KERO-TV
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HAAT | 1,107 m (3,632 ft) |
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Transmitter coordinates | 35°27′13.8″N 118°35′40.3″W / 35.453833°N 118.594528°W |
Translator(s) | KZKC-LD 28 (UHF) Bakersfield (city) |
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Website | www |
KERO-TV (channel 23) is a television station in Bakersfield, California, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. The station's studios are located on 21st Street in Downtown Bakersfield, and its transmitter is located atop Breckenridge Mountain.
KERO-TV operates digital
History
KERO-TV went on the air on September 26, 1953, on channel 10 as an NBC affiliate. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.[2] It was locally owned by Kern County Broadcasters along with KERO radio (1230 AM, now KGEO). The two stations shared a studio in the lobby of the El Tejon Hotel, which was located at the corner of Truxtun Avenue and Chester Avenue. KERO-TV later moved to its current studios on 21st Street.
The radio and TV stations were broken up in late 1955, when KERO radio was sold.
One of KERO-TV's best remembered shows was Cousin Herb's Trading Post, a local variety series in the 1950s. The show's host
As a result of the
Transcontinent sold most of its stations to Taft Broadcasting in 1964, but KERO was not included; it was sold to Time-Life.[10] Another publishing firm, McGraw-Hill, acquired KERO-TV in 1972 along with the rest of Time-Life's broadcasting division—KOGO-TV (now KGTV) in San Diego, KLZ-TV (now KMGH-TV) in Denver (its sole CBS affiliate at the time) and WFBM-TV (now WRTV) in Indianapolis.[11]
As its sister stations KGTV and WRTV switched to ABC in the late 1970s, it was expected that KERO-TV would eventually switch to from third-place NBC to first-place ABC. But instead, in March 1984, KERO-TV swapped affiliations with
In August 2006, KERO-TV gained a sister station in KZKC-LP, an Azteca América affiliate.
On October 3, 2011, McGraw-Hill announced it was selling its entire television station group to the E. W. Scripps Company for $212 million.[13] The deal was completed on December 30, 2011.[14]
Programming
In 2004, KERO-TV, along with the other McGraw-Hill stations, claimed that they tried to preempt Saving Private Ryan, but out of desperation, aired the film.[15][16]
On September 8, 2014, the station dropped the Sony game shows Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune due to Scripps' chain-wide effort to replace the shows in their markets with lower-cost local and chain-produced programming. The programs moved to KBAK, and were replaced with two Scripps-produced programs, newsmagazine The List and game show Let's Ask America (the latter being replaced with Inside Edition after its cancellation).
News operation
Former news anchor Burleigh Smith (died 1990) is considered by many to be the father of television news in Bakersfield. Smith produced and anchored at KERO from 1954 to 1960, and again from 1973 to 1990.
Other longtime KERO news personalities include Don Rodewald (who hosted the afternoon movie), George Day, and Sunny Scofield. MSNBC Live & Direct host Rita Cosby was a KERO reporter in the 1980s.
Lloyd Lindsay Young joined the station in 2005 as chief weathercaster. His trademark intro is "Hellooooo (insert city name)". He is also known for his outrageous weather pointers which are sent in by viewers; submissions have ranged from a mannequin leg to a dildo. On September 17, 2008, The Bakersfield Californian reported that Young departed KERO-TV after more than three years there. No reason was given, which followed the broadcasts of September 16, 2008. Rusty Shoop, who is known throughout Bakersfield, and was a former KERO weather anchor, replaced Young. Shoop earlier suffered a brain aneurysm and this was his first TV appearance since the illness. Shoop started on October 27, 2008. After being at KERO-TV for a year, Shoop retired from broadcasting on December 9, 2009, for medical reasons stemming from the brain aneurysm.[17] On January 18, 2010, Jack Church, who was chief meteorologist from 1999 to 2001, replaced Rusty Shoop and was the chief meteorologist from January 18, 2010, until May 5, 2011.
Notable former staff
- Andrew Amador – morning anchor/reporter (2005–2007)
- Rita Cosby
- Frank Gifford
- Lynn Noel– public affairs director
- Rusty Shoop – chief meteorologist (1984; 2008–2009)
- Lloyd Lindsay Young – chief meteorologist (2005–2008)
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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23.1 | 720p | 16:9 |
KERO-HD | ABC |
23.2 | COURT | Court TV | ||
23.3 | 480i | GRIT | Grit | |
23.4 | ION | Ion Television | ||
23.5 | Bounce | Bounce TV | ||
23.6 | Scripps | Scripps News | ||
23.7 | HSN | HSN |
Analog-to-digital conversion
KERO-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over
See also
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KERO-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Require Prime Evening Time for NTA Films", Boxoffice: 13, November 10, 1956
- Broadcasting – Telecasting, December 12, 1955, pg. 9. [1][permanent dead link]
- ^ "Aspirin, please." Broadcasting – Telecasting, April 2, 1956, pg. 74. [2][permanent dead link]
- ^ "KERO-TV going for $2.15 million." Broadcasting – Telecasting, January 7, 1957, pg. 7. [3][permanent dead link]
- ^ "Wrather buys out Alvarez." Broadcasting – Telecasting, May 12, 1958, pg. 9. [4][permanent dead link]
- ^ "New station combine formed." Broadcasting – Telecasting, February 16, 1959, pg. 9. [5][permanent dead link]
- ^ "Transcontinent tie with Marietta gets ok." Broadcasting – Telecasting, May 18, 1959, pp. 74, 76. [6][permanent dead link] http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/59-OCR/1959-05-18-BC-0076.pdf[permanent dead link]]
- ^ "Vhf-to-uhf change approved for KERO-TV." Broadcasting, November 19, 1962, pg. 78. [7]
- ^ "Transcontinent sale: last of its kind?" Broadcasting, February 24, 1964, pp. 27–28. [8][permanent dead link][9][permanent dead link]
- ^ "McGraw-Hill buys into TV in a big way." Broadcasting, November 2, 1970, pg. 9. [10][permanent dead link]
- ^ "In Brief" (PDF). Broadcasting. April 4, 1983. Retrieved August 21, 2021.
- ^ McGraw-Hill Sells TV Group To Scripps, TVNewsCheck, October 3, 2011.
- ^ "Scripps completes McGraw-Hill Stations Buy". TVNewsCheck. December 30, 2011. Archived from the original on September 13, 2012. Retrieved December 31, 2011.
- ^ Zurawik, David. "ABC affiliates saying no to 'Private Ryan'". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
- ^ "Denver's 7 Will Air 'Saving Private Ryan'". 5280. November 11, 2004. Retrieved September 28, 2021.
- ^ "Weather Guru Rusty Shoop Steps Down from TV - KERO 23 News Team Story - KERO Bakersfield". Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved December 12, 2009.
- ^ "TV Listings".
- ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.