KBMT is the ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

-affiliated television station

Television station

A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...

 for the Golden Triangle

Golden Triangle (Texas)

The Golden Triangle is an area of Southeast Texas between the cities of Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Orange. The "golden" refers to the wealth that came from the Spindletop oil strike in Beaumont in 1901...

 area Southeast Texas

Southeast Texas

Southeast Texas is a subregion of East Texas located in the southeast corner of the U.S. state of Texas. The subregion is geographically centered around the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown and Beaumont–Port Arthur metropolitan areas...

 that is licensed to Beaumont

Beaumont, Texas

Beaumont is a city in and county seat of Jefferson County, Texas, United States, within the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city's population was 118,296 at the 2010 census. With Port Arthur and Orange, it forms the Golden Triangle, a major industrial area on the...

. It broadcasts a high definition

High-definition television

High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...

 digital signal on VHF channel 12 from a transmitter in Mauriceville

Mauriceville, Texas

Mauriceville is a census-designated place in Orange County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,743 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

. The station can also be seen on Time Warner

Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...

 channel 5 and in high definition on digital channel 875. Owned by the London Broadcasting Company, KBMT has studios along I-10

Interstate 10 in Texas

Interstate 10 is the major east–west Interstate Highway in the Southern United States. In the U.S. state of Texas, it runs east from El Paso, near the border with New Mexico, through San Antonio and Houston to the border with Louisiana in Orange, Texas....

/U.S. 69/U.S. 96

U.S. Route 96

U.S. Route 96 is a north–south U.S. Route in the U.S. state of Texas. Its number is a violation of the standard numbering convention, as even-numbered two-digit highways are east–west routes by rule....

/U.S. 287

U.S. Route 287 in Texas

In the U.S. state of Texas, U.S. Highway 287 is a U.S. Highway that begins on the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur and heads north through Fort Worth, northwest to Childress, Clarendon, and Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle and into Oklahoma near Kerrick....

 in Beaumont. Syndicated

Television syndication

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 programming on this station includes: Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 22, 2003. Starring Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, and Angus T. Jones, the show was originally about a hedonistic jingle writer, Charlie Harper; his uptight brother, Alan; and Alan's growing son, Jake...

, Everybody Loves Raymond

Everybody Loves Raymond

Everybody Loves Raymond is an American television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005. Many of the situations from the show are based on the real-life experiences of lead actor Ray Romano, creator/producer Phil Rosenthal and the show's writing staff...

, Judge Judy

Judge Judy

Judge Judy is an American court show featuring former family court judge Judith Sheindlin arbitrating over small claims cases in small claims court...

, and Dr. Oz

The Dr. Oz Show

The Dr. Oz Show is an American syndicated television talk show, hosted by Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and teaching professor at Columbia University who became famous for his appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show from 2004 until 2009....

.

Digital programming

It operates the area's NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 affiliate on a second

KBMT-DT2

KBMT-DT2 is the NBC-affiliated television station for Southeast Texas. The station is a second digital subchannel of ABC affiliate KBMT that is owned by the London Broadcasting Company. Over-the-air, it broadcasts a digital signal on VHF channel 12.2 from a transmitter in Mauriceville...

 digital subchannel which uses the fictional calls "NBMT". Known on-air as K-JAC: Your NBC (a nod to the former call letters of ex-NBC now Fox affiliate KBTV-TV

KBTV-TV

KBTV-TV, channel 4, is the Fox affiliated television station serving the Beaumont/Port Arthur, Texas designated market area, and is licensed to Port Arthur. The station is owned by Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc., and its studios are located at Parkdale Mall in Beaumont...

), this can also be seen on Time Warner channel 11 and in high definition on digital channel 860. Syndicated programming on KBMT-DT2 includes: The Dr. Oz Show

The Dr. Oz Show

The Dr. Oz Show is an American syndicated television talk show, hosted by Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and teaching professor at Columbia University who became famous for his appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show from 2004 until 2009....

, The Doctors

The Doctors (2008 TV series)

The Doctors is an American syndicated talk show airing daily in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Ireland, Sweden and Finland. It debuted on September 8, 2008. The hour-long daytime program is produced by Phil McGraw and his son Jay McGraw and is distributed domestically and globally by CBS Television...

, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (U.S. syndicated game show)

Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? is a daily syndicated version of the former primetime American quiz game show of the same name that aired on Fox. It ran from September 21, 2009 to March 24, 2011 and was produced by Mark Burnett, and, like the primetime version, was hosted by Jeff Foxworthy...

, and Seinfeld

Seinfeld

Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself...

.

Virtual Channel	Physical Channel	Video	Aspect Aspect ratio The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements,...	Programming
12.1	12.1	720p 720p 720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan...	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 ...	main KBMT programming/ABC HD
12.2	12.2	720p 720p 720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan...	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 ...	"K-JAC: Your NBC"/NBC HD

Low-powered television stations KUIL-LD and K36ID-D broadcast MyNetworkTV

MyNetworkTV

MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...

 programming on virtual channel 12.3. It can also be seen on Time Warner channel 15 and in high definition on digital channel 870. KUIL also airs Azteca América

Azteca América

Azteca América is a broadcast television network marketed toward Spanish-speaking families residing in the United States. As a rapidly-growing Spanish language network, Azteca América now reaches 89% of the Hispanic households in the U.S., operating in sixty-two markets nationwide. Wholly owned by...

 on virtual channel 12.4. Azteca is not currently seen on Time Warner.

Virtual Channel	Physical Channel	Video	Aspect Aspect ratio The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements,...	Programming
12.3	43.1 / 36.1	720p 720p 720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan...	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 ...	KUIL-LD "MYTX"/MyNetworkTV HD
12.4	43.2 / 36.2	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	Azteca América

History

Unrelated to the current channel 12 license, the KBMT call sign was originally used on UHF channel 31 when it was launched May 9, 1954 as the first television station to broadcast in the Golden Triangle

Golden Triangle (Texas)

The Golden Triangle is an area of Southeast Texas between the cities of Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Orange. The "golden" refers to the wealth that came from the Spindletop oil strike in Beaumont in 1901...

. It carried ABC, CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

 and NBC, but lost CBS when KFDM-TV went on the air in 1955. Since the FCC did not mandate television sets to use converters until 1964, this KBMT went off the air on August 1, 1956.

The current KBMT began broadcasting on June 18, 1961 as an ABC affiliate. Before 1961, ABC had been relegated to limited clearances on KPAC-TV (now KBTV-TV) and KFDM-TV. The original owners were N.D. Williams and Randolph Reed. The station was later sold to Cowles Broadcasting in 1965, H&C Communications in 1980, McKinnon Broadcasting

McKinnon Broadcasting

McKinnon Broadcasting Company is a privately owned television broadcasting company based in San Diego, California. Michael Dean McKinnon Sr...

 in 1991, and present owner London Broadcasting in 2009. On January 1, 2009, KBMT added NBC programming on a new digital subchannel. This comes after KBTV, which previously held the affiliation, switched to Fox. This in turn caused former affiliate KUIL-LP (now KUIL-LD) to go Independent. In a ten year deal with London Broadcasting, KBMT began to manage the programming of that station. On July 6, 2010, the station launched Azteca América on a new 4th digital subchannel becoming the first Spanish-language television station offered in the Golden Triangle.

Newscasts

KBMT launched its news operation in 1962. On September 16, 2009, several changes occurred in the newscast lineup. The weekday morning show, Good Morning Southeast Texas, began simulcasting on both the ABC and NBC channels while becoming a full two-hour broadcast. There began to be a half-hour newscast weekday mornings at 11:30 on KBMT-DT2. The NBC channel also launched a weeknight show at 6:30 and begin to simulcast the main channel's weeknight 10 o'clock news. Originally, there was only a separate short news and weather update at that time. KBMT-DT2 does not offer local newscasts on weekends unlike the main channel. On April 28, 2010, KBMT became the first in the market to air local news in high definition.

Station slogans

• "Hello Southeast Texas, Channel 12 and You" (1980s-1991, used when station featured Frank Gari's "Hello News")
• "The News Station of Southeast Texas" (1991–1998)
• "More Local News for Southeast Texas" (1998–2001)
• "Southeast Texas' First Choice for More Local News" (2001–2007, primary slogan)
• "Live. Local. Latebreaking." (2001–2007, secondary slogan)
• "We Believe in More Local News" (2007–present)

News team

Anchors

• Tracy Kennick - weekday mornings
• Brian Burns - weekday mornings and noon
• Greg Picazo - weeknights at 5 and 6:30
• Mary Sturgill - weeknights at 5 and 6:30
• Kevin Steele - weeknights at 6 and 10
• Jackie Simien - weeknights at 6 and 10
• Erika Harris - weekends

Meteorologists

• Patrick Vaughn - Chief seen weeknights
• Jeff Gerber- weekday mornings and noon
• Bert Charan - weekends

Sports

• Dave Hofferth - Director seen weeknights at 6, 6:30, and 10
  • Sports Blitz host
• Ashly Elam - weekends

Reporters

• Courtney Francisco
• Molly O'Brien
• Lamar Holliday

Notable former staff

• John Hambrick
  John Hambrick
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• Bill Macatee
  Bill Macatee
  Bill Macatee is an American sports broadcaster.-Early life and career:Macatee was born in Rome, New York, and grew up in El Paso, Texas. In 1978, he earned a bachelor of science degree in speech from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas...
  
   - now CBS sportscaster for tennis and golf
• Ben McCain
  Ben McCain
  Ben McCain is a Los Angeles-based actor, television host, news anchor, reporter, producer, director, writer and one half of The McCain Brothers, a singing and songwriting duo...
  
   Actor, Producer, Reporter Time Warner Cable Los Angeles
• Van Earl Wright
  Van Earl Wright
  Van Earl Wright is an American sportscaster with over 20 years of national and local experience.A graduate of the University of South Carolina, Wright is known for a homespun delivery which reflects his Southern roots. His signature greeting is "Hel-looooo, everybody."Until the summer of 2007, he...
  
   - weekend sports anchor
• John Ireland
  John Ireland
  John Ireland may refer to:* John Ireland , Anglican priest and philanthropist* John Ireland , American politician...
  
   - co-host of "Mason and Ireland" on KSPN
  KSPN
  KSPN may refer to:* KSPN , a radio station licensed to Los Angeles, California, United States* KSPN-FM, a radio station licensed to Aspen, Colorado, United States...
  
   Los Angeles
  Los Ángeles
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External links

• KBMT channel 12