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KFMB-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 8, is a CBS-affiliated television station located in San Diego, California, United States. The station is owned by Midwest Television, Inc., and is a sister station to radio stations KFMB (760 AM) and KFMB-FM (100.7 FM). The television and radio stations shares studio facilities located on Engineer Road in the Kearny Mesa section of San Diego; KFMB-TV maintains transmitter facilities located on Mount Soledad in La Jolla. ==History== The station first signed on the air on May 16, 1949; it was the first television station to sign on in the San Diego market. The station was founded by Jack O. Gross, who also owned local radio station KFMB (760 AM). San Diego Mayor Harley E. Knox was present at the station's first broadcast. The station cost Gross $300,000 to build.〔Engstrand, Iris. "San Diego: California's Cornerstone". San Diego: Sunbelt Publications, 2005, pg 180.〕 KFMB-TV has been a primary CBS affiliate since its sign-on (and is the only television station in the market that has never changed its network affiliation), however in its early years, channel 8 also maintained secondary affiliations with ABC, NBC and the DuMont Television Network. In October 1949, KFMB-TV signed an affiliation agreement with the short-lived Paramount Television Network; upon affiliating with Paramount, channel 8 quickly became that network's strongest affiliate. The station received a network feed of Paramount programs that included among others, ''Hollywood Opportunity'', ''Meet Me in Hollywood'',〔 ''Magazine of the Week'',〔 ''Time For Beany'' and ''Your Old Buddy''; the station aired six hours of Paramount programs each week.〔 Since there was no technical transmission network to distribute Paramount programs to its affiliates, KFMB instead carried the network's programming via a transmitter link from the broadcast tower of Paramount's Los Angeles affiliate KTLA atop Mount Wilson, from the KFMB-TV transmitter site on Mount Soledad. In November 1950, Gross sold the KFMB stations to John A. Kennedy, a former publisher of the ''San Diego Daily Journal'' newspaper.〔"KFMB sale; Kennedys to buy." ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', November 20, 1950, pg. 68.〕 Three years later, Kennedy sold the television and radio properties to a partnership between Jack Wrather and Helen Alvarez.〔"$7 1/2 million mark passed in bumper transfer crop." ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', February 2, 1953, pp. 27-28.〕 That same year, channel 8 lost its television monopoly in San Diego when the market received two new stations, Tijuana-based XETV (channel 6) and San Diego-licensed KFSD-TV (channel 10, now KGTV), the latter of which assumed the NBC affiliation from channel 8. KFMB-TV continued to air ABC programs until 1956, when XETV was granted permission to take the ABC affiliation under a special agreement between the Federal Communications Commission and Mexican authorities. After the Wrather-Alvarez partnership broke up in 1957, Wrather kept the San Diego outlets and KERO-TV in upstate Bakersfield and placed them as part of his newly renamed broadcasting company, Marietta Broadcasting.〔"Wrather buys out Alvarez." ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', May 12, 1958, pg. 9.〕 In 1959, Wrather merged Marietta Broadcasting with Buffalo, New York-based Transcontinent Television Corporation.〔"New station combine formed." ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', February 16, 1959, pg. 9.〕〔"Transcontinent tie with Marietta gets ok." ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', May 18, 1959, pp. 74, 76.〕 In 1964, as part of Transcontinent's exit from broadcasting, the KFMB stations were sold to Midwest Television, which at the time was based in Champaign, Illinois.〔"Transcontinent sale: last of its kind?." ''Broadcasting'', February 24, 1964, pp. 27-28. 〕 In the 1990s, Midwest Television divested its original television and radio station properties, WCIA in Champaign and WMBD-AM-TV and WPBG in Peoria, Illinois, leaving the KFMB stations as the company's only remaining properties. In 1998, KFMB-TV was awarded the local broadcast rights to San Diego Chargers preseason game telecasts; that same year, CBS acquired the rights to the American Football Conference (the NFL conference in which the Chargers are a member), allowing the station to air regular season Chargers contests. In 2005, Midwest Television signed a ten-year affiliation contract extension for KFMB-TV to remain a CBS affiliate through 2015. The station changed its on-air branding to ''News 8'' on September 19, 2005, after four years of using the "Local 8" brand. In early 2007, the station began to phase in a new branding as ''CBS 8'', although newscasts maintained their previous title until 2013, when the station introduced a new logo and renamed its newscasts ''CBS News 8''. 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「KFMB-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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