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KFSN-TV, channel 30, is an ABC owned-and-operated television station located in Fresno, California, USA. The station is owned by ABC Owned Television Stations, a unit of the Disney-ABC Television Group division of The Walt Disney Company. KFSN-TV maintains studio and office facilities located on G Street in downtown Fresno; its transmitter is located on Bear Mountain, near Meadow Lakes, California. ==History== After the Federal Communications Commission's four-year-long freeze on awarding television station licenses was lifted in 1952, two radio stations – KARM (1430 AM, now KYNO) and KFRE (940 AM, now KFIG) competed for the construction permit to operate a station on channel 12, the sole VHF allocation given to Fresno. KFRE won the permit,〔"Lee breaks stalemate, KFRE gets Fresno Vhf." ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', January 16, 1956, pg. 67. ()〕 and the station first signed on the air on May 10, 1956 as KFRE-TV.〔"KFRE-TV Fresno goes on the air." ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', May 14, 1956, pg. 9. ()〕 It is the third-oldest television station in the Fresno market and upon signing on, KFRE-TV took the CBS affiliation from KJEO (channel 47, now KGPE).〔"KFRE-TV joins CBS-TV." ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', March 12, 1956, pg. 84. ()〕〔"KFRE-TV to join CBS-TV." ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', May 7, 1956, pg. 88. ()〕 The KFRE stations were acquired by Triangle Publications in 1959.〔("Changing Hands." ''Broadcasting'', November 24, 1958, pg. 96 )〕 On February 17, 1961, KFRE-TV reluctantly moved to UHF channel 30 to make Fresno an all-UHF market under orders from the FCC. In was known by the term ''deintermixture'', the move was made for the purpose of leveling the playing field and eliminating the potential of unfair competition between the VHF and UHF bands.〔"KFRE-TV moves to uhf; backed deintermixture." ''Broadcasting'', February 20, 1961, pg. 44. ()〕 A similar situation occurred in nearby Bakersfield where that city's lone VHF station, KERO-TV on channel 10, moved to UHF channel 23 in 1963.〔"Vhf-to-uhf change approved for KERO-TV." ''Broadcasting'', November 19, 1962, pg. 78. ()〕 The move of KFRE-TV to channel 30 opened up channel 12 for use by KCOY-TV in Santa Maria, which went on the air in 1964. Triangle began its exit from broadcasting in 1971, and sold the KFRE stations to Capital Cities Communications.〔"Capcities buys 9 Triangle outlets." ''Broadcasting'', February 16, 1970, pg. 9. ()〕〔"Last minute clearance for Capcities." ''Broadcasting'', March 1, 1971, pp. 19-20. ()()〕 The new owners sold off the AM and FM radio stations as a condition of the purchase〔"Part of Capcities package comes in." ''Broadcasting'', July 13, 1970, pg. 36. ()〕 and kept the television station, changing its call letters to KFSN-TV in April 1971 (the KFRE-TV calls are now used on Fresno's CW affiliate on channel 59; that station is unrelated to the current KFSN-TV). On March 18, 1985, Capital Cities announced it would purchase ABC.〔"Capcities + ABC" and "FCC approval of CapCities/ABC deal likely." ''Broadcasting'', March 25, 1985, pp. 31-34. ()()()()〕 Nearly six months later, on September 9, 1985, KFSN-TV traded network affiliations with KJEO and became an ABC affiliate.〔("In brief." ''Broadcasting'', August 19, 1985, pg. 96 )〕 The transaction was finalized on January 3, 1986, making channel 30 an ABC owned-and-operated station. In 1996, the Walt Disney Company acquired Capital Cities/ABC. Four current syndicated programs on KFSN are shared with most of the other ABC-owned stations: ''Live! with Kelly and Michael'' (produced by sister station WABC), ''Rachael Ray'', ''Jeopardy!'' and ''Wheel of Fortune''. KFSN and KABC-TV in Los Angeles are the only ABC-owned stations not carrying ''Who Wants To Be A Millionaire'' (contracted locally to KGPE, the former KJEO). 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「KFSN-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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