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:''KSEE is also the ICAO identifier for Gillespie Field.'' KSEE, virtual channel 24 (UHF digital channel 38), is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Fresno, California, United States. The station is owned by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group, as part of a duopoly with CBS affiliate KGPE (channel 47). The two stations share studio facilities located on East McKinley Avenue in East Fresno (several blocks from Fresno Yosemite International Airport); KSEE maintains transmitter facilities located on Bear Mountain (near Meadow Lakes). ==History== The station first signed on the air on June 1, 1953, as KMJ-TV. It was the first television station in the Fresno market; the station was originally owned by the McClatchy family, whose assets included local radio station KMJ (580 AM) and three Californian newspapers using ''The Bee'' as its title, in Fresno, Sacramento and Modesto. The station has been an NBC affiliate since its sign-on, due to KMJ radio's longtime affiliation with the NBC Red Network. Channel 24 is one of two commercial television stations in the Fresno market that has never changed its network affiliation (alongside KMPH-TV (channel 26), which has been affiliated with Fox since October 1986). KMJ-TV was the first station in the market to use color film and the first to transmit network programming in color in 1954. In 1981, McClatchy exited from television broadcasting to focus on its newspaper properties; it sold KMJ-TV to San Joaquin Communications, which changed the station's call letters to KSEE on February 27 of that year (McClatchy continue to own KMJ radio until 1987). San Joaquin Communications, in turn, sold KSEE to the Meredith Corporation in 1984. Meredith subsequently sold the station to Granite Broadcasting, in a deal that included CBS affiliate WTVH in Syracuse, New York, on December 27, 1993. On February 6, 2013, Granite sold KSEE's non-license assets to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group, with Nexstar also intending to purchase KSEE's license following Federal Communications Commission approval; in the interim, Nexstar operated the station via a time brokerage agreement. The deal made KSEE a sister station to CBS affiliate KGPE (channel 47), which Nexstar had acquired from Newport Television partner company High Plains Broadcasting in a deal that was consummated on February 19.〔〔(Nexstar Closes On Three Calif. Stations ), ''TVNewsCheck'', February 19, 2013.〕 Normally, duopolies between two "Big Four" affiliates or even "Big Three" affiliates would not be allowed because such stations usually constituted among the four highest-rated stations in a market. FCC regulations do not allow common ownership of any two of the four top-rated stations in total day viewership in the same market. However, according to Nielsen, KGPE was ranked as the fourth highest-rated station in the market and KSEE placed fifth in total day viewership, allowing a duopoly to be formed between the stations.〔https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101540827&qnum=5170©num=1&exhcnum=1〕 This marked the second instance (after the Gannett Company purchased ABC affiliate WJXX in Jacksonville, Florida, creating a duopoly with that market's NBC affiliate WTLV, in 2000) in which a single company owns a duopoly involving two stations that are affiliated by a Big Three television network; and is also Nexstar's first true Big Three duopoly (Nexstar's other Big Three duopolies are virtually formed, in which the other station is owned by Mission Broadcasting). The FCC granted its approval on April 17.〔http://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/Auth_Files/1543915.pdf〕 The sale was consummated on May 31.〔(Extension of Consummation )〕 In May 2013, KGPE and KSEE's general manager Matt Rosenfield told ''The Fresno Bee'' that KGPE's operations would be consolidated into KSEE's facilities by the end of the year. New high definition-capable studios were built for the two stations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fresnobee.com/2013/05/21/3308209/fresno-tv-stations-ksee-kgpe-to.html )〕 KGPE moved its operations from its longtime studio facility on First Street (across the street from Fashion Fair Mall)〔(Google Maps query of 5035 East McKinley Avenue )〕 to the KSEE building on October 9, 2013 (which was renamed the McKinley Media Center, in reference to the street it is located on). 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「KSEE」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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