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| - KFSN-TV is a SLN! station for Seattle, Washington.
- KFSN-TV is the ABC owned and operated television station in Fresno, California. The station transmits its digital signal on UHF channel 30. The station's transmitter is located in Meadow Lakes, California. Its signal covers the Central San Joaquin Valley and the mountain ranges flanking either side, including the Sierra Nevada mountains and Yosemite National Park. The station serves Fresno,Madera, Merced, Mariposa, Tulare, and Kings counties.
- Following the Federal Communications Commission's 1952 lifting of the four-year-long freeze on awarding television licenses, two Fresno radio stations -- KARM (1430 AM, now KFIG) and KFRE (940 AM, now KYNO) competed for the chance to operate a station on channel 12, the sole VHF allocation given to Fresno. KFRE won the license, and the station signed on the air for the first time on May 10, 1956 as KFRE-TV. The station is Fresno's third-oldest television outlet, and upon signing-on KFRE-TV took the CBS affiliation from KJEO-TV (channel 47, now KGPE).
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| - Following the Federal Communications Commission's 1952 lifting of the four-year-long freeze on awarding television licenses, two Fresno radio stations -- KARM (1430 AM, now KFIG) and KFRE (940 AM, now KYNO) competed for the chance to operate a station on channel 12, the sole VHF allocation given to Fresno. KFRE won the license, and the station signed on the air for the first time on May 10, 1956 as KFRE-TV. The station is Fresno's third-oldest television outlet, and upon signing-on KFRE-TV took the CBS affiliation from KJEO-TV (channel 47, now KGPE). The KFRE stations were acquired by Triangle Publications in 1959. On February 17, 1961, KFRE-TV reluctantly moved to UHF channel 30 to make Fresno an all-UHF market under orders from the FCC. In was known by the term deintermixture, the move was made for the purpose of leveling the playing field and eliminating the potential of unfair competition between VHF and UHF. A similar situation occurred in nearby Bakersfield where that city's lone VHF station, KERO-TV on channel 10, moved to UHF channel 23 in 1963. The move of KFRE-TV to channel 30 opened up channel 12 for use by KCOY-TV in Santa Maria, which went on the air in 1964. Capital Cities Communications acquired the KFRE stations from Triangle in 1971 as part of Triangle's exit from broadcasting. The new owners sold off the AM and FM radio stations as a condition of the purchase and kept the TV station, changing its call letters to KFSN-TV in April 1971. (The KFRE-TV calls are now used on Fresno's CW affiliate on channel 59; that station is unrelated to the current KFSN-TV). On March 18, 1985, Capital Cities announced it was purchasing ABC. Nearly six months later, on September 9, 1985, KFSN-TV traded networks with KJEO and became an ABC affiliate. The transaction was finalized on January 3, 1986, making channel 30 an ABC-owned station. In 1996, the Walt Disney Company acquired Capital Cities/ABC. The station is one of three network owned television stations in the Fresno television market; the other two are Univision's KFTV (channel 21) and Telemundo's KNSO (channel 51). However, the latter station is managed by a third party via a time brokerage agreement. The station produces the programs Motion and My Family Recipe Rocks for the Live Well Network.
- KFSN-TV is a SLN! station for Seattle, Washington.
- KFSN-TV is the ABC owned and operated television station in Fresno, California. The station transmits its digital signal on UHF channel 30. The station's transmitter is located in Meadow Lakes, California. Its signal covers the Central San Joaquin Valley and the mountain ranges flanking either side, including the Sierra Nevada mountains and Yosemite National Park. The station serves Fresno,Madera, Merced, Mariposa, Tulare, and Kings counties.
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