KTAL-TV
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Texarkana, Texas/Shreveport, Louisiana United States |
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| City | Texarkana, Texas |
| Branding | NBC 6 (general) NBC 6 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
Local News That Matters (news) Your Weather Authority (weather) |
| Channels |
Digital: 15 (UHF) Virtual: 6 () |
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| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| First air date | August 16, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Texas Arkansas Louisiana |
| Sister station(s) | KMSS-TV, KSHV-TV |
| Former callsigns | KCMC-TV (1953–1960) |
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| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 454.3 m |
| Facility ID | 35648 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°54′11″N 94°0′20″W / 32.90306°N 94.00556°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.arklatexhomepage.com |
KTAL-TV, virtual channel 6 (UHF digital channel 15), is an NBC-affiliated television station serving Shreveport, Louisiana, United States that is licensed to Texarkana, Texas (as such, it is the only major network affiliate in the Ark-La-Tex that is licensed to a location outside of Louisiana). The station is owned by the Nexstar Media Group; Nexstar also operates Fox affiliate KMSS-TV (channel 33) under a shared services agreement with Marshall Broadcasting and MyNetworkTV affiliate KSHV-TV (channel 45) through a time brokerage agreement with White Knight Broadcasting. The three stations share studio facilities located on North Market Street, north of Downtown Shreveport; KTAL maintains a secondary facility located at the Central Mall (off I-30) in downtown Texarkana and transmitter facilities located in Vivian, Louisiana.
The station first signed on the air on August 16, 1953 as KCMC-TV; it had a 390-foot tower and 28,200 watts of power. The station was founded by Clyde E. Palmer, owner of the Texarkana Gazette and several other newspapers and radio stations across Arkansas and Texas as well as KCMC radio (740 AM and 98.1 FM, now KTAL-FM). The station originally operated as a primary CBS affiliate, although it also carried select programs from NBC, ABC and DuMont. In May 1954, the station's transmitter power output was increased to 100,000 watts. The station lost the DuMont affiliation when that network shut down in 1956. It was left as a hybrid CBS/ABC/NBC affiliate.
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