KGUN
Encyclopedia
KGUN-TV, channel 9, is the ABC
-affiliated television station serving Tucson, Arizona
, owned by Journal Broadcast Group, Inc.. It broadcasts its digital signal
on VHF
channel 9 from Mount Bigelow, located northeast of Tucson. It is known locally as "K-GUN".
In January 2009, KGUN launched a Spanish-language station, Mexicanal
, on its digital channel 9.2.
assigned UHF channel 35 to KGUN for digital operations. The station was granted an application to build its digital operations in October 2001 and, after several extensions, brought KGUN-DT to air in August 2005.
KGUN has selected channel 9 for its post-transition digital operations, and since the analog television shutdown, on June 12, 2009, KGUN broadcasts in digital from channel 9. As with all of Journal's television stations, following the digital transition, as of June 19, 2009, KGUN added the -TV suffix to its callsign (the station had previously used the KGUN-TV callsign from 1957 to 1987, when it dropped the suffix).
in Omaha, Nebraska
) to Lee Enterprises
in 1986, which, in turn, sold both stations to Emmis Communications
in 2000. In 2005, Emmis liquidated all of its television properties, sending KGUN and control of KMTV to the Milwaukee
based Journal Broadcast Group, which already owned four radio stations in Tucson. The sale was finalized in December 2005.
, Jeopardy!
, Law & Order
, Live With Regis and Kelly
and Inside Edition
.
On April 26, 2010, KGUN began producing a lifestyle and entertainment magazine program called The Morning Blend, a program which was adapted from Journal flagship station WTMJ-TV
. The program airs weekdays from 11 a.m. to noon and is hosted by Ann Lauricello and Alex Miranda; the show replaced KGUN's 11 a.m. newscast.
to 6 p.m. and expanding its news department. On April 23, 2011, KGUN became the third station in Tucson to begin airing local newscasts in high definition
.
Weather team
Sports team
Reporters
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
-affiliated television station serving Tucson, Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...
, owned by Journal Broadcast Group, Inc.. It broadcasts its digital signal
ATSC
ATSC standards are a set of standards developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee for digital television transmission over terrestrial, cable, and satellite networks....
on VHF
Very high frequency
Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency...
channel 9 from Mount Bigelow, located northeast of Tucson. It is known locally as "K-GUN".
Digital programming
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Programming |
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| 9.1 | 720p 720p 720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan... |
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Main KGUN programming / ABC |
| 9.2 | 480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC... |
4:3 | Mexicanal Mexicanal Mexicanal Network is a Mexican based television Network launched in 2005 by and and serves Mexicans living and working in the United States, Canada and Mexico.... |
| 9.3 | Live Well Network |
In January 2009, KGUN launched a Spanish-language station, Mexicanal
Mexicanal
Mexicanal Network is a Mexican based television Network launched in 2005 by and and serves Mexicans living and working in the United States, Canada and Mexico....
, on its digital channel 9.2.
Analog-to-digital transition
In 1997, the Federal Communications CommissionFederal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
assigned UHF channel 35 to KGUN for digital operations. The station was granted an application to build its digital operations in October 2001 and, after several extensions, brought KGUN-DT to air in August 2005.
KGUN has selected channel 9 for its post-transition digital operations, and since the analog television shutdown, on June 12, 2009, KGUN broadcasts in digital from channel 9. As with all of Journal's television stations, following the digital transition, as of June 19, 2009, KGUN added the -TV suffix to its callsign (the station had previously used the KGUN-TV callsign from 1957 to 1987, when it dropped the suffix).
History
The station was founded in 1955 by rancher D.W. Ingram, who gave the station his initials, KDWI-TV. It began broadcasting June 3, 1956. Shortly afterward, Ingram sold it to H. U. Garrett, who changed the station's call sign to KGUN on March 14, 1957. Garrett sold the station to Henry S. Hilberg in 1960, and Hilberg sold it to Gilmore Broadcasting in 1964. The station came under the ownership of May Broadcasting in 1968. May would sell its television holdings (KGUN and KMTVKMTV
KMTV-TV is the CBS television station in Omaha, Nebraska. Owned by the Journal Broadcast Group, it broadcasts a digital television signal on UHF channel 45, which remaps to former analog channel 3 via PSIP.-History:...
in Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha, Nebraska
Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, and is the county seat of Douglas County. It is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 20 miles north of the mouth of the Platte River...
) to Lee Enterprises
Lee Enterprises
Lee Enterprises is a publicly traded American media company. It publishes 54 daily newspapers in 23 states, and more than 300 weekly, classified, and specialty publications. Lee Enterprises was founded in 1890 by A.W. Lee and is based in Davenport, Iowa....
in 1986, which, in turn, sold both stations to Emmis Communications
Emmis Communications
Emmis Communications is a media conglomerate based in Indianapolis, Indiana. The company owns radio stations and magazines in the United States, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria.-History:...
in 2000. In 2005, Emmis liquidated all of its television properties, sending KGUN and control of KMTV to the Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee is the largest city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin, the 28th most populous city in the United States and 39th most populous region in the United States. It is the county seat of Milwaukee County and is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan. According to 2010 census data, the...
based Journal Broadcast Group, which already owned four radio stations in Tucson. The sale was finalized in December 2005.
Programming
An ABC affiliate, KGUN broadcasts the network's schedule, supplemented by syndicated and local programming, most of which is local news. Syndicated programming currently featured on KGUN-TV includes: Wheel of Fortune, The Ellen DeGeneres ShowThe Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres. Debuting on September 8, 2003, it is produced by Telepictures and airs in syndication, including stations owned by NBC Universal. For its first five seasons, the show...
, Jeopardy!
Jeopardy!
Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...
, Law & Order
Law & Order
Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,...
, Live With Regis and Kelly
Live with Regis and Kelly
Live! with Kelly is a syndicated American television morning talk show, hosted by Kelly Ripa. The show has aired since 1983 in New York City and 1988 nationwide. Tony Pigg has been the show's announcer since its inception...
and Inside Edition
Inside Edition
Inside Edition is a thirty-minute American television syndicated news program, first aired on CBS on October 9, 1988. It was originally similar to the programs Hard Copy and A Current Affair, but now more closely resembles a condensed version of breakfast television, exclusively with pre-recorded...
.
On April 26, 2010, KGUN began producing a lifestyle and entertainment magazine program called The Morning Blend, a program which was adapted from Journal flagship station WTMJ-TV
WTMJ-TV
WTMJ-TV, digital channel 28 ; branded as "Today's TMJ4", is the NBC-affiliated television station located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the flagship station of the Journal Broadcast Group. Its signal covers most of southeastern Wisconsin and parts of northeastern Illinois, including Racine, Kenosha,...
. The program airs weekdays from 11 a.m. to noon and is hosted by Ann Lauricello and Alex Miranda; the show replaced KGUN's 11 a.m. newscast.
News operation
In 1997, KGUN added a 5:30 p.m. newscast, moving ABC's World News TonightWorld News Tonight
World News Tonight may refer to:* ABC World News, the daily evening program of ABC News, formally known as World News Tonight from 1978 to 2006* World News Tonight , a former Sky News program...
to 6 p.m. and expanding its news department. On April 23, 2011, KGUN became the third station in Tucson to begin airing local newscasts in high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
.
Newscast titles
- News in Action (1970s)
- NewsCenter 9 (1980s–1994)
- KGUN 9 News (1994–present)
Station slogans
- In Touch with Tucson (1994–2003)
- Clear. Accurate. To the Point (2003–2006)
- On Your Side (2006–present)
News team
Anchors- Guy Atchley - weeknights at 5, 6, 9 (on KWBAKWBAKWBA-TV, virtual channel 58, is the affiliate of The CW network in Tucson, Arizona. The station broadcasts on digital channel 44, and is licensed to Sierra Vista, Arizona...
) and 10 p.m. - Steve Núñez - weekday mornings Good Morning Tucson (5-7 a.m.)
- Kimberly Romo - weekday mornings Good Morning Tucson (5-7 a.m.)
- Tammy Vo - weekends at 5 and 10 p.m.; also weeknight reporter
- Jennifer Waddell - weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.
Weather team
- Erin Christiansen (AMSAmerican Meteorological SocietyThe American Meteorological Society promotes the development and dissemination of information and education on the atmospheric and related oceanic and hydrologic sciences and the advancement of their professional applications. Founded in 1919, the American Meteorological Society has a membership...
Certified Broadcast MeteorologistCertified Broadcast MeteorologistCertified Broadcast Meteorologist is a rating for meteorologists given by the American Meteorological Society.The Certified Broadcast Meteorologist program was established to raise the professional standard in broadcast meteorology and encourage a broader range of scientific understanding,...
Seal of Approval; member, NWANational Weather AssociationThe National Weather Association is an American professional association with a mission to support and promote excellence in operational meteorology and related activities...
) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 6, 9 (on KWBAKWBAKWBA-TV, virtual channel 58, is the affiliate of The CW network in Tucson, Arizona. The station broadcasts on digital channel 44, and is licensed to Sierra Vista, Arizona...
) and 10 p.m. - April Madison - meteorologist; weekday mornings Good Morning Tucson (5-7 a.m.)
- Ileana Díaz - weather anchor; weekends at 5 and 10 p.m., also weeknight reporter
Sports team
- Dave Silver - sports director; weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m.
- Jake Knapp - sports anchor; weekends at 5 and 10 p.m., also weeknight sports reporter
Reporters
- Jessica Chapin - general assignment reporter
- Claire Doan - general assignment reporter
- Corinne Hautala - general assignment reporter
- Allen "Big Al" Kath - weekday morning traffic reporter
- Kevin Keen - general assignment reporter
- Craig Smith - general assignment reporter
Management
- Julie Brinks - general manager
- Forrest Carr - news director
- David Rush - executive producer