KABB
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San Antonio, Texas United States |
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| Branding | Fox 29 / Fox San Antonio (general) Fox 29 News (news) |
| Slogan | Know More. Know First. |
| Channels |
Digital: 30 (UHF) Virtual: 29 () |
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| Owner |
Sinclair Broadcast Group (KABB Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | December 16, 1987 |
| Call letters' meaning | Alamo Broadcasting |
| Sister station(s) | WOAI-TV, KMYS |
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| Former affiliations | Independent (1987–1995) |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 441 m |
| Facility ID | 56528 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 29°17′28″N 98°16′12″W / 29.29111°N 98.27000°WCoordinates: 29°17′28″N 98°16′12″W / 29.29111°N 98.27000°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | foxsanantonio.com |
KABB, virtual channel 29 (UHF digital channel 30), is a Fox-affiliated television station located in San Antonio, Texas, United States. It is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a duopoly with NBC affiliate WOAI-TV (channel 4); Sinclair also operates CW affiliate KMYS (channel 35) through joint sales and shared services agreements with owner Deerfield Media. KABB maintains studio facilities located between Babcock Road and Sovereign Drive (off Loop 410) in northwest San Antonio, and its transmitter is located off of Route 181 in northwest Wilson County (northeast of Elmendorf).
The station first signed on the air on December 16, 1987; originally operating as an independent station, it was the first independent to sign on in the San Antonio market since KRRT (channel 35, now CW affiliate KMYS) – which by that point, was the market's original Fox affiliate – debuted in November 1985. Channel 29 was originally owned by the Alamo Broadcasting Corporation, from which its call letters were taken.
Alamo Broadcasting sold the station to River City Broadcasting in 1989. In 1994, Paramount Pictures, then-owners of KRRT through its Paramount Stations Group subsidiary, entered into a partnership with Chris-Craft Industries – which owned NBC affiliate KMOL-TV (channel 4, now WOAI-TV) at the time – to create the United Paramount Network (UPN), with KRRT serving as the network's San Antonio affiliate. River City subsequently signed an affiliation agreement with Fox for KABB to become the network's new area affiliate; on January 16, 1995, KRRT dropped Fox programming to become the market's original affiliate of UPN, with KABB assuming the Fox affiliation; shortly afterward, KRRT entered into a local marketing agreement with KABB after Paramount sold channel 35 to Jet Broadcasting. In 1996, the Sinclair Broadcast Group acquired River City Broadcasting's television stations.
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