KABC-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters=KABC-TV
station_logo=
station_slogan=Southern California's News Leader
Southern California's First High Definition News
station_branding="ABC 7" (general)
"ABC 7 Eyewitness News HD" (newscasts)
analog=7 (VHF)
digital=53 (UHF)
other_chs=(see article)
subchannels=(see article)
affiliations=ABC
airdate=September 16, 1949
location=Los Angeles, California
callsign_meaning=American
Broadcasting
Company
former_callsigns=KECA-TV (1949-1954)
owner=Disney/ABC
licensee=ABC Holding Company, Inc.
effective_radiated_power=141 kW (analog)
182 kW (digital)
HAAT=978 m (analog)
924 m (digital)
facility_id=282
coordinates=coord|34|13|36.8|N|118|4|1.2|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage= [http://www.abc7.com/ www.abc7.com]

KABC-TV, channel 7, is an owned-and-operated television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, licensed to Los Angeles, California. KABC-TV's studios are located in Glendale, California, and its transmitter is located on Mount Wilson.

In the few areas of the western United States where viewers cannot receive ABC programs over-the-air, KABC-TV is available on satellite to subscribers of Dish Network and DirecTV.

History

Channel 7 first went on the air as KECA-TV on September 16, 1949. At the same time, it was the last of Los Angeles' VHF television stations to sign-on, and the last of the five original ABC-owned stations to debut, after KGO-TV in San Francisco signed-on four months earlier.

The station was named after Los Angeles broadcasting pioneer Earle C. Anthony, whose initials were also present on channel 7's then-sister radio station, KECA (790 AM, now KABC). KECA radio had been an affiliate of the NBC Blue Network. Anthony's other Los Angeles radio station, KFI, was aligned with the Red Network. The Red Network survived the Federal Communications Commission-ordered split of the two NBC radio networks in 1943. Edward J. Noble, who bought the Blue Network (beginning its transformation into ABC), purchased KECA radio a year later when the FCC forced Anthony to divest one of his Los Angeles radio stations.

On February 1, 1954, KECA-TV changed its call letters to the present KABC-TV.

From the time of its initial sign-on in 1949, channel 7 was located at the ABC Television Center (now branded as the Prospect Studios), located in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, east of Hollywood. In December 1999, KABC-TV moved from its longtime studios to a new state-of-the-art facility designed by César Pelli in nearby Glendale. [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZQpxaarBqI YouTube - KABC New Year 2000 Footage ] ] The station is currently a short distance from ABC's West Coast headquarters, and from parent Walt Disney Company's headquarters in Burbank.

KABC-TV has used the Circle 7 logo since 1962 (the same year ABC created and implemented its current logo), and augmented its bottom left quadrant with the ABC network logo in 1997. The station's news anchors and reporters wear "Circle 7" lapel pins when they appear on camera, a practice that had once been standard at each of the original five ABC-owned stations.

On February 4, 2006, KABC-TV became the first television station in California to broadcast its newscasts in high-definition. Along with the in-house upgrades, the station debuted an upgraded news set and an update to their theme music.

Digital television

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

= Southern California/Los Angeles Report" (1950-1962)
*"Channel 7 News" (1962-1969)
*"Channel 7 Eyewitness News" (1969-1997)
*"ABC 7 Eyewitness News" (1997-present)
*"ABC 7 Eyewitness News HD" (February 2006-present)

Movie Umbrella Titles

*"Movie 7" (1969-1990)
*"The 6:00 Movie" (Late 1960s)
*"" (1968-1981)
*"ABC 7 Movie Special" (1996, 2005-present)
*"ABC 7 Prime Movie Special" (2003-2004)
*"Channel 7 Midnight Movie" (1993-1995)
*"Channel 7 Late Movie" (1995-1998)
*"The Vampira Show" (1954-1955)
*"The Saturday/Sunday Afternoon Movie" (1969-1980s)
*"Hollywood Theatre" (1980s-1998)
*"ABC 7 Weekend Afternoon Movie" (1998-present)
*"The Saturday/Sunday Night Movie" (1969-1996)
*"The Monday Night Movie" (1970-1981)
*"The ABC 7 Saturday/Sunday Night Movie" (1996-present)
*"Insomniac Theatre" (1992-2004)
*"Classic Theatre" (1988-1995)

Rebroadcasters

KABC is rebroadcast on the following translator stations:

* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K48IP K48IP 48] Daggett
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K19BT K19BT 19] Lucerne Valley
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K67AO K67AO 12] Palmdale
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K08IA K08IA 8] Newberry Springs
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K07NH K07NH 7] Ridgecrest
* [http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K41GO K41GO 41] Ridgecrest

ee also

*Circle 7 logo
*KABC (AM) (790 kHz.)
*KLOS-FM (95.5 MHz.)

References

External links

* [http://www.abc7.com/ KABC-TV Website]
* [http://www.myabc7.com/wap/stations/ ABC7 Wireless]
* [http://www.abc7FanSite.com/ ABC7 Los Angeles Eyewitness News Fan Site]
* [http://www.setstudio.com/pages/kabc/ Photos of KABC's news set]
*TVQ|KABC-TV
*TitanTV|KABC
* [http://indra.tv/ Indra Petersons Website]