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{{short description|CBS affiliate in Amarillo, Texas}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign = KFDA-TV
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| branding = {{ubl|NewsChannel 10
| digital = 10 ([[
| virtual = 10
| subchannels =
| translators =
| affiliations = {{
| owner = [[Gray Television]]
| licensee = Gray Television Licensee, [[
| location = [[Amarillo, Texas]]
| country = United States
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| sister_stations = [[KEYU (TV)|KEYU]] <!--- Entry is intended for in-market sister stations; do not include sister stations in adjacent markets (those may be mentioned in the main article where notation is necessary)--->
| former_callsigns =
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''
| former_affiliations =
| erp =
| haat = {{convert|466|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id = 51466
| coordinates = {{Coord|35|17|34|N|101|50|
| licensing_authority = [[
| website = {{URL|https://www.newschannel10.com/}}
}}
'''KFDA-TV'''
==History==
===Early history===
On July 3, 1952, the Amarillo Broadcasting Company – a consortium led by radio station owners Wendell Mayes, oil, gas and publishing interest holder C. C. Woodson, Charles B. Jordan (vice president and assistant general manager of the [[Texas State Network]]), and Gene L. Cagle (Texas State Network president and general manager) – filed an application with the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) to obtain a [[broadcast license|license]] and [[Planning permission#Broadcasting|construction permit]] to operate a [[commercial broadcasting|commercial television station]] on [[
The station first signed on the air on April 4, 1953; it was the second television station to sign on in the Amarillo market, debuting two weeks after [[NBC]] affiliate KGNC-TV (channel 4, now [[KAMR-TV]]) launched as the market's first television station on March 18. Channel 10 has been an CBS television affiliate since its debut; however, it also initially carried programming from [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], inheriting those rights through KFDA radio's longtime relationship with the television network's progenitor [[Cumulus Media Networks|ABC Radio]], which had been affiliated with that station since 1943 (as the post-NBC-split [[Blue Network]]).<ref name=bt-kfdacbs>{{cite
In January 1954, the Texas State Network (TSN) – a broadcasting consortium owned by [[Sid W. Richardson]] (philanthropist and owner of, among other petroleum firms in the state, Fort Worth-based Sid W. Richardson Inc. and Richardson and Bass Oil Producers), media executive Gene L. Cagle, mineral rights firm owner R. K. Hanger, company president Charles B. Jordan and D. C. Homburg – acquired a 75% controlling stake in KFDA-AM-TV from the original stockholders for $525,000, with Jordan retaining his existing 25% interest.<ref name=bt-kfdaabc/><ref name=bt-kfdatsn>{{cite
In an effort to expand its viewing area, KFDA-TV launched a network of UHF translators to serve areas of the Texas Panhandle that were not covered by its main signal. KFDA's parent companies during the timeframe also acquired two standalone network affiliates during the mid-1960s for conversion into [[Broadcast relay station#Satellite stations|satellite stations]] to reach areas where its primary signal was impaired by some of the rugged terrain within the Panhandle. The station was all but unviewable in [[Clovis, New Mexico|Clovis]], [[Portales, New Mexico|Portales]] and surrounding areas of northeastern New Mexico as well as portions of the far eastern Texas Panhandle. Many viewers in those areas received CBS programming either via KGGM-TV (now [[KRQE-TV]]) in [[Albuquerque]] or [[
The owner of KFDA-TV and its satellites changed its name from the Texas State Network to the Bass Broadcasting Company – by then, led by investor/philanthropist [[Perry Richardson Bass|Perry R. Bass]] – in April 1965 (following TSN's sale of [[KFLC|KFJZ-AM]]-[[KEGL|FM]] in Fort Worth to a company that subsequently took on the Texas State Network name).<ref name=b-tsntobass>{{cite
The Bass family decided to exit broadcasting in the mid-1970s to focus on their oil and gas exploration interests.<ref name=b-kfdwsale>{{cite
===Transfer to Drewry===
In May 1976, KFDA-TV was sold to the Panhandle Telecasting Company (originally known as Amarillo Telecasters, and under licensee to Midessa Television Inc.) – a partnership of Ray Herndon, majority owner of [[
On July 1, 2008, Drewry Communications Group announced its intention to sell its eleven television stations (as well as sister radio property [[KVLM|KTXC]] in [[
On February 23, 2011, KFDA became the first television station in the Amarillo market (and the [[West Texas]] region as a whole) to carry [[
===Raycom ownership and sale to Gray===
On August 10, 2015, [[Montgomery, Alabama]]
On June 25, 2018, [[Atlanta]]-based [[Gray Television]] announced it had reached an agreement with Raycom to merge their respective broadcasting assets (consisting of Raycom's 63 existing owned-and/or-operated television stations, including KFDA-TV and KEYU as well as Lubbock sister station KCBD, and Gray's 93 television stations) under the former's corporate umbrella. The cash-and-stock merger transaction valued at $3.6 billion – in which Gray shareholders would acquire preferred stock currently held by Raycom – resulted in KFDA/KEYU gaining a new [[sister station]] in the [[Odessa, Texas|Odessa]]–Midland market as Gray retained ownership of fellow CBS affiliate [[KOSA-TV]] in exchange for selling NBC affiliate [[KWES-TV]] (which was sold to [[Tegna Inc.]], along with CBS affiliate [[WTOL]] in [[Toledo, Ohio]], to comply with FCC ownership rules prohibiting common ownership of two of the four highest-rated stations in a single market).<ref>{{cite press release |title=GRAY AND RAYCOM TO COMBINE IN A $3.6 BILLION TRANSACTION |url=https://www.raycommedia.com/gray-and-raycom-to-combine-in-a-3-6-billion-transaction/#amnewsers |website=[[Raycom Media]] |date=June 25, 2018 |access-date=July 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625161249/https://www.raycommedia.com/gray-and-raycom-to-combine-in-a-3-6-billion-transaction/#amnewsers |archive-date=June 25, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="graycom">{{cite web |url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/114556/gray-to-buy-raycom-for-36-billion |title=Gray To Buy Raycom For $3.6 Billion |last=Miller |first=Mark K. |work=TVNewsCheck |publisher=NewsCheckMedia |date=June 25, 2018 |access-date=June 25, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Gray Buying Raycom for $3.6B |url=https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/gray-buying-raycom-for-3-6b |
==Programming==
KFDA-TV clears the entire CBS network schedule
===''Chicago Hope'' controversy===
On October 14, 1999, KFDA preempted an episode of ''[[Chicago Hope]]'' in which [[Mark Harmon]]'s character Jack McNeil says the word "[[shit]]" while amputating a boy's leg and replaced the show with local programming. The station's then
===News operation===
{{Expand section|further details on the history of KFDA-TV's news operation|date=August 2018}}
{{As of|September 2017}}, KFDA-TV currently broadcasts {{frac|24
On February 23, 2011, KFDA became the first television station in the Amarillo market to upgrade production and transmission of its local newscasts to high definition.<ref name=b&c-kfdahdnews/>
===Other local programming===
Channel 10 served as the Amarillo market's "Love Network" affiliate for the [[Muscular Dystrophy Association]]'s ''[[Jerry Lewis]] [[MDA Labor Day Telethon]]'' for 39 years from
On September 10, 2018, the station began producing a local program called ''NewsChannel 10's 2nd Cup'', which airs weekdays at 9
In 2020, KFDA-DT2 began producing a local morning talk show known as ''The Chat'', which partners with radio station [[KGNC (AM)|KGNC]] 710 AM which airs
====Notable former on-air staff====
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The station's digital signal is [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of KFDA-TV<ref>{{cite web |title=RabbitEars TV Query for KFDA |url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KFDA#station |website=[[RabbitEars]] |access-date=August 5, 2017}}</ref>
! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope = "col" | Short name
! scope = "col" | Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 10.1
| [[1080i]] || rowspan="6" |[[16:9]] || KFDA-HD || Main KFDA-TV programming / [[CBS]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 10.2
| rowspan=" |- style="background-color: #E6FFF7;"
! scope = "row" | [[KEYU (TV)|10.3]]
| ION || [[Ion Television]] ([[KEYU (TV)|KEYU-DT4]])
|-
! scope = "row" | 10.4
| MeTV || [[MeTV]]
|-
| COZI || [[Cozi TV]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 10.6
| Oxygen || [[Oxygen (TV channel)|Oxygen]]
|}
===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KFDA began transmitting a [[digital television]] signal on [[
The station shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 10, on June 12, 2009, the official date
===Translators===
{{update section|inline|date=March 2021}}
In addition to maintaining [[cable television|cable]] carriage within this area, KFDA-TV covers a large portion of the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, northeastern [[New Mexico]] and far southwestern [[Kansas]] through a network of
* '''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|55391|3=K18MD-D}}''' [[Childress, TX]]
* '''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|17265|3=K33PX-D}}''' [[Clarendon, TX]]
* '''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|51469|3=KZBZ-CD}}''' [[Clovis, NM]]
* '''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|25698|3=K32GD-D}}''' [[Guymon, OK]]
* '''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|8719|3=K34NQ-D}}''' [[Memphis, TX]]
* '''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|8724|3=K32EH-D}}''' Memphis, TX
* '''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|68703|3=K26OJ-D}}''' [[Tucumcari, NM]]
* '''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|51472|3=K21NW-D}}''' [[Tulia, TX]]
* '''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|2835|3=K26JR-D}}''' [[Turkey, TX]]
==See also==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|https://www.newschannel10.com/}}
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