KWES-TV
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| KWES-TV / KWAB-TV | |
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| KWES: Midland / Odessa, Texas KWAB: Big Spring, Texas |
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| Branding | NewsWest 9 |
| Slogan | The Star of West Texas More News. More Often. |
| Channels | KWES: 9 (VHF) KWAB: 4 (VHF) analog, KWES: 15 (UHF) KWAB: 33 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | NBC |
| Owner | Drewry Communications Group (Midessa Television) |
| Founded | KWES: December 1, 1958 KWAB: January 15, 1956 |
| Call letters meaning | KWES: K West Texas KWAB: (unknown) |
| Former callsigns | KWES: KVKM (1958-1966), KMOM (1966-1981), KTPX (1981-1993) |
| Former affiliations | ABC (1958-1981) |
| Website | www.newswest9.com |
KWES-TV channel 9 is the NBC affiliate in the Midland / Odessa area and is currently owned by the Drewry Communications Group.
The station provides more hours of news than any other source in Midland-Odessa market, which encompasses several counties in the Permian Basin region of West Texas, and Lea County in Southeastern New Mexico.
KWES operates a satellite station in Big Spring, KWAB-TV channel 4, repeater station K13NG in Big Bend National Park, Texas, and owns and operates KTLE-LP Channel 20 and KTLD-LP Channel 49, the local Telemundo affiliate.
KWES-TV was the first station in the area with (StormTracker 9) Live Doppler 9000.
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[edit] History
KWES began broadcasting in 1958 as KVKM-TV in Monahans, Texas and was originally an ABC affiliate, later becoming KMOM-TV (which signified "Monahans-Odessa-Midland". The station changed its network affiliation to NBC in 1981 with ABC moving to KMID-TV Channel 2, and at the same time changed its call letters to KTPX while moving its studio operations from Monahans to Midland. It adopted its current call KWES in 1993. (KTPX is now being used by the i network affiliate in Tulsa, Oklahoma) KWES operates satellite station KWAB-TV Channel 4 in Big Spring, Texas and formerly operated satellite station KAVE-TV in Carlsbad, New Mexico from 1966 to 1976.
[edit] Newscasts
[edit] Weekdays
- 5:30am NewsWest 9 Sunrise
- 4pm NewsWest 9 First News at 4
- 5pm NewsWest 9 at 5
- 6pm NewsWest 9 at 6
- 10pm NewsWest 9 at 10
[edit] Saturday
- 6pm NewsWest 9 at 6
- 10pm NewsWest 9 at 10
[edit] Sunday
- 10pm NewsWest 9 at 10
[edit] External links
- Official site
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KWES
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KWAB
- Query the FCC's TV station database for K13NG
| Broadcast television in the Odessa / Midland market (Nielsen DMA #159) | ||
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KMID 2 (ABC) - KOSA 7 (CBS/MNTV on DT) - KWES 9 / KWAB 4 (NBC) - KUPB 18 (UNI) - KPEJ 24 (Fox) - KWWT 30 (The CW) - KPBT 36 (PBS) - KMLM 42 (GLC) - KTLD 49 / KTLE 20 (TEL) - K69IT 69 (MMTV) |
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KPRC 2 (Houston) - KFDX 3 (Lawton / Wichita Falls) - KSAN 3 (San Angelo) - KAMR 4 (Amarillo) - KBTV 4 (Port Arthur) - WOAI 4 (San Antonio) - |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetwork TV, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, i, Religious, Independent, Home Shopping and Other Spanish stations in Texas | |
