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Katherine Keyes | Dr. Keyes dr-keyes.com | Patient TV,Interactive Patient TV,Interactive Hospital TV,Hospital TV tvrc.com |
 KEYE-TV, channel 42 is the CBS affiliate in Austin, Texas, USA. It is owned by the Four Points Media Group, LLC (which in turn is owned by Cerberus Capital Management) but is operated by Nexstar Broadcasting Group through a local service agreement (a.k.a. LSA). Its studios are located on Metric Boulevard in North Austin (as one of two stations in this part of town; KVUE is other), and its transmitter is located in the city.
[edit] HistoryChannel 42 had been the original home of NBC affiliate KHFI-TV, when it signed on in 1965. That station moved to channel 36 in 1973 and is now KXAN-TV. For nine years, the channel was dark. That was until December 4, 1983 when KBVO-TV, Austin's first independent station, took to the airwaves. The calls came from the University of Texas at Austin's mascot, Bevo. It was originally owned by Steve Beard, an Austin advertising executive. In 1987, it became affiliated with the upstart Fox network and began calling itself "Fox42" on-air in the late 1980s. In 1993, Beard sold the station to Granite Broadcasting for $54 million—a handsome return on his original investment. In 1995, after Fox purchased KTBC, thus moving its affiliation there, KBVO took over the CBS affiliation and changed its calls to KEYE. The callsign refers to the famous CBS Eye Logo. It called itself "K-EYE 42, Your Eye on Austin" until 1999, branding was shortened to simply "K-EYE," on account of the fact that it was now available to all Austin area cable subscribers on cable channel 5. In 2000, KEYE became the second O&O of any major network in the market when CBS bought the station from Granite. In 2005 it was rebranded again, strangely enough, to "CBS42 K-EYE" (under the "CBS Mandate") to reflect CBS ownership and for cable subscribers to avoid confusion with San Antonio's CBS outlet KENS-TV, seen on VHF analog channel 5. As of 2006, the K-EYE branding was phased out in favor of simply CBS42 (except for a website address reference). On February 7, 2007, CBS agreed to sell seven of its stations to Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., for $185 million. Cerberus formed a new holding company for the stations, Four Points Media Group, who took over the operation of the stations through local marketing agreements in late-June 2007.[1] On January 10, 2008, Four Points officially became the owner of the stations. Four Points operated the stations outright until March 20, 2009 when it entered into a three-year local service agreement (LSA) with the Irving, Texas-based Nexstar Broadcasting Group. The latter company then took over the management of all of the Four Points stations including KEYE. In August 2009, CBS42 was dropped in favor of KEYE-TV News, and the station website address was changed to weareaustin.com. KEYE's master controls were located at the studio facilities of WTOG in St. Petersburg (FL) from shortly after Viacom's merger with CBS until the beginning of 2007, when WTOG's master controls were relocated to WGNT in Norfolk (VA). At that point, as part of the preparation of the station to eventually begin producing local newscasts in HDTV, KEYE began handling its own master controls for the first time in several years. From 2002-2008, KEYE was the Austin home for pre-season games of the Houston Texans, in addition to airing CBS' coverage of the AFC package of NFL games. As of April 3, 2006, the station is the official home of the Dallas Cowboys in Austin and airs pre-season games as well as several Cowboys-related shows during the NFL season.[2] Some controversy exists over KEYE's selection of Tennessee Titans football games (capitalizing on former University of Texas quarterback Vince Young's popularity in Austin) over those of the Texans. KEYE has consistently traded third and fourth place in the Austin Neilsens with KTBC since the affiliation switch, unable to capitalize on either its new CBS programming or the buzz generated by the new newscasts. In contrast, KTBC's newscasts and CBS programming were consistently ranked first in the market prior to switching to Fox.[3]) [4] [edit] Digital televisionDigital channels
KEYE started producing newscasts in high definition on November 1, 2007. The transition made KEYE the first station in the Austin market — and the first station in the Four Points Media Group — to produce and air newscasts in HD.[5] It was announced on March 29, 2008 that 42.2 was being turned on and would soon broadcast the Retro Television Network with a customized schedule for the Austin market.[1] On February 17, 2009, KEYE ceased analog broadcasts. Its digital signal remains on channel 43 using PSIP to display "42" as its virtual channel number. As of October 1, 2009, 42.2 carries Telemundo as well as locally produced Spanish-language newscasts weeknights at 5 and 10pm, displacing the RTN affiliation.[2] [edit] NewscastsBefore switching networks to CBS, KEYE (then KBVO) had no newscasts with the exception of nightly, three-minute updates aired during Fox prime time from a small closet studio. After the affiliation swap, on July 3, 1995, KEYE immediately launched a full slate of newscasts. Since that time, the first newscast to be dropped was the noon show - the station has also added and since dropped three new hours of weekend morning newscasts. KEYE started out with an Eyewitness News format (titled K-EYEwitness News), which was used until 2000. (The newscast title was shorted to KEYE News in late 1998, which was used until the "CBS Mandate" was put in place and the title became CBS 42 K-EYE News and then simply CBS 42 News.) The station canceled its 5 p.m. newscast in September 2009, replacing it with "We Are Austin LIVE," an hour-long 4 p.m. lifestyle show anchored by Michelle Valles and Jason Wheeler. A few weeks later, the morning newscast was canceled and later replaced with a simulcast of the "J.B. and Sandy Morning Show" on KAMX Mix 94.7 FM. In contrast to former Fox stations on UHF that are now CBS, ABC or NBC stations—which often have had no success against their better-established news competitors, resulting in several cancellations—KEYE has been successful with their newscasts in a mostly-UHF market, competing with KTBC, KVUE, and KXAN-TV, thus making it one of the fastest growing stations in Central Texas. [edit] Notable Personalities[edit] Current On-Air TalentCurrent Anchors
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The broadcasting antennas are on a 369.1 metres tall guyed TV tower at 30°19′19.3″N, 97°48′12.6″W. [edit] References
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