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| Branding | ABC 15 Arizona; ABC 15 News |
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| History | |
First air date | September 9, 1979 |
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Call sign meaning | Intended original "Newswatch" format; XV is the Roman numeral for 15 |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 59440 |
| ERP | 458 kW |
| HAAT | 521 m (1,709 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 33°20′0″N 112°3′49″W / 33.33333°N 112.06361°W |
| Translator(s) | see § Translators |
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| Website | www |
KNXV-TV (channel 15) is a television station in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, affiliated with ABC. It was established in 1979 as the Phoenix area's second independent station with part-time subscription television programming from ON TV. It was originally owned by the New Television Corporation, which had attempted to set up the station for nearly five years prior to its launch. In 1985, Scripps-Howard Broadcasting, the broadcast division of the E. W. Scripps Company, acquired KNXV-TV. Channel 15 affiliated with Fox in 1986 and became the leading independent in the market, one of Fox's strongest affiliates. In 1994, Fox announced a multi-city affiliation agreement with New World Communications which included Phoenix's then-CBS affiliate, KSAZ-TV, and mostly CBS affiliates in several other major markets. CBS expressed interest in affiliating with Scripps's ABC affiliates in other cities and Scripps used this as leverage to force ABC to move its Phoenix affiliation from market leader KTVK to KNXV-TV beginning in January 1995.
The station was in the process of organizing a local newsroom when the switch was announced and aired its first newscast on August 1, 1994; News 15 received critical acclaim in its early years but sank in ratings and quality in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The news department recovered, expanding the number of local newscasts it produced, and has since received three George Foster Peabody Awards. In 2019, Scripps acquired a second Phoenix station, KASW (channel 61), which was the CW affiliate for Phoenix. The CW affiliation briefly moved to a subchannel of KNXV-TV to allow channel 61 to air Arizona Coyotes hockey games. The two stations share studios on 44th Street on Phoenix's east side; KNXV-TV's transmitter is located atop South Mountain. Its signal is relayed across northern Arizona through a network of low-power translators.
- ^ "KNXV-DT". Television & Cable Factbook. 2006. p. A-120.
Began Operation: January 12, 2000. Standard and High Definition.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KNXV-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.