KXII

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KXII
Sherman / Denison, Texas / Ardmore, Oklahoma
Branding	KX-double I 12, First News
Slogan	Coverage You Can Count On
Channels	12 (VHF) analog, 20 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	CBS (secondary 1960-1977, primary 1977-1985 and exclusive since 1985)
Owner	Gray Television
Founded	August 12, 1956
Call letters meaning	K XII (Roman numeral for "12")
Former callsigns	KVSO (1956-1958)
Former affiliations	NBC (primary 1956-1977, secondary 1977-1985)
Website	http://www.kxii.com

KXII is an English-language television station serving the Sherman, Texas-Ada, Oklahoma, television market. It is an affiliate of the CBS Television Network. Licensed to Sherman, Texas, the station broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 12, and its digital signal on UHF channel 20. In the summer of 2006, the station added programming from UPN on digital subcarrier 12.2 and cable. This programming flipped to My Network TV when UPN ceased operation on September 15, 2006. It has also added programming from the Fox Network on digital subcarrier 12.3 and cable. Its transmitter is located near Madill, Oklahoma.

Contents 1 History 2 Newscasts 2.1 Weekdays 2.2 Saturdays 2.3 Sundays 3 External links

[edit] History

KXII began in 1956 at Ardmore, Oklahoma as KVSO-TV, in common ownership with local radio station KVSO and a local newspaper, The Daily Ardmoreite. In its early years, Channel 12 was an NBC affiliate receiving much of its network and non-network program simulcast with WKY-TV (now KFOR-TV) in Oklahoma City though it broadcast its own local newscast and advertising from its Ardmore studio to its viewing audience across Southern Oklahoma and North Texas.

In late 1958, the station was sold to Texoma Broadcasting and call letters changed to KXII (signifying the roman numeral 12). In 1959, the transmitter was moved from its original location north of Ardmore to a point near Madill, Oklahoma about 25 miles southeast of Ardmore in order to provide better reception to viewers in Durant, Oklahoma and across the Red River to the Sherman-Denison, Texas area. In 1960, KXII-TV opened a new studio facility along U.S. Highway 75 halfway between Sherman and Denison, which later became the station's main studio. KXII retained the original Ardmore studio which is still in use today in conjunction with the Sherman-Denison facility.

During the 1960s and into the 1970s, KXII-TV was a primary NBC affiliate but also held a secondary affiliation with CBS. KXII's direct competitor, KTEN Channel 10 in Ada, Oklahoma was a primary ABC affiliate but also claimed NBC as a secondary affiliate. Though KXII and KTEN were considered direct competitors, the fact is that both stations had considerable differences in fringe coverage for many years due to the 75-mile distances between the two stations transmitters at Madill and Ada. This meant that viewers within the a 25-mile radius of KXII's transmitter at Madill including Ardmore and Durant were actually in the southern fringe of KTEN's transmitting range, resulting in poorer over-the-air reception on channel 10 than channel 12, and channel 10 did not even reach viewers in the Sherman-Denison area or other portions of North Texas served by KXII-TV. Similarly, KTEN's city of licensee, Ada, was in the northern fringe of KXII's transmitting range resulting in poor over-the-air reception of channel 12. To better compete with KXII, KTEN moved its transmitter in 1984 from Ada to a location near Bromide, Oklahoma which enabled better over-the-air reception to locations in far Southern Oklahoma near the Red River and now expanded to serve Sherman-Denison as well as other cities in North Texas. KTEN would also adopt KXII's mode of operating more than one studio by adding operations in Ardmore and Denison and later relocating the main studio from Ada to Denison.

By 1975, KXII-TV's program schedule included a larger proportion of CBS programming, making Channel 12 sort of a hybrid station with almost half the programming of both NBC and CBS for a few years. At the same time, KTEN added a larger proportion of NBC programming to its schedule to become a similar hybrid ABC/NBC station in the process. By 1977, KXII Channel 12 shifted its primary network affiliation to CBS and became an exclusive CBS affiliate in 1985 when the last NBC program on KXII's schedule, the Today show, was replaced by CBS This Morning and Today moved to KTEN, which shifted NBC to a primary and later an exclusive affiliation. Since the late 1990s, the two-station Sherman-Ada market has been represented entirely by one-network stations.

[edit] Newscasts

[edit] Weekdays

• First News AM - 5:30-7:00AM
• First News at Noon - 12:00-12:30PM
• First News at Five - 5:00-5:30PM
• First News at Six - 6:00-6:30PM
• First News at Ten - 10:00-10:35PM

[edit] Saturdays

• First News at Six - 6:00-6:30PM
• First News at Ten - 10:00-10:30PM

[edit] Sundays

• 12 News Forum (Public Affairs) - 6:30-7:00AM
• First News at 5:30 - 5:30-6:00PM
• First News at Ten - 10:00-10:35PM

[edit] External links

• KXII Homepage
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KXII