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KWES-TV
KWES-TV (channel 9) is a television station licensed to Odessa, Texas, United States, serving the Permian Basin (North America), Permian Basin area as an affiliate of NBC. The station is owned by Tegna Inc. and maintains studios on West County Road 127 near the Midland International Air and Space Port, between Odessa and Midland, Texas, Midland; its transmitter is located near Notrees, Texas. Channel 9 in west Texas signed on as KVKM-TV from Monahans, Texas, in 1958. A small American Broadcasting Company, ABC affiliate, the station was a relatively minor player in the regional television market. The station was owned by Grayson Enterprises in the 1970s under the KMOM-TV call sign; allegations of falsified program logs and other violations, as well as the gutting of Grayson-owned KWAB (channel 4, now KCWO-TV) in Big Spring, Texas, Big Spring to rebroadcast KMOM-TV, led to license renewal hearings that culminated in a distress sale to a minority-owned company, Permian Basin Televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KCWO-TV
KCWO-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to Big Spring, Texas, United States, serving the Permian Basin (North America), Permian Basin area as an affiliate of The CW Plus. It is owned by Gray Media alongside CBS affiliate KOSA-TV (channel 7), MyNetworkTV affiliate KWWT (channel 30), Telemundo affiliate KTLE-LD (channel 20) and 365BLK affiliate KMDF-LD (channel 22). The five stations share studios inside the Music City Mall (Odessa, Texas), Music City Mall on East 42nd Street in Odessa, Texas, Odessa, with a secondary studio and news bureau in downtown Midland, Texas, Midland; KCWO-TV's transmitter is located on U.S. Route 87 in Texas, US 87 north of Big Spring. Until January 2019 as KWAB-TV, the station operated as a broadcast relay station#Satellite stations, satellite of Odessa-licensed NBC affiliate KWES-TV (channel 9), then owned by Raycom Media. KWAB-TV's signal covered eastern parts of the Odessa–Midland media market, market that received a marginal to non-exis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drewry Communications
The Drewry Communications Group was a media company based in Lawton, Oklahoma, wholly owned and operated by the Drewry family. The company was run by Robert Drewry (as the company's president), Bill Drewry (as its chief executive officer), and Larry Patton (as general manager). Robert and Bill are the sons of late patriarch Ransom H. Drewry. Drewry Communications' broadcasting properties consisted of 13 radio and television stations in Oklahoma and Texas, largely concentrated in western and central Texas. History Ransom H. Drewry founded radio station KSWO (1380 AM, now KKRX) in Lawton, Oklahoma in 1941. Six years later in 1947, Drewry started his second radio station, KRHD (1350 AM, now KFTP) in Duncan (the KRHD call letters, derived from Drewry's initials, were later assigned to a television station in Bryan, Texas, that serves as a translator of the company's ABC affiliate in Waco, KXXV-TV). Drewry entered television broadcasting in 1953, when he and a group that incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KOSA-TV
KOSA-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Odessa, Texas, United States, serving as the CBS affiliate for the Permian Basin area. It is owned by Gray Media alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate KWWT (channel 30), CW+ affiliate KCWO-TV (channel 4), Telemundo affiliate KTLE-LD (channel 20), and 365BLK affiliate KMDF-LD (channel 22). The five stations share studios inside the Music City Mall on East 42nd Street in Odessa, with a secondary studio and news bureau in downtown Midland; KOSA-TV's transmitter is located on FM 866 west of Odessa. The station is relayed on low-power translator in Big Spring. History KOSA-TV signed on the air on January 1, 1956, and has been a CBS affiliate since its debut. Licensed to the corporate entity Odessa Television Co., the station was part of the Trigg-Vaughn Stations group, owned and operated by Cecil L. Trigg and Jack Vaughn, along with KOSA radio. KOSA-TV originally operated from studios located on North Whitaker Street in O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KAVE-TV
KOCT (channel 6) was a television station in Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States, which operated from 1956 to 2012. Originally established as KAVE-TV, an independent local station for Carlsbad, in 1956, it was the regional affiliate of CBS for the next decade. The construction of the higher-power KBIM-TV at Roswell in 1966 caused KOCT to lose its CBS affiliation; at that time, it was sold and began a 46-year history as a satellite of three ABC affiliates in succession: KVKM-TV in Monahans, Texas; KELP-TV/KVIA-TV in El Paso, Texas; and KOAT-TV in Albuquerque. Only once in that time, from 1982 to 1984, did the station produce significant local programming in Carlsbad. The call sign was changed to KVIO-TV in 1987 and to KOCT in 1993. In 2012, KOAT surrendered the full-power KOCT license and replaced it with a translator license because doing so allowed it to cease maintaining a separate public file in Carlsbad. KAVE-TV, Carlsbad's local station On May 16, 1955, the Carlsb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tegna Inc
Tegna Inc. (stylized in all caps as TEGNA) is an American publicly traded broadcast, digital media and marketing services company headquartered in Tysons, Virginia. It was created on June 29, 2015, when the Gannett Company split into two publicly traded companies. Tegna comprised the more profitable broadcast television and digital media divisions of the old Gannett, while Gannett's publishing interests were spun off as a "new" company that retained the Gannett name. Tegna owns or operates 68 television stations in 54 markets, and holds properties in digital media. In terms of audience reach, Tegna is the largest group owner of NBC-affiliated stations, ahead of Hearst Television and Sinclair Broadcast Group, and the fourth-largest group owner of ABC affiliates, behind Hearst, the E. W. Scripps Company, and Sinclair. Tegna also owns two digital multicast networks ( True Crime Network, Quest). History In June 2015, Gannett spun off its broadcasting division. Robert Dic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raycom Media
Raycom Media, Inc. was an American television broadcasting company based in Montgomery, Alabama, Montgomery, Alabama. Raycom owned and/or provided services for 65 television stations and two radio stations across 44 markets in 20 states. Raycom, through its CNHI, Community Newspaper Holdings subsidiary, also owned multiple newspapers in small and medium-sized markets throughout the United States. History Raycom's three founding owners were Stephen Burr (a Boston lawyer), Ken Hawkins (general manager) and William Zortman (news director) with funding from Retirement Systems of Alabama. In 1996, Raycom purchased 15 television and two radio stations and Bert Ellis's Raycom Sports from Ellis Communications for over $700 million. In mid-1996, the company agreed to purchase eight stations from Federal Enterprises Inc. of suburban Detroit for $160 million. Raycom bought Aflac's broadcast division of five TV stations in August 1996, using, in part, a loan from the RSA. The three groups ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midland, Texas
Midland is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Midland County with small portions extending into Martin County. The population was 132,524 as of the 2020 census. Located in the Permian Basin in West Texas, Midland is a major center for American oil and natural gas production. Midland is the principal city of the Midland, Texas metropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Midland County, the population of which was 169,983 in the 2020 U.S. Census. The metropolitan area is part of the larger Midland–Odessa combined statistical area, which had a population of 340,391 in the 2020 census. Residents of Midland are referred to as 'Midlanders'. Midland was founded as the midway point between Fort Worth and El Paso on the Texas and Pacific Railroad in 1881. The city has many connections to the Bush family; it was the one time home of former Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush and the hometown of former First Lady Laura Bush. The Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KVLF-TV
KVLF-TV (channel 12) was a television station in Alpine, Texas, United States, which broadcast from December 1961 to around December 1963 as an affiliate of ABC. It was the first available television service in Alpine, operating as a semi-satellite A broadcast relay station, also known as a satellite station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator (U.S.), re-broadcaster (Canada), repeater (two-way radio) or complementary station (Mexico), is a broadcast transmitter which repeats (or trans ... of KVKM-TV in Monahans. It shared studios with its sister radio station, KVLF (1240 AM). History On January 19, 1961, Big Bend Broadcasters, owners of KVLF, obtained a construction permit to build a new television station on channel 12 in Alpine. The station signed on December 30, 1961, with the 1961 Sun Bowl as its inaugural program. Channel 12 was a limited facility; its effective radiated power was a mere 170 watts. In its early months, KVLF broadcast a half-hour local news and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gray Television
Gray Media, Inc., doing business as Gray Television, is an American publicly traded television broadcasting company based in Atlanta. Founded in 1946 by James Harrison Gray as Gray Communications Systems, the company owns or operates 180 stations across the United States in 113 markets. Its station base consists of media markets ranging from as large as Atlanta to one of the smallest markets, North Platte, Nebraska. History James H. Gray started his communication business in Albany, Georgia with the purchase of The Herald Publishing Company (a company founded in 1897 to promote ''The Albany Herald'', a newspaper that started publication in 1891), in 1946 after he returned from World War II. The purchase included WALB radio. Gray launched WALB-TV in 1954. In 1960, Gray purchased WJHG-TV in Panama City, Florida, and followed it later in the decade with KTVE serving Monroe, Louisiana and southern Arkansas. In 1986 Gray died, leaving his 50.5% share of the stock in a trust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KMID-TV
KMID (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Midland, Texas, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for the Permian Basin area. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which provides certain services to Odessa-licensed Fox affiliate KPEJ-TV (channel 24) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with Mission Broadcasting. The two stations share studios on Windview Street (along I-20) in southwestern Odessa; KMID's transmitter is located on FM 1788 in rural southeastern Andrews County. History KMID-TV went on the air on December 18, 1953, making it the longest-running station in the Midland–Odessa market. It carried programming from all four networks, but was a primary NBC affiliate. It lost CBS to KOSA-TV (channel 7) in 1956 and lost ABC to KWES-TV (channel 9, then known as KVKM) in 1958. On September 5, 1982, KMID became an ABC affiliate when it swapped its NBC affiliation with channel 9 (by then known as KMOM, which became KTPX simultaneous with the switch) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Stockton, Texas
Fort Stockton is a city in and the county seat of Pecos County, Texas, United States. It is located on Interstate 10 in Texas, Interstate 10, future Interstate 14, U.S. Highways U.S. Route 67 in Texas, 67, U.S. Route 285 in Texas, 285, and U.S. Route 385 in Texas, 385, and the Santa Fe Railroad, northwest of San Antonio and southeast of El Paso, Texas, El Paso. Its population was 8,466 at the United States Census, 2020, 2020 census. History Fort Lancaster sent 1st Infantry Co. H "to take post" along Comanche Springs (Texas), Comanche Springs on 12 April 1859. Fort Stockton (named Camp Stockton until 1860) grew up around Comanche Springs, one of the largest sources of spring water in Texas. The fort was named for Robert F. Stockton. Comanche Springs was a favorite rest stop on the Great Comanche Trail to Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua, San Antonio-El Paso Road, and the Butterfield Overland Mail route. On October 2, 1859, the well-known journalist and author (and future Union ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eunice, New Mexico
Eunice is a city in Lea County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 3,056 at the 2020 census. Description The mayor of Eunice, as of March 2018, was Billy Hobbs. A URENCO USA National Enrichment Facility, which uses Zippe-type centrifuge technology to enrich uranium, has been in operation east of Eunice since 2010. Geography Eunice is located in southeastern Lea County. It is bypassed to the east by New Mexico State Road 18, which leads north to Hobbs, the largest city in the county, and south to Jal. State Road 176 runs east-west through the center of Eunice. Carlsbad is to the west, and the Texas border is to the east. Andrews, Texas, is east of Eunice via NM-176 and Texas State Highway 176. According to the United States Census Bureau, Eunice has a total area of , of which , or 0.22%, are water. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 2,562 people, 942 households, and 709 families residing in the city. The population density was . There w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
