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First air date | May 12, 1984 |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 6 (VHF, 1984–2009) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 58560 |
| ERP | 3.7 kW |
| HAAT | 132 m (433 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 31°35′22″N 100°31′1″W / 31.58944°N 100.51694°W |
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| Website | www |
KIDY (channel 6) is a television station in San Angelo, Texas, United States, affiliated with Fox and MyNetworkTV. The station is owned by Tegna Inc. and has studios on South Chadbourne Street in San Angelo; its transmitter is located in rural northwestern Tom Green County (east of Grape Creek). KIDY's programming and regional newscasts are rebroadcast by KXVA (channel 15) in Abilene.
Channel 6 was assigned to San Angelo in 1962, and two parties sought to build it: the San Angelo Independent School District and SRC, Inc. SRC won the right to build the station but abandoned the project in 1971 because it was blocked from obtaining an ABC affiliation; KTXS-TV of Sweetwater had been approved to build a translator to rebroadcast its ABC and local programs in San Angelo.
A decade later, Sage Broadcasting won a new channel 6 construction permit. Like SRC a decade earlier, it was unable to obtain a promised ABC affiliation, but unlike SRC, Sage was committed to building the station without a major network. KIDY went on the air as an independent station on May 12, 1984. It offered some local programming, including a local newscast, during the 1980s. KIDY added Fox programming when the network was created in 1986 and expanded its signal to Abilene for the first time in 1991, a precursor to the 2001 launch of full-power KXVA.
Sage Broadcasting sold KIDY to Bayou City Broadcasting in 2008; in turn, London Broadcasting purchased the station in 2012. London moved KIDY–KXVA to its present facilities and started a local news operation, which currently produces 90 minutes of regional news coverage each weeknight. Gannett, predecessor to Tegna, purchased the stations in 2014.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KIDY". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.