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KERO-TV, channel 23, is a television station located in Bakersfield, California, US. KERO-TV is owned by the broadcasting division of the E. W. Scripps Company, and is an affiliate of the ABC television network. The studios are located on 21st Street in downtown Bakersfield, and its transmitter is based on Breckenridge Mountain. ==History== KERO-TV went on the air on September 26, 1953, on channel 10 as an NBC affiliate. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. KERO-TV was first owned by a local interest, Kern County Broadcasters, along with KERO radio (1230 AM, now KGEO). The TV station, along with KERO radio, originally broadcast from the lobby of the El Tejon Hotel, which was located at the corner of Truxtun Avenue and Chester Avenue. KERO-TV later moved to its current studios at 321 21st Street. The radio and TV stations were broken up in late 1955, when KERO radio was sold.〔"Speidel-Fischer Bcstg. Buys 75% Interest in WQOK." ''Broadcasting – Telecasting'', December 12, 1955, pg. 9. ()〕〔"Asprin, please." ''Broadcasting – Telecasting'', April 2, 1956, pg. 74. ()〕 Wrather-Alvarez Broadcasting, parent of KFMB-AM-TV in San Diego, purchased KERO-TV in early 1957;〔"KERO-TV going for $2.15 million." ''Broadcasting – Telecasting'', January 7, 1957, pg. 7. ()〕 when the Wrather–Alvarez partnership broke up a year later, Jack Wrather kept KERO-TV and the San Diego stations as part of his newly renamed Marietta Broadcasting.〔"Wrather buys out Alvarez." ''Broadcasting – Telecasting'', May 12, 1958, pg. 9. ()〕 In 1959, Wrather merged Marietta Broadcasting into Buffalo, New York-based Transcontinent Television Corporation.〔"New station combine formed." ''Broadcasting – Telecasting'', February 16, 1959, pg. 9. ()〕〔"Transcontinent tie with Marietta gets ok." ''Broadcasting – Telecasting'', May 18, 1959, pp. 74, 76. () http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/59-OCR/1959-05-18-BC-0076.pdf]〕 One of KERO-TV's best remembered shows was ''Cousin Herb's Trading Post'', a local variety series in the 1950s. The show's host, Herb Henson was a country musician, and often featured local artists such as Buck Owens and Tommy Collins, who would come to popularize the "Bakersfield Sound". Another local favorite was ''The Uncle Woody Show'' in the 1960s and 1970s. Radio and TV personality Casey Kasem also used the KERO studios to tape a weekly musical TV variety show entitled ''SheBang'' in the mid-to-late 1960s, while a disc jockey at KRLA in Los Angeles. As a result of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) making both the Bakersfield and Fresno television markets all-UHF through what was termed as ''deintermixture'', KERO-TV moved to channel 23 on July 1, 1963 and simulcasted on channels 10 and 23 for two months, channel 10 being shut off at the end of August of the same year.〔"Vhf-to-uhf change approved for KERO-TV." ''Broadcasting'', November 19, 1962, pg. 78. ()〕 In 1964, as part of Transcontinent's exit from broadcasting, KERO-TV was sold to magazine publisher Time-Life.〔"Transcontinent sale: last of its kind?" ''Broadcasting'', February 24, 1964, pp. 27–28. ()()〕 Another publishing firm, McGraw-Hill acquired KERO-TV in 1972 along with three other Time-Life stations—KOGO-TV (now KGTV) in San Diego, KLZ-TV (now KMGH-TV) in Denver and WFBM-TV (now WRTV) in Indianapolis.〔"McGraw-Hill buys into TV in a big way." ''Broadcasting'', November 2, 1970, pg. 9. ()〕 KERO remained as an NBC affiliate until March 1984, when it switched to CBS. In March 1996, as part of a corporate affiliation deal between McGraw-Hill and ABC, KERO picked up the ABC affiliation from cross-town rival KBAK-TV, and in the process became the second television station in the Bakersfield market (after KGET), and one of a handful of television stations in the United States, to have been an affiliate of all of the traditional Big Three television networks (NBC, CBS, and ABC). In August 2006 KERO-TV officially became a duopoly with KZKC-LP, an Azteca America affiliate. At this time, KERO-TV does not plan on airing any local Spanish language news on this channel. In May 2007, KERO along with its sister stations began to use the same news music of the ABC O&O's ''Eyewitness News New Generation'' package and branded themselves as "ABC 23", however KERO is not owned or operated by ABC. KERO is the Bakersfield home for Oakland Raiders and San Francisco 49ers pre-season games. On October 3, 2011, McGraw-Hill announced it was selling its entire television station group to the E. W. Scripps Company for $212 million.〔(McGraw-Hill Sells TV Group To Scripps ), ''TVNewsCheck'', October 3, 2011.〕 The deal was completed on December 30, 2011. With KERO now under Scripps ownership, the station began using Stephen Arnold's ''Inergy'' news music package and a new graphics package with the beginning of the 2012-13 television season. KERO launched the first weekend morning news in Kern County on September 14, 2013. The show airs from 6–7 and from 8–9 a.m. 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「KERO-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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