is the owned-and-operated
FOX station in
Phoenix, Arizona . It is co-owned with sister
KUTP . The station broadcasts on Channel 10 in Phoenix and on numerous translators throughout Northern Arizona. Its transmitter is located on
South Mountain in Phoenix.
Channel 10 was founded in 1953 as a shared-time signal between and '''KOOL-TV'''; the two later merged to become simply KOOL-TV.
Gene Autry was one of the station's owners. The station was originally an
ABC affiliate until 1955, when
KTVK signed on and took the ABC affiliation. KOOL then took the
CBS affiliation away from
KPHO-TV . As a result, the station was now able to feature Autry's show on its schedule.
The station was sold to Gulf Broadcasting in 1982, and changed its callsign to . It had been said that the call sign stands for
'''T'''empe /
'''S'''cottsdale /'''P'''hoenix, but some have also claimed that the call sign was simply changed to match
WTSP in
Tampa /
St. Petersburg, Florida , which the company also owned. KTSP's logo at the time was similar to WTSP's "Sunset 10" logo.
KTSP was sold to '',
August 30 ,
1989 . Retrieved
March 09 ,
2007 .
Taft sold most of its network affiliates to
Great American Broadcasting . The station was then sold to
New World Communications late in 1993.
The station changed its call sign to on
February 12 ,
1994 to match its new slogan, "The Spirit of Arizona". It remained as
CBS network's Phoenix affiliate; however, as a result of a deal reached between New World and
Fox , four commercial stations in the Phoenix market swapped network affiliations at different times. KSAZ dropped the CBS affiliation in December of 1994 which went to KPHO 5.
Fox network's prime time and sports programming moved to the station from
KNXV in December 1994, although the Fox Kids programming moved to
KTVK and in 1995 to
KASW . KSAZ became known as "10 NEWS" in the Fall of 1994 and in December "Fox 10 News." With several top-rated syndicated shows moving to other stations in 1995, KSAZ was up to about 50 hours a week of local news. The remaining syndicated programming on the station was rather low-rated, and as a result KSAZ did not have good ratings in its early days as a Fox affiliate. Much of the news audience went to KTVK, the former ABC affiliate which also took on a news-intensive format. In the fall of 1995, KSAZ added 3 hours of talk shows jointly produced by New World and Fox.
- A---S---H_(TV_series)" class="copylinks">M---A---S---H '', '' Seinfeld '', and '' King Of The Hill ''. The station also added higher-rated court shows and reality shows. Fox Kids though stayed with KASW.
KSAZ and
KUTP became sister stations in 2001, making both the only network O&Os in the Phoenix market. KUTP was previously an O&O of UPN with United Television's 50% stake in the network until Fox bought the station. Although Fox owns both KSAZ and KUTP (now a
MyNetworkTV station), neither run the Saturday morning cartoon block now known as
4Kids TV . This still runs on KASW. It was possible after KUTP became My Network TV that 4Kids TV could have moved there but nothing was decided.
On and
WNYW .
On July 27, 2007, "SkyFox10" reporter-pilot Don Hooper witnessed on his aircraft's
FAA radio reporting the collision. Hooper then talks on a discreet frequency to another news helicopter belonging to
KPNX saying he is OK, but two other helicopters just crashed. Hooper then says "I think it was Scott" referring to KTVK pilot Scott Bowerbank.
The station's digital channel:
- FOX10 News Arizona Morning and Noon Anchor
- FOX10 News Arizona Morning and Noon Anchor
- FOX10 News Arizona Live at Six and Ten Anchor
- FOX 10 News at Five and Nine Anchor
- FOX10 News Arizona Morning Anchor
- FOX 10 News at Five and Nine Anchor
- FOX 10 News at Five, Nine and Ten (weekends) Anchor
- FOX 10 News at Ten Anchor
- FOX 10 News ar Five, Nine and Ten (weekends) Anchor
- General Assignment Reporter
- "SkyFox" Pilot Reporter
- General Assignment Reporter; Substitute Anchor; General Assigment; co-host of MyDatingPlace on sister station MY45 ( KUTP )
- General Assignment Reporter
- General Assignment Reporter
- "SkyFox" Pilot Reporter
- General Assignment Reporter
- General Assignment Reporter
- "Traffic Authority"; Substitute Meteorologist; Substitute Anchor; General Assignment Reporter
- General Assignment Reporter
- General Assignment Reporter
- General Assignment Reporter
- Investigative Reporter; General Assignment Reporter; Substitute Anchor
- Investigative Reporter; General Assignment Reporter; Substitute Anchor
- Chief Meteorologist
- FOX10 News Arizona Morning and Noon Meteorologist; Host of MyDatingPlace on sister station, MY45 ( KUTP )
- Weekend Meteorologist
- "Traffic Authority" and Substitute Meteorologist
- '''
- Sports Director
- Weekday/Weekend Sports Anchor
- Weekend Sports Anchor
- ''FOX10 News'' (1997-present)
- ''We're the Team'' (Early 1980's to Early 1990's)
- ''The Spirit of Arizona'' (Early 1990s)
- ''Just You Watch!'' (Late 1990s)
- ''Just You Watch The Best'' (2000 to present; still used for programming and news promo after the first 10 minutes of the newscast.)
- ''The Most Powerful Name in Local News'' (2006, promotional for new look)
- ''Let The News Begin'' (2006, promotional for new look)
- [http://www.myfoxphoenix.com "MyFoxPhoenix" Fox 10 Website]
