KAMR-TV

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KAMR-TV
Amarillo, Texas
United States
Branding KAMR Local 4 (general)
KAMR Local 4 News (newscasts)
Slogan Your Local News Leader
Channels Digital: 19 (UHF)
Virtual: 4 (PSIP)
Affiliations NBC
MyNetworkTV (DT2)
Owner Nexstar Broadcasting Group
(Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.)
First air date March 18, 1953 (1953-03-18)
Call letters' meaning AMaRillo
Sister station(s) KCIT
KCPN-LP
Lubbock: KLBK-TV, KAMC
Wichita Falls: KFDX-TV, KJTL, KJBO-LP
Abilene: KRBC-TV, KTAB-TV
San Angelo: KLST, KSAN-TV
El Paso, Texas: KTSM-TV
Brownsville: KVEO
Midland/Odessa: KMID, KPEJ
Waco/Temple/Killeen: KWKT
Bryan/College Station: KYLE-TV
Tyler/Longview: KETK-TV, KFXK-TV, KTPN-LD/KLPN-LD
Former callsigns KGNC-TV (1953–1974)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
4 (VHF, 1953–2009)
Former affiliations Secondary: DuMont (1953–1956)
DT2:
NBC Weather Plus (2005–2008)
Transmitter power 400 kW
Height 455.2 meters (1,493 ft)
Facility ID 8523
Transmitter coordinates 35°20′33.2″N 101°49′21.6″W / 35.342556°N 101.822667°W / 35.342556; -101.822667Coordinates: 35°20′33.2″N 101°49′21.6″W / 35.342556°N 101.822667°W / 35.342556; -101.822667
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.myhighplains.com/home

KAMR-TV, virtual channel 4, is an NBC affiliate in Amarillo, Texas. The station was acquired by Nexstar Broadcasting Group after merging with KAMR's parent company, Quorum Broadcasting in 2003. This station operates shared services agreements with Mission Broadcasting's stations, KCIT and KCPN-LP. All three stations share studios and offices located on South Fillmore Street in downtown Amarillo (across the street from KVII-TV), and the station's transmitter is located on Dumas Drive (U.S. 87 and U.S. 287) in unincorporated Potter County.

Digital channels

Channel Video Aspect PSIP short name Programming
4.1 1080i 16:9 KAMR-HD Main KAMR-TV programming / NBC
4.2 480i 4:3 KCPN-SD Simulcast of KCPN-LP

History

KAMR's logo with a list of translators below (c. 1980s).

The station went on the air on March 18, 1953 as KGNC-TV (for Globe-News Corporation (or Company)) and was co-owned by the Amarillo Globe-News along with KGNC-AM 710. It originally operated from studio facilities located on North Polk Street in Amarillo. The station has always been an NBC affiliate but also carried DuMont programming until the network closed in 1956. The Globe-News sold the station to Stauffer Communications in January 1966, which in turn sold off KGNC-TV. Stuaffer sold KGNC-TV to Cannan Communications in 1974, who changed the station's call letters to the current KAMR-TV. Concurrent to Cannan's purchase, the station unveiled a new "arrow 4 logo" that was modified in the early to mid-1980s, as well as the "Action News" branding. In October 1990, though, they retired the "arrow 4" logo and "Action News" branding in favor of the "News 4" branding and a distantly-similar logo to the "4" that they began using in 1998. However, these changes--as well as the adoption of the "Straight Facts, Straight to You" news slogan (the slogan was also used by KMOL-TV (now WOAI-TV) in San Antonio), did little to improve its ratings, as it slid from #2 in 1989 to a ever-more-distant #3 in 1990 (longtime #3 KFDA-TV took over the #2 spot and would surge to #1 by the end of the decade).[1] After 25 years of ownership, Cannan sold Channel 4 to Quorum Broadcasting in 1999. The station was acquired by Nexstar Broadcasting Group after merging with Quorum Broadcasting in 2003. In 2005, the station began operating NBC Weather Plus on digital subchannnel 4.2 and until 2008, it was the only Nexstar-owned NBC affiliate to carry the network when it was replaced with a simulcast of MyNetworkTV affiliate KCPN-LP right after NBC Weather Plus shut down due to NBC Universal purchasing The Weather Channel.

Logo until 2014

KAMR celebrated 50 years of broadcasting in 2003. In 2013, the station celebrated 60 years of broadcasting.

Programming

Syndicated programming on KAMR includes: Entertainment Tonight (opposite The Insider on KCIT), The Dr. Oz Show, Rachael Ray, Kathy, The 700 Club and The Office. Other syndicated programming that had aired on KAMR-TV in the past were The Ellen DeGeneres Show (now on KVII-TV), A Current Affair, The Oprah Winfrey Show (later moved to KVII-TV, now defunct), Judge Judy (now on KVII-TV) Maury (then known as The Maury Povich Show in the early 1990s; now on KFDA-DT2), The Jenny Jones Show, The Bonnie Hunt Show, The Caroline Rhea Show, The People's Court (now on sister station KCIT), Degrassi Junior High, The Martha Stewart Show, The Montel Williams Show, Hollywood Squares (at the time hosted by Peter Marshall) and The Tyra Banks Show among others.

Translators

KAMR serves a large portion of northern Texas, the Oklahoma Panhandle and northeastern New Mexico through many translators beyond its normal 50 mile effective radiated power.

New Mexico

Oklahoma

Texas

See also

References

  1. ↑ Amarillo Daily News, especially their February 3-9, 1991 and late October and November 1990 issues.

External links

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