in color, and went to full color in 1967.
During the 1970s and into the 1980s, KBAK was owned by Chicago-based Harriscope Broadcasting, which also owned WSNS in Chicago (now a Telemundo O&O) and a partial stake in KRQE in Albuquerque (now owned by LIN TV). In the late 1980s, KBAK started signing off only on Fridays, and Saturdays, which it still does as a CBS affiliate. the sign-offs on KBAK and KBFX ended in the early morning on May 25, 2008 and is replaced by a simulcast of the Kern Weather Channel, which is also available on digital cable systems in the Bakersfield area.
In 1986, Harriscope sold KBAK to Burnham Broadcasting, which also owned KHON-TV in Honolulu and would later acquire WVUE in New Orleans, WALA-TV in Mobile, Alabama and WLUK in Green Bay. In 1995, Burnham sold most of its stations to SF Broadcasting, a joint venture between Fox and Savoy Pictures, but KBAK was not included in the sale to SF Broadcasting, and was instead sold to locally-based Westwind Communications.
In 1995, KBAK's contract with ABC expired and was not renewed. McGraw-Hill, the owner of KERO, cut an affiliation deal switching the two stations which hadn't already affiliated with ABC (KERO and then-CBS affiliate KMGH in Denver, Colorado) to that network, and in the process returning KBAK back to its CBS affiliation in March 1996.
On August 6, 2007, Westwind Communications announced the sale of KBAK and KBFX-CA to Fisher Communications of Seattle. [3] The deal closed on January 1, 2008. This marked a re-entry to a California-based market for Fisher, who previously bought and sold KJEO (now KGPE) in Fresno in the late 1990s.
[edit] Newscast Titles
- "KAFY Television Newsreel" (1953–1959)
- "The Big News" (1959–1966)
- "The Night Report" (1966–1969)
- "The Television 29 News" (1969–1973)
- "The Hal Lafoon News" ([1973 – 1974)
- "29 TV ABC News" (1974–1977)
- "The News Today" (1977–1979)
- "TeleNews 29" (1979–1981)
- "NewsForce 29" (1981–1985)
- "News 29" (1985–1992)
- "29 Eyewitness News" (1992–present)
[edit] News Themes
| Package | Composer | Years Used |
| Fanfare for the Common Man | Aaron Copland, Arrangement by Emerson Lake and Palmer | 1979–1980 |
| Allegro | Frank Gari Communications | 1989–1997 |
| Millennium 3 | Shelly Palmer | 1997–2001 |
| Impact (V.1, V.2, V.3, V.4) | 615 Music | 2001–2003 |
| Right Here, Right Now | 615 Music | 2003–2008 |
| The Viper | 615 Music | 2008–Present |
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- CBS 29/Fox 58 website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KBAK
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KBAK-TV
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