KVII
 
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KVII: Amarillo, Texas KVIH: Clovis-Portales, New Mexico United States |
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| Branding | ABC 7 (general) ABC 7 News (newscasts) CW 11 Amarillo (DT2) |
| Slogan | The Panhandle Spirit |
| Channels |
Digital: KVII: 7 (VHF) KVIH: 12 (VHF) |
| Subchannels | x.1 ABC x.2 CW+ x.3 Comet TV |
| Owner |
Sinclair Broadcast Group (KVII Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date |
KVII: December 21, 1957 KVIH: December 2, 1956 |
| Call letters' meaning |
KVII: VII = Roman numeral 7 KVIH: variation of KVII with an H |
| Former callsigns |
KVII: none KVIH: KICA-TV (1956–1964) KFDW-TV (1964–1979) KMCC-TV (1979–1986) |
| Former channel number(s) |
KVII: 7 (VHF analog, 1957–2009) KVIH: 12 (VHF analog, 1956–2009) KVII: 23 (UHF digital, –2009) KVIH: 20 (UHF digital, –2009) |
| Former affiliations |
KVII: none KVIH: CBS (1956–1979) The Tube (DT3, 2006-2007) AccuWX (DT3, 2007–2013) Grit (DT3, 2014–2016) |
| Transmitter power |
KVII: 21.9 kW KVIH: 5 kW |
| Height |
KVII: 519 m KVIH: 204 m |
| Facility ID |
KVII: 40446 KVIH: 40450 |
| Transmitter coordinates |
KVII: 35°22′30″N 101°52′56″W / 35.37500°N 101.88222°W KVIH: 34°11′34″N 103°16′44″W / 34.19278°N 103.27889°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
/ KVIH-TV Profile / KVIH-TV CDBS |
| Website | abc7amarillo.com |
KVII-TV, virtual channel 7, is an ABC-affiliated television station in Amarillo, Texas, it is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. The station also operates a satellite station in Clovis, New Mexico: KVIH-TV (digital channel 12). KVII has a transmitter located north of Amarillo in unincorporated Potter County, while studios are located at One Broadcast Center inside a pyramid-shaped building in the downtown area (across the street from KAMR-TV/KCPN-LP/KCIT).
KVII and satellite station KVIH serve viewers across a four-state region including the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, eastern New Mexico and southwestern Kansas. The station is broadcast over-the-air and via cable carriage and several UHF translators.
KVII signed on for the first time on December 21, 1957. This made Amarillo one of the smallest markets to have full service from all three networks, although the market had no PBS station until KACV-TV opened in 1988. In 1967, the station was sold to Stanley Marsh 3.
KVII formerly operated another satellite, KVIJ-TV channel 8 in Sayre, Oklahoma, from 1976 to 1992. KVIJ ceased operations because most viewers in its area of western Oklahoma received their network programming via cable. This gave them access to stations from the Oklahoma City or Wichita Falls-Lawton DMAs including ABC affiliates KOCO and KSWO-TV, respectively, and very few actually tuned into KVIJ directly. The former studio and transmitter site of KVIJ now sit vacant northwest of Sayre at the intersection of state highways 6 and 152, at 35°25′23.9″N 99°50′35.2″W / 35.423306°N 99.843111°W. Channel 8 began operations in 1961 as CBS affiliate KSWB-TV (licensed to Elk City, Oklahoma; its call sign related to original owner South West Broadcasting), and changed its call letters to KFDO-TV in 1966 when it became a satellite of Amarillo's CBS affiliate, KFDA-TV (at that time, channel 8 moved to Sayre). In 1976, it was sold to Marsh. The KSWB call letters now reside to the Fox affiliate in San Diego, California.
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