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KGNS-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for Laredo, Texas and the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 from a transmitter northwest of Laredo. Owned by Gray Television, it maintains studios located on Del Mar Boulevard (near I-35) in northern Laredo. KGNS can be seen on Time Warner Cable Laredo channel 10 and in high definition on digital channel 860 as well as on Dish Network and DirecTV. ==History== KGNS originally went on air January 7, 1956 as KHAD-TV, it has been a primary NBC affiliate since its sign on, but the station initially held secondary affiliations with CBS and ABC. CBS programming moved to KVTV in December 1973 and ABC programming moved to present-day Univision affiliate KLDO-TV in December 1984, effectively making KGNS an exclusive NBC affiliate. Donrey Media Group (now Stephens Media Group) bought the station on September 1, 1958. One of its first moves under Donrey ownership was to change the station's call letters, Donrey management held a contest in which elementary and middle school students from both the United States and Mexico sides of the Rio Grande region to choose a new callsign; the winning entry resulted in the station changing its callsign to the current KGNS-TV (standing for "Good Neighbor Station").〔 In 1985, KGNS was purchased by Century Development Corporation. In 1990 the station began a Spanish language newscast. By 1998, KGNS gained a secondary affiliation with United Paramount Network lasting at least until 2000〔 From information on upn.com.〕 while definitively off the station by 2004. then move to cable only on Time Warner Cable Channel 16. While in 2000, the WB affiliate was a cable only KTXW,〔 which by 2010 was on a subchannel of the station. In April 2002, the Spanish news staff resigned their jobs forcing the station to initial run a sitcom then replacing it with English language news.〔 In 2004, the station was purchased by SagamoreHill Broadcasting. The sale to SagamoreHill was approved by the Federal Communications Commission on December 1, 2005. On January 24, 2006, The WB and CBS Corporation-owned UPN announced that the two networks would cease broadcasting and merge into a new broadcast network called The CW. On September 18, 2006, KGNS-TV rebranded "KTXW" Time Warner Cable channel 19 as The CW Laredo starting its CW programming. With the subsequent sign-on of digital subchannel 8.2, the subchannel began broadcasting "KTXW" bringing the channel over-the-air coverage throughout the market.〔 In 2010, local Spanish language news returned to the station on Telemundo affiliated subchannel 3. In May 2013, SagamoreHill Broadcasting reached a deal to sell KGNS, along with KGWN-TV in Cheyenne, Wyoming and KSTF in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, to Yellowstone Holdings, a subsidiary of Frontier Radio Management. On November 4, 2013, Gray Television announced a deal to acquire Yellowstone Holdings for $23 million.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/71701/gray-buying-yellowstone-stations )〕 The sale was competed on December 31.〔(Consummation Notice ), ''CDBS Public Access'', Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved 2 January 2014〕 On November 6, 2013, KGNS-TV reached an agreement with the ABC Television Network to add the ABC affiliation, originally slated to launch February 2014 on channel 8.2.〔(Gray to Air ABC on KGNS Subchannel ) ''TVNewsCheck'', November 6, 2013.〕 The ABC affiliation began on July 1, 2014, leaving Laredo without a CW affiliate.〔 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「KGNS-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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