KOLD-TV
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KOLD-TV is a full-service television station in 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...

. It is the CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

 affiliate in 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...

, and is owned by Raycom Media
Raycom Media
- History :Although Raycom Media dates its birth to 1996, the core of the company was formed in 1992 when Atlanta native Bert Ellis formed Ellis Communications. He eventually controlled 13 television stations and two radio stations....

. The station broadcasts in digital
ATSC
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 on UHF
Ultra high frequency
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 channel 32; it also carries Me-TV on digital subchannel 13.2. Co-located with KOLD is Raycom Media's in-house design company, Raycom Design Group, which creates all station graphics packages.

Digital programming

The station's digital channel, broadcast on UHF channel 32, is multiplexed: Digital channels>
Channel Video Aspect
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Programming
13.1 1080i
1080i
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16:9
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Main KOLD-TV programming / CBS
13.2 480i
480i
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4:3  Me-TV
13.3 News 13 Now


On April 3, 1997, the FCC released its initial digital television companion channel assignments. It assigned UHF channel 32 to KOLD-TV to build its DTV facilities, and began broadcasting in digital on September 11, 2003, with final FCC licensing coming January 6, 2004. KOLD elected to continue broadcasting on digital channel 32 after the digital transition on June 12, 2009, and continues to identify as Channel 13 via PSIP. Oddly, a 13.3 subchannel also exists which formerly carried until about April 2011 a message apologizing for the discontinuation of The Tube Music Network, which ended operations in late October 2007. On August 15, 2011, KOLD-TV added Me-TV to subchannel 13.2 and moved its "News 13 Now" programming to the previous vacant 13.3.

While KOLD's analog station originates from the electronics site in the Tucson Mountains west of downtown, KOLD's digital transmitter is at the Mount Bigelow electronics site to the northeast of the city.

KOLD-TV has a construction permit for a fill-in digital translator on its pre-analog channel 13 which will benefit viewers who live in certain rugged terrain areas that are having difficulty receiving the signal on channel 32.

History

On November 13, 1952, the Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
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 (FCC) granted a construction permit to country
Country music
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 singer Gene Autry
Gene Autry
Orvon Grover Autry , better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s...

 for VHF channel 13 in Tucson. Two months later, on January 13, 1953, Autry signed the station on the air as KOPO-TV, the second television station in Arizona. Known as "Lucky 13", KOPO played up the "13" angle, coming on the air at 1:13:13 PM, the 13th second of the 13th minute of the 13th hour of the 13th day of the year. It was a sister station to KOPO radio (AM 1450, now KWFM
KWFM
KTZR is a commercial radio station located in Tucson, Arizona, broadcasting on 1450 AM. KTZR airs a Spanish adult hits format.This station became Funny 1450 as a comedy format station at 10:00 AM Wednesday January 26, 2011....

; and 98.3 FM, now KOHT
KOHT
KOHT is a Rhythmic Top 40 station serving Tucson, Arizona, and is licenced to Marana, . It has been owned by Clear Channel Communications since July 30, 2001 and broadcasts at 98.3 MHz with an ERP of 6 kW. The station's playlist is primarily Rhythmic Top 40, hip hop and R&B.-History:KOHT...

).

Channel 13 took the CBS affiliation due to its radio sisters' long affiliation with CBS radio. It also had a secondary DuMont
DuMont Television Network
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 affiliation. In 1957, the station changed its call letters to KOLD-TV, playing off its sister station, KOOL-TV (now KSAZ-TV
KSAZ-TV
KSAZ-TV, virtual channel 10.1, is the Fox owned-and-operated station in Phoenix, Arizona. It is owned by Fox Television Stations in a duopoly with MyNetworkTV station KUTP ....

 in Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...

). KOOL and KOLD remained sister stations until Autry sold off KOLD to Universal Communications, the broadcasting arm of the Detroit-based Evening News Association, in 1969.

Universal Communications was acquired by the Gannett Company
Gannett Company
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 as part of Gannett's purchase of the Evening News Association in 1986. Gannett had owned the Tucson Citizen
Tucson Citizen
The Tucson Citizen was a daily newspaper in Tucson, Arizona. It was founded by Richard C. McCormick with John Wasson as publisher and editor on October 15, 1870 as the Arizona Citizen....

since 1977, and FCC regulations of the time forced Gannett to sell KOLD along with KTVY (now KFOR-TV
KFOR-TV
KFOR-TV, virtual channel 4 , is the NBC-affiliated television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. KFOR-TV is owned by Local TV, a subsidiary of the private equity group Oak Hill Capital Partners, in a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate KAUT-TV ; its studios are located at 444 East Britton Road in...

) in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma city
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 and WALA-TV
WALA-TV
WALA-TV is the Fox-affiliated television station for Southern Alabama, Southeastern Mississippi, and the Western Florida Panhandle that is licensed to Mobile. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 9 from a transmitter in Spanish Fort, Alabama...

 in Mobile, Alabama
Mobile, Alabama
Mobile is the third most populous city in the Southern US state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County. It is located on the Mobile River and the central Gulf Coast of the United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 during the 2010 census. It is the largest...

 to Knight Ridder
Knight Ridder
Knight Ridder was an American media company, specializing in newspaper and Internet publishing. Until it was bought by The McClatchy Company on June 27, 2006, it was the second-largest newspaper publisher in the United States, with 32 daily newspapers sold.- History :The corporate ancestors of...

 Broadcasting after just one day of ownership. The News-Press & Gazette Company
News-Press & Gazette Company
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 acquired KOLD in 1989, when Knight Ridder bowed out of broadcasting.

In 1993, Atlanta-based New Vision Television
New Vision Television
New Vision Television is a broadcast company based in Los Angeles, California. The company owns or manages 18 television stations in medium sized markets.-New Vision I:...

 bought NPG's entire television station group of the time, which included KOLD, WJTV
WJTV
WJTV is the CBS-affiliated television station for Jackson, Mississippi. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 12 from a transmitter in Raymond. The station can also be seen on Comcast channel 13 and in high definition on digital channel 433. Owned by Media General, WJTV has...

 in Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson, Mississippi
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 and its semi-satellite
Broadcast relay station
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 WHLT
WHLT
WHLT is the CBS-affiliated television station for Southeastern Mississippi's Pine Belt. Licensed to Hattiesburg, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 22 from a transmitter in unincorporated Northeastern Forrest County. The station can also be seen on Comcast channel 10 and...

 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Hattiesburg is a city in Forrest County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 44,779 at the 2000 census . It is the county seat of Forrest County...

, WSAV-TV
WSAV-TV
WSAV-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for the Coastal Empire of Southeastern Georgia and the Lowcountry of Southern South Carolina. Licensed to Savannah, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 39 from a transmitter in Pooler, Georgia...

 in Savannah, Georgia
Savannah, Georgia
Savannah is the largest city and the county seat of Chatham County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. Established in 1733, the city of Savannah was the colonial capital of the Province of Georgia and later the first state capital of Georgia. Today Savannah is an industrial center and an important...

, WECT
WECT
WECT is the NBC-affiliated television station for the Cape Fear and Sandhills areas of North Carolina that is licensed to Wilmington. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 44 from a transmitter southwest of Winnabow. The station can also be seen on Time Warner and Charter...

 in Wilmington, North Carolina
Wilmington, North Carolina
Wilmington is a port city in and is the county seat of New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. The population is 106,476 according to the 2010 Census, making it the eighth most populous city in the state of North Carolina...

 and KSFY-TV
KSFY-TV
KSFY-TV is the ABC television affiliate in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It broadcasts on ATSC Channel 13 . Its transmitter is located near Rowena, South Dakota. KSFY is currently owned by Hoak Media Corporation of Dallas, Texas.-Station history:...

 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Sioux Falls is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Sioux Falls is the county seat of Minnehaha County, and also extends into Lincoln County to the south...

. Two years later, New Vision sold all of its stations to another Atlanta-based company, Ellis Communications (New Vision has since rebuilt with smaller-market stations). Ellis, in turn, was sold the next year to a media group funded by the Retirement Systems of Alabama
Retirement Systems of Alabama
Retirement Systems of Alabama is the administrator of the pension fund for employees of the state of Alabama. It is headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama. David G. Bronner is the chief executive officer....

, who purchased two additional broadcasting groups (Aflac
Aflac
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's broadcasting unit and Federal Broadcasting) several months later. The three groups merged in 1997 to form Raycom Media.

During 2011, the Raycom station Web sites are being redesigned to a uniform format (previously, the Raycom station sites were a hodgepodge of different formats that were inherited from their previous owners). As of October 25, 2011, the WorldNow-operated Web sites of Raycom stations in four markets (WBTV
WBTV
WBTV, channel 3 , is the CBS affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is one of two flagship stations of Raycom Media. WBTV's studios are located off Morehead Street just west of Uptown Charlotte, and its transmitter is located in north-central Gaston County, North Carolina...

, WTNZ
WTNZ
WTNZ is the Fox-affiliated television station for Eastern Tennessee licensed to Knoxville. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 34 from a transmitter on Sharp's Ridge in the city's Arlington section. The station can also be seen on Comcast channel 11 and in high definition...

, WAFF
WAFF (TV)
WAFF is the NBC television network affiliate in Huntsville, Alabama. The station broadcasts on UHF channel 49 and serves the northern portion of Alabama and several counties in southern Tennessee.-Decatur years, 1954 - 69:...

 and WALB
WALB
WALB is the NBC- and ABC-affiliated television station for Southwestern Georgia licensed to Albany. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 10 from a transmitter in Doerun along the Colquitt and Worth County line...

) have yet to be fully updated to the new Raycom standard layout (although WBTV, WAFF and WALB use some elements of the new design) but are expected to have completed their redesign by Fall.

On November 15, 2011, Dallas-based broadcasting company Belo Corporation, owners of local Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

 affiliate KMSB and MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...

 affiliate KTTU, announced that it will enter into a shared services agreement
Shared services
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 with Raycom Media beginning in February 2012, resulting in KOLD taking over the two stations' operations and moving their advertising sales department to the KOLD studios. All remaining positions at KMSB and KTTU, including news, engineering and production, will be eliminated and master control operations will move from Belo's Phoenix independent station KTVK
KTVK
KTVK is a full-service, independent television station in Phoenix, Arizona. It broadcasts in digital on UHF channel 24 from a transmitter located on South Mountain in Phoenix, and can be seen across northern Arizona on a network of nearly two dozen translator stations...

 to KOLD. KOLD will also take over operations of KMSB's website. Though FCC rules disallow common ownership of more than two stations in the same market, combined SSA/duopoly operations are permissable (with such operations existing in Topeka
Topeka, Kansas
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, Duluth
Duluth, Minnesota
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, Nashville and Honolulu).

News operation

Currently, KOLD-TV broadcasts a total of 29½ hours of local newscasts each week (with 5½ hours on weekdays and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays).

On August 30, 2010, KOLD became the second station in Tucson to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition
High-definition television
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.

On November 15, 2011, KMSB owner Belo Corporation announced that due to a lack of advertising revenue, that in February 2012, it will enter into a news share agreement with KOLD and shut down KMSB's in-house news department. KOLD will take over production of KMSB's nightly 9 p.m. newscast, as well as debut a two-hour 7-9 a.m. newscast on weekday mornings on that station.

Newscast titles

  • Telenews (mid-late 1950s)
  • KOLD-TV Big News/Niteline News (1960s)
  • Channel 13 News (1970s–early 1980s)
  • NewsCenter 13 (mid 1980s–1997)
  • News 13 (1997–2004)
  • KOLD News 13 (2004–present)

Station slogans

  • "Arizona's Color Station" (1960s)
  • "Southern Arizona's News Station" (1993–1997)
  • "Live. Local. Latebreaking." (1997–present)


News team

Anchors
  • Mindy Blake - weekdays at noon; also weekday morning reporter
  • Teresa Jun - weeknights at 5 p.m.; also reporter
  • Scott Kilbury - weekday mornings (5-7 a.m.) and weekdays at 4 p.m.
  • Dan Marries - weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.
  • Heather Rowe - weekdays at 4, and weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m.
  • Mark Stine - weekends at 5:30 and 10 p.m.; also weeknight reporter
  • Kayna Whitworth - weekday mornings (4:30-7 a.m.)


First Alert Weather
  • Chuck George (AMS
    American Meteorological Society
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     Certified Broadcast Meteorologist
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    Seal of Approval) - chief meteorologist; weekdays at 4, and weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.
  • Erin Jordan (AMS Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekday mornings (4:30-7 a.m.) and noon
  • Aaron Pickering (AMS Certified Broadcast Meteorologist Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekends at 5:30 and 10 p.m.


Sports team
  • Damien Alameda - sports director; weeknights at 6 and 10 p.m.
  • Dave Cooney - sports anchor; weekends at 5:30 and 10 p.m., also sports reporter


Reporters
  • Courtney Carlmark - weekday morning reporter
  • Bud Foster - political reporter
  • David Gonzalez - weekday morning reporter
  • Barbara Grijalva - general assignment reporter
  • Paige Hansen - general assignment reporter
  • Chris Holmstrom - general assignment reporter
  • Joan Lee - weekday morning traffic reporter; also fill-in weather anchor
  • Som Lisaius - crime reporter
  • J.D. Wallace - general assignment reporter
  • Sonu Wasu - general assignment reporter

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