KXII (channel 12) is a
television station
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licensed to
Sherman, Texas
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, United States, serving the Sherman, Texas–
Ada, Oklahoma
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market
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as an affiliate of
CBS
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,
MyNetworkTV
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, and
Fox
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Twelve sp ...
. Owned by
Gray Television
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, the station maintains studios on Texoma Parkway (
SH 91
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) in northeastern Sherman, with an additional studio on South Commerce Street (
US 77
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) and Elks Boulevard in southwestern
Ardmore, Oklahoma
Ardmore is the county seat of Carter County, Oklahoma, United States. According to the 2010 census, the city had a population of 24,283, with an estimated population of 24,698 in 2019. The Ardmore micropolitan statistical area had an estimated ...
. KXII's transmitter is located along
US 377
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Texas
The sout ...
in rural northeastern
Marshall County, Oklahoma
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(southwest of
Madill).
KXII's signal is relayed on low-power
translator station
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KXIP-LD (channel 12) in
Paris, Texas
Paris is a city and county seat of Lamar County, Texas, United States. Located in Northeast Texas at the western edge of the Piney Woods, the population of the city was 24,171 in 2020.
History
Present-day Lamar County was part of Red River Co ...
(in the
Dallas
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–
Fort Worth
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television market) and also over low-power station K28QF-D (channel 28) in Sherman.
History
Early history under Reisen-Easley ownership
The station first signed on the air as KVSO-TV, on August 12, 1956. Originally licensed to Ardmore, Oklahoma, it was founded by a family-led consortium led by Albert Riesen, Maurine Easley and their children, John and Buddy Riesen, and Betty Dillard. The Riesen-Easley family had assumed ownership of ''
The Daily Ardmoreite
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The paper was owned by Stauffer Communications, which was acquired by Morris Communications
Morr ...
'' and
KVSO
KVSO (1240 AM, "The Sports Animal") is a radio station broadcasting a sports format. Licensed to Ardmore, Oklahoma, United States, the station is currently owned by Stephens Media Group, through licensee SMG-Ardmore, LLC.
History
On August 13, ...
(1240 AM) from Maurine's father, John Easley—longtime owner of the newspaper/radio station combination, who had acquired the ''Ardmoreite'' in 1917—following his retirement the year prior.
After the family filed an application with the
Federal Communications Commission
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(FCC) for the
construction permit
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in 1954, the Reisen-Easleys obtained VHF channel 12 for their proposed television station after negotiating with Eastern Oklahoma Television, Inc., owner of Ada-based competitor
KTEN
KTEN (channel 10) is a television station licensed to Ada, Oklahoma, United States, serving the Sherman, Texas–Ada, Oklahoma market as an affiliate of NBC, The CW Plus, and ABC. The station is owned by Lockwood Broadcast Group, and maintain ...
(channel 10), for the allocation (the FCC had reassigned the channel 12 allocation to the Sherman–Ada market following the issuance of the
Sixth Report and Order in 1952, in which the agency moved the same assignment from
Waco
Waco ( ) is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States. It is situated along the Brazos River and I-35, halfway between Dallas and Austin. The city had a 2020 population of 138,486, making it the 22nd-most populous city in the st ...
to
Abilene, Texas
Abilene ( ) is a city in Taylor and Jones Counties in Texas, United States. Its population was 125,182 at the 2020 census, making it the 27th-most populous city in the state of Texas. It is the principal city of the Abilene metropolitan statis ...
, where it would become occupied by present-day
ABC
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affiliate
KTXS-TV
KTXS-TV (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Sweetwater, Texas, United States, serving the Abilene area as an affiliate of ABC and The CW Plus. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside low-power TBD owned-and-operated sta ...
, to avoid interference with the Sherman-Ada frequency).
Channel 12 originally operated as an
NBC
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affiliate; however the Riesen-Easley ownership group was unable to afford the expenditures to acquire a feed to access NBC's television programming directly; this forced station engineers to have to switch to and from the broadcast signal of NBC affiliate WKY-TV (now
KFOR-TV
KFOR-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside independent station KAUT-TV (channel 43). Both stations share studios in Oklahoma ...
) in
Oklahoma City
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, whenever WKY aired programming from the network. In addition, KVSO-TV carried some of WKY's local and syndicated programming intermittently within its broadcast day. The station originally maintained transmitter facilities from a tower located north of Ardmore in the
Arbuckle Mountains
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On April 2, 1957, the station's transmission tower was felled by a
strong tornado (later retroactively rated as an
F2) that touched down west of
Dougherty and hit portions of northern
Carter County, Oklahoma
Carter County is a county in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the population was 47,557. Its county seat is Ardmore. The county was named for Captain Ben W. Carter, a Cherokee who lived among the Chickasaw.O'Dell, Larry"Cart ...
. Transmitter engineer Chester Rollins was near the tower at the time the tornado hit and escaped serious injury, despite the transmission building he was in losing its roof. The tower fell onto a pickup truck, which was shifted , killing the male driver. The station set up temporary transmission facilities near its Ardmore studio, where its signal originated until the following year, when a new transmitter and tower was constructed near Madill (about southeast of Ardmore), in order to provide better reception to viewers in
Durant and across the
Red River to the Sherman–
Denison, Texas
Denison is a city in Grayson County, Texas, Grayson County, Texas, United States. It is south of the Texas–Oklahoma border. The population was 22,682 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. Denison is part of the Texoma region and is one ...
area.
Texoma Broadcasting ownership
In late 1958, the Riesen family sold KVSO-TV to Texoma Broadcasting, a
holding company
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owned by businessman Milford N. "Buddy" Bostick, who founded fellow CBS affiliate
KWTX-TV
KWTX-TV (channel 10) is a television station in Waco, Texas, United States, serving Central Texas as an affiliate of CBS. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Belton-licensed CW affiliate KNCT (channel 46). Both stations share studios on ...
in Waco, Texas three years earlier (''The Daily Ardmoreite'' remained under the Riesens' ownership until 1983, when they sold the newspaper to
Stauffer Communications
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). Shortly after the sale's closure, the station changed its call letters to KXII (signifying the
Roman numeral
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for 12).
In the spring of 1960, channel 12 began maintaining a secondary affiliation with CBS. At that time, in addition to carrying the majority of NBC's programming lineup, CBS fare cleared to air on KVSO for most of the 1960s consisted mainly of daytime programs and sporting events (such as
National Football League
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FLgame telecasts, including those involving the
Dallas Cowboys
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). In 1960, the station opened a secondary studio facility located along
U.S. Highway 75
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, halfway between Sherman and Denison (the building would later become the station's main studios in 1974). During the 1960s and early 1970s, most CBS programming was fed to cable subscribers in the
Texoma
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area via the network's affiliates in surrounding markets, including
KWTV
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in Oklahoma City,
KAUZ-TV
KAUZ-TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Wichita Falls, Texas, United States, serving the western Texoma area as an affiliate of CBS and The CW Plus. It is owned by American Spirit Media, which maintains a shared services agree ...
in
Wichita Falls
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, and KRLD-TV (now Fox
owned-and-operated station
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KDFW
KDFW (channel 4) is a television station licensed to Dallas, Texas, United States, broadcasting the Fox network to the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside MyNet ...
) in Dallas–Fort Worth. KXII's direct competitor, KTEN, was a primary ABC affiliate at the time but also carried select programming from NBC (mainly running programs that KXII did not give clearance to air) through a secondary affiliation.
Although KXII and KTEN were considered to be direct competitors, for many years, the coverage patterns of their respective signals differed considerably because of the distances between channel 12's transmitter in Madill and KTEN's transmission tower in Ada. As a result, viewers living in and surrounding areas of south-central Oklahoma located within a radius of the KXII transmitter (including the cities of Ardmore, Madill and Durant) experienced fair to poor reception of KTEN. In turn, channel 10 had marginal if not non-existent coverage in some adjoining areas of
north-central Texas (including Sherman, Denison and
Gainesville) that were able to receive KXII. In order to become more competitive with KXII, in 1983, the FCC granted Eastern Oklahoma Television a permit to construct a tower between
Milburn and
Bromide, Oklahoma
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The area around Bromide was noted for its mineral springs, and the bromide content of the water gave the town its name. It w ...
—which became operational the following year—to enable better over-the-air reception to areas of far southern Oklahoma near the Red River and extend its reach into the Sherman-Denison area and adjoining areas of north-central Texas (including Gainesville,
Bonham, and
Paris
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).
In September 1974, KXII shifted the balance of network programming on its schedule to include a larger proportion of the CBS lineup, including most of the network's daytime shows, several prime time programs and most of its sports programming. This turned channel 12 into a hybrid station that carried almost half of NBC and CBS' respective programming inventories for the next few years. As KXII shifted its primary source of network programming from NBC to CBS in the mid-1970s, KTEN conversely added a larger proportion of NBC programs to its daytime and prime time schedules, evolving into a similar hybrid ABC/NBC station in the process. In 1974, KXII replaced ''
NBC Nightly News
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'' with the ''
CBS Evening News
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'' as the network newscast it carried as the lead-in to the station's 6:00 p.m. newscast. KXII's transitioned into a primary CBS station in January 1977; over the next eight years, the station steadily shed what NBC programming remained on its schedule. Also in 1977, KXII relocated its Ardmore facility from a building at Lincoln Center on West Main Street to one located on South Commerce Street (near
U.S. Route 77
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); this location remains in operation as a news bureau to gather stories for the Oklahoma side of the market, in conjunction with the main studio in Sherman. The station successfully petitioned the FCC to change its
city of license
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from Ardmore to Sherman in 1992; this was done primarily to allow
Grayson County to be classified as in its market for the first time in its history, taking it from the 178th-largest
area of dominant influence
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to the 157th-largest.
In September 1985, channel 12 formally converted into an exclusive affiliate of CBS, after KTEN assumed the local rights to ''
Today
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''—the only NBC program that remained on KXII's schedule prior to that time—with the ''
CBS Morning News
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'' replacing it as KXII's network morning news offering. (Even though it did not carry any NBC programs on its schedule over the nine subsequent years, ''
TV Guide
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'' continued to identify KXII as a primary CBS/secondary NBC affiliate in the channel directory page of its Oklahoma City and North Texas editions until 1994.) The move concurrently resulted in KTEN shifting its primary affiliation to NBC, although it continued to air a reduced schedule of ABC programming and, in July 1994, added the majority of the Fox lineup (since KTEN became an exclusive NBC affiliate in September 1998, the primary feeds of the Sherman–Ada market's two commercial television stations have been represented by a single network affiliation; neither station would carry programming from any of the other major broadcast networks until KXII launched a
UPN
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-affiliated digital subchannel in February 2006).
Gray Television ownership
On April 15, 1999,
Atlanta
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-based Gray Communications Systems (now
Gray Television
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) announced that it would acquire KXII, Waco sister station KWTX-TV and its
semi-satellite
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KBTX-TV
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in
Bryan, Texas
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from Bostick's three holding companies—KXII Broadcasters, Inc., KWTX Broadcasting, Inc. and Brazos Broadcasting, Inc., respectively—for $139 million. The decision to sell the stations stemmed from recommendations by shareholders of the companies because of the costs that the Bostick companies would incur in launching and operating digital television signals for the three stations, with Gray CEO Hilton H. Howell, Jr. (a shareholder in KWTX) inquiring about purchasing the stations after Bostick was initially unsuccessful in reaching sale agreements with prospective buyers. Through the transaction, which was finalized on October 1, 1999, Gray paid $41.5 million in cash as well as additional cash payments for certain accounts receivable to purchase channel 12 from Bostick-owned KXII Broadcasters Inc.
KXII was one of the few remaining commercial broadcast television outlets in the United States as well as the last major network affiliate station in Oklahoma and Texas to sign off the air during the overnight hours, occurring on Saturday nights/early Sunday mornings from 2:05 to 5:00 a.m. This continued until September 2009, when the station adopted a full 168-hour weekly schedule, filling the formerly vacant hours on early Sunday mornings with paid programming on its main channel and KXII-DT2 and a mix of syndicated and paid programming on KXII-DT3.
Subchannel history
KXII-DT2
KXII-DT2, branded as "My 12", is the
MyNetworkTV
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-affiliated second
digital subchannel
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of KXII, broadcasting in
720p
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high-definition on channel 12.2. Since June 2019, in order to provide over-the-air distribution of their 12.2 subchannel, KXII-DT2 had been simulcast in 720p HD over low-power K28QF-D (channel 28); that HD simulcast of My12 was later moved to K28QF-D2 and upgraded to
1080i
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full HD, before ultimately being applied to all signals when the main KXII-DT2/KXIP-LD2 feed was upgraded into 720p HD and K28QF-D was converted into a relay of KXII in September 2021, except that it continues to remain virtually mapped to channel 28 to avoid redundancy on receivers, as it is licensed to the same city as (and serves the same viewing area as) its primary station.
KXII-DT2, which had been transmitting in
480i
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standard-definition due partly to technical limitations with the
ATSC
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1.0 digital transmission format (as well as to account for the resolution of KXII's main, DT3, and DT4 channels, the two former broadcasting in high definition) that had been preventing the subchannel from being presented in HD, had been carrying certain programs available in high definition from syndication distributors in a downconverted
letterbox
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format. In September 2021, when the main KXII-DT2/KXIP-LD2 feed was upgraded into 720p HD and K28QF-D was converted into a relay of KXII, HD distribution became available for all syndicated programming on this subchannel.
KXII launched a subchannel on virtual channel 12.2 in February 2006, originally serving as an affiliate of the United Paramount Network (UPN) (and was branded on-air as "UPN Texoma"). Prior to the launch of KXII-DT2, UPN programming was available in the Sherman-Ada market via
Sulphur
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-based
low-power station KOKT-LP (channel 20, now defunct); KOKT was acquired by
Equity Media Holdings
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in the fall of 2003, and was subsequently converted into a
translator
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of
Univision
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affiliate
KUOK
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in
Woodward that February 2004. The market's lack of any additional television stations outside of KXII and NBC-affiliated KTEN resulted in UPN programming being transmitted directly to area cable providers through
KAUT-TV
KAUT-TV (channel 43) is an independent television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside NBC affiliate KFOR-TV (channel 4). Both stations share studios in Oklahoma City's McCourry Heights ...
in Oklahoma City and
KTXA
KTXA (channel 21) is an independent television station in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside Fort Worth–based CBS station KTVT (channel 11). Bo ...
in Dallas–Fort Worth (both now
independent stations) for the following 23 months; UPN programming was also available on the Oklahoma side of the market prior to KAUT's July 1998 conversion to the network via
KOCB
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, which served as the network's Oklahoma City affiliate from January 1995 to January 1998. Outside of UPN programming, KXII-DT2 carried a mix of first-run and off-network syndicated programming as well as overnight simulcasts of
The Sportsman Channel
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(which the subchannel carried as a secondary affiliation from KXII-DT2's launch until January 2009, when it began airing programs from
Retro Television Network
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during the time period).
On February 22, 2006,
News Corporation
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announced the launch of MyNetworkTV, a network operated by
Fox Television Stations
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and its syndication division
Twentieth Television
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that was created to primarily to provide network programming to UPN- and
WB-affiliated stations with which the direct successor of those networks,
The CW
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, decided against affiliating in the run-up to that network's September launch based on their local viewership standing in comparison to the outlet that the network ultimately chose; the formation of MyNetworkTV allowed these displaced stations another option besides converting to independent stations.
One month later on March 30, Gray Television confirmed KXII as MyNetworkTV's affiliate for the Sherman–Ada market through an agreement that it reached with the
Fox Entertainment Group
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to affiliate seventeen Gray-owned stations with MyNetworkTV (all of which were primary Big Three network affiliates that were committed to carry the network on their digital subchannels). KXII-DT2 remained an affiliate of UPN until September 2, 2006; the subchannel officially joined MyNetworkTV three days later on September 5 (through an agreement with owner
Lockwood Broadcast Group
Lockwood Broadcast Group is a television broadcasting company that owns stations in several markets.
Lockwood Broadcast main offices are located in Hampton, Virginia with Operation Headquarters in Richmond, Virginia.
History
Lockwood Broadcast ...
, The CW chose to affiliate with KTEN—which carries the network's master feed for smaller markets,
The CW Plus
The CW Plus is a secondary national programming service feed of The CW that is fully controlled and 75% owned by Nexstar Media Group, with Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery each owning a 12.5% stake in the network. It is intended primar ...
, on its DT2 subchannel—when that network debuted on September 18).
KXII-DT3
KXII-DT3, branded as "Fox 12", is the
Fox
Foxes are small to medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. They have a flattened skull, upright, triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail (or ''brush'').
Twelve sp ...
-affiliated third digital subchannel of KXII, broadcasting in 720p high definition on channel 12.3.
This subchannel's history began in 2006 as the first full-time local Fox station for the Sherman-Denison
market
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*Market (economics), system in which parties engage in transactions according to supply and demand
*Market economy
*Marketplace, a physical marketplace or public market
Geography
*Märket, an ...
. Prior to the launch of KXII-DT3, KTEN (channel 10) served as a secondary affiliate of Fox starting in 1994 after the network had won the
broadcast rights to carry
National Football Conference
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games from the NFL, ending
CBS
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' 37-year broadcast association with the conference. KTEN's owners had filed for bankruptcy at the time and gained additional monetary compensation from Fox, along with allowing KTEN the ability to show every single Dallas Cowboys game that was not available on
cable television
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. However, this affiliation agreement resulted in the station becoming even more of a hybrid network affiliate as it already had a primary NBC affiliation and a secondary affiliation with ABC, in addition to carrying select Fox programs.
KTEN became an exclusive NBC affiliate in 1998, leaving the Sherman–Ada market without any local affiliates of ABC or Fox. Fox network programming was available in the market thereafter through cable via out-of-market stations from Oklahoma City (
KOKH-TV, which is available over-the-air in northern parts of the market and was available on Cable One in Ada and Ardmore) and Dallas–Fort Worth (KDFW, which was available over-the-air in the portions of the southern part of the market and was available to Cable One subscribers in Sherman). The launch of the Fox subchannel occurred the same year that KTEN added a CW-affiliated subchannel and KXII added a subchannel affiliated with Fox's sister programming service, MyNetworkTV. As a result, the two station Ada–Sherman market is the only television market in the United States with all six broadcast networks—ABC (which returned to the market in 2010 on a third digital subchannel of KTEN), CBS, NBC, Fox, The CW and MyNetworkTV—carrying affiliations with only two commercial stations (both of which are full-power outlets).
Prior to September 2009, KXII-DT3 did not offer any locally produced programming exclusive to the subchannel, with the exception of severe weather coverage simulcast on both of the station's digital subchannels. KXII-DT3 carries special reports and most breaking news coverage produced by
Fox News
The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is owne ...
for carriage on Fox's affiliates. KXII also produces an occasional sports talk program seen on Friday nights titled ''Sports Overtime'' for KXII-DT3, the subchannel also carries KXII's
public affairs program ''First News Forum''.
KXII-DT4
KXII-DT4 is the
Ion Television
Ion Television is an American broadcast television network owned by the Katz Broadcasting subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. The network first began broadcasting on August 31, 1998, as Pax TV, focusing primarily on family-oriented enter ...
–affiliated fourth digital subchannel of KXII, broadcasting in standard definition on virtual and VHF channel 12.4.
In autumn 2018, Gray Television originally opted out of an HD upgrade to their 12.2 subchannel, instead deciding to add Ion Television to channel 12.4; also, Gray Television decided that the June 2019 conversion of K31LQ-D into a 720p HD simulcast of KXII-DT2 adequately compensated for the absence of an HD upgrade to their 12.2 subchannel. The HD simulcast of My12 eventually moved to K28QF-D2 and began being transmitted in 1080i full HD, before K28QF-D was ultimately converted into a relay of KXII in September 2021 when the main KXII-DT2/KXIP-LD2 feed was upgraded into 720p HD.
Programming
Network and syndicated programming
KXII clears the entire CBS network schedule; however, the station carries the ''
CBS Dream Team
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'' block on Saturday mornings one hour earlier than most CBS affiliates, via the "live" network feed, as the station does not air a local morning newscast on weekends (allowing KXII to carry the full CBS Saturday morning schedule without deferring some programs within the ''Dream Team'' block to open time periods to fulfill
educational programming obligations in the event that CBS airs a late-morning
college football
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Unlike most ...
or
basketball
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game during the fall and winter months). Since the program's April 2014 expansion into a one-hour broadcast, the station has also aired ''
Face the Nation
''Face the Nation'' is a weekly news and morning public affairs program airing Sundays on the CBS radio and television network. Created by Frank Stanton in 1954, ''Face the Nation'' is one of the longest-running news programs in the history o ...
'' in separate half-hour blocks; the first half-hour typically airs on Sunday mornings and the second half-hour airs in late night on each edition's original airdate to accommodate a ministry outreach program from the First Baptist Church of Sherman.
Syndicated programs broadcast on KXII include ''
The Jennifer Hudson Show
''The Jennifer Hudson Show'' is an American syndicated daytime talk show. Hosted by singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, the series premiered on September 12, 2022.
Production
In November 2021, ''Deadline'' reported that Warner Bros. Televisio ...
'', ''
Two and a Half Men
''Two and a Half Men'' is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS for twelve seasons from September 22, 2003, to February 19, 2015. Originally starring Charlie Sheen in the lead role alongside Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones, the ...
'' and ''
Live with Kelly and Ryan
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''.
KXII-DT2 also serves as a backup CBS affiliate, carrying programming from that network normally seen on the main channel, when KXII's main channel broadcasts breaking news or severe weather coverage; the subchannel also simulcasts severe weather coverage from the main channel when wall-to-wall coverage is warranted. Syndicated programs broadcast on KXII-DT2 include ''
Mom'', ''
Extra
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Arts, entertainment and media Film
* ''The Extra'' (1962 film), a Mexican film
* ''The Extra'' (2005 film), an Australian film
Literature
* ''Extra'' (newspaper), a Brazilian newspaper
* ''Extra!'', an American me ...
'', and ''
Scandal
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''.
Syndicated programs broadcast on KXII-DT3 include ''
25 Words or Less'', ''
The Big Bang Theory
''The Big Bang Theory'' is an American television sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom served as executive producers on the series, along with Steven Molaro, all of whom also served as head writers. It premiered on CBS ...
'', ''
Judge Mathis
''Judge Mathis'' is an American syndicated arbitration-based reality court show presided over by Judge Greg Mathis, a former judge of Michigan's 36th District Court and Black-interests motivational speaker/activist.
The courtroom series prem ...
'', ''
Access Hollywood
''Access Hollywood'', formerly known as ''Access'' from 2017 to 2019, is an American weekday television entertainment news program that premiered on September 9, 1996. It covers events and celebrities in the entertainment industry. It was created ...
'', and ''
Entertainment Tonight
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''.
Sports programming
KXII began serving as the Sherman-Ada market's primary television station for the Dallas Cowboys as a CBS affiliate in
1962, when the network obtained the television rights to the National Football League (NFL). The station carried most regional or national Cowboys game telecasts aired by CBS until its contractual rights to the National Football Conference (NFC) concluded in
1993
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(the team's over-the-air game telecasts aired locally on KTEN during that station's tenure as a part-time Fox affiliate from
1994
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to
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
). Channel 12 resumed its status as the Cowboys' primary local broadcaster following the launch of its Fox-affiliated DT3 subchannel in
September 2006.
Unlike Fox-owned KDFW in Dallas–Fort Worth (which served as the market's previous Fox station from 1998 to 2006), Cowboys game telecasts on KXII and KXII-DT3 were not subject to
blackouts under league rules in effect until the NFL eliminated its in-market blackout restrictions in 2014, which prohibited television stations within a team's designated market area from airing games involving a local NFL franchise in the event that any available tickets remained unsold (most of the Sherman–Ada market, with the exception of southwestern
Grayson County, Texas
Grayson County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, its population was 135,543. The county seat is Sherman, Texas, Sherman. The county was founded in 1846 and is named ...
, is located outside of the NFL's designated blackout radius for the Cowboys' market area). Although this rule allowed a network to substitute another NFL game in place of the Cowboys broadcast, this issue was moot as tickets for the team's games have sold out, regardless of the Cowboys' season-to-season performance, since the early 1990s. KXII also carries telecasts of Cowboys regular season games involving either an
American Football Conference
The American Football Conference (AFC) is one of the two conferences of the National Football League (NFL), the highest professional level of American football in the United States. The AFC and its counterpart, the National Football Conference ...
(AFC) opponent or, since
2014
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, cross-flexed games declined by Fox that involve opponents in the NFC.
KXII-DT2 currently airs
NBA
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games involving the
Dallas Mavericks
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that are produced by Dallas independent station KTXA. From 2006 until 2014, the subchannel also carried
Big 12 Conference
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college basketball
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games distributed by
ESPN Regional Television
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(through its ESPN Plus/Big 12 Network syndication service).
News operation
, KXII presently broadcasts 22 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with four hours each weekday, and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). The station also produces 3½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week for KXII-DT3 (with a half-hour each on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays), in addition to simulcasting KXII's weekday morning newscast on the Fox affiliate. In addition, KXII produces the community affairs program ''News 12 Forum'', which airs on Sunday mornings at 6:00 a.m.
The station's news department began operations with the August 1956 sign-on of the then-KVSO-TV, which was originally based out of the station's original studio facilities in Ardmore. Because of KXII's status as the only major-network affiliate licensed to a city on the Oklahoma side of the Sherman-Ada market, the balance of the stories featured on the station's newscasts tend to lean toward those affecting Sherman, Denison and surrounding areas of north-central Texas, albeit with a nearly equal focus on stories occurring in south-central Oklahoma. Among the market's two local television news operations, KXII has maintained ratings dominance in all time slots.
In December 1987, former KXII anchor Tyler Watson filed a lawsuit against the city of
Calera, Oklahoma
Calera is a town in Bryan County, Oklahoma, United States, located five miles south of Durant and 10 miles north of the Oklahoma-Texas state line. The population was 2,906 at the 2020 census, an increase of 34.2 percent over the figure of 2,164 ...
,
Bryan County and former police officer John Bullard; Watson sought $325,000 in damages after she was bitten repeatedly by a
Rottweiler
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owned by the Calera Police Department officer, while interviewing Bullard for a story about the K-9 program in March of that year, which required Watson to get more than 80 stitches on her face and head. The incident led to the suspension of the police dogs from active duty, and drug programs in which the dogs were to participate being canceled (the Calera City Council also ordered police chief Jack Stockton not to use the dogs or transport them outside the city limits). The suit alleged that Bullard told Watson that the dog would only attack on command or otherwise provoked, with the ex-officer claiming that he did not witness the attack.
In 1995, KXII began utilizing "Doppler 12", a
Doppler weather radar
Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation (meteorology), precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.). Modern wea ...
system based near the Madill transmitter site for use in weather forecast segments within its newscasts and severe weather cut-ins; the radar system integrates the data from KXII's radar with
NEXRAD
NEXRAD or Nexrad (Next-Generation Radar) is a network of 160 high-resolution S-band Doppler weather radars operated by the National Weather Service (NWS), an agency of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) within the United ...
data from
National Weather Service
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radars located near Dallas, Texas, Oklahoma City and
Frederick, Oklahoma
Frederick is a city and county seat of Tillman County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 3,940 at the 2010 census. It is an agriculture-based community that primarily produces wheat, cotton, and cattle. Frederick is home to three dai ...
, and
Fort Smith, Arkansas
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. In September 2001, the station began carrying a local weekday morning newscast, when it premiered the initially 60-minute news program ''First News AM'', which evolved out of local news inserts that it aired during the early-morning ''CBS Morning News'' network newscast. Debuting as an hour-long broadcast from 6:00 to 7:00 a.m., the program—which debuted ten years after KTEN debuted its own morning show, ''Mornin' Cup'' (now ''KTEN News Today'')—expanded to 90 minutes (starting at 5:30 a.m.) in January 2006, with an extra five minutes being added to the program two years later following the retirement of longtime anchor Norman Bennett; the morning newscast was retitled ''News 12 AM'' in 2013, at which point it expanded into a two-hour broadcast at 5:00 a.m.
On September 18, 2006, KXII debuted a new set for its newscasts designed by
San Diego
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-based FX Group, which replaced a set that had previously been in use by the station since 1995 (the set, which also includes separate areas for sports specials and segments as well as an update desk for
breaking news
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alerts, was updated with new duratrans in November 2015, at which point the station also began using new cuts from its existing music package,
Gari Media Group
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Early life
Gari was a popular singer and songwriter from the late 1950s and early 1960s. His best known songs as a ...
's "The CBS Enforcer Music Collection"). Along with the new set, the station concurrently adopted a new graphics package, and also remodeled its Ardmore studio to incorporate a working newsroom set that allows viewers to see staff at the Ardmore bureau compile reports for the newscasts.
In September 2009, KXII began producing a five-minute-long news and weather segment at 9:00 p.m. for Fox-affiliated KXII-DT3; the weeknight-only program, originally titled ''First News at Nine''; it used the same evening anchor staff as that seen on KXII's main channel. The newscast used the same news set and theme music as KXII's main channel for its newscasts. On April 20, 2010, KXII became the first television station in the Ada-Sherman market (and the third station in Oklahoma, behind KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City and
KJRH-TV
KJRH-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside Okmulgee-licensed Ion Television outlet KTPX-TV (channel 44). KJRH-TV's studios are located o ...
in
Tulsa
Tulsa () is the second-largest city in the U.S. state, state of Oklahoma and List of United States cities by population, 47th-most populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. ...
) to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition; the KXII-DT3 newscast was included in the upgrade, which saw cameras and broadcast equipment at the Sherman and Ardmore studios being upgraded to allow the gathering, production and dissemination of high-definition video content.
News programming on KXII-DT3 expanded on August 26, 2011, when KXII debuted a half-hour, weeknight-only newscast at 5:30 p.m. and expanded the 9:00 p.m. newscast to a half-hour (the former, which was cancelled in September 2016, was intended to provide a local alternative to the national early evening news programs seen on the
Big Three networks
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; the latter, prime time newscast competes against network programming on ABC, NBC and CBS and was also developed as a competitor to a KTEN-produced prime time newscast on CW-affiliated KTEN-DT3 that premiered in September 2006). Originally branded as ''Fox Texoma News'', the Fox newscasts – which originate from a secondary set at KXII's Texoma Parkway facility in Sherman—were unified under the station's primary ''News 12'' branding in 2012. "News 12 at Nine" is now a full 30-minute weeknight newscast and regularly wins its timeslot for local news. Subsequently, on April 29, 2013, KXII began producing an hour-long weekday morning newscast at 7:00 a.m., titled ''News 12 Good Day'', which competed against ''
CBS This Morning
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'' on the station's main channel (''Good Day'' was canceled in September 2015 due to low viewership, with KXII-DT3 concurrently adding a simulcast of ''News 12 AM'').
Technical information
Subchannels for KXII/KXIP-LD and K28QF-D
The stations' digital signals are
multiplexed
In telecommunications and computer networking, multiplexing (sometimes contracted to muxing) is a method by which multiple analog or digital signals are combined into one signal over a shared medium. The aim is to share a scarce resource - a ...
:
Analog-to-digital conversion
KXII launched a digital signal on UHF channel 20 in May 2002. In 2006, with the installation of DiviCom
MPEG-2
MPEG-2 (a.k.a. H.222/H.262 as was defined by the ITU) is a standard for "the generic video coding format, coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". It describes a combination of Lossy compression, lossy video compression and ...
high definition and standard definition encoders,
statistical multiplexing equipment and software from broadcast equipment manufacturer Harmonic Inc. at its master control facility, KXII became the first television station in the world to transmit two HD channels and one SD channel over a 6 MHz digital bandwidth feed; the equipment allowed the station to transmit MyNetworkTV-affiliated KXII-DT2 in 480i SD and Fox-affiliated KXII-DT3 in 720p HD, as complementary feeds to its main HD signal.
KXII discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over
VHF channel 12, on February 6, 2009, two weeks prior to the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to
transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which a
Congressional resolution later delayed to June 12, in order to allow additional time for viewers reliant on over-the-air television service to obtain digital tuning equipment).
The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 20 to VHF channel 12 for post-transition operations (using the latter channel, which corresponds to its former analog allocation, as its
PSIP
The Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) is the MPEG (a video and audio industry group) and privately defined program-specific information originally defined by General Instrument for the DigiCipher 2 system and later extended for the AT ...
virtual channel
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on digital television receivers).
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