KMPH-TV

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KMPH-TV
Visalia / Fresno, California
Branding	KMPH FOX26 (general) KMPH News (news)
Slogan	We're your station
Channels	26 (UHF) analog, 28 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	Fox
Owner	Pappas Telecasting
Founded	October 11, 1971
Call letters meaning	K Mike, Pete, and Harry Pappas (station founders)
Former affiliations	Independent
Website	www.kmph.com

KMPH-TV is a television station in Fresno, California broadcasting on television channel 26, and is licensed to Visalia, California. It is the flagship station of Pappas Telecasting and the sister station to KFRE, the CW affiliate for the Central Valley. It is the Fresno-area affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company.

Contents 1 History 2 Programming 3 Newscasts 4 Past Personalities 5 External links

[edit] History

KMPH began broadcasting on October 11, 1971 as an independent station. The funding for KMPH came from station co-founder and General Manager Harry Pappas' plan of having hundreds of investors each investing a small amount of money needed to construct the station, rather than having one investor providing all the capital. Throughout the early- to mid-1980s, KMPH was one of the top independent stations in the country. Pappas signed an affiliation deal with Fox for KMPH and one of its two other UHF start-ups, KPTM in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1986 (The other Pappas-owned station, WHNS in Greenville, South Carolina, took the Fox affiliation from WAXA two years later). KMPH and KSEE are the two stations in Fresno to keep the same network affilaition unaffected by the network swaps of ABC and CBS in 1985 and the network changes of The CW Television Network and My Network TV in 2006. The Fox affiliation remains on KMPH to this day.

[edit] Programming

KMPH airs 27 hours of local news each week, including the only 10 p.m. newscast in the Fresno market, as well as the "Great Day" morning show which debuted October 6, 2003 featuring long-time anchor Kopi Sotiropolous and Bay Area native Anchor, Kim Stephens. It also airs court/reality/talk shows, sitcom reruns, and movies in addition to news and the Fox broadcasting schedule. In recent years KMPH has discontinued cartoons, relocating the 4Kids TV schedule to KFRE, which airs the 4Kids TV lineup on Sunday mornings. (Under that technicality, since the mid-90s, Fox allowed its affiliates (especially the newer ones formerly owned by New World) to preempt Fox Kids programming by sending it to another local station, a practice continued to this day).

Many television news stations have updated their studio cameras to robotically-controlled systems, but it is virtually unique to KMPH to train Floor Crew to operate the cameras manually, edit news feeds, and also participate in other pre-broadcast office duties in the newsroom.

This station also operates KMPH-CA in Merced, California on channel 17.

[edit] Newscasts

Weekdays

• Great Day 5-9 a.m.
  • Kim Stephens - Co-Anchor
  • Kopi Sotiropolous - Co-Anchor and Weathercaster
  • Liza Fernandez - News Reader
  • Evy Ramos - Traffic and Entertainment Reporter
  • Kelly Morris - Feature Reporter

• KMPH News Midday 11:30 a.m.-Noon
  • Anchored by Kim Stephens

• The KMPH Ten O'Clock News 10:00-11:00 p.m.
  • Anchors: Monty Torres and Jadine Macliver
  • Sports: Ralph Wood
  • Weather: Kevan Ramer

Weekends

• The KMPH Ten O'Clock News
  • Anchor: Derrol Nail
  • Weather: George Mason
  • Sports: Heidi Watney

[edit] Past Personalities

• Tom Adams (anchor/reporter) now at KVAL
• Terry Allen (sports/weather)
• Eric Alvarez (anchor)
• Andy Asher (anchor/reporter)
• Bill Bird (reporter)
• Mike Bryant (sports)
• Amy Carlyle (anchor/reporter)
• Dick Carr (anchor/news director)
• Mike Cully (repoter)
• Denise Dador (reporter) now at KABC
• Rusty Dornin (anchor) now at CNN
• Dana Greene (sports)
• Silva Harapetian (reporter)
• Tamera Henry (anchor)
• Brandi Hitt (reporter/anchor) now at KOVR
• Kristen Hoke (reporter/anchor)
• Cathy Isom (anchor - KMPH-FM)
• Lloyd Lindsey Young (weather) now at KERO
• Kye Martin (reporter/anchor) now at KTXL
• Marc Martinez (reporter) now at KSAZ-TV TV Phoenix
• Steve Miles (anchor)
• Eric Mitchell (reporter)
• Bonni Montevecchi (reporter)
• Leticia Ordaz (reporter)
• Ken Pritchett (reporter)
• Gary Radnich (sports) now at KRON as a sports director
• Justin Redd (reporter)
• Bill Rice (anchor/reporter)
• Larry Rice (weather/reporter) now at KOB-TV
• Nick Ryan (anchor - KMPH-FM)
• Catalina Salmeron (reporter)
• Veronica Sanchez (reporter)
• Julie Sedenko (reporter)
• John Soderman (anchor)
• Janet Stoll (anchor), Now Public Affairs Officer for Clovis, CA Police Department
• Mark Thomas (reporter)
• Karen Zarsadias (reporter)

[edit] External links

• KMPH-TV
• KMPH Old Station Idents from TV Ark
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KMPH-TV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KMPH-CA

Broadcast television in the Fresno / Visalia market  (Nielsen DMA #56)
KVHF-LP 4 (JTV) - K12OZ 12 (3ABN) - KCWB-LP 13 / KVVG-LP 54 (Tvida) - KHMM-CA 14 (MTV Tr3s) - KHSC-LP 16 (HSN) - KVPT 18 (PBS) - KFTV 21 (UNI) - KZMM-CA 22 (MTV Tr3s) - KSEE 24 (NBC) - KMPH 26 (Fox) - KFSN 30 (ABC) - KJEO-LP 32 / KBID-LP 31 (A1) - KSDI-LP 33 (TSC) - KMCF-LP 35 (AS) - KMSG-LP 39 / KFAZ-LP 8 (AZA) - KGMC 43 (Ind/JTV/A1) - KGPE 47 (CBS) - KNXT 49 (Ind) - KNSO 51 (TEL) - KAIL 53 (MNTV) - KFRE 59 (The CW) - KTFF 61 (TFU)

Fox Network Affiliates in the state of California
KTVU 2 (Oakland / San Francisco) - XETV 6 (Tijuana / San Diego) - KECY 9 (El Centro) - KTTV 11 (Los Angeles) - KKFX 24 / KSSB 17 (Santa Maria / Santa Barbara) - KMPH 26 / 17 (Visalia / Merced) - KBVU 29 (Eureka) - KCVU 30 (Chico) - KDFX 33 / KESQ-DT 51.2 (Indio / Palm Springs) - KCBA 35 (Salinas) - KTXL 40 (Sacramento) - KBFX 58 (Bakersfield)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Independent, Other Spanish Network, Religious, Home Shopping and Other stations in California