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KRBC-TV

KRBC-TV is the NBC Television Network affiliate for the Abilene-Sweetwater-Brownwood market area of Texas. KRBC is Abilene's first television station and airs on digital channel 29.

While the station is owned by Mission Broadcasting, KRBC has entered into various service agreements with Nexstar Broadcasting station KTAB-TV which provides various services for the station including news, production, traffic and business operations. In July 2004, the stations began operating under a joint sales agreement. In addition, after consolidation construction, the Abilene facility now provides various office and master control functions for Nexstar and Mission stations KLST-TV and KSAN-TV in San Angelo, Texas.

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Technical information

KRBC is licensed to Abilene on the station on a digital signal on UHF channel 29—operating with an effective radiated power of only 2.5 kilowatts under a Special Temporary Authority, but has filed a construction permit to increase power to about 1000 kilowatts. The full power digital master control build out with high definition was completed in October 2007.

History

KRBC first began its broadcasting operation on August 30, 1953. The station was owned by the Ackers family, who had bought the construction permit from Harte-Hanks Communications a few months earlier along with KRBC-AM 1470 (now KYYW). The call letters stand for Reporter Broadcasting Company. The tower was originally located atop Rattlesnake Mountain in Cedar Gap. KRBC originally carried a mixture of programming from all four networks of the time--NBC, CBS, ABC and DuMont[2] However, it was a primary NBC affiliate. It lost CBS in 1956 when KPAR-TV (now KTXS-TV signed on. The two stations shared ABC until KTAB-TV signed on and took CBS, leaving KRBC as an NBC affiliate.

In 1962, KACB-TV signed on from San Angelo as a semi-satellite of KRBC.

The Ackers family owned the station for 44 years until selling it to Sunrise Television in 1997. Two years later, Sunrise severed the electronic umbilical cord between KRBC and KACB, and KACB became a full-fledged station; it is now KSAN-TV.

Sunrise merged with LIN Television in 2001. In 2004 LIN Television sold KRBC to Mission Broadcasting. Mission Broadcasting in turn contracted with the Nexstar Broadcasting Group, owner of KTAB, to provide news, traffic, sales, engineering, and business operations.

In 2005 Nexstar moved the entire KTAB operation from 5410 South 14th Street into the KRBC building at 4510 South 14th Street in Abilene. However, KTAB is still the senior partner. The master control room now operates KTAB and KRBC, as well as KLST-TV and KSAN-TV in San Angelo. Business and traffic operations for both stations are handled here.

In a January 14, 2007 ice storm the KRBC main transmission tower collapsed, taking the station's analog signal off the air for 13 hours. The collapse not only destroyed the tower and the analog antenna but also the station's low power digital transmission antenna. Luckily, the falling tower missed the transmitter building and an adjacent auxiliary antenna. The collapse also destroyed the National Weather Service NOAA Weather Radio antenna leaving the NOAA radio station off air until a new antenna was installed. Station engineers were able to get KRBC analog back on the air using that auxiliary antenna, which it continue to broadcast on analog channel 9.

A microwave link on the tower which helped provide programming to KLST and KSAN in San Angelo also was also destroyed in the collapse. In October 2007 the San Angelo link was replaced with a dual channel fiber-optic cable.

The stations digital signal went off the air until October 2007 when it returned to the air on digital channel 29 with all NBC programming presented in HD. The new digital transmitter is based in a new transmitter building at the KTAB TV tower site near Potosi, Texas. The station also shares a digital broadcast antenna with KTAB.

Digital television

The station's current digital signal:

Channel Programming
29.1 / 9.1 KRBC Main Programming (NBC) HD

Coverage area

Newscast titles

Weekday programs

Weekend programs

Staff

Current on-air staff

KRBC News Team

KRBC Weather Team

BigCountryHomepage.Com Sports Team

News/station presentation

Newscast titles

Station slogans

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2005 cable dispute

On January 1, 2005 at midnight, KRBC was removed from the cable television lineup in the city of Abilene after months of dispute between the station owner(s) and Cox Communications, now Suddenlink Communications. In accordance with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulation, KRBC station owner Mission Broadcasting (operated by Nexstar Broadcasting) tried to make an agreement with the cable system to continue carrying KRBC's NBC programming. Cox Communications, now Suddenlink Communications claimed KRBC wanted its cable system to pay for its transmission. The disagreement began with KRBC/Mission/Nexstar requesting 10 cents per subscriber for KRBC to be carried on the Cox Cable system in the Abilene area. The basic argument was that satellite providers pay for the right to rebroadcast local affiliates' signals, and that cable operators should, as well. Due to the dispute, Cox eventually dropped KRBC from its system, which caused many city residents to purchase an antenna for their homes to pick up the stations analog signal for NBC programming. Later in the year, KRBC and the other local television stations were picked up by Dish Network in a local channel package, which was strongly supported and promoted by KRBC/Mission/Nexstar. During the time KRBC was off the cable system, Cox replaced what was the KRBC spot on cable channel 5 with family oriented cable stations from its digital line-up (such as HBO Family and Noggin). The cable system also added several temporary channels to its lineup off its digital cable lineup to preview and to give disgruntled customers several new channels. After nine and a half months of negotiations between Nexstar and Cox Communications, the KRBC signal was returned to the Cox lineup in Abilene on October 20, 2005.[3]

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References

  1. ^ The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says August 31, while the Television and Cable Factbook says August 24.
  2. ^ "Wednesday TV Log". Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, TX): pp. 7B. 1954-12-29.
  3. ^ Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc. Press Release Thursday, October 20, 2005
v • d • Television stations serving Abilene and Sweetwater, Texas
Local stations:

KVNL-LP 4 (INSP) • K07UF 7 (unknown) • KRBC (9.1 NBC) • KTXS 12 (ABC, 12.2 The CW) • KXVA (15.1 FOX) • KPCB 17 / KPTA 63 (GLC) • KTAB (32.1 CBS) • KTES 40 (TMD) • KIDZ-LP 42 (MNTV) • K51CK 51 (silent)
Distant stations:

KERA 13 (PBS, Dallas-Fort Worth)
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 • NBC Network Affiliates in the state of Texas

KPRC 2 (Houston) • KFDX 3 (Lawton / Wichita Falls) • KSAN 3 (San Angelo) • KAMR 4 (Amarillo) • WOAI 4 (San Antonio) • KXAS 5 (Fort Worth / Dallas) • KCEN 6 / KMAY-LP 23 (Temple / Bryan) • KRIS 6 (Corpus Christi) • KTAL 6 (Texarkana) • KGNS 8 (Laredo) • KRBC 9 (Abilene) • KTSM 9 (El Paso) • KWES 9 / KWAB 4 (Midland / Big Spring) • KCBD 11 (Lubbock) • KBMT-DT 12.2 (Beaumont) • KMOL-LP 17 (Victoria) • KVEO 23 (Brownsville) • KXAN 36 (Austin) • KETK 56 / KETK-LP 53 (Tyler / Jacksonville)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, ION, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Texas
v Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc.
Corporate Staff Perry A. Sook (President & CEO) • Tim Busch (Exec. VP & Co-COO) • Brian Jones (Exec. VP & Co-COO) • Tom Carter (Chief Financial Officer) • Rick Rogala (Sr. VP, Regional Mgr.) • Adrian Giuhat (Sr. VP, CTO) • Blake Russell (Sr. VP, Station Operations) • Marc Montoya (Sr. VP, eMedia Sales & Operations) • Shirley E. Green (VP, Controller) • Elizabeth Hammond (VP & General Counsel) • Rick Stolpe (Vp, Director of Engineering)
ABC Network Affiliates KAMC1 • KMID • KODE1 • KQTV • KSVI • WDHN • WJET • WTVO1 • WUTR1
Azteca América Network Affiliates WWHB4
CBS Network Affiliates KEYE4 • KLBK • KLST • KOLR1 • KTAB • KUTV4 • WCIA • WMBD • WROC • WTAJ • WYOU1
The CW Network Affiliates WCWJ • WLWC4 • WLYH5 • WTVX4
Fox Network Affiliates KARD • KBTV • KCIT1 • KHMT1 • KFTA2 • KJTL1 • KSFX • WFFT • WFXP1 • WFXV • WFXW1 • WQRF • WTVW • WUHF3 • WYZZ3
MyNetworkTV Affiliates KARZ • KCPN1 • KJBO1 • WCFN • WPNY • WTCN4 • WTVO1 • WTVX4
NBC Network Affiliates KAMR • KARK • KFDX • KNWA • KRBC1 • KSAN1 • KSNF • KTAL • KTVE1 • WBRE • WHAG • WTWO
Retro Television Network Affiliate WTVX4
Telemundo Affiliate KEYE4
This TV Network Affiliates KCIT1 • KUSG4 • KUTV4 • WROC

1Nexstar operates these stations owned by Mission Broadcasting. 2Sale of the station to Mission Broadcasting is awaiting FCC approval. Nexstar will continue to operate the station. 3Nexstar operates these stations owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. 4Nexstar operates these stations owned by Four Points Media Group.

5Nexstar holds the license to this station, but management capabilities belong to Newport Television.
Annual Revenue: $226.1 million USD (2005) • Employees: Unknown at this time. • Stock Symbol: NASDAQ: NXST • Website: www.nexstarbroadcasting.com

Categories: NBC network affiliates | Nexstar Broadcasting Group | Mission Broadcasting | Television stations in Texas | Television channels and stations established in 1953 | Channel 29 digital TV stations in the United States

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