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KUSI-TV, virtual channel 51 (UHF digital channel 18), is an independent television station located in San Diego, California, United States. The station is owned by McKinnon Broadcasting. KUSI maintains studio facilities on Viewridge Avenue (near I-15) in the Kearny Mesa section of San Diego, and its transmitter is located southeast of Spring Valley. Its signal is relayed on low-powered K12PO in Murrieta. On cable, KUSI is available on Cox Communications and AT&T U-verse channel 9. ==History== The station first signed on the air on September 13, 1982. At its sign-on, it operated as a general entertainment independent station airing a mix of children's programs, sitcoms, older theatrical and made-for-TV movies, drama series and sports events. The station's license was originally assigned to United States International University (the university's initials served as the basis of the station's callsign); however prior to the station's sign-on, USIU sold the license to Texas businessman Michael D. McKinnon. His company, McKinnon Broadcasting (which operates the station under the wholly owned licensee Channel 51 of San Diego, Inc.), is owned by Mike McKinnon (who has a controlling 66.26% stake), brother C. Dan McKinnon (who has a 17.48% stake) and sons Michael Dean McKinnon and Mark Daniel McKinnon (who hold 08.13% each)).〔(Ownership Report for Commercial Broadcast Stations ) for KUSI-TV at FCC.gov〕〔(KUSI-TV, Cable 9/Channel 51 profile ) @ San Diego Source - San Diego Daily Transcript 〕〔(Fictitious Business Name Statement ) for KUSI @ San Diego Source - San Diego Daily Transcript 〕 Channel 51 of San Diego, Inc.,〔(Corporation status ) for Channel 51 of San Diego, Inc., Secretary of State office - State of California 〕 is a California-based licensee corporation, while Corpus Christi-based corporation San Diego's Fifty-One, Inc.,〔(San Diego's Fifty One Inc (Mckinnon Broadcasting) ) profile @ Manta.com〕〔 (Franchise Tax Certification of Account Status ) for San Diego's Fifty-One, Inc., Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts - State of Texas〕 is a holding company for McKinnon Broadcasting. In January 1994, the station dropped its weekday morning children's programs, moving them to afternoons upon the launch of a morning newscast; by 1995, KUSI began dropping many of these shows (which were scattered among other local outlets) and added more court, talk and reality shows, mirroring the scheduling format used by Los Angeles independent station KCAL-TV of that time period. The cartoons and recent off-network sitcoms were moved to a weaker station, KTTY (channel 69, now KSWB-TV), which became a charter affiliate of The WB in January 1995. On January 16 of that year, KUSI gained a network affiliation when it became San Diego's original outlet of the upstart United Paramount Network (UPN). Eleven months later in November 1995, in an attempt to take the Fox affiliation away from Tijuana-licensed XETV-TV (channel 6), KUSI filed an appeal against the Federal Communications Commission's decision to grant Fox a permit to broadcast live sports on the Mexican-licensed signal of XETV (McKinnon Broadcasting had made an earlier unsuccessful attempt to pull the Fox affiliation from XETV in April 1991). Fox had picked up the broadcast rights to NFL games from the National Football Conference the year prior,〔(CBS, NBC Battle for AFC Rights // Fox Steals NFC Package ), ''Chicago Sun-Times'' (via HighBeam Research), December 18, 1993.〕 as cited in the United States Court of Appeals case ''Channel 51 of San Diego, Inc. vs. FCC and Fox Television Stations, Inc.'' 79 F.3d 1187. FCC regulations disallowed television stations that were licensed outside the United States from airing live sporting events from a U.S. broadcast network without licensing approval. The permit was granted to Fox on behalf of XETV, and the case was settled on March 26, 1996.〔(79 F.3d 1187 )〕〔(Radio Televisión v. FCC, No. 96-1438 )〕 However until XETV started its own news department in December 1999, KUSI provided newsgathering resources to Fox's news and sports divisions for the San Diego market (similarly, in 2008, it was rumored that KUSI would affiliate with The CW. after KSWB-TV decided to end its affiliation with that network after two years in order to assume the Fox affiliation from XETV on August 1 of that year,〔(Trading places: Fox, CW switch network channels ), ''U-T San Diego'', August 1, 2008.〕 but The CW chose to affiliate with XETV instead). KUSI dropped UPN when its affiliation agreement with the network expired on January 16, 1998, citing low ratings for the network's programming locally.〔(KUSI-TV drops UPN, assumes independent status )〕 However, UPN programming remained available in the market on local cable providers via the network's Los Angeles owned-and-operated station KCOP-TV (whose presence in the market also played a factor in KUSI dropping the UPN affiliation); however, many San Diegans that did not have a cable television subscription or a strong antenna (facing Los Angeles) were unable to view UPN programs within the market until Tecate, Baja California-licensed XHUPN (channel 49, now MyNetworkTV affiliate XHDTV-TV) signed on in November 1999. In the fall of 2007, KUSI announced plans to open a new state-of-the-art streetside studio facility in downtown San Diego. However, the site that was intended to house its new studio facilities was eventually sold to Bosa Development; KUSI continues to operate from its Kearny Mesa studios. Since McKinnon Broadcasting sold its two Texas stations, KBMT in Beaumont and KIII in Corpus Christi, to the London Broadcasting Company respectively in August 5, 2009 and August 31, 2010, KUSI is currently the company's only remaining television station property . 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「KUSI-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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