KERO-TV
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Bakersfield, California United States |
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| Branding | 23 ABC (general) 23 ABC News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | We Cover Kern County |
| Channels |
Digital: 10 (VHF) Virtual: 23 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 23.1 ABC 23.2 Azteca America 23.3 MeTV |
| Affiliations | ABC (secondary 1953–1959; primary since 1996) |
| Owner |
E. W. Scripps Company (Scripps Media, Inc.) |
| First air date | September 26, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | KERn County's TV Outlet |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 10 (VHF, 1953–1963) 23 (UHF, 1963–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
NBC (1953–1984) CBS (1984–1996) |
| Transmitter power | 10.8 kW |
| Height | 1081 m |
| Facility ID | 40878 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°27′13.6″N 118°35′41.1″W / 35.453778°N 118.594750°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.turnto23.com |
KERO-TV, channel 23 (VHF digital channel 10), is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Bakersfield, California, United States. The station is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. KERO maintains studios located on 21st Street in downtown Bakersfield, and its transmitter is located atop Breckenridge Mountain.
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. KERO-TV was first owned by a local interest, Kern County Broadcasters, along with KERO radio (1230 AM, now KGEO). The TV station, along with KERO radio, originally broadcast from 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 at 321 21st Street.
The radio and TV stations were broken up in late 1955, when KERO radio was sold. Wrather-Alvarez Broadcasting, parent of KFMB-AM-TV in San Diego, purchased KERO-TV in early 1957; when the Wrather–Alvarez partnership broke up a year later, Jack Wrather kept KERO-TV and the San Diego stations as part of his newly renamed Marietta Broadcasting. In 1959, Wrather merged Marietta Broadcasting into Buffalo, New York-based Transcontinent Television Corporation.
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, Herb Henson was a country musician, and often featured local artists such as Buck Owens and Tommy Collins, who would come to popularize the "Bakersfield Sound". Another local favorite was The Uncle Woody Show in the 1960s and 1970s. Radio and TV personality Casey Kasem also used the KERO studios to tape a weekly musical TV variety show entitled SheBang in the mid-to-late 1960s, while a disc jockey at KRLA in Los Angeles.
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