KAMR-TV is an NBC

NBC

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 affiliate in Amarillo, Texas

Amarillo, Texas

Amarillo is the 14th-largest city, by population, in the state of Texas, the largest in the Texas Panhandle, and the seat of Potter County. A portion of the city extends into Randall County. The population was 190,695 at the 2010 census...

, USA

United States

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. The station was acquired by Nexstar Broadcasting Group

Nexstar Broadcasting Group

Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc., is an entity of broadcast television stations headquartered in Irving, Texas. The company consists of 50 television stations across the U.S., ranging from market sizes 9 to 201 . 43 of the stations are broadcasting at full power, with the other 4 broadcasting at...

 after merging with KAMR's parent company, Quorum Broadcasting in 2003. This station operates shared services agreements with Mission Broadcasting

Mission Broadcasting

Mission Broadcasting, Inc. is a television station group that owns 15 television stations operated by Nexstar Broadcasting. The group's president is David S. Smith, who founded the company in 1998. In most areas where Mission owns a station, its arrangements allow Nexstar to control two of the top...

's stations, KCIT

KCIT

KCIT, virtual channel 14 , is the Fox-affiliated television station in Amarillo, Texas, USA. The station is owned by Mission Broadcasting, and operated by Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc...

 and KCPN-LP

KCPN-LP

KCPN-LP is a My Network TV affiliate in Amarillo, Texas. KCPN-LP originally was the UPN affiliate in the Texas Panhandle viewing area but lost its affiliation to KFDA-TV in 2002. The station was acquired by Mission Broadcasting after they bought KCIT and KCPN-LP from Wicks Broadcast Group in 1999...

. Syndicated programming on KAMR includes: Entertainment Tonight

Entertainment Tonight

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, The Dr. Oz Show

The Dr. Oz Show

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, Rachael Ray, and The 700 Club

The 700 Club

The 700 Club is the flagship news talk show of the Christian Broadcasting Network, airing in syndication throughout the United States and Canada. In production since 1966, it is currently hosted by Pat Robertson, Terry Meeuwsen, Kristi Watts, and Gordon P. Robertson, two of whom will host on any...

.

Digital programming

KAMR-DT broadcasts on digital channel 19.
This station's digital signal is multiplexed:>

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4.1	19.1	1080i 1080i 1080i is the shorthand name for a high-definition television mode. The i means interlaced video; 1080i differs from 1080p, in which the p stands for progressive scan. The term 1080i assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9, implying a frame size of 1920×1080 pixels...	16:9 16:9 16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ...	KAMR-TV	main KAMR-TV programming / NBC HD
4.2	19.2	480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC...	4:3	KCPN-LP KCPN-LP KCPN-LP is a My Network TV affiliate in Amarillo, Texas. KCPN-LP originally was the UPN affiliate in the Texas Panhandle viewing area but lost its affiliation to KFDA-TV in 2002. The station was acquired by Mission Broadcasting after they bought KCIT and KCPN-LP from Wicks Broadcast Group in 1999...	MyNetworkTV MyNetworkTV MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...  and syndicated programming

History

When it first went to the air in 1953, it was known as KGNC-TV (for Globe-News Corporation (or Company)) and was co-owned by the Amarillo Globe-News

Amarillo Globe-News

Amarillo Globe-News is a newspaper in Amarillo, Texas, owned by the Morris Communications Company.The current-day Globe-News is a combination of several newspapers published in Amarillo. One began on November 4, 1909, as a prohibition publication by the Baptist deacon Dr. Joseph Elbert Nunn...

along with KGNC-AM 710

KGNC

KGNC is a radio broadcast service in Amarillo, Texas, USA. It operates KGNC and KGNC-FM . Both stations are owned by the Morris Communications Company since acquiring the Amarillo Globe-News Publishing Company in 1972. KGNC was formed when the Amarillo Globe-News Publishing Company purchased two...

. The Globe-News was sold to Stauffer Communications in 1974, which in turn sold off KGNC-TV. Channel 4's new owners Cannan Communications changed the station's call letters to KAMR-TV soon after the deal closed. After 25 years of ownership, Cannan sold Channel 4 to Quorum Broadcasting in 1999.

KAMR currently operates out of a studio and offices in downtown Amarillo, along with operations of KCIT and KCPN-LP (the building was originally occupied solely by KCIT), after previously occupying a studio and offices north of downtown, near the intersection of US 287 and Northeast 24th Avenue. KAMR celebrated 50 years of broadcasting in 2003.

Translators

KAMR serves a large portion of northern Texas, the Oklahoma Panhandle and northeastern New Mexico through many translators beyond it's normal 50 mile effective radiated power.

Texas

• Canadian
• Childress
• Clarendon
• Follett
• Gruver
• Memphis
• Perryton
• Quitaque
• Tulia
• Wellington
• Wheeler

News operation

Newscast titles

• Your Esso Reporter (1953–1957)
• The Four Horseman News (1957–1966)
• NewsWatch (1966–1974)
• News 4 (1974–1975)
• Action News
  Action News
  Action News is a local television newscast format in the United States. It was conceived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at WFIL-TV by then-news director Mel Kampmann in 1970 as a response to the "Eyewitness News" format used on rival station KYW-TV...
  
  (1975–1992)
• KAMR News 4 (1992–1993)
• News 4 (1993–1996)
• NBC 4 Amarillo (1996–1998)
• NBC 4 News (1999–present)

News team

Current anchors

• Adam Bennett - weekends at 10 p.m.; also weeknight reporter
• Meaghan Collier - co-host of Studio 4
• Jessica Janner - weeknights at 9 p.m. (on KCIT); also reporter and fill-in anchor
• Andy Justus - weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. and co-host of Studio 4
• Jackie Kingston - weeknights at 5, 6, and 10 p.m.

4Warn Severe Storm Team

• John Harris (American Meteorological Society|AMS]] Seal of Approval) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.
• Chris Martin - meteorologist; weekends at 10 p.m.
• Roy McCoy - meteorologist; fill-in

Sports team

• Chase Doughten - sports anchor; weekends at 10 p.m.

Reporters

• Jordan Lucero - general assignment reporter
• Ny Lynn Nichols - "Food for Thought" feature reporter; also news director

External links

• KAMR-TV website