Fox affiliate in West Monroe, Louisiana
This article is about the television station in West Monroe, Louisiana. For the television station in Wichita, Kansas, that formerly used the KARD call sign, see
KSNW
.
KARD
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City
| West Monroe, Louisiana
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Channels
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Branding
| KARD Fox 14;
Fox 14 News
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Affiliations
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Owner
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| KTVE
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First air date
| August 19, 1967
(56 years ago)
(
1967-08-19
)
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Former call signs
| - KUZN-TV (1967?1969)
- KYAY-TV (1969?1974)
- KLAA (1974?1982)
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Former channel number(s)
| - Analog:
39 (UHF, 1967?1974), 14 (UHF, 1974?2009)
- Digital:
36 (UHF, 2003?2018)
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| - Independent
(1967?1968, 1970?1971)
- Dark
(1968?1970, 1971?1974)
- ABC
,
NBC
,
CBS
(secondary, 1970?1971)
- NBC (1974?1981)
- ABC (1981?1994)
- Fox (secondary, 1986?1994)
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| Arkansas Delta
, also alludes to "
card
"
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Licensing authority
| FCC
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Facility ID
| 3658
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ERP
| 691
kW
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HAAT
| 523.5 m (1,718 ft)
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Transmitter coordinates
| 32°5′42.6″N
92°10′34.3″W
/
32.095167°N 92.176194°W
/
32.095167; -92.176194
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Public license information
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Website
| www
.myarklamiss
.com
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KARD
(channel 14) is a
television station
licensed to
West Monroe, Louisiana
, United States, serving the
Monroe, Louisiana
?
El Dorado, Arkansas
market
as an affiliate of the
Fox
network. It is owned by
Nexstar Media Group
, which acquired the station in 2003 as part of its purchase of Quorum Broadcasting. Nexstar provides certain services to El Dorado?licensed
NBC
affiliate
KTVE
(channel 10) through a
local marketing agreement
(LMA) with
Mission Broadcasting
. Both stations share studios on Pavilion Road in West Monroe, while KARD's transmitter is located in
Columbia, Louisiana
.
In addition to its own digital signal, KARD is
simulcast
in
high definition
on KTVE's second
digital subchannel
(10.2) from its transmitter northwest of
Huttig, Arkansas
.
History
[
edit
]
The station that became KARD first signed on on August 19, 1967, as KUZN-TV on channel 39 and was owned by Howard E. Griffith was a television counterpart of KUZN radio.
[2]
This was Griffith's second foray into television, as he was the co-owner of Monroe's first TV station,
KFAZ
, which signed on in 1953 but went
off the air
the next year. The station aired a local newscast, the
BBC
series
Panorama
,
and old
Western
movies
.
[3]
The station ceased operations on January 12, 1968, but was sold to Northeast Louisiana Broadcasting Corporation.
It resumed operations on August 31, 1970, as KYAY-TV.
[4]
[5]
During this incarnation, KYAY, again, aired news and off-network Westerns and movies, as well as
ABC
,
NBC
and
CBS
programming not carried on
KNOE
and KTVE, such as
That Girl
,
The Mod Squad
,
Hawaii Five-O
,
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
,
The Lawrence Welk Show
,
Engelbert Humperdinck
,
The NBC Tuesday Night Movie
, and
The Merv Griffin Show
.
[6]
KYAY proved to be no more successful than KUZN had been, and it also went dark, on August 16, 1971.
In 1974, the station returned with a new callsign, KLAA, a reallocation to channel 14, and became an NBC affiliate. Since 1972, when KTVE changed its affiliation to ABC, it and KNOE-TV carried selected NBC programs during the hours when their primary networks (CBS in KNOE's case) were not broadcasting (with some exceptions), but never the full NBC lineup. KLAA debuted on October 6, 1974, giving southern Arkansas and northeastern Louisiana full service from all "
Big Three
" networks for the first time ever.
[7]
Today, channel 39 is occupied by
KMCT-TV
, a
religious station
, and that station now occupies KUZN/KYAY/KLAA/KARD's former studios.
On December 6, 1981, KLAA became an ABC affiliate, while KTVE retook the NBC affiliation that it held in the 1950s and 1960s.
[8]
Exactly a year later, the station changed its calls to KARD, with the station manager citing the call sign change a reflection on the station's progress at the time. (Years later,
the former KARD-TV in Wichita
became a sister station to the current KARD upon the Nexstar/
Media General
merger in 2016.)
[9]
In 1984, KARD's era of local ownership came to end when it was purchased by Woods Communications, owned by
Charles Woods
of Alabama. In 1986, Woods relocated the station's transmitter from its West Monroe studios to
Caldwell Parish, Louisiana
and increased the station's power to 5 million
watts
, making it Louisiana's first tall tower UHF station. This change enabled KARD to have at least Grade B coverage in a region encompassing all of Northeast Louisiana including portions of the
Alexandria
and
Shreveport
markets.
[10]
KARD began airing Fox programming when that network started up late at night in 1986 and in the same year was the first station in the Monroe area (and one of the first in Louisiana) to broadcast in stereo. In addition to KARD's secondary Fox affiliation, starting in 1991,
Foxnet
was available for cable subscribers in Monroe. In its last months as an ABC affiliate, KARD also preempted
NYPD Blue
due to concerns about that program's content. In 1993, Woods filed for bankruptcy, and Banam Broadcasting, a subsidiary of
BankAmerica
, assumed control of KARD. The next year, Banam dropped ABC to take Fox full-time, due to
Fox
picking up
NFL
football that season, and it was the first station in the nation to switch from a Big Three network to Fox during the
U.S. television network affiliate switches of 1994
, doing so April 17 that year, citing competition from the then-glut of stronger-rated ABC stations from outlying markets.
[11]
Those surrounding ABC affiliates (mainly Alexandria's
KLAX-TV
and Shreveport's
KTBS-TV
) continued to be the main conduit for ABC in the market via antenna or cable carriage (KLAX even capitalized on its expanded footprint into the Monroe market during this time by branding itself on-air as "Louisiana's Superstation") until December 1998, when
KAQY
signed on. Banam sold KARD along with three of its stations (
WTVW
in
Evansville, Indiana
,
KDEB
in
Springfield, Missouri
, and
KLBK-TV
in
Lubbock, Texas
) to Petracom Broadcasting in 1995. In 1998, Petracom sold KARD to Quorum Broadcasting, which was absorbed by Nexstar in 2003.
In 2002, Piedmont Television, then-owner of KTVE, took over KARD's operations under a
local marketing agreement
(LMA). Despite KTVE being the senior partner, the two stations' operations were consolidated in KARD's newer facility in West Monroe. In addition to a common sales and promotions staff, the KTVE news department produces KARD's newscast. Piedmont's control of the duopoly officially came to an end on January 16, 2008, when KTVE was sold to
Mission Broadcasting
. This resulted in Nexstar, already the owner of KARD, taking over control of KTVE under a local sales agreement (LSA); the Internet presence of both stations were also merged into one website.
Newscasts
[
edit
]
KARD airs four hours of weekday newscasts?a two-hour morning newscast at 7 a.m., two half-hour weeknight newscasts at 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., and an hour-long newscast at 9 p.m. Its current generation of newscasts began in November 2001, shortly before it entered an SSA with KTVE.
Technical information
[
edit
]
Subchannels
[
edit
]
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed
:
In March 2009, KARD and KTVE informed the
Federal Communications Commission
that they needed to end analog operations sooner than June 12, 2009 (the earliest they could do so is April 16). KARD stated that a transmitter tube failed, bringing power down to 50%; KTVE claimed that its power was at 40%. Used parts were deemed unreliable, and staffers had to travel 50 miles (80 km) to the transmitter from the studio; two to three visits per week were required to monitor the analog facilities, according to Nexstar.
[13]
The FCC denied the request based on the fact that they are the last two analog channels in the market.
[14]
Analog-to-digital conversion
[
edit
]
KARD shut down its analog signal, over
UHF
channel 14, on April 16, 2009. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 36,
[15]
using
virtual channel
14.
References
[
edit
]
- ^
"Facility Technical Data for KARD"
.
Licensing and Management System
.
Federal Communications Commission
.
- ^
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB-IDX/60s-OCR-YB/1967-YB/1967-BC-YB-for-OCR-Page-0053.pdf#search=
"kuzn monroe"
- ^
Monroe News-Star, August 30, 1967
- ^
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-YB-IDX/70s-OCR-YB/1971-YB/1971-BC-YB-for-OCR-Page-0095.pdf#search=
"kyay"
[
dead link
]
- ^
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/69-OCR/BC-1969-02-10-Page-0078.pdf#search=
"kyay monroe"
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UHF Channel 39 Now on Airwaves, Ouachita Citizen, September 4, 1970
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http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC-IDX/74-OCR/BC-1974-08-05-Page-0053.pdf#search=
"klaa kyay"
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Network Switch Effective, Monroe News-Star-World, December 6, 1981
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KLAA to Change Call Letters Monday, Monroe News-Star, December 6, 1982
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KARD-14 Has new Transmission Tower in Caldwell, Caldwell Watchmen, Columbia, LA, December 3, 1986, Page 7
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Crazy like a fox ? As upstart turns 10, it's in the big leagues, The Cincinnati Post, April 2, 1997
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"RabbitEars TV Query for KARD"
.
Archived
from the original on February 21, 2014
. Retrieved
February 4,
2014
.
- ^
"Four Stations Waiting for FCC Approval on Earlier Analog Cut-Off Dates - 2009-03-24 19:19:19 | Broadcasting & Cable"
.
Archived
from the original on September 26, 2012
. Retrieved
March 24,
2009
.
- ^
"FCC Denies Nexstar DTV Hardship Waivers - 2009-04-10 20:02:44 | Broadcasting & Cable"
.
Archived
from the original on September 27, 2012
. Retrieved
April 11,
2009
.
- ^
"DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds"
(PDF)
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on August 29, 2013
. Retrieved
March 24,
2012
.
External links
[
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Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with
cable television
|
Local stations
|
- KCIB-LD
(5.1
FAM
)
- KNOE-TV
(8.1
CBS
, 8.2
ABC
,
8.3
CW+
/
MNTV
, 8.4
The365
, 8.5
Crime
, 8.6
Quest
)
- KTVE
(10.1
NBC
,
10.2
Fox
, 10.3
Laff
, 10.4
Mystery
)
- KMLU
(11.1
MeTV
, 11.2
H&I
, 11.3
Movies!
, 11.4
Start
, 11.5
Shop LC
, 11.6
Get
)
- KETZ
(12.1
PBS
/
AR PBS
, 12.2
Create
, 12.3
PBS Kids
, 12.4
World
)
- KLTM-TV
(13.1
PBS
/
LPB
, 13.2
PBS Kids
, 13.3
Create
)
- KARD
(14.1
Fox
, 14.2
Bounce
, 14.3
Grit
, 14.4
ANT
)
- KMCT-TV
(39.1
Rel.
Ind.
, 39.2
Ion
, 39.3
Court
, 39.4
Defy
, 39.5
Test Pattern
, 39.6
Scripps News
, 39.7
HSN
, 39.8 Walk, 39.9
SonLife
, 39.10
QVC
, 39.11
Grio
)
- KCWL-LD
(40.1
CW+
/
MNTV
)
- "K29NC-D"
.
(45.1 URBT TV, see also
this section
)
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channel
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or silent
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CBS
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The CW
(
O&O
)
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Fox
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MyNetworkTV
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NBC
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Other stations
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TV channels
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TV programs
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Other assets
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Acquisitions
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- 1
Nexstar operates these stations under an
SSA
.
- 2
These stations broadcast these networks on their digital subchannels.
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