KPNX

KPNX

Mesa/Phoenix, Arizona United States
City	Mesa, Arizona
Branding	Channel 12 (general) 12 News (newscasts)
Slogan	"Connecting Arizona" "This is Home"
Channels	Digital: 12 (VHF) Virtual: 12 ()
Translators	(see below)
Affiliations	.1: NBC .2: 12 News Weather .3: Justice Network
Owner	Tegna Media (Multimedia Holdings Corporation)
First air date	April 23, 1953; 63 years ago (1953-04-23)
Call letters' meaning	PhoeNiX
Former callsigns	KTYL-TV (1953–1955) KVAR (1955–1959) KTAR-TV (1959–1979)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 12 (VHF, 1953–2009) Digital: 36 (UHF, 2000–2009)
Former affiliations	Secondary: DuMont (1953–1956)
Transmitter power	819 kW
Height	534 m (1,752 ft)
Facility ID	35486
Transmitter coordinates	33°19′59.2″N 112°3′51.2″W / 33.333111°N 112.064222°W / 33.333111; -112.064222Coordinates: 33°19′59.2″N 112°3′51.2″W / 33.333111°N 112.064222°W / 33.333111; -112.064222
Licensing authority	FCC
Public license information:	Profile CDBS
Website	www.12news.com

KPNX, virtual and VHF digital channel 12, is an NBC-affiliated television station in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, that is licensed to Mesa. The station is owned by Tegna, Inc.; KPNX shares offices with formerly co-owned newspaper The Arizona Republic on Van Buren Street in downtown Phoenix, although they have split after KPNX went to TEGNA, and its transmitter is located atop South Mountain on the city's south side. The station's programming is simulcast on satellite station KNAZ-TV, in Flagstaff, and is further relayed through a network of 14 low-power translators across northern and central Arizona.

The station first signed on the air on April 23, 1953, as KTYL-TV; it was originally owned by the Harkins Theatre Group, which also owned KTYL radio (1490 AM, now KIHP on 1310, and 104.7 FM, now KZZP). The station's original studios were located in the then-small town of Mesa. The station has been Phoenix' NBC affiliate since its sign-on. Previously, all four networks of the day were shoehorned on CBS primary affiliate KPHO-TV (channel 5). Channel 12 carried some programming from the DuMont Television Network (an affiliation that was shared with KPHO) until that network's demise in 1956.

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