KFSN-TV
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Fresno, California United States |
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| Branding | ABC 30 (general) ABC 30 Action News (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
Number One in Central California (general) Live, local, Latebreaking (newscasts) |
| Channels |
Digital: 30 (UHF) Virtual: 30 () |
| Subchannels | See Below |
| Affiliations | ABC (O&O) |
| Owner |
Disney/ABC (KFSN Television, LLC) |
| First air date | May 10, 1956 |
| Call letters' meaning | FreSNo |
| Former callsigns | KFRE-TV (1956–1971) |
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| Former affiliations | CBS (1956–1985) |
| Transmitter power | 260 kW |
| Height | 625 metres (2,051 feet) |
| Facility ID | 8620 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°4′37.4″N 119°26′4.6″W / 37.077056°N 119.434611°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KFSN-TV, virtual and UHF digital channel 30, is an ABC owned-and-operated television station located in Fresno, California, United States. The station is owned by ABC Owned Television Stations, a unit of the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. KFSN-TV maintains studio and office facilities located on G Street in downtown Fresno; its transmitter is located on Bear Mountain, near Meadow Lakes, California.
After the Federal Communications Commission's four-year-long freeze on awarding television station licenses was lifted in 1952, two radio stations – KARM (1430 AM, now KYNO) and KFRE (940 AM, now KFIG) competed for the construction permit to operate a station on channel 12, the sole VHF allocation given to Fresno. KFRE won the permit, and the station first signed on the air on May 10, 1956 as KFRE-TV. It is the third-oldest television station in the Fresno market and upon signing on, KFRE-TV took the CBS affiliation from KJEO (channel 47, now KGPE).
The KFRE stations were acquired by Triangle Publications in 1959. On February 17, 1961, KFRE-TV reluctantly moved to UHF channel 30 to make Fresno an all-UHF market under orders from the FCC. It was known by the term deintermixture, the move was made for the purpose of leveling the playing field and eliminating the potential of unfair competition between the VHF and UHF bands. A similar situation occurred in nearby Bakersfield where that city's lone VHF station, KERO-TV on channel 10, moved to UHF channel 23 in 1963. The move of KFRE-TV to channel 30 opened up channel 12 for use by KCOY-TV in Santa Maria, which went on the air in 1964.
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