KSWT
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| KSWT | |
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| Yuma, Arizona/El Centro, California | |
| Branding | KSWT News 13 |
| Channels | Analog: 13 (VHF) |
| Translators | (see below) |
| Affiliations | CBS The CW (DT2) |
| Owner | Pappas Telecasting Companies (Pappas Arizona License, LLC) |
| First air date | December 1963[1] |
| Call letters’ meaning | South West Triangle |
| Former callsigns | KBLU-TV (1963-?) KYEL (?-1978) KYEL-TV (1978-1991) |
| Former affiliations | Primary: NBC (1963-1988) ABC (1988-1994) Secondary: Telemundo (1990s-2000) |
| Transmitter Power | 316 kW (analog) 196 kW (digital) |
| Height | 475 m (analog) 444 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 33639 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | |
| Website | www.kswt.com |
KSWT, is a full-service television station serving the Yuma, Arizona / El Centro, California television market. Licensed to Yuma, it serves as the CBS and CW affiliates, the latter exclusively on a DTV subchannel. It broadcasts locally in analog on VHF channel 13 and in digital on UHF channel 16, and is owned by the Pappas Telecasting Companies of Visalia, California under the name Pappas Telecasting of Arizona.
KSWT serves a very large area encompassing portions of two countries, including parts of two American states, Arizona and California, and two Mexican states, Baja California and Sonora. Some viewers in the Coachella Valley whose homes face south to Imperial Valley can receive KSWT over the air, and viewers in Mexicali and San Luis Río Colorado have clear reception. In all, over 4 million homes can receive the KSWT signal.
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[edit] History
Originally operating under the call letters KBLU-TV, the station later became KYEL, (for K Yuma-El Centro), then KYEL-TV in 1978, and finally KSWT in 1991. The station was the market's NBC affiliate until KYMA went on the air. At that time, the newly renamed KSWT became an ABC affiliate and remained so until September 1994, when CBS affiliate KECY-TV flipped to FOX.[2] KSWT also included Telemundo programming during the overnight hours in the 1990s, until local affiliate KESE-LP began operations. KSWT aired some PAX programming during afternoons beginning in 2000, but had reverted to full-time CBS by 2004. In September 2006, The CW network launched nationwide, and KSWT added a CW affiliation as a digital subchannel on 13.2.
The addition of The CW soon became steeped in controversy, as Time Warner Cable, the dominant local cable provider, decided to place the CW feed on channel 740, in one of its more expensive digital cable packages. KSWT, however, requested that the channel be placed in the basic package on channel 6, where the market's cable-only WB affiliate, branded KWUB, had resided.[3] After several months of negotiations, the controversy was settled in mid-December 2006, and the KSWT 13.2 was placed on cable channel 6.
[edit] Programming
As a CBS affiliate, KSWT airs a typical mix of network and syndicated fare, with occasional paid programming. Its only original programming is local news, and it is one of only two stations in the viewing area to air local news in English (the other is KYMA). Monday through Friday, the station features an hour-long 4 PM newscast, called "KSWT First News", followed by the half-hour network newscast. At 5:30 PM, following the network news, KSWT airs another hour-long newscast, called "KSWT Early News", and finally, at 10 PM, KSWT has a half-hour newscast called "KSWT Late News". On Saturday and Sunday, only the late newscast airs.
KSWT's CW programming relies almost exclusively on network and syndicated fare, with paid programming overnights. It airs a block of children's programming on Saturday mornings and movies on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. The subchannel airs no local programming.
[edit] Current personalities
- Gabby Gonzalez - Anchor 6 & 10pm
- Jim Brinson - Anchor 5:30, 6 and 10pm
- Aaron Brillhart - Skywarn Meteorologist, 4, 5:30, 6 and 10pm
- David Bataller - Sports, 6 and 10pm
- Nadine Toren - Anchor, 4pm
- Rob Hughes - Anchor, 5:30pm
- Jennifer Jones - Weekend Sports, 10pm
- Kacie Talamante - Weekend Anchor, 10pm
- Nick Montes - Weekend Anchor, 10pm
- Joey Norton - Skywarn Weekend Meteorologist, 10pm
[edit] KSWT Alumni
As KBLU:
As KYEL:
- Fred Roggin - sports anchor, reporter and director (1977-78); now NBC Sports and KNBC-TV sports anchor[4]
Mid 1990s Team (As KSWT-TV):
- Dave Hecht (Now serving country as officer in US Navy)
- Shanna McCord (Santa Cruz newspaper reporter)
- Melody Dunn (Yuma native. Anchor, reporter and now Country singer)
- Tierra Griffiths (Anchor, reporter and weather anchor)
- Katherine Kisiel (Anchor, reporter and now married to Chris Willis)
- Steve Iandoli (Sports anchor, now in Massachusetts as a freelance reporter)
- Lena Lewis (Main anchor)
- Gary Somerset (Anchor, reporter)
- Chris Willis (News Director, main anchor and now married to Katherine Kisiel)
- Ashley Webster (now Overseas Market Editor in London for Fox Business Network)
- Hank Tester
- Gary Anderson
- Dan Clancey
- Hobe Lewis
- Bob Lenertz - News Director 1999
Other alumni:
- Beau Bagley (sports director, now weekend sports at KTSM-TV)
- Doug Currin (main anchor, now reporter/anchor at KNWA)
- Bernadette Flores (reporter, now reporter at KBAK)
- Dave Kartunen (10pm anchor 2000-2001, now anchor/reporter at WSVN in Miami)
- Laura Rillos (weekend anchor/reporter, now reporter at KVAL)
- Lorraine Rivera (weekend anchor/reporter, now weekend anchor/reporter at KVOA)
- Autumn Sam (weekend sports, now weekend sports at KVIA)
- Vanessa Shirley (main anchor, now weekend anchor/reporter at WKOW)
- Jasmine Viel (main anchor, now reporter at KION/KCBA in Salinas, CA)
- Lizzy Caplan (anchor/reporter at KYMA)
[edit] News/Station Presentation
[edit] Newscast Titles
- The Big News (1963-1967)
- Topline News (1967-1973)
- NewsCenter 13 (1973-1991)
- NewsChannel 13 (1991-1996)
- CBS 13 Southwest News (1996-2002)
- KSWT News (2002-2006)
- KSWT News 13 (2006-present)
[edit] Rebroadcasters
KSWT (CBS) is rebroadcast on K63AV (channel 63), while its DT2 signal (CW) is rebroadcast on K65BB (channel 65). Both stations are licensed to Wellton-Mohawk, Arizona, with the Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation & Drainage District as its licensee. Both KSWT and its CW sub-channel are available via Dish Network.
[edit] References
- ^ The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says December 1, while the Television and Cable Factbook says December 3.
- ^ New Fox affiliates KECY-TV Yuma-El Centro, Ariz., and KARD-TV Monroe, La., drew strong November sweeps numbers.. Broadcasting & Cable (1995-01-02). Retrieved on 2008-04-08.
- ^ Reynolds, Sarah. "Time's Almost Up for KSWT, Time Warner Negotiations", The Sun (Yuma AZ), 2006-11-29. Retrieved on 2008-04-08.
- ^ KNBC-TV Talent Biographies. Retrieved on 2008-04-08.
[edit] External links
- KSWT
- CW on KSWT 13.2
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KSWT
- Query the FCC's TV station database for K63AV
- Query the FCC's TV station database for K65BB
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KSWT-TV
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