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KCOY-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Central Coast of California that is licensed to Santa Maria. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 19 from a transmitter on Tepusquet Peak in the Los Padres National Forest east of Santa Maria. Owned by VistaWest Media, KCOY is operated by News-Press & Gazette Company through a shared services agreement, making it sister stations to ABC affiliate KEYT-TV, and Class A Fox affiliate KKFX-CD. KCOY and KKFX share studios on West McCoy Lane in Santa Maria. Its signal can also be seen on repeater K44DN (on channel 44 from a transmitter northwest of Paso Robles) licensed to Paso Robles and on KSBB-CD (channel 17) in Santa Barbara. ==History== The station went on-the-air on March 16, 1964. KCOY would not have existed if it were not for the Federal Communications Commission's decision in 1959 to move KFRE-TV (now KFSN-TV) in Fresno from channel 12 to channel 30 under pressure from politicians in the Central Coast. This allowed channel 12 to be used in Santa Maria. The station signed on as Santa Barbara County's NBC affiliate, sharing CBS with ABC affiliate KEYT. It was owned for more than a dozen years by Central Coast Broadcasters, who acquired the station from the near bankruptcy of the original owners on August 1, 1968.〔http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive-BC-YB/1973/A%201973.pdf〕 The consortium of local business people including Mili Acquistapace and Burns Rick, was headed by Helen Pedotti, who had previously not even owned a television set, but took personal interest in the operation of the station.〔http://www.independent.com/news/2010/feb/18/helen-pedotti-1916-2010/〕 The station took its current affiliation with CBS in 1969 with the consolidation of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties into a single market; KSBY in San Luis Obispo became the NBC affiliate for the enlarged market. It was owned by Stauffer Communications from the early-1980s until 1995 when the company merged with Morris Communications. However, the FCC did not allow Morris to keep the former Stauffer television stations due to the agency's rules in effect at the time against newspaper / broadcast station cross-ownership which affected several of the Stauffer markets where Morris already owned newspapers. KCOY was sold along with most of its sisters to Benedek Broadcasting in 1996. Three years later, Benedek traded KCOY to the Ackerley Group for that company's KKTV in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 2002, Ackerley was bought out by Clear Channel Communications. On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group to Newport Television, a broadcasting holding company controlled by the private equity firm Providence Equity Partners. The sale was finalized on March 14, 2008. However, due to Providence Equity Partners' partial ownership of media properties which serve portions of the Santa Maria / San Luis Obispo market, KCOY and sister station KKFX-CA were resold to the Cowles Publishing Company with the group deal closing on May 7, 2008.〔(Deals - 10/8/2007 - Broadcasting & Cable )〕〔(Cowles Company expands into California )〕 Even after being sold, Newport Television's website still listed KCOY and KKFX as two of its owned stations for several months afterward. The station moved their studio to the current location back in the late-1980s. The previous location was at 1503 North McClelland Street.〔http://data.rtknet.org/rcris/rcris.php?reptype=f&database=rcris&detail=3&datype=T&all_handler=x&handler_id=CAD982012528〕 That building has now been converted into a church. KCOY was the hometown station in 2005 when it covered the trial of Michael Jackson since it was held at the Llewelyn Justice Center in Santa Maria. For several years in the late-1970s and early-1980s, the KCOY Film Festival was a special event for most of Santa Maria media. Employees of the station would make creative videos many of them a parody of the regular broadcasts. Those videos and bloopers from that era have been saved and posted for on YouTube.〔http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biuglhtmVVU&feature=PlayList&p=2A2743BB525405C0&index=1&playnext=2&playnext_from=PL〕〔http://www.stupidvideos.com/video/just_plain_stupid/KCOY_Promo〕〔http://www.stupidvideos.com/video/just_plain_stupid/Sheena_is_a_Punk_Rocker〕 These slices of history featuring many of the station's personalities show how the station looked in that era. On September 20, 2013, News-Press & Gazette Company, owner of KEYT-TV in Santa Barbara, announced that it would take over some of KCOY's operations (including its news operation) under a shared services agreement. Sister station KKFX-CA, as well as Monterey sister stations KION-TV and KMUV-LP, will be sold to NPG directly. The sale was completed on December 13.〔() NewsChannel 3 Owner Completes Purchase of Fox 11, KEYT, 13 December, 2013, Retrieved 17 December, 2013.〕 Almost immediately following consummation, the KCOY web site was folded into the KEYT web site. On December 26, Cowles composed a deal to sell KCOY to VistaWest Media, a company based in St. Joseph, Missouri (where NPG is also based); the station will remain operated by NPG under a shared services agreement.〔(Application For Consent To Assignment Of Broadcast Station Construction Permit Or License ), ''CDBS Public Access'', Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved 13 January, 2014〕 The sale was completed on January 30, 2015.〔(Consummation Notice ), ''CDBS Public Access'', Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved 2 February, 2015.〕 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「KCOY-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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