KGET-TV
 
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Bakersfield, California United States |
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| Branding |
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| Slogan | In the Spirit of the Golden Empire |
| Channels |
Digital: 25 (UHF) Virtual: 17 (PSIP) |
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| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| First air date | November 8, 1959 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Kern Golden Empire Television |
| Sister station(s) | KKEY-LP |
| Former callsigns | KLYD-TV (1959–1969) KJTV (1969–1978) KPWR-TV (1978–1984) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 17 (UHF, 1959–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
ABC (1959–1974) CBS (1974–1984) |
| Transmitter power | 135 kW |
| Height | 405 m |
| Facility ID | 34459 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°26′17″N 118°44′26.1″W / 35.43806°N 118.740583°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KGET-TV, virtual channel 17 (UHF digital channel 25), is a NBC-affiliated television station located in Bakersfield, California, United States. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station is operated as part of a duopoly with low-power Telemundo affiliate KKEY-LP (channel 13). KGET maintains studios located on L Street in downtown Bakersfield, while it maintains transmitter facilities located west of Breckenridge Mountain.
Founded by businessman Ed Urner, channel 17 first broadcast on November 8, 1959 as KLYD, an ABC affiliate. The station originally operated from studios located on Eye Street in Bakersfield. It was co-owned with KLYD-AM 1350 (now KLHC), and is one of very few TV stations to be started by a daytime-only radio station. The call letters changed to KJTV in 1969. In October of that year, Urner sold the station to Atlantic States Industries. In 1974, KJTV swapped affiliations with KBAK-TV, becoming a CBS affiliate.
George N. Gillett Jr.'s Gillett Broadcasting bought the station from ASI Communications in 1978. The station's call letters changed again to KPWR-TV on September 27, 1978, when it increased its power to 5,000,000 watts. The Ackerley Group purchased the station in 1983. On February 1, 1984, the station changed its calls to the present day "KGET-TV", coinciding with an affiliation swap with KERO-TV to become Bakersfield's NBC affiliate a month later, an affiliation which continues to the present day. It is one of a handful of stations in the United States to have held a primary affiliation with all three of the "Big Three" television networks. It was sold to Clear Channel Communications in 2001.
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