KFDA-TV signed on in 1952, 15 years after the KFDA-AM radio station signed on in 1939.
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"KFDA-TV (channel 10) is a television station in Amarillo, Texas, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Borger-licensed Telemundo affiliate KEYU (channel 31). Both stations share studios on 7900
Broadway Drive (just south of West Cherry Avenue) in northern Amarillo, where KFDA's transmitter is also located.
On July 3, 1952, the Amarillo Broadcasting Company – a consortium led by radio station owners Wendell Mayes, oil, gas and publishing interest holder C. C. Woodson, Charles B. Jordan (vice president and assistant general manager of the Texas State Network), and Gene L. Cagle (Texas State Network president and general manager) – 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 10. The FCC awarded the license and permit for channel 10 to the Amarillo Broadcasting Company on October 8, 1952; the group subsequently requested and received approval to assign KFDA-TV as the television station's call letters, using the base callsign that had been used by its existing radio station on KFDA (1440 AM, now KPUR) since it signed on in March 1939.
The station first signed on the air on April 4, 1953; it was the second television station to sign on in the Amarillo market, debuting two weeks after NBC affiliate KGNC-TV (channel 4, now KAMR-TV) launched as the market's first television station on March 18. Channel 10 has been an CBS television affiliate since its debut; however, it also initially carried programming from ABC, inheriting those rights through KFDA radio's longtime relationship with the television network's progenitor ABC Radio, which had been affiliated with that station since 1943 (as the post-NBC-split Blue Network).
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KFDA-TV
Amarillo, Texas
United States
Channels
Digital: 10 (VHF)
Virtual: 10
Branding NewsChannel 10
NewsChannel 10 Too (on DT2)
Telemundo Amarillo (on DT3)
MeTV Amarillo (on DT4)
Programming
Affiliations
10.1: CBS
for others, see Subchannels
Owner
Gray Television (Gray Television Licensee, LLC)
Sister stations KEYU
History
First air date April 4, 1953
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
10 (VHF, 1953–2009)
Digital:
9 (VHF, 2001–2009)
Former affiliations
Analog/DT1:
ABC (secondary, 1953–1957)
DT2:
Telemundo (2002–2009)
DT3: UPN (2002–2006)
Independent (2006–2009)
DT4: LATV (2007–2011)
Local news/weather (2011–2018)
Technical information
Licensing authority FCC
Facility ID 51466
ERP 62 kW
HAAT 466 m (1,529 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 35°17'34?N 101°50'44?W
Translators:
K38KZ-D Bovina, TX 38 (UHF)
K18MD-D Childress, TX 18 (UHF)
K33PX-D Clarendon, TX 33 (UHF)
KZBZ-CD Clovis, NM 26 (UHF)
K51BC Follett, TX 51 (UHF)
K32GD-D Guymon, OK 32 (UHF)
K34NQ-D Memphis, TX 34 (UHF)
K32EH-D Memphis, TX 32 (UHF)
K26OJ-D Tucumcari, NM 26 (UHF)
K21NW-D Tulia, TX 21 (UHF)
K26JR-D Turkey, TX 36 (UHF)"
Sister station KEYU-31 shared a studio, but does not use the KFDA transmitter. Instead, KEYU-DT ises a studio-Transmitter link to broadcast programming to KEYU's transmitter site on the nearby KAMR-DT tower on Reclamation Road.
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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.
The station first signed on the air on November 2, 2004.
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From 2005 until May 2008, Equity Broadcasting produced Spanish-language newscasts for KEYU, titled Noticias Univision Amarillo. The twice-nightly newscasts – which aired at 5:00 and 10:00 p.m. each weeknight – consisted of a single broadcast that was repeated later in the evening. While KEYU maintained its own locally based full-time reporters and photographers at its Amarillo facility, most of the newscast segments were produced out of studios located at Equity's headquarters in Little Rock, which served as a production hub for local newscasts aired by the group's Univision-affiliated stations. . .
After becoming a sister station to KFDA-TV, KEYU restored full-scale news programming to its schedule in September 2009; the station assumed production responsibilities for its newscasts, launching weeknight-only newscasts at 5:00 and 10:00 p.m. produced at the Broadway Drive studios."
Three radio stations also share the KFDA-DT Tower site, KQIZ-FM 93.1, KXSS-FM 96.9, KJJP-FM 105.7.
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"93.1 KQIZ The Beat -- 7900 Broadway Dr, KFDA-TV Tower
96.9 KXSS Kiss FM -- 7900 Broadway Dr, KFDA-TV Tower
105.7 KJJP High Plains Public Radio -- 7900 Broadway Dr, KFDA-TV Tower