KNAZ-TV
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Flagstaff, Arizona United States |
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| Branding | Channel 12 (general) 12 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
"Connecting Arizona" "This is Home" |
| Channels |
Digital: 22 (UHF) Virtual: 2 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 2.1 NBC |
| Translators | K06AE-D 6 (VHF) Prescott |
| Affiliations | NBC |
| Owner |
Tegna Media (Multimedia Holdings Corporation) |
| First air date | May 2, 1970 |
| Call letters' meaning | Northern AriZona |
| Sister station(s) | KPNX |
| Former callsigns | KOAI-TV (1970–1981) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 2 (VHF, 1970–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 283 kW |
| Height | 465 m |
| Facility ID | 24749 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 34°58′7.6″N 111°30′30.6″W / 34.968778°N 111.508500°W |
| Website | 12 News |
KNAZ-TV is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. Owned by Tegna Media, the station is a full-time satellite of Phoenix-based KPNX (channel 12). KNAZ broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 22 (or virtual channel 2 via PSIP) from a transmitter located southeast of Flagstaff in rural Coconino County. It is the only full-power television station in northern Arizona that broadcasts programming from a major English-language television network, but as a full satellite station, it originates no programming. KNAZ does operate one translator station: K06AE-D (channel 6) in Prescott.
The station was founded by Wendell Elliott, Sr. as KOAI-TV and began operations on May 2, 1970. Elliott had managed a television station in Dodge City, Kansas in the 1950s, had founded a station in Ensign, Kansas, and was a founder of the Kansas Association of Broadcasters in 1951. Elliott died in 1974, and control of the station passed to a group headed by his son, Wendell Elliott, Jr. For most of the earlier part of its history, the station was unable to afford microwave feeds for network or syndicated programming. Instead, it operated with what was called a "dirty feed," where station engineers switched to and from the signal of KTAR-TV (now KPNX) in Phoenix and had to cover up KTAR-TV's local content (including commercials and news) with its own programming. Programming included a daily live one hour program immediately following the Today show, evening "rip and read" news casts with a single talent and locked-down cameras, plus a weekly program of news from the Navajo nation, spoken in Navajo. Little more is known about the early operations of the station, but Northern Arizona University maintains an archive of KOAI-TV material from 1975 and later.
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