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Tucson, Arizona United States |
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| Branding | KGUN 9 (general) KGUN 9 News (newscasts) (pronounced "K-GUN") |
| Slogan | On Your Side |
| Channels |
Digital: 9 (VHF) Virtual: 9 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 9.1 ABC 9.2 Laff 9.3 Antenna TV |
| Translators | K16EO-D 16 (UHF) Oro Valley |
| Owner |
E. W. Scripps Company (Scripps Broadcasting Holdings LLC) |
| First air date | June 3, 1956 |
| Call letters' meaning | former owner's interest in GUN collecting and the Westerns that were filmed in Tucson |
| Former callsigns | KDWI-TV (1956–1957) KGUN-TV (1957–1987) KGUN (1987–2009) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 9 (VHF, 1956–2009) Digital: 35 (UHF, 2005–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 36.5 kw |
| Height | 1140 m |
| Facility ID | 36918 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°24′55.7″N 110°42′53.2″W / 32.415472°N 110.714778°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KGUN-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 9, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. Owned by E. W. Scripps Company, the station maintains transmitter facilities located atop Mount Bigelow, located northeast of Tucson, while its studio operations are located on East Rosewood Street in East Tucson. Known locally as "K-GUN", the station operates one low-power translator station: K16EO-D (channel 16) in Oro Valley.
The station was founded in 1955 by rancher D.W. Ingram, who gave the station his initials, KDWI-TV. It began broadcasting on June 3, 1956. Shortly afterward, Ingram sold it to H. U. Garrett, who changed the station's call sign to KGUN on March 14, 1957. The change came in part because Garrett was concerned about possible negative connotations with the letters "DWI." Garrett was also an avid Western fan and gun collector, and thought having "gun" in the station's calls would be apropos. The station's original studios were located on North 6th Avenue in Tucson.
Garrett sold the station to Cincinnati meatpacker Henry S. Hilberg in 1960. Hilberg sold both KGUN and WEHT in Evansville, Indiana to Gilmore Broadcasting in 1964. Gilmore then sold it to May Broadcasting in 1968. May would sell KGUN and sister station KMTV in Omaha, Nebraska) to Lee Enterprises in 1986, which, in turn, sold both stations to Emmis Communications in 2000. In 2005, Emmis liquidated all of its television properties, sending KGUN and control of KMTV to the Milwaukee based Journal Broadcast Group, which already owned four radio stations in Tucson. The sale was finalized in December 2005.
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