The transmitter facility for KAMR-DT Channel 4 and KCIT-DT Channel 14 is located along the US 287 north of Amarillo.
In 2023 KAMR-DT also broadcasts via low-power TV translators in West Texas, Southwestern OK, and western New Mexico.
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KAMR-TV
Amarillo, Texas
United States
Channels
Digital: 19 (UHF)
Virtual: 4
Branding: KAMR Local 4 (general), KAMR Local 4 News (newscasts)
Programming
Affiliations
4.1: NBC
4.2: MyNetworkTV
4.3: Laff
4.4: Antenna TV
Owner
Nexstar Media Group
(Nexstar Media Inc.)
Sister stations KCIT, KCPN-LD
History
First air date March 18, 1953 (69 years ago)
Former call signs: KGNC-TV (1953–1974)
Former channel number(s)
Analog: 4 (VHF, 1953–2009)
Former affiliations
Analog/DT1:
DuMont (secondary, 1953–1956)
NTA (secondary, 1956–1961)
DT2: NBC Weather Plus (2005–2008)
Call sign meaning: KAMR Amarillo
Technical information
Facility ID 8523
ERP 400 kW
HAAT 455.2 m (1,493 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 35°20'33.1?N 101°49'21.2?W
Translator(s):
K14QV-D Childress, Texas
K29MZ-D Clarendon, Texas
K27NL-D Clovis, New Mexico
K28GI-D Guymon, Oklahoma
K24NK-D Memphis, Texas
K23OI-D Tucumcari, New Mexico
K25CP-D Tulia, Texas
K22JR-D Turkey, Texas
Website www.myhighplains.com
KAMR-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Amarillo, Texas, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside low-power MyNetworkTV affiliate KCPN-LD (channel 33); Nexstar also provides certain services Fox affiliate KCIT (channel 14) under joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with Mission Broadcasting. The three stations share studios on Southeast 11th Avenue and South Fillmore Street in downtown Amarillo; KAMR-TV's transmitter is located on Dumas Drive (US 87/287) and Reclamation Plant Road in rural unincorporated Potter County.
On September 5, 1951, the Plains Radio Broadcasting Company – a subsidiary of Globe News Publishing Co. (owned by landowner and oilman Roy N. Whittenburg and civic leader Samuel "S.B." Whittenburg), then-publisher of the Amarillo Globe-News and owner of radio station KGNC (710 AM) – filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to obtain a license and construction permit to operate a commercial television station on VHF channel 4. The FCC awarded the license and permit for channel 4 to Plains Radio Broadcasting on October 8, 1953; the group subsequently requested and received approval to assign KGNC-TV (for Globe-News Company) as the television station's call letters.
The station first signed on the air on March 18, 1953. KGNC-TV was the first television station to sign on in the Amarillo market, debuting two weeks before KFDA-TV (channel 10) signed on as the market's CBS affiliate on April 4. Channel 4 has been an NBC television affiliate since its debut, inheriting those rights through KGNC radio's longtime relationship with the progenitor NBC Red Network, which had been affiliated with that station since January 1937; it also maintained a secondary affiliations with the DuMont Television Network...
. . . .
On October 8, 1966, the Globe News Publishing Company announced that it would sell KGNC-TV and its sister radio properties to Topeka, Kansas-based Stauffer Communications...
In October 1973, Stauffer announced it would sell KGNC-TV to Cannan Communications. In order to comply with an FCC rule in effect at the time that prohibited separately owned radio and television stations in the same market from sharing the same base call letters, as Stauffer was allowed to keep the KGNC call letters for its new radio properties, the station's call letters were changed to KAMR-TV (in reference to its city of license, Amarillo) on November 5 of that year."
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"KCIT (channel 14) is a television station in Amarillo, Texas, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting, which maintains joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with Nexstar Media Group, owner of NBC affiliate KAMR-TV (channel 4) and low-power MyNetworkTV affiliate KCPN-LD (channel 33), for the provision of certain services. The three stations share studios on Southeast 11th Avenue and South Fillmore Street in downtown Amarillo; KCIT's transmitter is located on Dumas Drive (US 87-287) and Reclamation Plant Road in rural unincorporated Potter County.
As an independent station
The station first signed on the air on October 24, 1982 as KJTV. Not counting satellite stations, it was the fourth commercial television station — after NBC affiliate KAMR-TV (channel 4), which signed on as KGNC-TV on March 18, 1953, CBS affiliate KFDA-TV (channel 10), which signed on April 4, 1953, and ABC affiliate KVII-TV (channel 7), which signed on the air on December 21, 1957 — and the first commercial UHF outlet to sign on in the Amarillo market.
. . .
As a Fox affiliate
In the summer of 1986, News Corporation approached Wilson Industries about turning KCIT into a charter affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company. Channel 14 joined Fox when the network inaugurated programming on October 9, 1986. Though it was technically a network affiliate, KCIT continued to be programmed as a de facto independent station as Fox's initial programming lineup consisted solely of a late-night talk show, The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers. Even after its programming expanded with the launch of a three-hour Sunday night lineup in April 1987, Fox aired its prime time programming exclusively on weekends until September 1989, when it began a five-year expansion towards a nightly prime time schedule. Until Fox began airing prime time programs on all seven nights of the week in January 1993, KCIT continued to air a movie at 7:00 p.m. on nights when the network did not offer any programming.
. . .
On January 6, 1999, Wicks announced that it would sell KCIT and KCPN-LP to Bexley, Ohio-based Mission Broadcasting for $13 million, as part of a four-station transaction that also included KJTL and KJBO-LP. The acquisition of KJTL and KJBO was among the first station acquisitions for Mission (part of a four-station transaction that also involved the purchases of KCIT and KCPN-LP); developed as an arm of its creditor Bastet Broadcasting, the group had formed partnerships with the Nexstar Broadcasting Group and Quorum Broadcasting to operate many of Mission's stations in markets that did not have enough television stations to allow a legal duopoly between two commercial outlets.
In the Amarillo market, Boston-based Quorum had announced its intent to acquire KAMR-TV from Wichita Falls-based Cannan Communications the day before the Mission purchase was announced (on January 5), in a $64-million, three-station deal. Quorum took over the operations of KCIT and KCPN on June 1, 1999, under joint sales and shared services agreements with Mission, under which KAMR would handle news production, engineering, security and certain other services as well as handling advertising sales for the two stations.
Even though it was the senior partner in the outsourcing agreement, KAMR subsequently vacated its longtime studio facility on North Polk and Northeast 24th Streets, and relocated its operations seven miles (11 km) south to KCIT/KCPN's Fillmore Street facility. On September 12, 2003, Irving, Texas-based Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced it would acquire the Quorum stations and all of its associated JSA/SSAs for $230 million; when the sale was finalized on December 31, 2003, Mission transferred the SSA involving KCIT and KCPN to Nexstar in conjunction with that group's acquisition of KAMR.
KCIT Fox 14 (general)
Fox 14 News (newscasts)
Programming Affiliations
14.1: Fox
14.2: Grit
14.3: Ion Mystery
14.4: Bounce TV
Ownership
Owner Mission Broadcasting, Inc.
Operator Nexstar Media Group (via JSA/SSA)
Sister stations KAMR-TV, KCPN-LD
History
First air date October 24, 1982
Former call signs KJTV (1982–1985)
Former channel number(s)
Analog: 14 (UHF, 1982–2009)
Former affiliations
Primary:
Independent (1982–1986)
Secondary:
FNN (1982–1985)
PTEN (1993–1995)
DT2:
This TV (2010–2016)
Call sign meaning "CIT" = See It
Technical information
Facility ID 33722
Class DT
ERP 925 kW
HAAT 464 m (1,522 ft)
464 m (1,522 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 35°20'33.1?N 101°49'21.2?W
Translator(s)
K25CQ-D Childress, Texas
K27OG-D Clarendon, Texas
K28PV-D Clovis, New Mexico
K30FY-D Guymon, Oklahoma
K36CA-D Memphis, Texas
K24NF-D Tucumcari, New Mexico
K40DK-D (2012–2021)
K22NO-D Tulia, Texas
K28KV-D Turkey, Texas"
KEYU-DT Channel 31, an affiliate of Spanish-language TV network Telemundo, also broadcasts from this tower.
From Wikipedia: (
visit link) KEYU (channel 31) is a television station licensed to Borger, Texas, United States, serving the Amarillo area as an affiliate of the Spanish-language Telemundo network. It is owned by Gray Television alongside CBS affiliate KFDA-TV (channel 10). The two stations share studios on Broadway Drive (just south of West Cherry Avenue) in northern Amarillo; KEYU's transmitter is located on Dumas Drive (US 87-287) and Reclamation Plant Road in rural unincorporated Potter County.
Despite its full-power status, the station's broadcasting radius does not reach the entire Amarillo market (covering a 55.2-mile-wide [88.8 km] area, compared to KFDA's 75.2-mile-wide [121.0 km] signal contour). To reach portions of the Texas Panhandle that do not receive KEYU's signal adequately, if at all, KEYU's fourth digital subchannel (affiliated with Ion Television) is simulcast in 480i widescreen standard definition on KFDA's third subchannel (10.3) from a separate transmitter at the KEYU/KFDA studios.
KEYU
Borger/Amarillo, Texas
City Borger, Texas
Channels
Digital: 31 (UHF)
Virtual: 31
Branding:
Telemundo Amarillo (general)
Noticiero Telemundo Amarillo (news)
Programming Affiliations
31.1: Telemundo (2010–present)
for others, see Subchannels
Owner
Gray Television
Sister stations KFDA-TV
History
Founded February 6, 1998
First air date November 2, 2004
Former channel number(s)
Analog: 31 (UHF, 2004–2009)
Translators:
KEYU-LP 41 Amarillo
KEAT-LP 22 Amarillo
Former affiliations
Analog/DT1:
Univision (2004–2010)
DT2:
LATV (until 2018)
Call sign meaning Equity Univision
Technical information
Licensing authority FCC
Facility ID 83715
ERP 700 kW
HAAT 305 m (1,001 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 35°20'33.1?N 101°49'21.2?W
Translator(s)
KFDA-DT 10.3 (VHF) Amarillo"