KDFX-CA is the Class A

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...

 Fox-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 Coachella Valley

Coachella Valley

Coachella Valley is a large valley landform in Southern California. The valley extends for approximately 45 miles in Riverside County southeast from the San Bernardino Mountains to the saltwater Salton Sea, the largest lake in California...

 licensed to Indio

Indio, California

Indio is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, located in the Coachella Valley of Southern California's Colorado Desert region. It lies east of Palm Springs, east of Riverside, and east of Los Angeles. It is about north of Mexicali, Baja California on the U.S.-Mexican border...

 and Palm Springs, California

Palm Springs, California

Palm Springs is a desert city in Riverside County, California, within the Coachella Valley. It is located approximately 37 miles east of San Bernardino, 111 miles east of Los Angeles and 136 miles northeast of San Diego...

. It broadcasts an analog signal on UHF channel 33 from a transmitter on Edom Hill northeast of Cathedral City

Cathedral City, California

Cathedral City is a city in Riverside County, California, United States. The population was 51,200 at the 2010 census. Sandwiched between Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage, it is one of the cities in the Coachella Valley of southern California...

 and I-10

Interstate 10 in California

Interstate 10 , the major east–west Interstate Highway in the Southern United States, runs in the U.S. state of California east from Santa Monica, on the Pacific Ocean, through Los Angeles and San Bernardino to the border with Arizona...

. Owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company

News-Press & Gazette Company

The News Press & Gazette Company  is a media company based in St. Joseph, Missouri, wholly owned and operated by the Bradley family. It is presided by Brian Bradley and David R. Bradley, with Hank Bradley , Eric Bradley and Kit Bradley serving on its Board of Directors.  All are descendants of...

, the station is sister to 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...

 affiliate KESQ-TV

KESQ-TV

KESQ-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for the Coachella Valley of California licensed to Palm Springs. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 42 from a transmitter on Edom Hill northeast of Cathedral City and I-10...

, low-powered CW affiliate KCWQ-LP/LD

KCWQ-LP

KCWQ-LP is the low-powered CW-affiliated television station for the Coachella Valley that is licensed to Palm Springs. It broadcasts an analog signal on VHF channel 2 and a digital signal on UHF channel 26 from a transmitter on Edom Hill northeast of Cathedral City and I-10...

, and low-powered Telemundo

Telemundo

Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....

 affiliate KUNA-LP

KUNA-LP

KUNA-LP, channel 15, is a Telemundo affiliate in the Coachella Valley area of California that includes Indio and Palm Springs.KUNA-LP signed on the air originally as K15EI on May 15, 1996 and then switched call letters to KUNA-LP on March 31, 2003. KUNA-LP airs local news,Telemundo programming, and...

. All four stations share studios located at 42-650 Melanie Place in Palm Desert

Palm Desert, California

Palm Desert is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, in the Coachella Valley, approximately east of Palm Springs. The population was 48,445 at the 2010 census, up from 41,155 at the 2000 census...

. Syndicated

Television syndication

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 programming on KDFX-CA includes: "Anderson", "Family Guy", "The Nate Berkus Show" and "The Simpsons".

History

KDFX-CA went on-the-air on UHF channel 40 in 1990 originally as a satellite of CBS

CBS

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 affiliate KECY-TV

KECY-TV

KECY-TV is the primary Fox and secondary MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for El Centro, California and Yuma, Arizona. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 9 from a transmitter between the two cities in the Chocolate Mountains in Imperial County, California. Owned...

 in El Centro, California

El Centro, California

El Centro is a city in and county seat of Imperial County, the largest city in the Imperial Valley and the east anchor of the Southern California Border Region, and the core urban area and principal city of the El Centro metropolitan area which encompasses all of Imperial County. El Centro is also...

 / Yuma, Arizona

Yuma, Arizona

Yuma is a city in and the county seat of Yuma County, Arizona, United States. It is located in the southwestern corner of the state, and the population of the city was 77,515 at the 2000 census, with a 2008 Census Bureau estimated population of 90,041....

. It became KDBA-LP on November 1, 1992 but switched to full-time Fox programming in 1995 when KECY switched their affiliation to that network. In 1997, KDBA split off to become a self-supporting affiliate for the Coachella Valley when Pacific Media Corporation (principally controlled by Judge Robinson O. Everett of Wilmington, North Carolina

Wilmington, North Carolina

Wilmington is a port city in and is the county seat of New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. The population is 106,476 according to the 2010 Census, making it the eighth most populous city in the state of North Carolina...

) entered into a management agreement with Lambert Broadcasting of Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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. Lambert invested heavily in KDBA and upgraded the station to Class A status.

After becoming a separate stand alone entity, it adopted the current KDFX-CA call letters and the on-air moniker "The Desert Fox". The station was very successful in its first year of operation and Lambert Broadcasting sold its option and management contract to the News Press & Gazette Company just one year later. In the interim, FOX programming came on cable from Los Angeles' KTTV

KTTV

KTTV, channel 11, is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in Los Angeles, California. Serving the vast Los Angeles metropolitan area, KTTV is a sister station to KCOP , Los Angeles' MyNetworkTV station...

. When KDFX-CA became an independently-run local station, the Coachella Valley area cable companies displaced KTTV-TV and KDFX-CA adopted the "Fox 11" moniker. Overnight, the station simulcasts KESQ-DT4 which is called the "First Alert Weather Channel" and offers The Local AccuWeather Channel

The Local AccuWeather Channel

The Local AccuWeather Channel is a 24-hour, weather-oriented, commercially sponsored broadcast and cable television network in the United States owned and operated by AccuWeather, Inc., which is headquartered in State College, Pennsylvania....

.

Newscasts

NewsChannel 3 HD in the Morning
(Weekday Mornings 7 to 9)

• Anchors:
  • Jeff Stahl
  • Emilie Voss
• Weather:
  • Jerry Steffen
• Reporter:
  • June Bulnes

NewsChannel 3 HD at 5:30
(Weeknights 5:30 to 6)

• Anchors:
  • John White
  • Tamara Damante
• Weather:
  • Ginger Jeffries

NewsChannel 3 HD at 10 (10 to 10:30 P.M.)
Weeknights

• Anchors:
  • John White
  • Tamara Damante
• Weather:
  • Ginger Jeffries
• Sports:
  • Spencer Linton
• Reporter:
  • Philippe Djegal

Weekends

• Anchor:
  • Jason Sloss
• Weather:
  • Ashley Brown
• Sports:
  • Greg Lee
• Reporter:
  • Gil Diaz

KDFX-CA features additional news personnel from KESQ-TV. See that article for a complete listing.

External links

• KDFX-CA Fox 11
• KCWQ-LP/LD "Palm Springs CW 5"