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KION-TV is a full-power television station in Salinas, California, broadcasting on digital channel 32 as a CBS affiliate. The stations continues to use UHF channel 46 as its virtual channel through the use of PSIP. KION-TV shows local news, weather, and sports programming, as well as syndicated and community-affair programs. Owned by News-Press & Gazette Company, the station is sister to low-powered Telemundo affiliate KMUV-LP. KION can be seen on channel 5 on most cable systems. While most transmitters for the Monterey Peninsula are located on Fremont Peak, KION's transmitter is currently located on Mount Toro, about 10 miles south of Salinas, while studios are located on Moffett Street in Salinas behind the city's airport. ==History== KION originally started out as KMST-TV (Monterey-Salinas Televsion) on January 25, 1969 as a CBS affiliate, taking it over from NBC affiliate KSBW which had it as a secondary.() KMST was available in markets that reached from the Monterey Bay area to San Jose, California. Retlaw Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Retlaw Enterprises (a company owned by relatives of Walt Disney), acquired KMST from its original local owners in 1979. By 1993, San Jose's TCI cable opted to drop KMST. Later that year Retlaw sold the station to a partnership between Harron Communications and Smith Broadcasting (with Smith Broadcasting controlling the joint venture). Through a share of Smith Broadcasting, Sandy DiPasquale (who later became CEO of Newport Television) held a small stake in Channel 46 at that time. The new owners changed Channel 46's call sign on October 4th to KCCN-TV. The next year Smith Broadcasting sold its share of the station to Harron in order to purchase KSBW. At that time KCBA (Fox 35), then owned by the Ackerley Group, signed a local marketing agreement with KCCN with Ackerley taking over the operations of both stations. The beginning of the LMA came at a time when CBS' ratings were (relatively speaking) at one of the lowest points in the network's history while Fox's ratings were on the rise. Although KCCN was longer-established, KCBA became the senior partner in the LMA. On February 23, 1997 KCCN changed its call letters again, this time to KION. Late in 1998, Ackerley bought KION outright from Harron and sold KCBA to Seal Rock Broadcasters. It took more than a year for this transaction to receive Federal Communications Commission approval due to the then-pending license renewals for both stations, and the deal was completed on January 12, 2000. However, Ackerley continued to operate KCBA through an LMA with its new owners, resulting in KION now becoming the senior partner in the LMA. By that time CBS' ratings had recovered to the competitive level of ABC and NBC. Two years later, Ackerley merged with Clear Channel Communications. Clear Channel added the -TV suffix to KION's legal call sign when what was then KTXX (AM 1460, also owned by Clear Channel) took the KION call letters on August 14, 2002. From 1995 to 2003 KION and KCBA carried UPN programs such as ''WWF/E SmackDown!'' and the 2002 version of ''The Twilight Zone'' as a secondary affiliate. On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to spin off its entire television stations group to Newport Television, a broadcasting holding company established by the private equity firm Providence Equity Partners. However, Newport Television could not keep KION or Telemundo affiliate KMUV-LP due to Providence Equity Partners' partial ownership of several media properties (specifically, several radio stations owned by Univision Radio that are located just outside the Monterey/Salinas Nielsen market) which serve parts of the market. KION and KMUV were sold to the Cowles Publishing Company, the owner of KHQ-TV and The KHQ Television Group in Spokane, Washington.〔(Deals - 10/8/2007 - Broadcasting & Cable )〕 The deal closed on May 7, 2008. On that day, Cowles Publishing took over the LMA for KCBA from Newport Television. However, for some time afterward, Newport Television's website continued to list all three stations (KION, KCBA and KMUV) as being owned and/or operated by Newport. Subsequently, KION and the other former Clear Channel/Newport stations acquired by Cowles switched their web site CMS providers from Inergize Digital to Worldnow. On September 20, 2013, News-Press & Gazette Company announced that it would purchase KION-TV and KMUV-LP, as well as San Luis Obispo sister station KKFX-CA. NPG will also take over some of the operations of Santa Maria sister station KCOY-TV, which Cowles initially retained but eventually sold it to VistaWest Media LLC, under a shared services agreement (as NPG's holdings in the area already include KEYT-TV in Santa Barbara). The sale was completed on December 13.〔(NewsChannel 3 Owner Completes Purchase of Fox 11 ), KEYT, 13 December, 2013, Retrieved 17 December, 2013.〕 The existing LMA for KCBA was terminated on December 1, as that station's operations were assumed by Entravision Communications through a joint sales agreement (the license was retained by Seal Rock Broadcasters). Almost immediately after NPG closed on the purchase, Internet Broadcasting took over the operations of KION's web site (like all other NPG station web sites). KION radio is no longer co-owned with KION-TV, as Clear Channel continues to operate the radio station. For several years after Clear Channel sold the television station, the radio station's logo continued to echo that of KION-TV's previous logo, with a "1" and a "0" added to turn "46" into "1460". On June 20th, 2014 KION redesigned its website with a new logo to coincide with the rest of the NPG stations in San Luis Obispo, Santa Maria, and Santa Barbara. On caller ID it's known as NewsChannel 5 because of its cable position on most areas. On its logo its NewsChannel 5 and 46. Representing both the dominant cable channel and the virtual separating viewer confusion from neighboring KPIX 5 in San Francisco. 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「KION-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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