KMSB
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Tucson, Arizona United States |
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| Branding | Fox 11 (general) Fox 11 Tucson Now News at 9 (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Tucson's News First |
| Channels |
Digital: 25 (UHF) Virtual: 11 () |
| Subchannels | 11.1 Fox 11.2 Movies! 11.3 Justice Network |
| Affiliations | Fox (1986–present) |
| Owner |
Tegna, Inc. (Sander Operating Co. V, LLC D/B/A KMSB Television) |
| Operator | Raycom Media |
| First air date | February 1, 1967 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Mountain States Broadcasting (former owner) |
| Sister station(s) | KOLD-TV, KTTU |
| Former callsigns | KZAZ (1967–1985) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 11 (VHF, 1967–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
DT1: Independent (1967–1986) DT2: This TV |
| Transmitter power | 480 kW |
| Height | 1123 m |
| Facility ID | 44052 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°24′55.8″N 110°42′51.9″W / 32.415500°N 110.714417°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KMSB, virtual channel 11 (UHF digital channel 25), is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Tucson, Arizona, United States.. Owned by Tegna, Inc. and operated by Raycom Media through a shared services agreement with CBS affiliate KOLD-TV (channel 13), it is a sister to MyNetworkTV affiliate KTTU (channel 18) through a joint sales agreement with Tucker Operating Company. KMSB maintains transmitter facilities located atop Mount Bigelow; as a result of the transmitter's location, residents in the northern part of Tucson, Oro Valley and Marana cannot receive adequate reception of the station. It shares studios with KOLD-TV on North Business Park Drive on the northwest side of Tucson, near the Casas Adobes neighborhood.
Tucson gained its first independent station when KZAZ signed on the air February 1, 1967. It was licensed to Nogales, but had its main studios in Tucson. The station aired movies in both English and Spanish, dramas, sitcoms, bull fights, cartoons and other general entertainment fare. It had a local news department and newscast.
The station was owned and operated by out of town investors, including Danny Thomas and Monty Hall, and had its facilities in a former Safeway supermarket on Tucson Blvd, just north of Grant Road. Gene Adelstein, a Tucson resident, put together a group of investors as "Roadrunner Television" and bought KZAZ in 1977. As Bonnie Henry wrote in the Arizona Daily Star: "They held live wrestling matches in the studio, organized a paint-the-station day and ran a 24-hour Star Trek marathon that sparked a run on blank videotape." The sales manager, Hank Lominac, hosted the prime time movies. The sports anchor, Bill Roemer, anchored live sports from the University of Arizona. The hour-long newscast at 9 p.m. was anchored by former KOLD news director George Borozan and co-starred John Scott Ulm. It featured long interview segments, and its field reports were captured on one field camera/recorder.
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