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A sidekick was added when Bill Thompson, a 23-year-old artist, joined Charlie in the role of Wallace Sneed, Charlie's eastern cousin. Ken Kennedy had created a character called 'Gold Dust Charlie' to host Western movies.

In the station's last year as a network affiliate, another major event occurred in station history. Other shows catered to women, kids, and sports fans. Local programming of the time included, at one point, three different live variety shows, as well as a show hosted by a young Marty Robbins.

By 1953, KPHO-TV was programming 100 hours a week of network programming, with all four major networks of the time- CBS, NBC, ABC, and DuMont-represented.

#CHANNEL 5 PHOENIX VIEWER RATINGS 2017 TV#

Loretta Young and Irene Dunne were reported to be interested in the months leading up to the sale, offering $1.25 million, but the owners of KPHO were looking for $2 million at the time, only lowering their price because of the impending arrival of new TV stations. In 1952, Phoenix Television sold the KPHO stations for $1.5 million to the Meredith Corporation of Des Moines, Iowa, whose only broadcast holdings at the time consisted of WHEN-TV in Syracuse, New York, and WOW radio and television in Omaha, Nebraska. įor the next three and a half years, while the FCC froze all new awards of TV station construction permits, KPHO-TV remained the only television station in Phoenix and the state. Arizona's first television station began broadcasting on Decemnetwork coaxial cables had not reached Phoenix, so all programs were either on film or live. The KTLX designation was dropped on October 4 in favor of KPHO-TV, to match the radio station.

First Avenue, to house offices and studios for KTLX, as well as on a steel mast to be affixed to the structure for its antenna. īy summer, construction had begun on a building adjacent to the Westward Ho, at 631 N. Another was Rex Schepp, the owner and manager of KPHO (then at 1230 AM it moved to 910 kHz in 1949), which was Phoenix's ABC radio outlet Mills then bought a 29 percent interest in KPHO. had gained several new shareholders, notably including John Mullins, who later owned other radio and television properties. By the time it incorporated with the state in June 1949, Phoenix Television, Inc. The venture united Mills, the owner of downtown Phoenix's Westward Ho hotel, with three Texas oilmen. This was the first application-and permit-for a television station in Arizona. Mills-filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission for a construction permit to build a new television station on channel 5, which was granted on June 2. On March 4, 1948, a consortium of four men doing business as the Phoenix Television Company-R. The mast atop the Westward Ho served as the first transmitter site for KPHO-TV The CBS affiliation also led the expansion of what had been a small news department into one broadcasting dozens of hours of local news a week. It switched to CBS in 1994 as the result of a group affiliation deal between the network and the Meredith Corporation, which owned the station for nearly 70 years. KPHO-TV and KTVK share studios on North Seventh Avenue in Uptown Phoenix KPHO-TV's transmitter is located on South Mountain on the city's south side.Īrizona's first television station, KPHO-TV operated as an independent station for nearly 40 years, during which time it sometimes measured as the most-watched independent within its market in the United States one of its productions, The Wallace and Ladmo Show, was among the longest-running local children's programs in the country. It is owned by Gray Television alongside independent station KTVK (channel 3) and low-power LATV affiliate KPHE-LD (channel 44). KPHO-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, affiliated with CBS.

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