KMIR
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Palm Springs, California United States |
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| Branding | KMIR (general) KMIR News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Where The News Comes First |
| Channels | Digital: 46 (UHF) |
| Subchannels | 36.1 NBC 36.2 Movies! |
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OTA Broadcasting (OTA Broadcasting, (PSP) LLC) |
| First air date | September 15, 1968 |
| Call letters' meaning | El MIRador Hotel |
| Sister station(s) | KPSE-LD |
| Former channel number(s) | 36 (UHF analog, 1968–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 120 kW |
| Height | 212.5 m |
| Facility ID | 16749 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 33°52′0.3″N 116°26′2.2″W / 33.866750°N 116.433944°W |
| Website | www |
KMIR-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for the Inland Empire's Coachella Valley. Licensed to Palm Springs, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 36 from a transmitter on Edom Hill in Cathedral City north of I-10/Redlands Freeway. The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable channel 13 both in standard definition and in high definition. Owned by OTA Broadcasting, LLC (a company controlled by Michael Dell's MSD Capital), KMIR is sister to low-powered MyNetworkTV affiliate KPSE-LD and the two share studios on Park View Drive in Palm Desert.
The station was the first to broadcast in the Coachella Valley on September 15, 1968. Airing an analog signal on UHF channel 36, it has been an NBC affiliate from the start. Actor John Conte owned the station along with the El MIRador hotel in Palm Springs, from which the call letters were derived. Desert Regional Medical Center now occupies the site of the old hotel. Today, one can still see the El Mirador broadcasting tower standing in front of the hospital. This is where the station originally transmitted from. The current tower is a replica structure emulating the original, which was destroyed in a 1989 fire.
Journal Communications acquired KMIR from Conte in 1999 for 30 million dollars. In 2008, the station celebrated its 40th anniversary. In October 2013, Journal reached a deal to sell KMIR to OTA Broadcasting for 17 million. KMIR is the company's first station affiliated with one of the Big Four television networks. The sale was completed January 1, 2014.
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