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KCBD is an NBC-affiliated television station serving the Lubbock, Texas metropolitan area. Owned by Raycom Media, its studios and transmitter are co-located in South Lubbock near the interchange of I-27 and Slaton Highway. == History == KCBD signed on the air on May 10, 1953 as the second television station in Lubbock, after KDUB-TV (now KLBK-TV). For a short time thereafter, Jim Reese was a broadcaster on KCBD.〔"Mayor Jim Reese of Odessa and the Republican Party in the Permian Basin", ''The West Texas Historical Association Year Book'', Vol. LXXXVII (October 2011), p. 128〕KCBD was a primary NBC affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation. KCBD became a sole NBC affiliate in 1969 when KSEL (now KAMC) signed on and took the ABC affiliation. KCBD was also the first station in Lubbock to broadcast in color. Bryant sold both KCBD and sister station KSWS-TV (now KOBR-TV) in Roswell, New Mexico to State Telecasting Company of Columbia, South Carolina in 1971. State Telecasting sold the station to Caprock Broadcasting in 1983. KCBD was founded by a company controlled by Joe Bryant (owner of 1590 KCBD (AM) in Lubbock, and new shareholders consisting of local business owners. KCBD was spun off in 1971, changing names to KEND (at the then "END" of the dial. It is now known as KDAV Radio. From 1968 to 1983, KCBD-TV also operated KSWS-TV, Channel 8 in Roswell, New Mexico as a repeater or satellite station. The Roswell station now operates as KOBR-TV, owned by Albuquerque NBC affiliate, KOB-TV. Caprock Broadcasting sold the station to the Holsum bakery in 1986. Holsum sold KCBD to Cosmos Broadcasting, the broadcasting arm of South Carolina-based insurer The Liberty Corporation, in 2000. Liberty exited the insurance business later that year, bringing the Cosmos stations directly under the Liberty banner. Liberty merged with Raycom Media in 2006. In May 2002, KCBD became the first station in the Lubbock market to begin broadcasting a digital signal. Later that year, the station became the first to broadcast network programming in true High-Definition. Today, KCBD is one of only three true HD broadcasts in the Lubbock market (including KJTV-TV and KTTZ-TV). Since 2002, ''Jeopardy!'' and ''Wheel of Fortune'' have aired on KCBD. Prior to that, they both aired on KLBK, although in late 1999, ''Wheel'' moved to KAMC. ''Live with Regis & Kelly'' had also aired on KAMC before moving to KCBD in 2004, though that show has returned to KAMC. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KCBD」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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