KBFX-CA
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KBFX-CD Channel 58 is a Class A
low-power digital television
station serving Bakersfield, California
. It is a Fox
affiliate which used to broadcast on analog channel 58.
cable.
channel 26 broadcasting out of Visalia/Fresno. Later, the Fox network wanted to include a new separate affiliate station for the Bakersfield market. It changed call letters from KMPH-LP in 1998 and became KBFX-LP. Among the features on the new station was a KBAK-produced 10pm newscast, "Fox 58 News @ 10". It was so successful that KBAK's then-owner Westwind Communications bought the station outright in 2005 from KMPH's owners, Pappas Telecasting.
On August 6, 2007, Westwind Communications announced the sale of KBAK and KBFX-CA to Fisher Communications
of Seattle
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=61026&p=irol-newsArticle&t=Regular&id=1037227&, with the sale closing on January 1, 2008.
On February 28, 2010, Bright House Networks
announced that KBFX will be carried in Tehachapi also on cable 6. KBFX just recently launched their new digital transmitter on RF channel 29. This signal carries This TV on its subchannel, which maps to virtual channel 29-2. In January 2011 KBFX began airing it's local news in high definition.
Weather team
Sports team
Reporters
Class A television service
The class A television service is a system for regulating some low-power television stations in the United States. Class A stations are denoted by the broadcast callsign suffix "-CA" or "-CD" , although very many analog -CA stations have a digital companion channel that was assigned the -LD...
low-power digital television
Digital television
Digital television is the transmission of audio and video by digital signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV...
station serving Bakersfield, California
Bakersfield, California
Bakersfield is a city near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley in Kern County, California. It is roughly equidistant between Fresno and Los Angeles, to the north and south respectively....
. It is a Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
affiliate which used to broadcast on analog channel 58.
Digital television
The analog signal went off the air in August 2010. KBFX currently broadcasts in high definition on RF channel 29 which maps to virtual channel 58-1, and also as a subchannel of KBAK-DT (prime time FOX programs are letterboxed); this digital signal is RF channel 33-2 and virtual mapped channel 58-2. It is also available in high definition on Bright House NetworksBright House Networks
Bright House Networks is a cable television company, the seventh largest cable operator and the sixth largest traditional multiple system operator in the United States owned by Advance/Newhouse, headquartered in Syracuse, New York...
cable.
History
KBFX began in 1989 as a low-powered relay translator of KMPH-TVKMPH-TV
KMPH-TV is a television station in Fresno, California broadcasting digitally on television channel 28, and is licensed to nearby Visalia. It is the Fresno-area affiliate of the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is owned by Titan Broadcast Group and is sister station to KFRE-TV, the Central Valley's CW...
channel 26 broadcasting out of Visalia/Fresno. Later, the Fox network wanted to include a new separate affiliate station for the Bakersfield market. It changed call letters from KMPH-LP in 1998 and became KBFX-LP. Among the features on the new station was a KBAK-produced 10pm newscast, "Fox 58 News @ 10". It was so successful that KBAK's then-owner Westwind Communications bought the station outright in 2005 from KMPH's owners, Pappas Telecasting.
On August 6, 2007, Westwind Communications announced the sale of KBAK and KBFX-CA to Fisher Communications
Fisher Communications
Fisher Communications is a media company in the United States. Based in Seattle, Washington, the company owns a number of radio and television stations in the Western United States.- Radio Stations :- Television Stations :...
of Seattle
Seattle, Washington
Seattle is the county seat of King County, Washington. With 608,660 residents as of the 2010 Census, Seattle is the largest city in the Northwestern United States. The Seattle metropolitan area of about 3.4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the country...
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=61026&p=irol-newsArticle&t=Regular&id=1037227&, with the sale closing on January 1, 2008.
On February 28, 2010, Bright House Networks
Bright House Networks
Bright House Networks is a cable television company, the seventh largest cable operator and the sixth largest traditional multiple system operator in the United States owned by Advance/Newhouse, headquartered in Syracuse, New York...
announced that KBFX will be carried in Tehachapi also on cable 6. KBFX just recently launched their new digital transmitter on RF channel 29. This signal carries This TV on its subchannel, which maps to virtual channel 29-2. In January 2011 KBFX began airing it's local news in high definition.
News team
Anchors- Amity Addrisi - weekends at 10 p.m.; also weeknight reporter and fill-in weather anchor
- John Dabkovich - weekday mornings (7-9 a.m.)
- Lisa Krch - weeknights at 10 p.m.
- Kurt Rivera - weeknights at 10 p.m.
- Leyla Santiago - weekday mornings (7-9 a.m.)
Weather team
- Miles Muzio - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 10 p.m.
- Aaron Perlman - weather anchor; weekday mornings (7-9 a.m.)
- Anthony Bailey - weather anchor; weekends at 10 p.m., also reporter
Sports team
- Greg Kerr - sports director; weeknights at 10 p.m.
- John Franchi - sports anchor; weekends at 10 p.m., also sports reporter
Reporters
- Cambi Brown - weekday morning reporter
- Keisha Courtney - multimedia journalist
- Carol Ferguson - crime and government reporter
- Jose Gaspar - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor
- Megan Munro - general assignment reporter; also fill-in anchor