KOAT-TV
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Albuquerque/Santa Fe, New Mexico United States |
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| City | Albuquerque/Santa Fe |
| Branding |
KOAT 7 (general) KOAT Action 7 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Coverage You Can Count On |
| Channels |
Digital: 7 (VHF) Virtual: 7 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 7.1 ABC 7.2 Estrella TV 7.3 Justice Network |
| Owner |
Hearst Television, Inc. (Hearst Properties Inc.) |
| First air date | September 28, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | COAT or KO Albuquerque Television |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 7 (VHF, 1953–2009) Digital: 21 (UHF, 2002–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Secondary: DuMont (1953–1955) |
| Transmitter power | 26.5 kW |
| Height | 1292 m |
| Facility ID | 53928 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°12′53.3″N 106°27′2.7″W / 35.214806°N 106.450750°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KOAT-TV, channel 7, is an ABC network affiliated television station serving Albuquerque, New Mexico. Its transmitter is located on Sandia Crest, northeast of Albuquerque, and has studios located on Carlisle Boulevard in Northeast Albuquerque.
KOAT has recently announced that negotiations with parent company Hearst have broken down leaving most all New Mexico viewers who contract through DirecTV without access to ABC programming. KOAT, Hearst and DirecTV refuse to comment on the impasse. The breakdown in service comes during the peak of the NFL playoffs leading up to the super bowl. Subscribers are not guaranteed any restoration of service nor refunds.
KOAT signed on the air on September 28, 1953, less than a week before KGGM-TV (now KRQE). It was locally owned by Albert M. Cadwell & Walter Stiles. It first operated from studios located on Tulane Drive, just off Central Avenue in Southeast Albuquerque. The local owners sold the station to Alvarado Television (the owner of KVOA in Tucson, Arizona) in 1957, Alvarado sold both stations to Steinman Stations in 1962, who owned WGAL-TV in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and later acquired WTEV (now WLNE-TV) in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The station later moved its studios to a new facility located on University Boulevard in Northeast Albuquerque.
Steinman sold both KOAT and KVOA to Pulitzer, the then-owner of KSD-TV (now KSDK) in St. Louis, in 1969. This made KOAT Pulitzer's second television station acquisition outside of its home city of St. Louis; the KOAT acquisition was consummated a year after Pulitzer closed on its purchase of KVOA. A decade later, the other two Steinman stations were sold to Pulitzer as well, reuniting them with KOAT (KVOA was spun off in 1972).
In 1999, Pulitzer sold its entire broadcasting division, including KOAT and WGAL, to Hearst-Argyle. In mid-2009 the Hearst Corporation, already majority owner of what was Hearst-Argyle Television, bought out all of the then-publicly traded shares and changed the broadcasting group's name to Hearst Television.
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