KMIR-TV is the NBC

NBC

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-affiliated television station

Television station

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 for Southern California

Southern California

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's 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 Palm Springs

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 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 UHF channel 46 from a transmitter on Edom Hill in 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...

 north of I-10

Interstate 10 in California

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/Redlands Freeway. The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable

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 channel 6 (hence the KMIR 6 branding) and in high definition on digital channel 606. Owned by Journal Communications

Journal Communications

Journal Communications, Inc. is a publicly traded media company based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It publishes the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, a daily newspaper, and it also owns television stations, radio stations and weekly newspapers, among other businesses.-History:The Milwaukee Journal was...

, KMIR is sister to low-powered MyNetworkTV

MyNetworkTV

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

/TheCoolTV

TheCoolTV

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 affiliate KPSE-LP

KPSE-LP

KPSE-LP is the low-powered MyNetworkTV and TheCoolTV television station for Southern California's Coachella Valley. Licensed to Palm Springs, it broadcasts an analog signal on UHF channel 50 from a transmitter north of I-10/Redlands Freeway on Edom Hill in Cathedral City. The station can also be...

 and the two share studios on Park View Drive 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 this station includes: The Insider

The Insider (TV series)

The Insider is an American tabloid television news program covering events and celebrities. It debuted on September 13, 2004 as a spinoff of Entertainment Tonight and started as a popular segment that took viewers "behind closed doors" and gave them "inside" information...

, Entertainment Tonight

Entertainment Tonight

Entertainment Tonight is a daily tabloid television entertainment television news show that is syndicated by CBS Television Distribution throughout the United States, Canada and in many countries around the world. Linda Bell Blue is currently the program's executive producer...

, Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men

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, and 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...

.

Digital programming

On KMIR-DT2 is Mexicanal

Mexicanal

Mexicanal Network is a Mexican based television Network launched in 2005 by and and serves Mexicans living and working in the United States, Canada and Mexico....

. This is currently not offered on Time Warner

Time Warner

Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...

 Cable digital systems.

Channels (virtual/physical)	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
36.1/46.1	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 ...	main KMIR programming/NBC (HD)
36.2/46.2	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	KMIR-DT2 Mexicanal (SD)

History

The station signed-on October 26, 1968 as the second outlet in Palm Springs after ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 affiliate KPLM-TV (now 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...

). Airing an analog signal on UHF channel 36, it has been an NBC affiliate from the start. Actor John Conte

John Conte (actor)

John Conte was a stage and film actor and television broadcaster.Conte was born in Palmer, Massachusetts. His Mother Maria migrated to the United States, from Calabria, with her lifelong friend Francesca Cuda, who moved to Los Angeles before the Conte family...

 owned the station along with the El MIRador hotel in Palm Springs which is where the call letters come from. Desert Regional Medical Center

Tenet Healthcare

Tenet Healthcare Corporation, an investor-owned health-care delivery systems company based in Dallas, Texas. THC owns and operates 49 acute-care hospitals in 11 states and 90 outpatient centers in 12 states, with a majority of these hospitals in California, Florida and Texas...

 now occupies the site of the old hotel. Today, one can still see the El Mirador broadcasting tower standing in front of the hospital. This is where the station originally transmitted from. The current tower is actually a new one made to look like the original which fell victim to a fire in 1989. Journal Communications acquired KMIR in 1999.

On September 26, 2007, the company announced its purchase of KPSE from Mirage Media for $

United States dollar

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4.7 million which closed on January 28, 2008. Also in 2008, the station celebrated its 40th anniversary. Along with the other major Coachella Valley stations, KMIR identifies itself on-air using its cable

Cable television

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 designation rather than its over-the-air digital channel position. This unusual practice (also common in the Fort Myers

Fort Myers, Florida

Fort Myers is the county seat and commercial center of Lee County, Florida, United States. Its population was 62,298 in the 2010 census, a 29.23 percent increase over the 2000 figure....

/Naples

Naples, Florida

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, Florida

Florida

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 market

Media market

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) stems in part from Palm Springs's exceptionally high cable penetration

Market penetration

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 rate of 80.5% which is one of the highest in the United States

United States

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.

News operation

News broadcasts on KMIR air in 16:9

16:9

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 enhanced definition widescreen

Widescreen

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. The station does produce a nightly prime time newscast on KPSE known as KMIR 6 News at 10 on My 13.
KMIR does not operate a weather department of its own so sister station ABC affiliate KTNV-TV in Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas, Nevada

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 provides all weather forecasts.

Station slogans

• "Come Home to KMIR-TV 6/36 Palm Springs" (1986-1987, localized version of NBC ad campaign)
• "Your Choice for Local News" (1993-1998)
• "Local. Live. Late-Breaking." (1998-2006)
• "Right Here. Right Now." (2006-present)

News team

Anchors

• Brandon Behle - weekday morning news
• Christina Pascucci - weekday morning news
• Elizabeth Beaubien - weeknight news
• Gino LaMont - weeknight news and "Ask the Mayor" segment producer (also weeknight sports at 6, 10, and 11)
• Anthony Alvarez - weekend evening news and producer (also video journalist and weekend evening sports)

KMIR 6 Lifestyle Weather Team (all based in Las Vegas)

• Bryan Scofield NWA Seal of Approval - weeknights
• Mike Tsolinas AMS Seal of Approval - weekday mornings
• Christian Boris AMS Seal of Approval - weekend morning cut-ins
• Ashlee DeMartino - weekend evenings

Video journalists

• Manny dela Rosa - Promotions, Marketing, and Creative Services Director (also "Manny the Movie Guy" film critic and heard on KPSI-FM
  KPSI-FM
  KPSI-FM is a commercial radio station located in Palm Springs, California, broadcasting on 100.5 FM. KPSI-FM airs a Hot AC music format branded as "Mix 100.5". It is owned by R&R Broadcasting, which also operates KPSI-AM, KPTR, KDES-FM and KWXY....
  
  100.5)
• Adrianna Weingold
• Gabriel Morales
• Angela Monroe

External links

• KMIR-TV (can be entered into mobile devices for wireless access)
• KPSE-LP "My 13 Palm Springs"