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KSAZ-TV

February 27, 2024

This article is about the television station in Phoenix. For other uses, see Fox 10.
For the unrelated radio station in Marana, Arizona, see KSAZ (AM).
"KTSP-TV" redirects here. Not to be confused with KSTP-TV.

KSAZ-TV (channel 10) is a television station in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, serving as the market's Fox network outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside MyNetworkTV station KUTP (channel 45). Both stations share studios on West Adams Street in Downtown Phoenix, while KSAZ-TV's transmitter is located atop South Mountain.

KSAZ-TV
Channels
BrandingFox 10 Phoenix; Fox 10 News
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KUTP
History
First air date
October 24, 1953
(70 years ago) (1953-10-24)
Former call signs
  • KOOL-TV (1953–1982)
  • KTSP-TV (1982–1994)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 10 (VHF, 1953–2009)
  • Digital: 31 (UHF, 2000–2009)
  • Independent (1953–1954, September–December 1994)
  • ABC (1954–1955)
  • CBS (1955–1994)
Call sign meaning
From slogan adopted in 1994, "The Spirit of Arizona"
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID35587
ERP48 kW
HAAT558 m (1,831 ft)
Transmitter coordinates33°20′3″N 112°3′46″W / 33.33417°N 112.06278°W / 33.33417; -112.06278
Translator(s)
Links
Public license information
  • Public file
  • LMS
Websitewww.fox10phoenix.com

Channel 10 was the third television station established in the Phoenix area, making its first broadcast on October 24, 1953. It was originally allocated as a shared-time channel to stations run by the owners of Phoenix radio stations KOOL and KOY, though both KOOL-TV and KOY-TV operated from the same building. After a year as an independent, it became Phoenix's original ABC affiliate in early 1954. KOOL became sole owner of the channel later in 1954 and absorbed the staff of KOY-TV. After switching affiliations to CBS in 1955, KOOL-TV rose to become Phoenix's highest-rated station under the ownership of Gene Autry and Tom Chauncey. A falling out between Autry and Chauncey ended with the sale of KOOL-TV to the Gulf United Corporation in 1982; separated from its sister radio properties, channel 10 changed its call sign to KTSP-TV. Initially, the station remained the news leader in Phoenix; however, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the station lost ground in the news ratings to an ascendant KTVK, which had poached two key KTSP-TV executives as part of a successful effort to turn itself around. Channel 10's ratings issues were not helped by several visible personnel miscues.

In February 1994, KTSP-TV changed its call letters to KSAZ-TV. Three months later, as part of the first act in a national realignment of network affiliations initiated by then-owner New World Communications, the station announced it would switch from CBS to Fox. Phoenix was one of the most affected markets; the timing of affiliation contract expirations led to three changes in four months. KSAZ lost CBS in September 1994 but did not begin airing Fox programming until December. Coinciding with the switch to Fox was a major expansion of the station's news department, including new morning and prime time newscasts. However, the three months of forced independent status and miscalculations around syndicated programming and new competitors caused the station's ratings to fall dramatically, with some newscasts losing half their viewership.

Fox acquired the New World stations in 1996 and steadied the struggling operation, bringing the newscasts more in line with the network's target audience and instituting a flashier style. From 1999 to 2021, Kari Lake, future Arizona gubernatorial candidate, was one of the station's main anchors. By 2020, KSAZ-TV produced twelve hours a day on weekdays of local news programming.

History edit

Shared-time era and early years edit

While the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) worked its way toward ending a years-long freeze on new television station grants initiated in 1948, it issued a near-final version of the table of allocations for Arizona in 1951 that gave Phoenix channels 4 (changed to 3 the next year), 5 (KPHO-TV, the only pre-freeze station in the state), 8, and 10. KOOL (960 AM), Phoenix's CBS radio affiliate, had previously expressed interest in filing for channel 7 prior to the amended table being released,[2] and on September 27, 1951, it applied for channel 10.[3]

KOOL was not alone in its interest. In July 1952, KOY (550 AM), the home of the Mutual Broadcasting System in Phoenix and one of the oldest stations in the state, filed its own bid.[4] The two bids portended what could have been years of comparative hearings over who got the construction permit. To avoid this, in May 1953, KOOL and KOY struck a deal that would result in both getting construction permits to share time on channel 10. The time-sharing proposal, first used by the FCC in television in grants for channel 10 in Rochester, New York, and suggested to KOOL and KOY by the commission,[5] was approved on May 27, 1953, with KOOL-TV and KOY-TV getting construction permits the same day.[6] Under the proposal, the stations would alternate daytime and evening telecasting.[5]

KOOL was the CBS radio affiliate in Phoenix, and KOOL expressed a desire to similarly align its new television station, but this would not be immediately possible. KPHO-TV, which held both CBS and ABC hookups after KTYL-TV signed on with NBC earlier in May, had just signed a renewal agreement with CBS a month and a half before the construction permits were granted.[6] Even though the two stations would have separate staffs and ownership, much of the physical plant would be shared, including a maximum-power transmitter site on South Mountain.[7] Originally proposing to build television studios behind the KOY radio studios near First Avenue and Roosevelt Street,[8] KOOL and KOY arranged instead in July to buy a former car dealership at Fifth Avenue and Adams Street; KOY wanted to continue using the other site for parking.[9] Studio construction started in August, with KOOL and KOY crews leading the way,[10] and a test pattern went out for the first time on October 19, 1953,[11] ahead of both stations' October 24 launch. The next day, channel 10 carried an opening program featuring KOY and KOOL management, including KOOL majority owner Gene Autry.[12]

As shared-time stations, KOOL-TV and KOY-TV were a conjoined unit: separate staffs, common facilities, and no network affiliation at all.[12] This changed in January 1954, when channel 10 picked up an ABC affiliation; now, each of the three major networks had their own outlet in Phoenix.[13] However, KOY-TV would not last much longer. In March 1954, KOOL reached a deal to buy out KOY's stake in channel 10. KOY general manager Albert D. Johnson believed that the station would do better under one operator instead of two and stated that the goal of the shared-time venture—to avoid lengthy comparative hearings—had been met.[14] The FCC approved of the deal—reported as $400,000 by newspapers and $200,000 to the FCC[15]—on May 5, allowing KOOL-TV to become the sole occupant of channel 10.[16] All staff were retained by the enlarged KOOL-TV.[17] It was the first time any of the post-freeze shared-time arrangements had been wound down.[17]

CBS affiliation and Autry-Chauncey ownership edit

On December 29, 1954, KOOL-TV announced it had secured the CBS affiliation in Phoenix, to begin on June 15, 1955.[18] KPHO-TV, whose two-year affiliation agreement ended at that time, was blindsided by the move, but it was a natural fit. Not only was KOOL radio already CBS in Phoenix, but Gene Autry had deep ties to CBS radio and television, as well as Columbia Records. ABC soon found a new home: startup outlet KTVK (channel 3), which joined that network on March 1, 1955.[19]

Mr. Chauncey has always been a guy who has said, "We're going to be first class. We're going to be No. 1. And we're going to do it the right way."

Bob Davies, longtime KOOL radio-television employee, on Tom Chauncey's management philosophy[20]

As a full-time CBS affiliate, it was now able to feature Autry's show Gene Autry's Melody Ranch on its schedule. Tom Chauncey, who also owned the biggest Arabian horse ranch in Phoenix, was a minority partner with Autry. Over the years, KOOL-TV ran nearly the entire CBS schedule; Chauncey was a fierce loyalist to the network.[20] In addition to local news, channel 10 produced a series of other local programs, such as the bilingual children's program Niños Contentos and investigative and feature series Chapter 10 and Copperstate Cavalcade.[20]

Phoenix audiences' loyalty to KOOL-TV was proven in 1971. That September, a group of Valley business leaders led by Del Webb, organized as the Valley of the Sun Broadcasting Company, filed an application for a competing channel 10 proposal to KOOL-TV's license renewal; this group proposed to return the channel to Phoenix-based ownership.[21] However, the KOOL-TV license challenge was met with a decidedly cool reception by viewers and power brokers alike. Senators Barry Goldwater and Paul Fannin and governor Jack Williams threw their support behind KOOL; Goldwater noted he often cited KOOL as an example of a quality television station, Fannin was "amazed" to learn of the counterproposal, and Williams—a former broadcaster—lauded its "record of public service" and inclusion of minority groups.[22] Further, hundreds of phone calls and letters in support of KOOL were received by the station.[23] Ten days after the application was first made public, Valley of the Sun abandoned their channel 10 bid.[23] It was later revealed that the same Washington law firm had backed a string of similar license challenges to other stations across the country.[24] After the license challenge was rebuffed, Chauncey became the majority stakeholder as a result of a sale of shares by Autry.[3][25]

In 1978, KOOL AM was sold to Stauffer Communications of Topeka, Kansas, with the FM and television stations remaining under the Autry–Chauncey ownership.[26] However, cracks began to form in the longtime ownership partnership of KOOL-FM-TV. That same year, Autry allegedly began to try and induce Chauncey to reach an agreement with Signal Oil upon which the latter company would have the option to buy Chauncey's stake at his death. Chauncey then began negotiating to buy Autry out. These talks ended in April 1981 when Autry sold half of his 48.11-percent stake in the company to the Gulf United Corporation of Jacksonville, Florida. That May, Autry sued Chauncey, alleging that he had mismanaged the assets of KOOL Radio-Television, Inc., to the tune of millions of dollars and had diverted company funds to Arabian horses, cars, and airplanes.[25] Chauncey then filed a countersuit, accusing Autry and Gulf of racketeering and trying to pressure longtime manager Homer Lane, who owned a small but pivotal stake in the firm, to sell.[27] In the wake of the dueling lawsuits, and as early as November 1981, speculation began to circulate that Chauncey and Lane were nearing a sale of their stakes to Gulf.[28]

Gulf, Taft, and Great American edit

On June 8, 1982, Tom Chauncey and Gulf United announced that the latter was buying out the remaining shares in KOOL-TV, with KOOL-FM to be retained by Chauncey and split from the firm; the dueling lawsuits would be dropped when the FCC approved the transaction.[29]

We told people for a long time that it stood for Tempe, Scottsdale, Phoenix, but I don't know if anyone really believed it.

Tom Dolan, news director in 1994, when the KTSP-TV call sign was dropped[30]

The sale closed on October 1, 1982, a month after receiving FCC approval, and major changes followed at channel 10. The first was a change in call sign, as the FM retained the KOOL designation. On October 4, KOOL-TV became KTSP-TV; while Gulf claimed that it stood for "Tempe, Scottsdale, Phoenix", the more likely reason was that it mirrored another channel 10 station owned by Gulf, WTSP in St. Petersburg, Florida.[31] Homer Lane, the general manager and minority owner, was replaced by Jack Sander, hired from WTOL in Toledo, Ohio.[20] Gulf also invested in new production equipment to give KTSP a more high-tech look,[32] and it completed a project started under Chauncey to replace the transmitter and tower on South Mountain.[33]

 
Logo used by channel 10 under the KTSP call sign from 1982 to 1989. This logo was similar to that used by Gulf-owned WTSP.

In 1985, Taft Broadcasting acquired Gulf Broadcasting, which had been spun out of Gulf United two years prior. The deal included the entire chain, but so interested was Taft in Phoenix that it obtained an option to buy KTSP-TV alone for $250 million if the entire Gulf deal were to collapse, and KTSP-TV was the most expensive of the properties it purchased from Gulf.[34] Not long after Taft acquired Gulf, however, a major management change occurred that would have long-term ramifications in Phoenix television. KTVK, which had until that time been a perennial third-place finisher in local news, poached Bill Miller, channel 10's news director, to be its station manager and hired Phil Alvidrez, the KTSP-TV assistant news director, to run its newsroom.[35] The two hires by channel 3 were partly responsible for KTVK climbing to the top of the Phoenix television market in the late 1980s and early 1990s.[36] On October 12, 1987, Taft was restructured into Great American Broadcasting after the company went through a hostile takeover by investors led by Carl Lindner.[37] KTSP nearly lost its CBS affiliation in 1988; CBS was in negotiations to purchase KPHO from Meredith Corporation. Network officials were interested in buying a station in a fast-growing Sun Belt market. However, talks foundered when neither party could agree to a purchase price.[38]

Other subsidiaries of Great American Communications Corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1993, a move that did not affect the television and radio holdings.[39] The station changed its call sign to KSAZ-TV on February 12, 1994, to match its new slogan, "The Spirit of Arizona".[30]

As a Fox station edit

After emerging from bankruptcy, Great American Broadcasting (renamed Citicasters soon after[40]) put four of its stations (including KSAZ-TV) up for sale, seeking to raise money to pay down debt and fund more acquisitions in radio.[41] KSAZ-TV, along with WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Missouri; WGHP in High Point, North Carolina; and WBRC in Birmingham, Alabama, were sold to New World Communications on May 5, 1994, for $360 million.[42]

Just 18 days later, New World announced that twelve of its 15 stations (those it already owned and those it was in the process of acquiring) would switch their varying Big Three network affiliations to Fox, which had been affiliated with KNXV-TV (channel 15).[43] A major catalyst for the Fox-New World deal was the network's newly signed contract with the National Football League's National Football Conference. New World's portfolio, dominated by CBS affiliates, included many stations that had long aired the home games of NFC teams in their home cities, such as KSAZ and the Phoenix Cardinals.[44]

The affiliation changes—three of them in all—played out in phases. CBS was the first to move, returning to KPHO-TV on September 10, 1994 after 39 years on channel 10.[45] However, KNXV's affiliation contract with Fox did not run out for another three months. In the interim, KSAZ-TV became an independent station, filling the holes once occupied by CBS programming with movies and additional syndicated shows[46] while also using the opportunity to debut a suite of new news programs. Fox programs moved to KSAZ on December 12.[47]

It's pretty much a flop in every category.

Dave Walker, television writer for The Arizona Republic, assessing the aftermath of KSAZ-TV's switch to Fox[48]

In the aftermath of the change, channel 10 management faced the task of melding the station's more mainstream image with the new Fox programming,[47] which proved difficult. Not only did the news programs rate poorly, but the station let go of valuable news lead-ins Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune as skewing too old in viewership, and the competition by KTVK and KNXV was more aggressive than KSAZ-TV had anticipated. In June 1995, general manager Ron Bergamo resigned after seven years and in the wake of sweeps figures showing the station's news ratings in some time slots had fallen by as much as 50 percent;[49] that same month, an article in The Dallas Morning News called what happened to KSAZ a "worst-case scenario".[48] Revenue reportedly dipped across the New World stations by 15 percent after their switches; New World management, however, also noted that the three months without network programming had led to the decline being more pronounced at KSAZ than elsewhere.[50] As with most other New World stations, KSAZ declined to run Fox Kids programming, which instead moved to KTVK; in September 1995, KASW (channel 61), a station programmed by KTVK, launched with The WB and Fox Kids programs.[51]

News Corporation purchased New World Communications, acquiring only its ten Fox-affiliated stations, in July 1996;[52] the merger was finalized on January 22, 1997, making KSAZ an owned-and-operated station of Fox. This status almost became short-lived: in February 1997, Fox nearly traded KSAZ and sister station KTBC in Austin, Texas, to the Belo Corporation in exchange for Seattle's KIRO-TV.[53] That trade never materialized. Fox began to upgrade the station's programming, adding some high-rated off-network sitcoms (such as M*A*S*H, Seinfeld and King of the Hill) as well as higher-rated syndicated court and reality shows. In the 2010s, Fox began to use KSAZ-TV and other stations on a regular basis to test new programs that later entered national syndication, such as TMZ Live—which KSAZ was the second station to air[54]—and The Real.[55]

Fox Television Stations purchased KUTP (channel 45) in 2001 as part of its acquisition of United Television (which had owned a 50% stake in UPN);[56] this resulted in the creation of Phoenix's second television duopoly.[57]

In 2006, Jordin Sparks won an opportunity to audition for American Idol after winning KSAZ's own "Arizona Idol" competition; she ultimately went on to win the season.[58]

News operation edit

 
Congressman Ruben Gallego on John Hook's Newsmaker Saturday in 2019

In 1964, Chauncey merged the KOOL radio and television news departments into a single division under the management of Bill Close, formerly of KOY radio. Close was an 18-year veteran of Phoenix radio and television at the time, and KOOL billed him as "the Dean of Arizona Newscasters".[59] The newsroom grew from six people when Close arrived to 23 by 1970, making it the largest among Phoenix's four news-producing stations;[60] a helicopter, the first of several, was also added to the KOOL arsenal at that time.[61] Under Close's watch, KOOL News 10 became the perennial news leader in Phoenix. At one point, channel 10's dominance was so absolute that its 6 p.m. newscast (anchored by Close) attracted 46 percent of all TV households in the market, the same share as the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.[20] The news department was largely a reflection of the bola tie-wearing Close. According to his longtime anchor desk partner, Mary Jo West—the second full-time female anchor in Phoenix—Close took a fatherly attitude toward his reporters and placed a high premium on accuracy and professionalism.[62]

The station's success produced people who went on to larger jobs, both in and out of Phoenix. In 1979, Kent Dana—who would become a fixture at KPNX and later KPHO—was hired from KOOL-TV, where he was anchoring the weekend news, by channel 12.[63] KOOL was also the first Phoenix television station to win a Peabody Award, doing so in 1980 for a documentary, The Long Eyes of Kitt Peak.[64]

On May 28, 1982, at about 5 p.m., Joseph Billie Gwin, wanting to "prevent World War III", forced his way into the KOOL-TV studios and fired a shot from his gun. The butt of the gun struck Luis Villa in the back of the head; Gwin then held Villa in a chokehold, at gunpoint, for nearly five hours. Gwin took four people hostage and demanded nationwide airtime. Two of the hostages, Jack Webb and Bob Cimino, were released three hours later. At 9:30 p.m., anchor Bill Close read a 25-minute statement as Gwin sat next to him holding a gun under the table; Close took Gwin's gun after the statement and set it on the table.[65] Gwin surrendered to the police following the broadcast of the statement; he was charged with kidnapping, assault, and burglary and was later declared insane.[66] Gwin was put on parole and placed in a halfway house but violated that parole after assaulting two convenience store clerks in 1984;[67] he was released from prison in 2006.[68]

Channel 10 remained at the top of the ratings for a time after becoming KTSP-TV. However, in the late 1980s, after KTVK poached Miller and Alvidrez, channel 10's news ratings began to decline, not helped by a series of unforced errors. In 1989, KTSP newscaster Shelly Jamison left the station after appearing as both a cover model and posing nude in a Playboy pictorial.[69] The most publicized move, however, was the 1991 dismissal of anchor Karen Carns, who found out she had been fired 15 minutes before the evening newscast when a newspaper reporter called to get her reaction.[70] In the February 1992 sweeps, KTSP-TV lost the lead at 6 p.m. in both the Arbitron and Nielsen ratings, the first time in memory that it had failed to win that timeslot.[71] That year, Close retired from channel 10 after a 28-year career,[72] having stepped down from the anchor desk four years earlier.[62]

With the Fox switch, KSAZ-TV added 30 news staffers and increased its news output from three hours a day to seven, with the addition of the two-hour morning newscast Arizona Morning, an additional early evening newscast at 5:30 p.m., and a 9 p.m. news hour, Arizona Prime.[73] A simulcast of KTAR talk show McMahon Live with Pat McMahon was also added in late mornings. However, the switch proved to be very messy for the newsroom. Close, who said he felt "betrayed" by the affiliation switch, predicted that the station would lose its standing in local news.[72] Ratings for KSAZ-TV's other newscasts declined after the switch, prompting morale to fall. Arizona Morning was retooled just months after its debut, and Heidi Foglesong—the former KTVK anchor who was the show's centerpiece—left after just over a year.[74] The McMahon program was dropped in January 1996.[75]

After two years of a news product that was more staid and conservative than had become the norm for a Fox station, things began to change in 1996 under new news director Bill Berra, who promised to "bring up the intensity".[76] Presentation was revamped that fall; the sound of an emergency siren was incorporated into the opening of the 10 p.m. newscast.[77] One anchor, June Thomson, increased her delivery speed at the behest of the new management, but the relationship broke down, and Thomson took a job at KGO-TV in San Francisco. She told the San Francisco Examiner that the station practiced "crime and body-bag journalism, just like Miami" and that she "watched the destruction of a once-fine newsroom" at channel 10.[78] Arizona Prime was replaced in April 1997 with Fox 10 News at Nine.[79]

On April 1, 2009, Fox Television Stations and the E. W. Scripps Company, owner of KNXV-TV, announced the formation of Local News Service, a model for pooling newsgathering efforts for local news events in which each station provided employees to the pool service in exchange for the sharing of video.[80] KPHO-TV eventually joined the Phoenix LNS agreement shortly after the announcement.[81] By 2020, all four English-language television newsrooms in Phoenix shared a helicopter.[82]

In 2014, KSAZ debuted an expanded Saturday morning newscast and a new Sunday morning news hour.[83] KSAZ added a 4 p.m. weekday news hour, a second half-hour to its 10 p.m. newscast, and a 7 p.m. nightly hour of news for KUTP in 2018.[84] By 2020, KSAZ-TV's daily news output had reached twelve hours on weekdays.[82]

Phoenix was also the starting point for LiveNow from Fox, the over-the-top streaming news offering from the Fox television stations. It began as "Fox 10 News Now" in November 2014, streaming for seven hours a day on the station's website and YouTube channel.[85] In 2020, production of the service was spread between the Fox stations in Phoenix, Orlando, and Los Angeles.[86]

Notable current on-air staff edit

Notable former on-air staff edit

 
Prior to running for Governor of Arizona in 2022, Kari Lake spent more than 20 years as a news anchor at KSAZ-TV.

Technical information edit

Subchannels edit

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KSAZ-TV[96]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
10.1 720p 16:9 KSAZ-DT Main KSAZ-TV programming / Fox
10.3 480i Heroes Heroes & Icons
10.4 TheGrio TheGrio TV
10.5 FOX WX Fox Weather
61.2 480i 16:9 HSN HSN (KASW-DT2)
61.5 Grit Grit (KASW-DT5)
61.6 Mystery Ion Mystery (KASW-DT6)
  Broadcast on behalf of another station

Virtual channel 10.2 is assigned to a KUTP simulcast of 10.1 for the convenience of UHF antenna viewers. Three subchannels on the multiplex are hosted for KASW, Phoenix's ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) station, which in turn broadcasts KSAZ in that format.[96]

Analog-to-digital conversion edit

KSAZ-TV began broadcasting a digital signal, initially in standard definition only, on October 15, 2000.[97] KSAZ-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 10, at 8:30 a.m. on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 31 to VHF channel 10 for post-transition operations.[98]

Translators edit

KSAZ-TV is broadcast on these translators in northern and northwestern Arizona:[99]

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External links edit

  • Official website
  • Video of the KOOL-TV/Bill Close hostage crisis live over-the-air statement read on YouTube

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ksaz, this, article, about, television, station, phoenix, other, uses, unrelated, radio, station, marana, arizona, ksaz, ktsp, redirects, here, confused, with, kstp, channel, television, station, phoenix, arizona, united, states, serving, market, network, outl. This article is about the television station in Phoenix For other uses see Fox 10 For the unrelated radio station in Marana Arizona see KSAZ AM KTSP TV redirects here Not to be confused with KSTP TV KSAZ TV channel 10 is a television station in Phoenix Arizona United States serving as the market s Fox network outlet It is owned and operated by the network s Fox Television Stations division alongside MyNetworkTV station KUTP channel 45 Both stations share studios on West Adams Street in Downtown Phoenix while KSAZ TV s transmitter is located atop South Mountain KSAZ TVPhoenix ArizonaUnited StatesChannelsDigital 10 VHF Virtual 10BrandingFox 10 Phoenix Fox 10 NewsProgrammingAffiliations10 1 Foxfor others see SubchannelsOwnershipOwnerFox Television Stations NW Communications of Phoenix Inc Sister stationsKUTPHistoryFirst air dateOctober 24 1953 70 years ago 1953 10 24 Former call signsKOOL TV 1953 1982 KTSP TV 1982 1994 Former channel number s Analog 10 VHF 1953 2009 Digital 31 UHF 2000 2009 Former affiliationsIndependent 1953 1954 September December 1994 ABC 1954 1955 CBS 1955 1994 Call sign meaningFrom slogan adopted in 1994 The Spirit of Arizona Technical information 1 Licensing authorityFCCFacility ID35587ERP48 kWHAAT558 m 1 831 ft Transmitter coordinates33 20 3 N 112 3 46 W 33 33417 N 112 06278 W 33 33417 112 06278Translator s KUTP DT 10 2 26 4 UHF Phoenixfor others see TranslatorsLinksPublic license informationPublic fileLMSWebsitewww wbr fox10phoenix wbr comChannel 10 was the third television station established in the Phoenix area making its first broadcast on October 24 1953 It was originally allocated as a shared time channel to stations run by the owners of Phoenix radio stations KOOL and KOY though both KOOL TV and KOY TV operated from the same building After a year as an independent it became Phoenix s original ABC affiliate in early 1954 KOOL became sole owner of the channel later in 1954 and absorbed the staff of KOY TV After switching affiliations to CBS in 1955 KOOL TV rose to become Phoenix s highest rated station under the ownership of Gene Autry and Tom Chauncey A falling out between Autry and Chauncey ended with the sale of KOOL TV to the Gulf United Corporation in 1982 separated from its sister radio properties channel 10 changed its call sign to KTSP TV Initially the station remained the news leader in Phoenix however in the late 1980s and early 1990s the station lost ground in the news ratings to an ascendant KTVK which had poached two key KTSP TV executives as part of a successful effort to turn itself around Channel 10 s ratings issues were not helped by several visible personnel miscues In February 1994 KTSP TV changed its call letters to KSAZ TV Three months later as part of the first act in a national realignment of network affiliations initiated by then owner New World Communications the station announced it would switch from CBS to Fox Phoenix was one of the most affected markets the timing of affiliation contract expirations led to three changes in four months KSAZ lost CBS in September 1994 but did not begin airing Fox programming until December Coinciding with the switch to Fox was a major expansion of the station s news department including new morning and prime time newscasts However the three months of forced independent status and miscalculations around syndicated programming and new competitors caused the station s ratings to fall dramatically with some newscasts losing half their viewership Fox acquired the New World stations in 1996 and steadied the struggling operation bringing the newscasts more in line with the network s target audience and instituting a flashier style From 1999 to 2021 Kari Lake future Arizona gubernatorial candidate was one of the station s main anchors By 2020 KSAZ TV produced twelve hours a day on weekdays of local news programming Contents 1 History 1 1 Shared time era and early years 1 2 CBS affiliation and Autry Chauncey ownership 1 3 Gulf Taft and Great American 1 4 As a Fox station 2 News operation 2 1 Notable current on air staff 2 2 Notable former on air staff 3 Technical information 3 1 Subchannels 3 2 Analog to digital conversion 3 3 Translators 4 References 5 External linksHistory editShared time era and early years edit While the Federal Communications Commission FCC worked its way toward ending a years long freeze on new television station grants initiated in 1948 it issued a near final version of the table of allocations for Arizona in 1951 that gave Phoenix channels 4 changed to 3 the next year 5 KPHO TV the only pre freeze station in the state 8 and 10 KOOL 960 AM Phoenix s CBS radio affiliate had previously expressed interest in filing for channel 7 prior to the amended table being released 2 and on September 27 1951 it applied for channel 10 3 KOOL was not alone in its interest In July 1952 KOY 550 AM the home of the Mutual Broadcasting System in Phoenix and one of the oldest stations in the state filed its own bid 4 The two bids portended what could have been years of comparative hearings over who got the construction permit To avoid this in May 1953 KOOL and KOY struck a deal that would result in both getting construction permits to share time on channel 10 The time sharing proposal first used by the FCC in television in grants for channel 10 in Rochester New York and suggested to KOOL and KOY by the commission 5 was approved on May 27 1953 with KOOL TV and KOY TV getting construction permits the same day 6 Under the proposal the stations would alternate daytime and evening telecasting 5 KOOL was the CBS radio affiliate in Phoenix and KOOL expressed a desire to similarly align its new television station but this would not be immediately possible KPHO TV which held both CBS and ABC hookups after KTYL TV signed on with NBC earlier in May had just signed a renewal agreement with CBS a month and a half before the construction permits were granted 6 Even though the two stations would have separate staffs and ownership much of the physical plant would be shared including a maximum power transmitter site on South Mountain 7 Originally proposing to build television studios behind the KOY radio studios near First Avenue and Roosevelt Street 8 KOOL and KOY arranged instead in July to buy a former car dealership at Fifth Avenue and Adams Street KOY wanted to continue using the other site for parking 9 Studio construction started in August with KOOL and KOY crews leading the way 10 and a test pattern went out for the first time on October 19 1953 11 ahead of both stations October 24 launch The next day channel 10 carried an opening program featuring KOY and KOOL management including KOOL majority owner Gene Autry 12 As shared time stations KOOL TV and KOY TV were a conjoined unit separate staffs common facilities and no network affiliation at all 12 This changed in January 1954 when channel 10 picked up an ABC affiliation now each of the three major networks had their own outlet in Phoenix 13 However KOY TV would not last much longer In March 1954 KOOL reached a deal to buy out KOY s stake in channel 10 KOY general manager Albert D Johnson believed that the station would do better under one operator instead of two and stated that the goal of the shared time venture to avoid lengthy comparative hearings had been met 14 The FCC approved of the deal reported as 400 000 by newspapers and 200 000 to the FCC 15 on May 5 allowing KOOL TV to become the sole occupant of channel 10 16 All staff were retained by the enlarged KOOL TV 17 It was the first time any of the post freeze shared time arrangements had been wound down 17 CBS affiliation and Autry Chauncey ownership edit On December 29 1954 KOOL TV announced it had secured the CBS affiliation in Phoenix to begin on June 15 1955 18 KPHO TV whose two year affiliation agreement ended at that time was blindsided by the move but it was a natural fit Not only was KOOL radio already CBS in Phoenix but Gene Autry had deep ties to CBS radio and television as well as Columbia Records ABC soon found a new home startup outlet KTVK channel 3 which joined that network on March 1 1955 19 Mr Chauncey has always been a guy who has said We re going to be first class We re going to be No 1 And we re going to do it the right way Bob Davies longtime KOOL radio television employee on Tom Chauncey s management philosophy 20 As a full time CBS affiliate it was now able to feature Autry s show Gene Autry s Melody Ranch on its schedule Tom Chauncey who also owned the biggest Arabian horse ranch in Phoenix was a minority partner with Autry Over the years KOOL TV ran nearly the entire CBS schedule Chauncey was a fierce loyalist to the network 20 In addition to local news channel 10 produced a series of other local programs such as the bilingual children s program Ninos Contentos and investigative and feature series Chapter 10 and Copperstate Cavalcade 20 Phoenix audiences loyalty to KOOL TV was proven in 1971 That September a group of Valley business leaders led by Del Webb organized as the Valley of the Sun Broadcasting Company filed an application for a competing channel 10 proposal to KOOL TV s license renewal this group proposed to return the channel to Phoenix based ownership 21 However the KOOL TV license challenge was met with a decidedly cool reception by viewers and power brokers alike Senators Barry Goldwater and Paul Fannin and governor Jack Williams threw their support behind KOOL Goldwater noted he often cited KOOL as an example of a quality television station Fannin was amazed to learn of the counterproposal and Williams a former broadcaster lauded its record of public service and inclusion of minority groups 22 Further hundreds of phone calls and letters in support of KOOL were received by the station 23 Ten days after the application was first made public Valley of the Sun abandoned their channel 10 bid 23 It was later revealed that the same Washington law firm had backed a string of similar license challenges to other stations across the country 24 After the license challenge was rebuffed Chauncey became the majority stakeholder as a result of a sale of shares by Autry 3 25 In 1978 KOOL AM was sold to Stauffer Communications of Topeka Kansas with the FM and television stations remaining under the Autry Chauncey ownership 26 However cracks began to form in the longtime ownership partnership of KOOL FM TV That same year Autry allegedly began to try and induce Chauncey to reach an agreement with Signal Oil upon which the latter company would have the option to buy Chauncey s stake at his death Chauncey then began negotiating to buy Autry out These talks ended in April 1981 when Autry sold half of his 48 11 percent stake in the company to the Gulf United Corporation of Jacksonville Florida That May Autry sued Chauncey alleging that he had mismanaged the assets of KOOL Radio Television Inc to the tune of millions of dollars and had diverted company funds to Arabian horses cars and airplanes 25 Chauncey then filed a countersuit accusing Autry and Gulf of racketeering and trying to pressure longtime manager Homer Lane who owned a small but pivotal stake in the firm to sell 27 In the wake of the dueling lawsuits and as early as November 1981 speculation began to circulate that Chauncey and Lane were nearing a sale of their stakes to Gulf 28 Gulf Taft and Great American edit On June 8 1982 Tom Chauncey and Gulf United announced that the latter was buying out the remaining shares in KOOL TV with KOOL FM to be retained by Chauncey and split from the firm the dueling lawsuits would be dropped when the FCC approved the transaction 29 We told people for a long time that it stood for Tempe Scottsdale Phoenix but I don t know if anyone really believed it Tom Dolan news director in 1994 when the KTSP TV call sign was dropped 30 The sale closed on October 1 1982 a month after receiving FCC approval and major changes followed at channel 10 The first was a change in call sign as the FM retained the KOOL designation On October 4 KOOL TV became KTSP TV while Gulf claimed that it stood for Tempe Scottsdale Phoenix the more likely reason was that it mirrored another channel 10 station owned by Gulf WTSP in St Petersburg Florida 31 Homer Lane the general manager and minority owner was replaced by Jack Sander hired from WTOL in Toledo Ohio 20 Gulf also invested in new production equipment to give KTSP a more high tech look 32 and it completed a project started under Chauncey to replace the transmitter and tower on South Mountain 33 nbsp Logo used by channel 10 under the KTSP call sign from 1982 to 1989 This logo was similar to that used by Gulf owned WTSP In 1985 Taft Broadcasting acquired Gulf Broadcasting which had been spun out of Gulf United two years prior The deal included the entire chain but so interested was Taft in Phoenix that it obtained an option to buy KTSP TV alone for 250 million if the entire Gulf deal were to collapse and KTSP TV was the most expensive of the properties it purchased from Gulf 34 Not long after Taft acquired Gulf however a major management change occurred that would have long term ramifications in Phoenix television KTVK which had until that time been a perennial third place finisher in local news poached Bill Miller channel 10 s news director to be its station manager and hired Phil Alvidrez the KTSP TV assistant news director to run its newsroom 35 The two hires by channel 3 were partly responsible for KTVK climbing to the top of the Phoenix television market in the late 1980s and early 1990s 36 On October 12 1987 Taft was restructured into Great American Broadcasting after the company went through a hostile takeover by investors led by Carl Lindner 37 KTSP nearly lost its CBS affiliation in 1988 CBS was in negotiations to purchase KPHO from Meredith Corporation Network officials were interested in buying a station in a fast growing Sun Belt market However talks foundered when neither party could agree to a purchase price 38 Other subsidiaries of Great American Communications Corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1993 a move that did not affect the television and radio holdings 39 The station changed its call sign to KSAZ TV on February 12 1994 to match its new slogan The Spirit of Arizona 30 As a Fox station edit After emerging from bankruptcy Great American Broadcasting renamed Citicasters soon after 40 put four of its stations including KSAZ TV up for sale seeking to raise money to pay down debt and fund more acquisitions in radio 41 KSAZ TV along with WDAF TV in Kansas City Missouri WGHP in High Point North Carolina and WBRC in Birmingham Alabama were sold to New World Communications on May 5 1994 for 360 million 42 Just 18 days later New World announced that twelve of its 15 stations those it already owned and those it was in the process of acquiring would switch their varying Big Three network affiliations to Fox which had been affiliated with KNXV TV channel 15 43 A major catalyst for the Fox New World deal was the network s newly signed contract with the National Football League s National Football Conference New World s portfolio dominated by CBS affiliates included many stations that had long aired the home games of NFC teams in their home cities such as KSAZ and the Phoenix Cardinals 44 The affiliation changes three of them in all played out in phases CBS was the first to move returning to KPHO TV on September 10 1994 after 39 years on channel 10 45 However KNXV s affiliation contract with Fox did not run out for another three months In the interim KSAZ TV became an independent station filling the holes once occupied by CBS programming with movies and additional syndicated shows 46 while also using the opportunity to debut a suite of new news programs Fox programs moved to KSAZ on December 12 47 It s pretty much a flop in every category Dave Walker television writer for The Arizona Republic assessing the aftermath of KSAZ TV s switch to Fox 48 In the aftermath of the change channel 10 management faced the task of melding the station s more mainstream image with the new Fox programming 47 which proved difficult Not only did the news programs rate poorly but the station let go of valuable news lead ins Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune as skewing too old in viewership and the competition by KTVK and KNXV was more aggressive than KSAZ TV had anticipated In June 1995 general manager Ron Bergamo resigned after seven years and in the wake of sweeps figures showing the station s news ratings in some time slots had fallen by as much as 50 percent 49 that same month an article in The Dallas Morning News called what happened to KSAZ a worst case scenario 48 Revenue reportedly dipped across the New World stations by 15 percent after their switches New World management however also noted that the three months without network programming had led to the decline being more pronounced at KSAZ than elsewhere 50 As with most other New World stations KSAZ declined to run Fox Kids programming which instead moved to KTVK in September 1995 KASW channel 61 a station programmed by KTVK launched with The WB and Fox Kids programs 51 News Corporation purchased New World Communications acquiring only its ten Fox affiliated stations in July 1996 52 the merger was finalized on January 22 1997 making KSAZ an owned and operated station of Fox This status almost became short lived in February 1997 Fox nearly traded KSAZ and sister station KTBC in Austin Texas to the Belo Corporation in exchange for Seattle s KIRO TV 53 That trade never materialized Fox began to upgrade the station s programming adding some high rated off network sitcoms such as M A S H Seinfeld and King of the Hill as well as higher rated syndicated court and reality shows In the 2010s Fox began to use KSAZ TV and other stations on a regular basis to test new programs that later entered national syndication such as TMZ Live which KSAZ was the second station to air 54 and The Real 55 Fox Television Stations purchased KUTP channel 45 in 2001 as part of its acquisition of United Television which had owned a 50 stake in UPN 56 this resulted in the creation of Phoenix s second television duopoly 57 In 2006 Jordin Sparks won an opportunity to audition for American Idol after winning KSAZ s own Arizona Idol competition she ultimately went on to win the season 58 News operation edit nbsp Congressman Ruben Gallego on John Hook s Newsmaker Saturday in 2019In 1964 Chauncey merged the KOOL radio and television news departments into a single division under the management of Bill Close formerly of KOY radio Close was an 18 year veteran of Phoenix radio and television at the time and KOOL billed him as the Dean of Arizona Newscasters 59 The newsroom grew from six people when Close arrived to 23 by 1970 making it the largest among Phoenix s four news producing stations 60 a helicopter the first of several was also added to the KOOL arsenal at that time 61 Under Close s watch KOOL News 10 became the perennial news leader in Phoenix At one point channel 10 s dominance was so absolute that its 6 p m newscast anchored by Close attracted 46 percent of all TV households in the market the same share as the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite 20 The news department was largely a reflection of the bola tie wearing Close According to his longtime anchor desk partner Mary Jo West the second full time female anchor in Phoenix Close took a fatherly attitude toward his reporters and placed a high premium on accuracy and professionalism 62 The station s success produced people who went on to larger jobs both in and out of Phoenix In 1979 Kent Dana who would become a fixture at KPNX and later KPHO was hired from KOOL TV where he was anchoring the weekend news by channel 12 63 KOOL was also the first Phoenix television station to win a Peabody Award doing so in 1980 for a documentary The Long Eyes of Kitt Peak 64 On May 28 1982 at about 5 p m Joseph Billie Gwin wanting to prevent World War III forced his way into the KOOL TV studios and fired a shot from his gun The butt of the gun struck Luis Villa in the back of the head Gwin then held Villa in a chokehold at gunpoint for nearly five hours Gwin took four people hostage and demanded nationwide airtime Two of the hostages Jack Webb and Bob Cimino were released three hours later At 9 30 p m anchor Bill Close read a 25 minute statement as Gwin sat next to him holding a gun under the table Close took Gwin s gun after the statement and set it on the table 65 Gwin surrendered to the police following the broadcast of the statement he was charged with kidnapping assault and burglary and was later declared insane 66 Gwin was put on parole and placed in a halfway house but violated that parole after assaulting two convenience store clerks in 1984 67 he was released from prison in 2006 68 Channel 10 remained at the top of the ratings for a time after becoming KTSP TV However in the late 1980s after KTVK poached Miller and Alvidrez channel 10 s news ratings began to decline not helped by a series of unforced errors In 1989 KTSP newscaster Shelly Jamison left the station after appearing as both a cover model and posing nude in a Playboy pictorial 69 The most publicized move however was the 1991 dismissal of anchor Karen Carns who found out she had been fired 15 minutes before the evening newscast when a newspaper reporter called to get her reaction 70 In the February 1992 sweeps KTSP TV lost the lead at 6 p m in both the Arbitron and Nielsen ratings the first time in memory that it had failed to win that timeslot 71 That year Close retired from channel 10 after a 28 year career 72 having stepped down from the anchor desk four years earlier 62 With the Fox switch KSAZ TV added 30 news staffers and increased its news output from three hours a day to seven with the addition of the two hour morning newscast Arizona Morning an additional early evening newscast at 5 30 p m and a 9 p m news hour Arizona Prime 73 A simulcast of KTAR talk show McMahon Live with Pat McMahon was also added in late mornings However the switch proved to be very messy for the newsroom Close who said he felt betrayed by the affiliation switch predicted that the station would lose its standing in local news 72 Ratings for KSAZ TV s other newscasts declined after the switch prompting morale to fall Arizona Morning was retooled just months after its debut and Heidi Foglesong the former KTVK anchor who was the show s centerpiece left after just over a year 74 The McMahon program was dropped in January 1996 75 After two years of a news product that was more staid and conservative than had become the norm for a Fox station things began to change in 1996 under new news director Bill Berra who promised to bring up the intensity 76 Presentation was revamped that fall the sound of an emergency siren was incorporated into the opening of the 10 p m newscast 77 One anchor June Thomson increased her delivery speed at the behest of the new management but the relationship broke down and Thomson took a job at KGO TV in San Francisco She told the San Francisco Examiner that the station practiced crime and body bag journalism just like Miami and that she watched the destruction of a once fine newsroom at channel 10 78 Arizona Prime was replaced in April 1997 with Fox 10 News at Nine 79 On April 1 2009 Fox Television Stations and the E W Scripps Company owner of KNXV TV announced the formation of Local News Service a model for pooling newsgathering efforts for local news events in which each station provided employees to the pool service in exchange for the sharing of video 80 KPHO TV eventually joined the Phoenix LNS agreement shortly after the announcement 81 By 2020 all four English language television newsrooms in Phoenix shared a helicopter 82 In 2014 KSAZ debuted an expanded Saturday morning newscast and a new Sunday morning news hour 83 KSAZ added a 4 p m weekday news hour a second half hour to its 10 p m newscast and a 7 p m nightly hour of news for KUTP in 2018 84 By 2020 KSAZ TV s daily news output had reached twelve hours on weekdays 82 Phoenix was also the starting point for LiveNow from Fox the over the top streaming news offering from the Fox television stations It began as Fox 10 News Now in November 2014 streaming for seven hours a day on the station s website and YouTube channel 85 In 2020 production of the service was spread between the Fox stations in Phoenix Orlando and Los Angeles 86 Notable current on air staff edit Troy Hayden anchor 87 Notable former on air staff edit nbsp Prior to running for Governor of Arizona in 2022 Kari Lake spent more than 20 years as a news anchor at KSAZ TV Walker Edmiston host of a puppet show 1962 1963 88 J D Hayworth sports anchor 1987 1994 U S Congressman from 1994 to 2006 and talk show host on KFYI 89 Kari Lake anchor 1999 2021 Republican candidate for the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election 90 Geoff Morrell reporter 1995 1996 formerly White House correspondent for ABC News former press secretary for The Pentagon 91 Anne Montgomery sports reporter 1980s later at ESPN now a teacher at South Mountain High School 92 Vicky Nguyen investigative reporter collaborator 2004 2007 now reporter for NBC News 93 Kinsey Schofield reporter 94 Peter Van Sant anchor reporter 1978 1982 95 Technical information editSubchannels edit The station s digital signal is multiplexed Subchannels of KSAZ TV 96 Channel Res Aspect Short name Programming10 1 720p 16 9 KSAZ DT Main KSAZ TV programming Fox10 3 480i Heroes Heroes amp Icons10 4 TheGrio TheGrio TV10 5 FOX WX Fox Weather61 2 480i 16 9 HSN HSN KASW DT2 61 5 Grit Grit KASW DT5 61 6 Mystery Ion Mystery KASW DT6 Broadcast on behalf of another station Virtual channel 10 2 is assigned to a KUTP simulcast of 10 1 for the convenience of UHF antenna viewers Three subchannels on the multiplex are hosted for KASW Phoenix s ATSC 3 0 NextGen TV station which in turn broadcasts KSAZ in that format 96 Analog to digital conversion edit KSAZ TV began broadcasting a digital signal initially in standard definition only on October 15 2000 97 KSAZ TV shut down its analog signal over VHF channel 10 at 8 30 a m on June 12 2009 the official date on which full power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate The station s digital signal relocated from its pre transition UHF channel 31 to VHF channel 10 for post transition operations 98 Translators edit KSAZ TV is broadcast on these translators in northern and northwestern Arizona 99 Bullhead City K07YJ D Chloride K17NS D Clarkdale K36AE D Colorado City K27EJ D East Flagstaff K26NG D Kingman K29LO D Lake Havasu City K22NK D Littlefield K31EA D Peach Springs K36PE D Prescott K25OM D Snowflake K07OJ D Williams K31NE D Needles CA K17BN DReferences edit Facility Technical Data for KSAZ TV Licensing and Management System Federal Communications 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