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Abilene, Texas United States |
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| Branding | KRBC (general) KRBC News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Abilene's Local News |
| Channels |
Digital: 29 (UHF) Virtual: 9 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 9.1 NBC 9.2 Grit 9.3 Laff 9.4 Bounce TV |
| Affiliations | NBC (Secondary through 1979) |
| Owner |
Mission Broadcasting (Mission Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| Operator | Nexstar Media Group |
| First air date | August 24, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Reporter Broadcasting Company (founding owners of KRBC radio) |
| Sister station(s) | KTAB-TV |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 9 (VHF, 1953–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
All secondary: CBS (1953–1956) ABC (1953–1979) DuMont (1953–1956) DT2: Bounce TV (2011–2014) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 258 m |
| Facility ID | 306 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°16′38″N 99°35′51″W / 32.27722°N 99.59750°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.bigcountryhomepage.com |
KRBC-TV, virtual channel 9 (UHF digital channel 29), is a NBC-affiliated television station located in Abilene, Texas, United States. Owned by Mission Broadcasting, the station is operated by Nexstar Media Group through a shared services agreement as part of a virtual duopoly with CBS affiliate KTAB-TV (channel 32).
The two stations share studio facilities located on South 14th Street in western Abilene. Also, the stations share transmitter facilities located on Texas State Highway 36, in neighboring Callahan County.
KRBC-TV first began its broadcasting operation on August 30, 1953, as the first television station in Abilene. The station was owned by the Ackers family, who had bought the construction permit from Harte-Hanks Communications a few months earlier, along with KRBC radio (1470 AM, now KYYW). The call letters stand for Reporter Broadcasting Company, after the Harte-Hanks-owned Abilene Reporter-News. The tower was originally located atop Rattlesnake Mountain in Cedar Gap. KRBC originally carried a mixture of programming from all four networks of the time -NBC, CBS, ABC, and DuMont However, it was a primary NBC affiliate. It lost CBS in 1956 when KPAR-TV (now KTXS-TV) signed on. The two stations shared ABC until KTAB-TV signed on and took CBS, leaving KRBC as an NBC affiliate.
In 1962, KACB-TV signed on from San Angelo as a semisatellite of KRBC. The Ackers family's broadcast holdings, Abilene Radio and Television Company, owned the station for 44 years until selling it to Sunrise Television in 1997. Two years later, Sunrise severed the connection between KRBC and KACB, and KACB became a full-fledged station; it is now KSAN-TV.
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