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KDOC-TV, channel 56, is an independent television station licensed to Anaheim, California, USA and serving the Los Angeles television market. KDOC-TV is owned by Ellis Communications, and is operated by Titan TV Broadcast Group. The station's studios and offices are located on North Grand Avenue in Santa Ana, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson. ==History== KDOC-TV first signed on the air on October 1, 1982; the station was initially owned by locally based Golden Orange Broadcasting, whose investors included entertainer Pat Boone. The station's original studio facilities were located on South Clementine Street in Anaheim. At the time of its original sign-on it was the fifth independent station in the Los Angeles market, alongside KTLA (channel 5), KHJ-TV (channel 9, now KCAL-TV), KTTV (channel 11) and KCOP (channel 13). KDOC carried programs from conservative commentator Wally George and televangelist Dr. Gene Scott until their respective deaths in 2003 and 2005. During this period, the station was also popular for weekend broadcasts of Asian programming, which gained a significant non-Asian audience with the broadcast of the 1984–1985 (subtitled) Japanese ''Miyamoto Musashi'' television series. The station also was popular for its weekend block of professional wrestling and roller derby including World Class Championship Wrestling, Mid-Atlantic Wrestling's syndicated show World Wide Wrestling and Los Angeles Thunderbirds roller games. The station also offered some live sports programming, such as UNLV Runnin' Rebels men's basketball during the height of Jerry Tarkanian era (with play-by-play for many years called by Chick Hearn), plus Loyola Marymount University men's basketball, and a syndicated package of Western Athletic Conference men's basketball games. In 2004, KDOC (along with KPXN-TV) carried selected Anaheim Angels games, as then-new owner Arte Moreno wanted to broadcast more games beyond the slate of telecasts already contractually obligated to air on Fox Sports West and then-primary over-the-air carrier KCAL-TV. In the fall of 1988, KDOC embarked on the station's first brief foray in television news. KDOC began producing ''NewsWatch 56'', a primetime newscast at 8 p.m. anchored by Michelle Merker (also the station's public affairs director) and Pat Matthews (then a radio newscaster from New Orleans). The program was moved frequently: first to 7 p.m., then to 9 p.m., and finally to 11 p.m. During that time, the station rebranded the program as ''Orange County NewsWatch'', and then ''KDOC NewsWatch''. In 1992, KDOC stopped producing full-fledged newscasts; the station instead produced local news updates. Much of the station's programming through the years has been situation comedy and dramatic reruns that were seen on other Los Angeles area stations in years past, after those stations either relinquished or shared the rights with KDOC. Among those shows, they include ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'', ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'', ''The Beverly Hillbillies'', ''The Cosby Show'', ''Saved by the Bell'', ''The Doris Day Show'' and ''My Three Sons''. Reruns of the iconic courtroom drama ''Perry Mason'' had been on the station since 1988, where it aired weekdays at noon for about 20 years, and aired early mornings on KDOC's main channel until September 2011 (several of the aforementioned shows currently air on the station's Me-TV subchannel on digital channel 56.3). On April 4, 2006, Bert Ellis, along with Anaheim Ducks owners Henry Samueli and his wife Susan, bought KDOC for $149.5 million from Golden Orange Broadcasting. The sale closed in May 2006, placing KDOC under the ownership of Ellis Communications, Inc., a subsidiary of Atlanta, Georgia-based Titan Broadcast Management. In September 2006, KDOC made changes to its programming schedule and debuted a new slogan (''Endless Classics'', a reference to the Beach Boys album and the 1966 film ''The Endless Summer'') and logo. The lineup included more current syndicated repeats, Anaheim Ducks hockey, some movies, as well as hours of paid programming. In 2008, the station's programming began moving away from the "Endless Classics" format adding more recent comedies, and talk and judicial shows that have ended production.〔''Multiple television listings sources''〕 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「KDOC-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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