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KXAS-TV, virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 41), is an NBC owned-and-operated television station serving the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex that is licensed to Fort Worth, Texas, United States. The station is owned by the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations subsidiary of NBCUniversal, and is part of a duopoly with Telemundo owned-and-operated station KXTX-TV (channel 39). The two stations share studios located at The Studios at DFW at the CentrePort Business Park on Amon Carter Boulevard (near the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport) in Fort Worth, and its transmitter is located south of Belt Line Road in Cedar Hill. ==History== The station first signed on the air on September 28, 1948 as WBAP-TV (although it first broadcast over a closed-circuit system more than three months earlier on June 20); it was the first television station to sign on in the state of Texas, the second located between St. Louis and Los Angeles (after KDYL-TV in Salt Lake City — now KTVX), and the 25th to sign on in the United States. The station was founded by ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'' publisher Amon G. Carter, who also owned longtime NBC Blue Network affiliate WBAP (820 AM). The following year, the two stations were joined by WBAP-FM (96.3 FM, now KSCS). When the construction permit application was submitted to the Federal Communications Commission on June 21, 1946, Carter had originally requested to use KCPN (for "Carter Publications News") as the station's call letters, before choosing the calls used by its sister radio station three months before it signed on. The Broadcast Hill studios were in the latter stages of construction on the night the station began broadcasting; WBAP-TV was knocked off the air for 17 minutes that evening due to a power outage that interrupted its inaugural programming. Channel 5 originally operated from studio facilities located at Broadcast Hill on Barnett Street in eastern Fort Worth – the first studio facility in the United States that was designed specifically for television broadcasting, where the tower that transmitted its signal (supporting microwave and remote antennas) was also based In 1957, a taller tower was built at the west end of the studio property. By the time channel 5 signed on, it was obvious that Dallas and Fort Worth were going to be collapsed into single television market due to the close proximity of the two cities. However, Carter, who had long been a booster for the Fort Worth area, did not care whether Dallas residents could view channel 5. WBAP-TV and its FM sister moved to the Cedar Hill candelabra tower shared by WFAA (channel 8) and KRLD-TV (channel 4, now KDFW) in 1957, reportedly only after NBC threatened to strip the station of its affiliation. Before this, WFAA-TV served as the NBC affiliate for the eastern half of the market. On July 1, 1952, WBAP-TV became one of the first five television stations in the country to transmit network programming over a live feed. WBAP-TV was the first television stations to convert its local programming to color; the conversion to color broadcasts on May 15, 1954 was preceded by a dedication of its new color facilities from Carter and RCA chairman David Sarnoff. During NBC's coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, news reports from WBAP-TV's studios were transmitted in color, with NBC broadcasting the coverage in New York City from a black and white studio. On November 24, 1963, a remote unit owned by then-independent station KTVT (channel 11, now a CBS owned-and-operated station) that was loaned to WBAP-TV〔(November 22, 1963 - A Breakfast with JFK )〕 and set up at Dallas Police Headquarters, fed the live images of accused Presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald being gunned down by Jack Ruby to the NBC network. It was the first time that a murder had been witnessed live on U.S. network television. The station was owned by the Carter family trusts until 1974, when the FCC barred common ownership of newspapers and television stations in the same market except for a few grandfathered combinations. The FCC grandfathered Belo's newspaper/radio/television combination of the ''Dallas Morning News'', WFAA-TV and the WFAA radio stations (570 AM, now KLIF and 97.9 FM, now KBFB), but declined to grant protection for the ''Star-Telegram'', WBAP radio and KSCS (as WBAP-FM had been renamed in 1973). The Carters then decided to break up their media empire; WBAP-TV was then sold to LIN Broadcasting for $35 million, the sale was finalized in the summer of 1974; the station's callsign was subsequently changed to KXAS-TV. Meanwhile, the ''Star-Telegram'', WBAP-AM and KSCS were sold to Capital Cities Communications (the newspaper is now owned by the McClatchy Company, while the two radio stations are now owned by Cumulus Media). On January 25, 1986, Thomas Stephens, who had been served divorce papers from his wife the day before, shot and killed himself with .357-caliber pistol on-air during KXAS's live coverage of a standoff at a local 7-Eleven store. Stephens, believing they encouraged her to seek the divorce, shot his wife's two co-workers, killing one and wounding the other. His wife, Patricia, slipped away while he was talking to police over the phone.〔(Texas gunman kills self on TV ), ''Chicago Sun-Times'' (via HighBeam Research), January 12, 1986.〕 In 1987, the Cedar Hill tower was severely damaged when an F-4 military aircraft on approach to Dallas Naval Air Station clipped several guy wires, briefly knocking KXAS, WFAA and KDFW off the air for a few seconds of the first few minutes of the incident. Auxiliary facilities were improvised at the nearby tower belonging to KXTX-TV (channel 39) – a tower that itself would collapse while undergoing maintenance in 1996. KXAS opted to build new transmitter facilities to the east of the old tower, on acres of land that had been owned by the station since the 1960s. When AT&T Corporation acquired LIN Broadcasting in 1994, its broadcasting assets were spun off into a separate company known as LIN TV Corporation. That year, KXAS was approached by CBS to become the market's new affiliate after New World Communications signed a deal to switch twelve of its stations, including longtime CBS affiliate KDFW (which the company was in the process of acquiring from Argyle Television), to Fox; KXAS turned down the offer, which prompted CBS to sign a deal with Gaylord Broadcasting to affiliate with KTVT, joining the network in July 1995. LIN TV wholly owned channel 5 until March 1998, when it sold a 76% share of KXAS to NBC, in exchange for a 24% share of San Diego's KNSD (which NBC had recently purchased from New World Communications) and cash. The joint venture between NBC and LIN was named Station Venture Holdings, LLC. As part of the deal, NBC took control of KXAS' operations. Although not a traditional arrangement, NBC's assumption of control over KXAS made it a de facto owned-and-operated station. In 2001, NBC purchased KXTX (which aligned that station with Telemundo – which NBC had purchased two years earlier, taking the affiliation from longtime outlet KFWD (channel 52) – in January 2002), creating a duopoly between that station and KXAS. On November 19, 2009, a fire in the electrical room of the station's Broadcast Hill studios knocked both stations off the air; fire alarms went off at 9:30 p.m., which led to the studio being evacuated, disrupting the 10:00 p.m. newscasts on KXAS and KXTX.〔(Electrical Fire Forces NBC 5 Off the Air ), KXAS-TV, November 20, 2009.〕 In February 2013, LIN Media withdrew itself from the Station Venture Operations joint venture as part of a corporate reorganization. As a result, NBC gained full ownership of KXAS and regained full ownership in KNSD.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://rbr.com/lin-exits-nbc-joint-venture-plans-reorg/ )〕 In June 2012, NBCUniversal announced plans to construct a new 75,000-square-foot facility in Fort Worth (located at the CentrePort Business Park on the former site of Amon Carter Field) to house KXAS, KXTX and NBCUniversal's other Dallas-based operations (including the NBC News Dallas bureau). Construction of the facility began that month,〔(KXAS to begin construction on new FW studios by end of June ), ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'', June 11, 2012.〕 and was completed in September 2013. Sales and marketing departments, and NBC's ArtWorks graphics firm began migrating to the facility in early October; all other operations – including KXAS and KXTX's news departments – moved to the Carter Boulevard studio by November 1, ending KXAS's 65-year tenure at Broadcast Hill.〔(NBC 5 begins move from longtime home on Broadcast Hill in Fort Worth ), ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'', October 1, 2013.〕〔(KXAS Opens State-of-the-Art Building ), ''TVNewsCheck'', October 1, 2013.〕 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「KXAS-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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