Kail
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Fresno/Visalia, California United States |
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| City | Fresno, California |
| Branding | My Central Valley |
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Digital: 7 (VHF) Virtual: 7 () |
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| Owner | Aperio Communications, LLC |
| First air date | December 18, 1961 |
| Call letters' meaning | K California Valley |
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| Transmitter power | 38 kW |
| Height | 560 m |
| Facility ID | 67494 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°4′23″N 119°25′52″W / 37.07306°N 119.43111°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.mycentralvalley.com |
KAIL, virtual and VHF digital channel 7, is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station located in Fresno, California, United States. KAIL maintains studio facilities located on Shaw Avenue in Fresno, and its transmitter is located in Meadow Lakes rural northeastern Fresno County.
The UHF channel 53 allocation in the Fresno market was originally licensed to KBID-TV, which operated for a few months in 1954. The station was owned by veteran broadcaster John Poole, the original owner of KBIC-TV in Los Angeles (whose channel 22 allocation is now occupied by Spanish independent station KWHY-TV). KBID ceased operations when the station was unable to acquire a network affiliation. At the time, CBS was the only U.S. broadcast network did not have an affiliate in Fresno. The network would eventually affiliate with KFRE-TV (channel 12, now ABC owned-and-operated station KFSN-TV on channel 30) when that station signed on in May 1956.
The station first signed on the air on December 18, 1961, originally broadcasting on UHF channel 53; it was the first independent station to sign on in the Fresno market, beating eventual competitor KICU-TV (channel 43, channel allocation now occupied by KGMC) to the air by five days. The station holds the record for the longest continuous usage of the same call letters in the Fresno market, having used the KAIL callsign since its sign-on; it has held the record since 2000, when KJEO-TV (channel 47, which signed on under those call letters in September 1953) changed its calls to KGPE (several other stations have had the same call letters since their original licensing, but signed on after KAIL made its debut); it is also the only station in the market and one of the few commercial television stations in the United States that has had the same ownership throughout its history, and is the only Fresno station that is independently owned.
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