KNXT-LD (channel 53) is a low-power

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Bakersfield, California Bakersfield is a city in Kern County, California, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Kern County. The city covers about near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Valley region. Bakersfield's populat ...

, United States, affiliated with

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. The station is owned by My Central Valley,

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. KNXT-LD's transmitter is located on Mount Adelaide.

History

The station was started as K57HZ, transmitting on channel 57, on April 28, 2000, by

Cocola Broadcasting Cocola Broadcasting is a broadcasting company based in Fresno, California. Founded in the early 1980s by Valley broadcasting veteran Gary Cocola, Cocola owns two full-power digital television stations KGMC in Fresno and KKJB in Boise, along with ...

. Cocola sold the station to the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno is a particular church of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church in the western region (XI) of the United States, in the State of California. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles ...

, which owned regional Catholic station KNXT (channel 49), in 2007 for $1.4 million. It then moved to channel 38 and became a

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of KNXT, which also appeared on Bakersfield cable systems. In 2020, the diocese shut down KNXT owing to high costs. In the case of the Bakersfield translator, a digital television conversion also needed to be conducted. KIFR, a

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, was sold to Vita Broadcasting, while a commercial firm, My Central Valley, LLC, acquired the Bakersfield translator.

Newscasts

KNXT simulcasts sister station

KMSG-LD KMSG-LD (channel 39) is a low-power television station in Fresno, California, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV and Azteca América. It is owned by Cocola Broadcasting alongside Merced-licensed Estrella TV affiliate KGMC (channel 43 ...

's newscast, and offers 2½ hours of news per week (30 minutes each weekday) with the San Joaquin Valley's only 8 p.m. newscast, ''My 53 News at 8:00'', hosted by news director Austin Reed, which debuted April 1, 2022. The half-hour newscast immediately repeats.

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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