A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to any number of tuned receivers simultaneously.
98-604: KLTV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Tyler, Texas , United States, serving East Texas as an affiliate of ABC and Telemundo . Owned by Gray Television , the station maintains studios on West Ferguson Street in downtown Tyler (between the Smith County and United States courthouses), and its transmitter is located in rural northern Smith County (near the Wood County line). KTRE (channel 9) in Lufkin operates as
196-564: A Serie A match before losing those rights to CBS Sports the following season. In 2023, ABC lost the United States women's national soccer team broadcasts as they were picked up by TNT Sports . Later, ABC added the Supercopa de España final and the NWSL (beginning in 2024) as part of its soccer contract. After a five-year hiatus, ABC returned to airing college basketball in 2019 with five games on
294-434: A barter in some cases. ESPN on ABC ESPN on ABC (formerly known as ABC Sports from 1961 to 2006) is the branding used for sports event and documentary programming televised by ABC in the United States. Officially, the broadcast network retains its own sports division; however, in 2006, ABC's sports division was merged into ESPN Inc. , which is the parent subsidiary of the cable sports network ESPN that
392-481: A semi-satellite of KLTV. As such, it simulcasts all network and syndicated programming as provided through KLTV but airs separate commercial inserts, legal identifications , weeknight newscasts and Sunday morning religious programs , and has its own website. KLTV serves the northern half of the Tyler– Longview –Lufkin– Nacogdoches market while KTRE serves the southern portion. The two stations are counted as
490-403: A decline in ratings toward the end of its ABC run, the program was a hit for the network; according to ABC president Leonard Goldenson , Monday Night Football helped regularly score ABC an audience share of 15%–16%. With the creation of Monday Night Football , Arledge not only anchored ABC's primetime programming, but created a national pastime. At first, nobody – including the affiliates and
588-429: A game or event. McKay's honest curiosity and reporter's bluntness gave the show an emotional appeal which attracted viewers who might not have otherwise watched a sporting event. More importantly from Arledge's perspective, Wide World of Sports allowed him to demonstrate his ability as an administrator as well as a producer. His ability to provide prime sports content was solidified in 1964, when ABC appointed Arledge as
686-415: A much shorter wavelength, and thus requires a shorter antenna, but also higher power. North American stations can go up to 5000 kW ERP for video and 500 kW audio, or 1000 kW digital. Low channels travel further than high ones at the same power, but UHF does not suffer from as much electromagnetic interference and background "noise" as VHF, making it much more desirable for TV. Despite this, in
784-760: A new, seven-year broadcast deal with the NHL, which included games on ESPN, ABC, and ESPN+ beginning in the 2021–22 season . ABC's first game back featured the New York Rangers and the Boston Bruins in the annual Thanksgiving Showdown on November 26, 2021. After ABC aired the 2022 NHL All-Star Game , the network aired a weekly game under the ABC Hockey Saturday branding, which began on February 26. The package primarily aired on Saturday afternoons, with one primetime game on March 19 to accommodate afternoon coverage of
882-406: A producer of NCAA football games in 1960, the network was in financial shambles. The International Olympic Committee even wanted a bank to guarantee ABC's contract to broadcast the 1960 Olympics . At the time, Edgar Scherick served as the de facto head of ABC Sports. Scherick had joined the fledgling ABC television network when he persuaded it to purchase Sports Programs, Inc., in exchange for
980-462: A role as executive producer of its sports telecasts. Several months before ABC began broadcasting NCAA college football games, Arledge sent Scherick a remarkable memo, filled with youthful exuberance, and television production concepts which sports broadcasts have adhered to since. Network broadcasts of sporting events had previously consisted of simple set-ups and focused on the game itself. In his memo, Arledge not only offered another way to broadcast
1078-463: A single unit for ratings purposes. Although KTRE maintains its own studios on TV Road (near US 69 ) in the unincorporated community of Pollok , master control and some internal operations are based at KLTV's facilities. The station first signed on the air on October 14, 1954; it was founded by the locally-based company Buford Television, which was owned by Lucille Buford. KLTV has been an ABC affiliate since its debut; however, it initially carried
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#17328837112061176-697: A special guest appearance by former ABC announcer Al Michaels . In the 2010s, the only consistent sports on ABC were college football , the NBA , the Indianapolis 500 and the Little League World Series . ESPN began simulcasting an NFL Wild Card Playoff game on ABC starting in 2016, marking the first time ABC had an NFL game since Super Bowl XL ; this was later followed by the Pro Bowl starting in 2018. Additionally, ABC simulcast ESPN's coverage of rounds 4–7 of
1274-425: A variety of ways to generate revenue from television commercials . They may be an independent station or part of a broadcasting network , or some other structure. They can produce some or all of their programs or buy some broadcast syndication programming for or all of it from other stations or independent production companies. Many stations have some sort of television studio , which on major-network stations
1372-496: Is non-commercial educational (NCE) and considered public broadcasting . To avoid concentration of media ownership of television stations, government regulations in most countries generally limit the ownership of television stations by television networks or other media operators, but these regulations vary considerably. Some countries have set up nationwide television networks, in which individual television stations act as mere repeaters of nationwide programs . In those countries,
1470-616: Is "Proud of East Texas", which has been used since 1985. In a June 2006 article, the Longview News-Journal reported KLTV continued its dominance in the area with an estimated 70,000 households tuning into its weeknight 10 p.m. broadcast. KETK-TV was second with about 12,000 viewers and KYTX was watched by an estimated 9,000 viewers. The station was nominated in 2008 for eleven Lone Star Emmy Awards including: best morning and evening newscasts, weather, along with several news/sports specials and reporting. On June 21, 2010, KLTV became
1568-526: Is available on Suddenlink Communications channel 7 and in high definition on digital channel 720. Dish, DirecTV and several smaller cable providers also carry the station. KLTV is available throughout much of East Texas, such as Tyler, Athens ***, Canton ***, Carthage *, Gilmer , Henderson , Jacksonville , Jefferson *, Kilgore , Lindale , Longview**, Marshall *, Mineola , Mount Pleasant , Mount Vernon , Palestine ***, Pittsburg , Rusk , and Sulphur Springs ***. * – This city can receive KLTV over
1666-470: Is broadcast via terrestrial radio waves. A group of television stations with common ownership or affiliation are known as a TV network and an individual station within the network is referred to as O&O or affiliate , respectively. Because television station signals use the electromagnetic spectrum, which in the past has been a common, scarce resource, governments often claim authority to regulate them. Broadcast television systems standards vary around
1764-483: Is majority owned by ABC's corporate parent, The Walt Disney Company , in partnership with Hearst Communications . ABC broadcasts use ESPN's production and announcing staff, and incorporate elements such as ESPN-branded on-screen graphics, SportsCenter in-game updates, and the BottomLine ticker . The ABC logo is still used for identification purposes such as a digital on-screen graphic during sports broadcasts on
1862-792: Is often used for newscasts or other local programming . There is usually a news department , where journalists gather information. There is also a section where electronic news-gathering (ENG) operations are based, receiving remote broadcasts via remote pickup unit or satellite TV . Outside broadcasting vans, production trucks , or SUVs with electronic field production (EFP) equipment are sent out with reporters , who may also bring back news stories on video tape rather than sending them back live . To keep pace with technology United States television stations have been replacing operators with broadcast automation systems to increase profits in recent years. Some stations (known as repeaters or translators ) only simulcast another, usually
1960-517: Is shown instead of just the ABC logo. In addition, commercial transitions for ABC games now contain the ABC logo. It is the first time NBA games on ABC don't have ESPN identification during live action since the 2006 NBA Finals. An exception was during the MLS Cup 2019 on ABC, where no ESPN logo other than the mic flags appeared on the screen and the broadcast was introduced as "the 2019 MLS Cup Final on ABC" with
2058-461: Is the only broadcast television network to have rights to broadcast games from all four major professional leagues all at the same time. This is largely due to joint contracts with ESPN and those four leagues. Like its longtime competitors CBS Sports and NBC Sports , ABC Sports was originally part of the news division of the ABC network, and, after 1961, was spun off into its own independent division. When Roone Arledge came to ABC Sports as
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#17328837112062156-434: The 2018 NFL draft . Then, starting in 2019, ABC aired all three days of the draft. In 2020, ABC simulcast 3 Monday Night Football games. The first regular season games aired nationally on the network since 2005. In 2022, ABC aired an exclusive game. In 2023, ABC aired 4 exclusive games. Also, due to the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes , ESPN announced that all remaining Monday Night Football games would be simulcast on ABC and
2254-518: The 2022 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament . All games broadcast by ABC are simulcast on ESPN+. The 2022 Stanley Cup Finals marked the first to be broadcast in their entirety on over-the-air television since 1980 , as the Finals had since either been partially or exclusively carried on cable. In 2021, ABC broadcast its first UFC event as part of UFC on ABC: Holloway vs. Kattar on January 16, 2021. In 2022, ABC aired UFC in primetime for
2352-764: The Alabama Crimson Tide and the Georgia Bulldogs which Alabama won, 21–6. Despite the production values he brought to NCAA college football, Scherick wanted low-budget sports programming (as in inexpensive broadcasting rights) that could attract and retain an audience. He hit upon the idea of broadcasting track and field events sponsored by the Amateur Athletic Union . While Americans were not exactly fans of track and field events, Scherick figured that Americans understood games. In January 1961, Scherick called Arledge into his office, and asked him to attend
2450-613: The Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs . That same year, ESPN and Major League Baseball agreed to a contract extension that included the exclusive rights to a new Wild Card Series. ABC will have the rights to air select games from the Series, as well as the rights to air select ESPN regular season games. ABC aired one game from the 2022 Wild Card Series. In 2023 , ABC aired the Rays vs Rangers Wild Card series . Starting in 2024, ABC will air
2548-659: The Elvis Presley - Evel Knievel era of TV programming, there would have been a place for Holey Moley." To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Monday Night Football , Steve Levy , Brian Griese , Louis Riddick , Lisa Salters , and John Parry all wore special ABC Sports replica jackets during the September 21 game between the New Orleans Saints and the Las Vegas Raiders . The game aired on ESPN, with ABC simulcasting
2646-756: The Liberty Corporation in 2000. That same year, Liberty sold its insurance businesses to the Royal Bank of Canada , resulting in the retirement of the "Cosmos Broadcasting" banner. Liberty sold itself to Raycom Media in 2006. In October 2004, KLTV celebrated its 50th anniversary. At approximately 7:30 a.m. on February 3, 2006 (one day after Raycom officially took ownership of the station), KLTV's 1,078-foot (329 m) broadcast transmitter in Red Springs collapsed taking both its over-the-air analog and digital signals as well as radio station KVNE (89.5 FM) off
2744-597: The National Football League (which completed its merger with the American Football League that year), Monday Night Football debuted on ABC in September 1970, which served as the NFL's premier game of the week until 2006, when Sunday Night Football , which moved to NBC that year as part of a broadcast deal that in turn saw MNF move to ESPN, took over as the league's marquee game. Although it suffered
2842-468: The USFL ), ESPN and ABC Sports continued to operate as separate entities. After The Walt Disney Company bought Capital Cities/ABC in 1996, Disney started to slowly integrate ESPN and ABC Sports. ESPN personalities like Chris Berman , Mike Tirico and Brad Nessler also began working on ABC Sports broadcasts. In 1998, ESPN adopted the graphics and music package used by ABC Sports for Monday Night Football for
2940-558: The United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland , as well as on an aircraft carrier stationed off Pensacola, Florida . Despite the above, the 1977 Ring Record Book contained the fictitious additions to the records of the boxers in question and were never taken out of their records of the boxers. Those dubious bouts would continue to appear in subsequent Ring Record Book editions. The Ring Record magazine scandal
3038-405: The broadcast range , or geographic area, that the station is limited to, allocates the broadcast frequency of the radio spectrum for that station's transmissions, sets limits on what types of television programs can be programmed for broadcast and requires a station to broadcast a minimum amount of certain programs types, such as public affairs messages . Another form of television station
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3136-534: The electricity bill and emergency backup generators . In North America , full-power stations on band I (channels 2 to 6) are generally limited to 100 kW analog video ( VSB ) and 10 kW analog audio ( FM ), or 45 kW digital ( 8VSB ) ERP. Stations on band III (channels 7 to 13) can go up by 5 dB to 316 kW video, 31.6 kW audio, or 160 kW digital. Low-VHF stations are often subject to long-distance reception just as with FM. There are no stations on Channel 1 . UHF , by comparison, has
3234-519: The "Big Ten on ABC". The next year, in 2017, the Pac-12 Conference began branding their games under the title, "Pac-12 on ESPN". While the program is still officially part of ESPN College Football which is reflected when talent appears on screen, the Big Ten on ABC logo and branding is used for intro, program IDs, and replay wipes. This is the first time any regularly scheduled sporting event outside of
3332-444: The "SEC on ESPN". ACC broadcasts followed suit in 2012 becoming the "ACC on ESPN". Despite the fact that ACC games also air on ABC, the games remain branded as the "ACC on ESPN" regardless of network. In 2016, a new contract brought conference branding to Big Ten telecasts as well, which air on both ESPN and ABC. While Big Ten games that air on ESPN cable channels are branded as the "Big Ten on ESPN", games airing on ABC are now branded as
3430-496: The "StormTracker 24/7 Weather Channel", a local weather service consisting of temperatures, weather conditions and a live feed of the station's Doppler radar (branded as the "StormTracker 7 Live Doppler Network") on a rotating schedule; the subchannel affiliated with This TV in December 2009, it later switched to Bounce TV on January 1, 2012. On January 1, 2020, Circle debuted on 7.2, displacing Bounce TV to 7.4. Circle remained until
3528-600: The 1970s original (then hosted by Monday Night Football ' s Howard Cosell ). "If you're expecting to see the yellow jackets and the [old school ABC Sports] mic flags, you'll be delighted," Executive Andrew Grossman told reporters." Episodes also began with a remake of the network's iconic Wide World of Sports introduction. The 2019 "extreme miniature golf " competition Holey Moley also used 1970s replica ABC Sports jackets on its lead hosts, ESPN's Joe Tessitore and former Fox NFL Sunday prognosticator Rob Riggle , and guest commentators. Tessitore commented that its use
3626-518: The 3:30 PM Eastern Time window, but there will also be the possibility for games to be carried on Saturday Night Football . ABC will also hold rights to the SEC Championship Game . In 2021, ABC began airing coverage of the NBA draft . In 2023, due to the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes , ESPN announced that ABC would air a series of Wednesday night NBA games during January 2024 for the 2023–24 NBA season . On March 10, 2021, ESPN announced
3724-637: The ABC Sports banner was the United States Championship Game in the Little League World Series on Saturday, August 26, 2006 (ABC was slated to carry the Little League World Series Championship Game on Sunday, August 27, however rain forced the postponement of the game to the following Monday, August 28, with that game subsequently airing on ESPN2 ). The changeover took effect the following weekend to coincide with
3822-576: The ABC logo appearing on the screen. For all soccer coverage, the ABC branding is used with little to no use of the ESPN logo (for example the Bundesliga on ABC ). Beginning in 2017, older ABC Sports branding elements have been re-used nostalgically by the network's sports-themed reality competition shows (which also import on-air talent from ESPN). The revival of Battle of the Network Stars paid homage to
3920-490: The ABC logo. These graphics were used through 2010. In 2011, the Bee was moved off of network TV and the telecast began to be produced by Scripps Television, which uses its own graphics. As ESPN has signed new contracts with various conferences to produce college football coverage, the network has begun branding its coverage of select conferences to which it has rights. This branding was first seen on SEC broadcasts in 2011, which became
4018-615: The Boxing Writers Association dedicated their highest honor, the "James A. Farley Award", after Farley Sr., for honesty and integrity in the sport of boxing. The seeds of its eventual integration with ESPN occurred when ABC acquired a controlling interest in ESPN from Getty Oil in 1984. One year later, Capital Cities Communications purchased ABC for US$ 3.5 billion. Although some ESPN sportscasters such as John Saunders and Dick Vitale began to also appear on ABC Sports telecasts and shared some sports content (particularly
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4116-578: The Buford family bought KTRE and converted it into a semi-satellite of KLTV. KLTV lost the CBS affiliation in September 1984, when Longview -based KLMG-TV (channel 51, now Fox affiliate KFXK-TV ) signed on. It retained a secondary affiliation with NBC until KETK-TV (channel 56) signed on in March 1987, resulting in channel 7 becoming an exclusive ABC affiliate. Buford Television owned KLTV and KTRE until 1989, when it sold
4214-470: The National Spelling Bee has carried any ABC branding since 2006. Also starting with Saturday Primetime in 2017, live NBA game action no longer shows the ESPN identification on screen. Previously under ESPN on ABC (since 2006–07), the ESPN logo was part of the score banner, while the ABC logo was separately floating on the right side of the screen, remaining on screen during replays. The version of
4312-591: The Sunday game of the College World Series finals. This will be the first College World Series game on ABC, and the first CWS game on broadcast television since 2002. On December 10, 2020, ESPN announced that it had acquired the top-tier rights to the SEC under a 10-year, $ 3 billion contract to begin in the 2024 season; ABC will hold rights to the top SEC game of the week (replacing CBS). As before, they will primarily air in
4410-627: The U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking another large portion of this band (channels 52 to 69) away, in contrast to the rest of the world, which has been taking VHF instead. This means that some stations left on VHF are harder to receive after the analog shutdown . Since at least 1974, there are no stations on channel 37 in North America for radio astronomy purposes. Most television stations are commercial broadcasting enterprises which are structured in
4508-655: The United States Championship Tournament, orchestrated by promoter Don King to capitalize on the patriotism surrounding the United States Bicentennial and the American amateur success at the 1976 Summer Olympic Games . King's idea was to defeat the non-American boxers who held the vast majority of world titles below the heavyweight division. Keeping in line with the patriotic theme of the promotion, King held shows at "patriotic" locales—such as
4606-496: The advertisers – supported the idea of primetime football games at the beginning of the week. Arledge said regarding this skepticism, "But I thought there was something special about football, because there are so few games, and relatively few teams. Also, there is something about the look of a night game, with the lights bouncing off the helmets." It was not only the lights that made watching Arledge-style football on ABC an event in itself. The games were transformed into events through
4704-736: The air despite being in the Shreveport market. ** – This city can receive KLTV over the air despite parts of the city being in the Shreveport market. *** – This city can receive KLTV over the air despite being in the Dallas – Fort Worth market. In other parts of the market, such as Lufkin , Nacogdoches and Crockett , KLTV is unavailable over the air, but viewers can receive sister station KTRE. Television station The Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow ( TV Station Paul Nipkow ) in Berlin , Germany ,
4802-462: The air; no one was reported injured as a result. Cox Communications (which sold its East Texas systems to Suddenlink Communications in 2007) continued to carry KLTV's standard and high definition feeds via a fiber optic connection; however, DirecTV and Dish Network customers were not able to receive the station. KLTV re-established an analog signal at reduced power from its former studio and transmitter location in eastern Tyler within 13 hours of
4900-729: The annual AAU board of governors meeting. While he was shaking hands, Scherick said, "if the mood seemed right, might he cut a deal to broadcast AAU events on ABC?" It seemed like a tall assignment, however as Scherick said years later, "Roone was a gentile and I was not." Arledge came back with a deal for ABC to broadcast all AAU events for $ 50,000 per year. Next, Scherick and Arledge divided up their NCAA college football sponsor list. They then telephoned their sponsors and said in so many words, "Advertise on our new sports show coming up in April, or forget about buying commercials on NCAA college football this fall." The two persuaded enough sponsors to advertise on
4998-552: The broadcasts, though it took them to the last day of a deadline imposed by ABC's programming operations to do it. Wide World of Sports – an anthology series featuring a different sporting event each broadcast, which premiered on the network on April 29, 1961 – suited Scherick's plans exactly. By exploiting the speed of jet transportation and flexibility of videotape , Scherick was able to undercut NBC and CBS's advantages in broadcasting live sporting events. In that era, with communications nowhere near as universal as they are in
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#17328837112065096-458: The cable rights. For example, TNT held the cable television rights to the British Open from 2003 to 2009 (with ABC carrying the tournament's weekend coverage); in addition, from 2009 to 2018, ABC had shared the rights to IndyCar Series with NBCSN . IndyCar fans who have criticized ESPN on ABC's race broadcasts have used "Always Bad Coverage" as a derisive backronym pertaining to the quality of
5194-526: The channel was shut down on December 31, 2023, being replaced by The365. On digital subchannel 7.3, the station carries Telemundo ; the subchannel is also carried on Suddenlink channel 22. The station installed its digital transmitter tower on September 23, 2005; on December 14, KLTV became the second television station in East Texas to launch a digital signal, broadcasting on VHF channel 10. KLTV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 7, on June 12, 2009,
5292-650: The collapse. No cause for the collapse has been disclosed to date. A new Harris transmitter—on a tower slightly less than half the height of the one that collapsed—was installed the following day, allowing resumption of full-power broadcasts from the Tyler site, allowing over-the-air viewers to watch ABC 's broadcast of Super Bowl XL over its analog signal; the digital signal was restored several days later. KLTV restored its analog over-the-air signal from its original tower while also being restored on DirecTV, Dish Network and other area cable providers. Its analog transmitter equipment
5390-532: The conclusion of the telecasts (i.e., "The preceding program has been paid for by ESPN, Inc." ). ESPN later signed a similar television rights contract with the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 2002, allowing it to produce and broadcast NBA games on ABC under a similar time buy arrangement on the broadcast network. Between 2000 and 2002, many ABC Sports programs utilized graphics almost identical to those used on ESPN. One notable exception
5488-477: The eventual resignation of New York State Boxing Commissioner James Farley Jr., who had lent his name to the Championship fights and who was the son of former New York State Athletic Commissioner and former Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley , who had died one year prior to the scandal. Farley Jr., had accepted a hotel room which had been furnished by King. This was used by David W. Burke who at that time
5586-431: The first exclusive regular season telecast of a Major League Baseball game on ABC since 1989 , Matt Vasgersian , Alex Rodriguez , and Buster Olney wore special ABC Sports patches during Sunday Night Baseball on August 8, 2021 between the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs . Special graphics inspired by The Baseball Network were also used in conjunction with the standard ESPN MLB graphics. The game also featured
5684-399: The game to the sports fan, but recognized that television had to take fans to the game. In addition, he had the forethought to realize that the broadcasts needed to attract, and hold the attention of female viewers, as well as males. On September 17, 1960, the then-29-year-old Arledge put his vision into reality with ABC's first NCAA college football broadcast from Birmingham , Alabama, between
5782-553: The game, the network's first NFL regular season game in almost 15 years. This game was also the first NFL game to be played in the city of Las Vegas , and the first NFL game to be played in the state of Nevada . The gold jackets returned on October 31, 2022 MNF broadcast between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Cleveland Browns , this time worn by the new top team of Joe Buck , Troy Aikman and Lisa Salters. To celebrate
5880-420: The highest point available in the transmission area, such as on a summit , the top of a high skyscraper , or on a tall radio tower . To get a signal from the master control room to the transmitter, a studio/transmitter link (STL) is used. The link can be either by radio or T1 / E1 . A transmitter/studio link (TSL) may also send telemetry back to the station, but this may be embedded in subcarriers of
5978-516: The larger KLTV signal. On March 14, 2023, digital translator K21PE-D was tested at its upgraded site on the KLTV tower, with a license to cover the new signal filed the following day. Concurrently, Gray Television filed a silent notification for K31PR-D, as the translator discontinued broadcasting on March 4, 2023, indicating that the company was doing so in preparation for the channel 31 facility to further upgrade through an upcoming filing. On cable , KLTV
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#17328837112066076-400: The local television station has no station identification and, from a consumer's point of view, there is no practical distinction between a network and a station, with only small regional changes in programming, such as local television news . To broadcast its programs, a television station requires operators to operate equipment, a transmitter or radio antenna , which is often located at
6174-419: The main broadcast. Stations which retransmit or simulcast another may simply pick-up that station over-the-air , or via STL or satellite. The license usually specifies which other station it is allowed to carry. VHF stations often have very tall antennas due to their long wavelength , but require much less effective radiated power (ERP), and therefore use much less transmitter power output , also saving on
6272-429: The most popular American sporting events. While Scherick was not interested in "For Men Only," he recognized the talent that Arledge had. Arledge realized ABC was the organization he was looking to become part of. The lack of a formal organization would offer him the opportunity to claim real power when the network matured. With this, he signed on with Scherick as an assistant producer, with Arledge eventually ascending to
6370-418: The network acquiring shares in the company. Scherick had formed the company after he left CBS , when the network would not make him the head of its sports programming unit (choosing to instead appoint former baseball public relations agent William C. McPhail). Before ABC Sports even became a formal division of the network, Scherick and ABC programming chief Tom Moore pulled off many programming deals involving
6468-499: The network as a secondary service, while it shared primary affiliation with both CBS and NBC ; the station also aired programming from the DuMont Television Network on a secondary basis until 1955. The station originally operated from studio facilities on Texas Loop 323 on the east side of Tyler. In 1964, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) collapsed Lufkin and Nacogdoches into the Tyler market. Soon afterward,
6566-426: The network's Sunday Night Football broadcasts. ESPN graphics were also utilized on ABC's motorsports telecasts, including IndyCar and NASCAR events, during this period. That same year, ESPN signed a five-year contract to televise National Hockey League (NHL) games, whereby the cable network essentially purchased time on ABC to air selected NHL games on the broadcast network. This was noted in copyright tags at
6664-550: The network, and has continued to do so since. Beginning with the 2021 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament , select women's college basketball games have also aired on ABC. In December 2021, the first regular season women's college basketball game aired on ABC. In 2023, ABC aired the final of the Division I women's basketball tournament for the first time. On May 6, 2019, the XFL announced that ESPN and Fox Sports had acquired
6762-501: The network, and in promotions to disambiguate events airing the broadcast network from those shown on the ESPN cable channel. The broadcast network's sports event coverage carried the ABC Sports brand prior to September 2, 2006. When ABC acquired a controlling interest in ESPN in 1984, it operated the cable network separately from its network sports division. The integration of ABC Sports with ESPN began after The Walt Disney Company bought ABC in 1996. The branding change to ESPN on ABC
6860-415: The new 2016–17 graphics package used on ABC replaces the ESPN logo in the score banner with several stars, while the ABC logo (still constantly on screen) anchors the right side of the banner; however for the 2017–18 season, the ESPN logo was reintroduced onto a revised version of the score banner with the ABC logo still located to the right, beginning with the 2022 College Football Season, the ESPN on ABC logo
6958-488: The official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition VHF channel 10 to channel 7 for post-transition operations. On July 27, 2021, Gray Television signed K31PR on the air as a full simulcast partner of the main KLTV signal. Both stations air an identical subchannel line-up, with K31PR's coverage area encompassed entirely by
7056-408: The present day, ABC was able to safely record events on videotape for later broadcast without worrying about an audience finding out the results. Arledge, his colleague Chuck Howard , and Jim McKay (who left CBS for this opportunity) made up the show on a week-by-week basis during the first year of Wide World ' s run. Arledge had a genius for the dramatic storyline that unfolded in the course of
7154-584: The primetime Monday Night Football and coined the famous "thrill of victory, agony of defeat" tagline first used on Wide World of Sports – although ABC insiders of that era attribute the authorship to legendary sports broadcaster Jim McKay. Over the next few years, the look of the network's sports telecasts became more intimate and entertaining as under Arledge, ABC introduced techniques such as slow motion replay, freeze frame , instant replay , split-screen, hand-held cameras, endzone cameras, underwater cameras and cameras on cranes. As part of an agreement with
7252-468: The program "changed the habits of the nation." In 1977, Arledge's executive responsibilities at ABC were expanded, and he was made president of ABC News while remaining as head of ABC Sports. In 1976, unscrupulous managing editor of The Ring , Johnny Ort, fabricated records of selected boxers, to elevate them, thereby securing them lucrative fights on the American ABC television network, as part of
7350-476: The programmes seen on its owner's flagship station, and have no television studio or production facilities of their own. This is common in developing countries . Low-power stations typically also fall into this category worldwide. Most stations which are not simulcast produce their own station identifications . TV stations may also advertise on or provide weather (or news) services to local radio stations , particularly co-owned sister stations . This may be
7448-566: The rights to broadcast the league's return, with the broadcasts airing on ABC , ESPN , Fox , and FS1 , then later in 2023 on FX , with Fox Sports not opting to broadcast the XFL, leaving ESPN as the sole broadcast rights holder. The XFL later merged with Fox's United States Football League to form the United Football League ; ABC holds an ownership stake in the merged league. In 2020 , ABC returned to MLB coverage once again. This time it
7546-557: The start of the college football season, with NBA , IndyCar Series and NASCAR coverage eventually following suit. However, ABC used a separate graphics package (incorporating the network's own logo) during its coverage of the final round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee , which were similar to the older-styled ESPN graphics but with a yellow base. In 2008, though, it utilized the newer yellow and red ESPN graphics which had been used on other recent telecasts, but with
7644-502: The stations do not broadcast an early evening newscast on Sundays. Lufkin semi-satellite KTRE simulcasts KLTV's weekday morning, midday, 4 p.m., 5 p.m. and weekend morning and evening newscasts. Channel 7 has been the dominant station in the market for most of its history and its newscasts routinely garner several times the number of viewers of its nearest competitor. KLTV and its staff have received several awards including seven Lone Star Emmy Awards . The station's longtime slogan
7742-459: The stations to Jackson, Mississippi –based Civic Communications. In 1996, KLTV relocated its operations from its longtime studios on Texas Loop 323 in eastern Tyler to a new facility downtown, located in a former savings & loan branch and office complex near the Smith County courthouse; the former studio facility was demolished in November 2007. Civic merged with Cosmos Broadcasting, a division of
7840-542: The technical innovations envisioned by Arledge and through a new style of sportscaster embodied in Howard Cosell . ABC was the first network not to allow announcer approval by the league from which it was purchasing broadcast rights. Arledge said, " CBS had been the basic football network. They treated it like a religion and would almost never criticize it. But if you screwed up on Monday Night Football , Cosell would let everyone know about it." Arledge proudly pointed out that
7938-529: The telecasts. On the other hand, ESPN airs Major League Baseball games; however, ABC does not as Fox holds the broadcast television rights to the league's game telecasts. ABC would later air MLB postseason games in 2020 as part of the 2020 Wild Card Series . ABC would also air Sunday Night Baseball on August 8, 2021 between the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs . This would be the first exclusive regular season telecast of Major League Baseball on ABC since 1989. The last live sporting event televised under
8036-522: The third television station in the Tyler–Longview market to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition . On September 10, 2012, KLTV debuted an hour-long weekday afternoon newscast at 4 p.m. The stations' signals are multiplexed : On digital subchannel 7.2, the station carries The365 television network; the subchannel is also carried on Suddenlink Communications digital channel 247. The subchannel launched on December 14, 2005, as
8134-647: The tower, with the winner being selected by popular vote on the station's website. On April 17, 2007, at approximately 6:58 p.m., contest winner Jeff Heimer officially flipped the switch to turn on the new transmitter and tower. In January 2011, KLTV started "KLTV in Your Community", a section of its website serving as a branch for citizen journalism, or community blogging; the blog sites are separated into fifteen East Texas communities with Tyler divided into four quadrants by city section. It has since been shut down. On June 25, 2018, Gray Television announced that it
8232-435: The vice president of ABC Sports. That same year, Scherick left the sports division to become ABC's vice president of programming – leaving Arledge as the top executive at ABC Sports, although he would not gain a formal title as president for four years. In 1968, Arledge was formally appointed as president of ABC Sports. As the sports division's president for the succeeding 18 years, his job was his hobby; as he described it, it
8330-399: The world. Television stations broadcasting over an analog system were typically limited to one television channel , but digital television enables broadcasting via subchannels as well. Television stations usually require a broadcast license from a government agency which sets the requirements and limitations on the station. In the United States, for example, a television license defines
8428-408: Was Monday Night Football , which switched to a different graphics package as part of then-new producer Don Ohlmeyer 's attempt to provide some renewed vigor into those telecasts. Subsequently, ABC changed graphics packages each fall from 2002 to 2005, while ESPN's basically remained consistent. Meanwhile, Disney continued to consolidate the corporate structure of ESPN and ABC Sports. Steve Bornstein
8526-611: Was a secretary of Governor Hugh Carey , to force Farley Jr.'s eventual resignation form the New York State Athletic commission. In August 1977 Mr. Arledge announced the appointment of David W. Burke, as his new assistant for administration, with the title of vice president. Mr. Burke helped develop programs including This Week with David Brinkley and Nightline , and had no prior television or journalism experience prior to his hiring by Arledge. No formal charges of impropriety were ever filed against Farley Jr.. The following year
8624-452: Was an homage to Cosell and the network's history of varied sports offerings. "That gold jacket was doing many extreme events; barrel jumping, Acapulco cliff diving. You can look at the history of legitimate sports coverage on ABC, ...that gold jacket was attached to a lot of sports that had one-year, two-year runs on Saturday afternoon on ABC ...I think it's something that Roone Arledge, who was always very forward-thinking, would recognize. ...in
8722-533: Was announced that ABC Sports would be totally integrated into ESPN, incorporating the graphics and music used by the cable channel and its related television properties, and production staff. The brand integration does not directly affect whether the ESPN cable channel or ABC carries a particular event, as in most cases this is governed by contracts with the applicable league or organization. Perhaps confusingly, this means that some events are broadcast with ESPN branding during ABC coverage, even though another channel owns
8820-455: Was given the title as president of both ESPN and ABC Sports in 1996. The sales, marketing, and production departments of both divisions were eventually merged. As a result, ESPN uses some union production crews for its coverage (as the networks normally do), whereas non-union personnel are quite common in cable sports broadcasting. In August 2006, in the wake of the moves of Monday Night Football to ESPN and Sunday Night Football to NBC , it
8918-488: Was good because he watched sports for work rather than leisure, but had a downside as he had no time left for leisure activities. He made sportsmen into stars, a trend he would later bring to the news division where he lured established anchors and correspondents such as David Brinkley and Diane Sawyer and paid unheard-of salaries, including the first million-dollar contract to Barbara Walters . Arledge personally produced all ten of ABC's Olympic Games broadcasts, created
9016-426: Was made to better orient ESPN viewers with event telecasts on ABC and provide consistent branding for all sports broadcasts on Disney-owned channels (shortly thereafter, ESPN2 's in-game graphics were likewise altered to simply use the main "ESPN" brand). Despite its name, ABC's sports coverage is supplemental to ESPN and (with occasional exceptions) not a simulcast of programs aired by the network. Since 2021, ABC
9114-917: Was merging with Raycom, under the Gray name. When the merger was approved by the FCC and the Justice Department , it made KLTV (and KTRE) a sister station to adjacent market stations KXII in Sherman , KBTX in Bryan and KWTX in Waco in addition to the current Raycom sister stations, while separating it from KXXV . The sale was approved on December 20 and was completed on January 2, 2019. KLTV presently broadcasts 31 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours each weekday and two hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); unlike most ABC affiliates,
9212-457: Was not damaged and was supplemented at the original tower site with a newer transmitter. However, its over-the-air high definition and digital television transmission equipment was a total loss. In March and April 2007, KLTV ran a "Flip the Switch" promotion to promote the completion of the new Red Springs tower. Viewers were urged to submit 30-second videos to show why they should be selected to turn on
9310-578: Was part of ESPN 's Wild Card Series coverage, which was expanded due to the COVID-19 pandemic (ESPN and ABC are both primarily owned by The Walt Disney Company , and Disney integrated the ABC Sports division with ESPN in 2006). ABC aired three Wild Card Series games as part of this coverage. All coverage primarily used ESPN or ESPN on ABC branding. In 2021 , ABC aired their first regular season game since 1995, an August 8 Sunday Night Baseball game between
9408-674: Was the first regular television service in the world. It was on the air from 22 March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow , the inventor of the Nipkow disk . Most often the term "television station" refers to a station which broadcasts structured content to an audience or it refers to the organization that operates the station. A terrestrial television transmission can occur via analog television signals or, more recently, via digital television signals. Television stations are differentiated from cable television or other video providers as their content
9506-575: Was the first time since 2005 that it aired a full season of MNF. In 2019, ABC aired the MLS Cup , its first Major League Soccer match since 2008. During the 2020 Major League Soccer season , ABC returned to airing regular season matches as well. ESPN did not renew its MLS deal after the 2022 season. ABC also aired matches from the German Bundesliga , Spanish La Liga , and the United States women's national soccer team . In 2021, ABC aired
9604-578: Was uncovered by boxing writer Malcolm "Flash" Gordon and ABC staffer Alex Wallau . After Gordon and Wallau's evidence was presented to ABC executive Roone Arledge the United States Championship tournament was cancelled. Despite being hoodwinked and manipulated by Don King, in 1977 ABC made Arledge president of the then low-rated network news division, all while Arledge retained control of the Sports Division. The ABC Ring Scandal would lead to
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