('''''"NBC5"''''') is a television station based in
Fort Worth, Texas . With its transmitter located in
Cedar Hill , the station's analog broadcasts are on channel 5 while its
HDTV broadcasts are on channel 41. The station is one of two joint ventures of
NBC Universal (76%) and
LIN Television (24%) - its only other sister station under this co-ownership is
KNSD in San Diego.
The station was launched on
September 28 ,
1948 , by
Amon G. Carter , owner of the ''
Fort Worth Star-Telegram ''. He named the station WBAP-TV after
WBAP-AM . It was the first television station in Texas.
Even though it was clear
Dallas and Fort Worth would be a single television market, Carter didn't care whether people in Dallas saw WBAP. The station only moved its transmitter to Cedar Hill after NBC allegedly threatened to yank its affiliation.
The station was owned by the ''Star-Telegram'' from
1948 to
1974 , and later sold to
LIN Television who changed the calls to KXAS. LIN wholly-owned the station until
1997 , when it sold 76% of KXAS to NBC, in exchange for 24% of
KNSD in
San Diego (which NBC had recently purchased from
New World Communications , who had also owned channel 5's rival
KDFW until it and the other Fox affiliates owned by New World were sold to Fox).
KXAS is locally known for its weather coverage. It claims to be the first station to have hired only full-time
Meteorologists . One of its first,
Harold Taft , broadcast for over 40 years.
- ''NBC5 Today'' -
- ''NBC5 DFW Today'' -
- ''NBC5 First at Four'' -
- ''NBC5 News at 5'' -
- ''NBC5 News at 6'' -
- ''NBC5 News at 10'' -
- ''NBC5 Saturday Today'' -
- ''NBC5 News at 6'' -
- ''NBC5 News at 10'' -
- ''NBC5 Sunday Today'' -
- ''NBC5 Weekend Report at 5'' -
- ''NBC5 News Sunday'' -
- ''NBC5 Sports Extra'' -
On November 24, 1963, a WBAP-TV remote unit set up at
Dallas Police Headquarters fed the live images of accused Presidential assassin
Lee Harvey Oswald being gunned down by
Jack Ruby to the
NBC network. It was the first time a murder had been witnessed live on network television in the United States. It was also notable that, during NBC's network coverage of the assassination, news reports from WBAP-TV's studios were transmitted in color, with NBC broadcasting the coverage in New York from a black and white studio.
Since 1974, KXAS has used its long used Star 5 Logo, and was a part of it's 1975 campaign Super Season.
''The Texas News'' (1970s)
''Area Five Texas News'' (1970s)
''Channel 5 News'' (1980s)
''Texas News 5'' (1990s)
''NBC5 News'' (1999-present)
''Channel Five News, The Team to Watch the News'' (1980s)
''Building a Better Texas'' (1990s)
