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KTBS-TV, virtual channel 3 (UHF digital channel 28), is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States. The station is locally owned by the Wray family (under the licensee KTBS, LLC), as part of a duopoly with CW affiliate KPXJ (channel 21). The two stations share studio facilities located on East Kings Highway on the eastern side of Shreveport; KTBS's transmitter is located near Mooringsport (southeast of Caddo Lake). ==History== The station first signed on the air on September 3, 1955; it has been owned by the Wray family since its sign-on, and was originally owned alongside KTBS radio (710 AM, now KEEL). The Wrays also owned several other radio stations in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas, these stations were known as the Tri-State Broadcasting System, from which the station's call letters are taken. The radio stations were sold off in the late 1950s, but the Wrays (who are also the owners of a car dealership franchise in Shreveport) have retained channel 3 to this day. The station originally operated as a primary NBC affiliate, although it shared ABC programming with KSLA-TV (channel 12). In 1960, Shreveport and Texarkana, Texas were collapsed into a single television market. Texarkana-based KTAL-TV (channel 6) took over the NBC affiliation for the enlarged market, leaving KTBS as Louisiana's second full-time ABC affiliate (after WVUE-TV in New Orleans, which became a full-time ABC station in 1957; it is now a Fox affiliate). Over the years, KTBS has become one of the strongest ABC affiliates in the country. In an era where most major network stations are owned by large media companies, KTBS is one of the few major network affiliates that remains locally owned to this day. In 2003, Paxson Communications (now Ion Media Networks) sold Pax TV owned-and-operated station KPXJ (channel 21) to the Wray family, creating the market's first (and only) legal television duopoly (the Shreveport-Texarkana market has only eight full-power television stations, the minimum allowed to create a duopoly under Federal Communications Commission rules; KTBS had already handled advertising sales for KPXJ and rebroadcast its evening newscasts on that station prior to the purchase); after the purchase was finalized, the Wrays converted KPXJ into the market's UPN affiliate. In December 2012, KTBS became ensnared over the controversial firing of meteorologist Rhonda Lee. The station claims that she (and another newscaster) were fired for violating the station's policy on responding to Facebook comments, while supporters of Lee claim that she was fired for her decision to respond to a racist and sexist comment. 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「KTBS-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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