KCIT, virtual channel

Virtual channel

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 14 (digital channel 15), is the Fox

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-affiliated television station

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 in Amarillo

Amarillo, Texas

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, Texas

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, USA

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. The station is owned by Mission Broadcasting

Mission Broadcasting

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, and operated by Nexstar Broadcasting Group, Inc.

Nexstar Broadcasting Group

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 alongside NBC affiliate KAMR-TV

KAMR-TV

KAMR-TV is an NBC affiliate in Amarillo, Texas, USA. The station was acquired by Nexstar Broadcasting Group after merging with KAMR's parent company, Quorum Broadcasting in 2003. This station operates shared services agreements with Mission Broadcasting's stations, KCIT and KCPN-LP. Syndicated...

 (channel 4).

KCIT's transmitter is located in Amarillo

Amarillo, Texas

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.

Digital programming

KCIT-DT broadcasts on digital channel 15.
This station's digital signal is multiplexed:>

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14.1	15.1	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 ...	KCIT-DT	main KCIT programming / Fox HD
14.2	15.2	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	This TV This TV This TV is a United States general entertainment television network, with a large emphasis in its programming on movies....	Movies, classic television series and children's programming

On February 14, 2009, KCIT began broadcasting This TV

This TV

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 on digital subchannel 14.2.{cn}}

History

The station signed on the air on October 24, 1982. KCIT affiliate with the Prime Time Entertainment Network

Prime Time Entertainment Network

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 in 1993 to 1995. The station was acquired by Mission Broadcasting

Mission Broadcasting

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 after they bought KCIT 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...

 from Wicks Broadcast Group in 1999. This station operates a shared services agreement with Nexstar Broadcasting's station, KAMR-TV

KAMR-TV

KAMR-TV is an NBC affiliate in Amarillo, Texas, USA. The station was acquired by Nexstar Broadcasting Group after merging with KAMR's parent company, Quorum Broadcasting in 2003. This station operates shared services agreements with Mission Broadcasting's stations, KCIT and KCPN-LP. Syndicated...

.

Newscasts

On March 11, 2001 the station debuted a nightly 9 p.m. newscast titled Fox14 News @ 9, produced by KAMR. For a time, the station also carried a weekday morning newscast. On January 15, 2008 KCIT replaced the KAMR-produced newscast with its own one-hour newscast at 9 p.m.

Newscast titles

• Channel 14 News (1982–1986)
• Fox News (1986–1997)
• Fox 14 News (1997–present)

Station slogans

• Fox 14, First in the High Plains (1986–2001)
• Don't Let Fox 14 Weekends Pass You By (1987–1988, local version of Fox ad campaign)
• Fox 14, This is the Year (1988–1990, local version of Fox ad campaign)
• It's on Fox 14 (1990–1992, local version of Fox ad campaign)
• You're Watching Fox 14 (1992–1993, local version of Fox ad campaign)
• Fox 14: You're Watching It (1993–1994, local version of Fox ad campaign)
• It Could Only Happen on Fox 14 (1994, local version of Fox ad campaign)
• Fox 14, You're Kickin It (1994–1995, local version of Fox ad campaign)
• Just One Fox 14 (1997–2002, local version of Fox ad campaign)
• It's About Time! (2001–2006)
• One Hour Earlier (2006–present)
• So Fox 14 (2008–2010, local version of Fox ad campaign)

News team

• Jessica Janner - weeknights at 9 p.m.
• Adam Bennett - weekends at 9 p.m.
• John Harris - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 9 p.m.
• Chris Martin - meteorologist; weekends at 9 p.m.
• Lee K. Howard - sports director; weeknights at 9 p.m.
• Meaghan Collier - general assignment reporter

External links

• KCIT's website