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KIII

KIII, is an ABC affiliate television station broadcasting on digital channel 8 in Corpus Christi, Texas. It is owned by McKinnon Broadcasting, though licensed under "Channel 3 of Corpus Christi, Inc." in the FCC database. Syndicated programming on KIII includes: Seinfeld, Two and a Half Men, Judge Judy, and Live with Regis and Kelly.

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History

It was first put on the air in 1964 by McKinnon Broadcasting.

In 1969, KIII started a satellite, KXIX-TV channel 19, to bring ABC programming to Victoria, Texas. In 1976, it was sold to local ownership. It now operates as Fox affiliate KVCT.

On April 29, 2010 it was announced that KIII-TV is in the process of selling this station to London Broadcasting Company, pending FCC approval.[1]

Digital television

KIII broadcasts on digital channel 8. The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Digital channels

Channel Name Programming
3.1 KIII-HD main KIII/ABC HD programming
3.2 KIII-SD main KIII/ABC SD programming

Anchor line-ups

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3 NEWS Anchors

3 NEWS Reporters

3 NEWS Weather

3 NEWS Sports

Former on-air staff

News/station presentation

Newscast titles

Station slogans

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References

  1. ^ http://www.caller.com/news/2010/apr/29/dallas-based-company-to-buy-kiii-tv/

External links

v • d • Broadcast television in coastal South Texas, including Corpus Christi
English channels

KIII 3 (ABC) • KRIS 6 (NBC, 6.2 The CW) • KZTV 10 (CBS) • KXPX 14 (RTV) • KEDT 16 (PBS) • KTOV-LP 21 (MNTV) • KHCC-LP 35 (A1) • KUQI 38 (FOX) • K47DF 47 (Ind) • KCBO 49 (FN) • KCCZ-LP 61 (Ind/Rel) • KADM 63 (TBN)
Spanish channels

KWDT-LP 12 (Ind/Rel) • KCCX-LP 25 (AZA) • KORO 28 (UNI) • KCRP 41 (TFU) • KLAO 43 (Ind/Rel)
Texas Broadcast television areas by city:

Abilene/Sweetwater • Amarillo (Texas Panhandle) • Austin • Beaumont/Port Arthur • Corpus Christi • Dallas-Fort Worth • Del Rio, TX • El Paso • Houston • Laredo • Lubbock • Midland-Odessa (Permian Basin) • Rio Grande Valley • San Angelo • San Antonio • Sherman/Ada, OK • Texarkana/Shreveport, LA • Tyler/Longview (East Texas) • Victoria • Waco/Bryan (Brazos Valley) • Wichita Falls/Lawton, OK
v • d • ABC Network Affiliates in the state of Texas

KMID 2 (Midland) - KIII 3 (Corpus Christi) - KRGV 5 (Weslaco) - KLTV 7 / KTRE 9 (Tyler / Lufkin) - KVIA 7 (El Paso) - KVII 7 (Amarillo) - WFAA 8 (Dallas) - KBMT 12 (Beaumont) - KSAT 12 (San Antonio) - KTXS 12 / KTXE 38 (Sweetwater / San Angelo) - KTRK 13 (Houston) - KVUE 24 (Austin) - KAVU 25 (Victoria) - KXXV 25 / KRHD 40 (Waco / Bryan) - ABC Texoma 26.3 (Sherman) - KAMC 28 (Lubbock)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, ION, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Texas

Categories: ABC network affiliates | Television channels and stations established in 1964 | Television stations in Texas | Channel 8 digital TV stations in the United States

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