KFDA-TV
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Amarillo, Texas United States |
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| Branding | NewsChannel 10 |
| Slogan | The Most Watched News In The Panhandle |
| Channels | Digital: 10 (VHF) |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Translators | (see article) |
| Affiliations | CBS |
| Owner |
Raycom Media (KFDA/KEYU License Subsidiary, LLC) |
| First air date | April 4, 1953 |
| Sister station(s) |
KEYU KEYU-FM KCBD (NBC, Lubbock) |
| Former channel number(s) | 10 (VHF analog, 1953–2009) 9 (VHF digital, –2009) |
| Former affiliations |
ABC (secondary, 1953–1957) UPN (subchannel, until 2006) |
| Transmitter power | 20.8 kW |
| Height | 466 meters (1,529 ft) |
| Facility ID | 51466 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°17′34″N 101°50′42″W / 35.29278°N 101.84500°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.newschannel10.com |
KFDA-TV, virtual channel 10, is the CBS-affiliated television station in Amarillo, Texas. The station is currently owned by Raycom Media. The station is broadcast throughout its coverage area across the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, Eastern New Mexico and Southwestern Kansas over-the-air as well as cable carriage and through a network of 19 additional UHF translators in distant locations.
KFDA studios and transmitter are located on Broadway Drive in Amarillo, one mile west of Cherry Avenue.
Former owner Drewry Communications Group operated independent station NewsChannel 10 Too on digital channel 10-2; until 2015, its programming was simulcast on analog low-power station KZBZ-LP. Previously, KZBZ was UPN Amarillo, which launched to replace KCPN-LP as that network's affiliate. A digital subchannel of KVII-TV gained the affiliation for the new CW network, which merged the programming assets of both UPN and The WB, while KCPN affiliated with the News Corporation-owned MyNetworkTV. Telemundo affiliate KEYU (the successor to KTMO-LP) is simulcast on channel 10-3. On January 31, 2014, LATV Amarillo was replaced by a 24/7 local news and weather channel from KFDA called "NewsChannel 10 24/7".
KFDA's broadcasts became digital-only, effective June 12, 2009.
The station signed on the air on April 4, 1953, several weeks after NBC affiliate KGNC-TV (channel 4, now KAMR-TV). KFDA-TV was originally owned by the Amarillo Broadcasting Company along with KFDA radio (1440 AM). It has always been a CBS affiliate, but channel 10 also carried programming from ABC until KVII (channel 7) signed on in 1957; KFDA radio was an ABC Radio affiliate. In 1954, the Texas State Network (TSN) acquired a 75 percent controlling stake in KFDA-AM-TV from the original stockholders for $525,000, with Charles B. Jordan retaining his 25 percent interest; in 1958, Jordan divested his stake in KFDA-TV to TSN in exchange for full ownership of KFDA radio. Despite this separation of ownership, the KFDA stations continued to share a base call sign until 1966, when the radio station became KPUR.
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