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KFOX-TV, virtual channel 14 (UHF digital channel 15), is a Fox-affiliated television station located in El Paso, Texas, United States. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a duopoly with CBS affiliate KDBC-TV (channel 4). KFOX-TV maintains studio facilities located on North Mesa Street (near the Coronado Tower) in northwest El Paso, and its transmitter is located atop the Franklin Mountains on the El Paso city limits. On cable, the station is available on Time Warner Cable channel 8. ==History== The station first signed on the air in August 1979 as KCIK-TV (standing for "Christ Is King"); originally operating as a nonprofit Christian-oriented religious independent station, it was the first UHF television station to sign on in the El Paso market. The station was founded by International Christian Television (owned by the late Pete E. Meryl Warren III, who subsequently started KJLF-TV (channel 65, now UniMás affiliate KTFN) in June 1991). Warren and Alex Blomerth had been involved in a church outreach using a leased access channel on cable channel 8. The two partnered to sign on channel 14, broadcasting from the transmitter facilities and studios (located an old church building at 3100 North Stanton Street) that were used by the cable channel. The station signed on from an existing tower on a peak of the Franklin Mountains, located north of Comanche Peak (where KDBC-TV (channel 4)'s transmitter is based) and Ranger Peak (where KTSM-TV (channel 9)'s transmitter is house) that had been built in the early 1970s for a planned expansion of KELP-TV (channel 13, now KVIA-TV on channel 7) but had never been used. The site was located at the highest elevation in Texas at above sea level; a tramway had to be installed as there was no access to the transmitter by roadway. KELP-TV and the yet-unlaunched KCOS (channel 7, now on channel 13), as were some FM radio stations, were to use the new site. While no television stations used the site until KCIK signed on, the local two-way radio operation began to use the site for radio repeaters. KCIK-TV moved to the site in 1979 using a transmitter than had been used by television station on channel 30 in Puerto Rico. The station initially broadcast its signal using a low-power transmitter, before it was upgraded to full-power later that year. The station was sold to the Cristo Rey Corporation in 1982; channel 14 was then converted into a general entertainment commercial independent station, while still carrying some religious programming. On October 6, 1986, the station became a charter affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company. In 1988, KCIK was purchased by New York entrepreneur Jack Mulderrig Sr.; Mulderrig invested in the construction of a new studio facility at 6004 North Mesa Street in the northwestern part of the city, which opened in June 1994. That December, the station changed its call letters to KFOX-TV; the use of the callsign differs from other stations that incorporate the network name into their call letters – ABC, NBC and CBS each have owned-and-operated stations in New York City and Los Angeles that bear their associated network within their calls; however the KFOX calls were not used by Fox for its O&O in Los Angeles (which retained the KTTV calls it had prior to former parent Metromedia's 1986 purchase by the network's original parent company News Corporation). In August 1996, Cox Broadcasting acquired KFOX-TV, and turned it into a major player in the El Paso television market by upgrading its syndicated programming inventory and developing a news department. On July 20, 2012, one day after Cox purchased four television stations in Jacksonville, Florida and Tulsa, Oklahoma from Newport Television, Cox put KFOX-TV and sister stations in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Steubenville, Ohio and Reno, Nevada (all in markets that are smaller than Tulsa), along with several of its radio stations in medium to small markets, on up for sale.〔http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/487513-Cox_Puts_Four_TV_Stations_on_Block_After_Acquiring_Four_From_Newport.php〕 On February 25, 2013, Cox announced that it would sell the four television stations to the Sinclair Broadcast Group. The sale was approved by the FCC on April 29,〔http://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/Auth_Files/1541991.pdf〕 and it was finalized on May 2.〔http://www.sbgi.net/site_mgr/temp/COX%20Closing_l951bqjg.shtml〕 That April, Titan TV Broadcast Group filed to sell CBS affiliate KDBC-TV to one of Sinclair's partner companies, Cunningham Broadcasting. However, nearly all of Cunningham Broadcasting's stock is controlled by trusts in the names of family members of Sinclair founder Julian Sinclair Smith, which would result in Sinclair effectively running a virtual duopoly in the El Paso market that circumvented FCC ownership rules. FCC duopoly regulations normally disallow two of the four highest-rated stations (which usually constitute stations affiliated with the "Big Four" networks) from being directly owned by a single entity. However, Sinclair cited that KDBC is ranked fourth overall in the El Paso market while KFOX placed sixth in total-day viewership.〔https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101566316&qnum=5190©num=1&exhcnum=2〕 In addition, FCC regulations require a market to be left with eight unique owners after a duopoly is formed, and Sinclair noted in its application that the El Paso–Las Cruces market would still have eight unique owners (not counting Mexican stations that also serve the market) after Sinclair completed its acquisition of KDBC. The FCC approved the sale of KDBC directly to Sinclair on September 23,〔http://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/Auth_Files/1566316.pdf〕 and the transaction was formally completed on October 1, creating a duopoly with KDBC-TV.〔https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101579459&formid=905&fac_num=33764〕 Sinclair later announced plans to purchase a new studio facility to house the two stations; both KDBC and KFOX will remain at their exiting separate facilities until construction on the new facility is completed. 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「KFOX-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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