branding 23 abc general 23 abc news newscasts slogan we cover kern county channels digital 10 vhf virtual 23 psip subchannels 23.1 abc 23.2 azteca america 23.3 metv 1 owner e. w. scripps company scripps broadcasting holdings llc first air date september 26 1953 ; 63 years ago 1953 09 26 call letters meaning kern county s tv outlet former channel number s analog 10 vhf 1953 1963 23 uhf 1963 2009 former affiliations nbc 1953 1984 cbs 1984 1996 transmitter power 10.8 kw height 1081 m facility id 40878 transmitter coordinates 35 27 13.6 n 118 35 41.1 w 35.453778 n 118.594750 w 35.453778 ; 118.594750 licensing authority fcc public license information profile cdbs website www.turnto23.com kero tv channel 23 is a television station located in bakersfield california us . kero tv is owned by the broadcasting division of the e. w. scripps company and is an affiliate of the abc television network . the studios are located on 21st street in downtown bakersfield and its transmitter is based on breckenridge mountain . contents 1 history 2 programming 3 digital television 3.1 digital channels 3.2 analog to digital conversion 4 news operations 4.1 notable former staff 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit kero tv went on the air on september 26 1953 on channel 10 as an nbc affiliate . during the late 1950s the station was also briefly affiliated with the nta film network . 2 kero tv was first owned by a local interest kern county broadcasters along with kero radio 1230 am now kgeo . the tv station along with kero radio originally broadcast from the lobby of the el tejon hotel which was located at the corner of truxtun avenue and chester avenue . kero tv later moved to its current studios at 321 21st street . the radio and tv stations were broken up in late 1955 when kero radio was sold . 3 4 wrather alvarez broadcasting parent of kfmb am tv in san diego purchased kero tv in early 1957 ; 5 when the wrather alvarez partnership broke up a year later jack wrather kept kero tv and the san diego stations as part of his newly renamed marietta broadcasting . 6 in 1959 wrather merged marietta broadcasting into buffalo new york based transcontinent television corporation . 7 8 one of kero tv s best remembered shows was cousin herb s trading post a local variety series in the 1950s . the show s host herb henson was a country musician and often featured local artists such as buck owens and tommy collins who would come to popularize the bakersfield sound . another local favorite was the uncle woody show in the 1960s and 1970s . radio and tv personality casey kasem also used the kero studios to tape a weekly musical tv variety show entitled shebang in the mid to late 1960s while a disc jockey at krla in los angeles . as a result of the federal communications commission fcc making both the bakersfield and fresno television markets all uhf through what was termed as deintermixture kero tv moved to channel 23 on july 1 1963 and simulcasted on channels 10 and 23 for two months channel 10 being shut off at the end of august of the same year . 9 transcontinent sold most of its stations to taft broadcasting in 1964 but kero was not included ; it was sold to time life . 10 another publishing firm mcgraw hill acquired kero tv in 1972 along with the rest of time life s broadcasting division kogo tv now kgtv in san diego klz tv now kmgh tv in denver its sole cbs affiliate at the time being and wfbm tv now wrtv in indianapolis . 11 kero remained as an nbc affiliate until march 1984 when it switched to cbs . on march 1 1996 as part of a corporate affiliation deal between mcgraw hill and abc kero picked up the abc affiliation from cross town rival kbak tv and in the process became the second television station in the bakersfield market after kget and one of a handful of television stations in the united states to have been an affiliate of all of the traditional big three television networks nbc cbs and abc . in august 2006 kero tv officially became a duopoly with kzkc lp an azteca america affiliate . at this time kero tv does not plan on airing any local spanish language news on this channel . in may 2007 kero along with its sister stations began to use the same news music of the abc o & o s eyewitness news new generation package and branded themselves as abc 23 however kero is not owned or operated by abc . kero is the bakersfield home for oakland raiders and san francisco 49ers pre season games . on october 3 2011 mcgraw hill announced it was selling its entire television station group to the e. w. scripps company for 212 million . 12 the deal was completed on december 30 2011 . 13 with kero now under scripps ownership the station began using stephen arnold s inergy news music package and a new graphics package with the beginning of the 2012 13 television season . kero launched the first weekend morning news in kern county on september 14 2013 . the show airs from 6 7 and from 8 9 a.m. programming edit on september 8 2014 the station dropped the sony game shows jeopardy and wheel of fortune due to scripps s chain wide effort to replace the shows in their markets with lower cost local and chain produced programming . the programs moved to kbak and were replaced with two scripps produced programs newsmagazine the list and game show let s ask america . digital television edit digital channels edit the station s digital signal is multiplexed channel video aspect psip short name programming 14 23.1 720p 16 9 kero dt main kero tv programming abc 23.2 kzkc sd azteca america 23.3 480i metv metv analog to digital conversion edit kero tv discontinued regular programming on its analog signal over uhf channel 23 on june 12 2009 the official date in which full power television stations in the united states transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate . the station s digital signal remained on its pre transition vhf channel 10 . 15 through the use of psip digital television receivers display the station s virtual channel as its former uhf analog channel 23 . news operations edit kero news anchors jackie parks and todd karli a husband and wife team currently anchor kero 23 news at 5 & 6 p.m. former news anchor burleigh smith died 1990 is considered by many to be the father of television news in bakersfield . smith produced and anchored at kero from 1954 1960 and again from 1973 1990 . other longtime kero news personalilties include don rodewald who hosted the afternoon movie george day and sunny scofield . msnbc live & direct host rita cosby was a kero reporter in the 1980s . lloyd lindsay young joined the station in 2005 as chief weathercaster . his trademark intro is hellooooo insert city name . he is also known for his outrageous weather pointers which are sent in by viewers . submissions are usually outrageous & have ranged from a mannequin leg to a dildo . on september 17 2008 the bakersfield californian reported that young has departed kero tv after more than three years there . no reason was given for his departure which followed the broadcasts of september 16 2008 . rusty shoop who is known throughout bakersfield and was a former kero weather anchor replaced young . shoop earlier suffered a brain aneurysm and this was his first tv appearance since the illness . shoop started on october 27 2008 . after being at kero tv for a year rusty shoop retired from broadcasting on december 9 2009 for medical reasons from his brain aneurysm he suffered back in january 2007 . 16 on january 18 2010 jack church who was chief meteorologist from 1999 2001 replaced rusty shoop and was the chief meteorologist from january 18 2010 until may 5 2011 . notable former staff edit andrew amador morning anchor reporter 2005 2007 barry zoeller evening anchor news director until 2000 frank gifford lloyd lindsay young chief meteorologist 2005 2008 lynn noel public affairs director pablo pereira meteorologist now with kttv in los angeles randy price currently at wcvb tv in boston rita cosby rusty shoop chief meteorologist 1984 ; 2008 2009 see also edit kzkc lp references edit http metvnetwork.com wheretowatch affiliate 800 require prime evening time for nta films boxoffice 13 november 10 1956 speidel fischer bcstg . buys 75 % interest in wqok . broadcasting telecasting december 12 1955 pg . 9 . 1 asprin please . broadcasting telecasting april 2 1956 pg . 74 . 2 kero tv going for 2.15 million . broadcasting telecasting january 7 1957 pg . 7 . 3 wrather buys out alvarez . broadcasting telecasting may 12 1958 pg . 9 . 4 new station combine formed . broadcasting telecasting february 16 1959 pg . 9 . 5 transcontinent tie with marietta gets ok . broadcasting telecasting may 18 1959 pp. 74 76 . 6 http www.americanradiohistory.com archive bc idx 59 ocr 1959 05 18 bc 0076.pdf vhf to uhf change approved for kero tv . broadcasting november 19 1962 pg . 78 . 7 transcontinent sale last of its kind broadcasting february 24 1964 pp. 27 28 . 8 9 mcgraw hill buys into tv in a big way . broadcasting november 2 1970 pg . 9 . 10 mcgraw hill sells tv group to scripps tvnewscheck october 3 2011 . scripps completes mcgraw hill stations buy . tvnewscheck . december 30 2011 . retrieved december 31 2011 . rabbitears tv query for kero dtv tentative channel designations for the first and the second rounds pdf . retrieved 2012 03 24 . http www.turnto23.com newsteam 21914337 detail.html external links edit turnto23.com query the fcc s tv station database for kero biafn s media web database information on kero tv program information for kero at titantv.com v t e television stations in the greater bakersfield area reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television english stations k08mm d k24gs 3abn kjou lp 12 silent kxbf ld 14 biz tv kget 17.1 nbc 17.2 cw 17.3 tmd 17.4 laff k18hd d kvpt lp 34 18.1 pbs k21fp 21 silent kdbk ld 27 kebk ld 27 religious kero 23.1 abc 23.2 azteca 23.3 metv kbak 29.1 cbs 29.3 grit tv 58.2 fox kcbt ld 34.2 bounce tv 34.3 daystar 34.4 hsn kbfk lp 36.2 movies knxt lp 38 ind kpmc lp 43 jtv kuvi 45.1 mntv kbfx cd 58.1 fox 29.2 this tv spanish stations kkey lp 13.1 17.3 tmd kbbv cd 19 19.1 estrella kbtf cd 31 ktfb ca 4 31.1 unim s hd 31.2 45.3 unim s sd kcbt ld 34.1 mundomax 34.5 tvida vision kabe cd 39 39.1 uni hd 39.2 45.2 uni sd kzkc lp 42 42.2 aza adjacent locals los angeles ca ktla 5.1 the cw 5.2 antenna tv 5.3 this tv kabc 7.1 abc 7.2 lwn 7.3 laff kcal 9.1 ind kcop 13.1 mntv 13.2 buzzr 13.3 movies 13.4 heroes and icons kcet 28.1 public ind 28.2 link tv 28.3 v me 28.4 nhk world koce tv 50.1 pbs 50.2 pbs 50.3 daystar 50.4 world santa barbara ksby 6.1 nbc 6.2 the cw 6.3 laff kcoy 12.1 cbs 12.2 fox kkfx cd 24.1 fox 24.2 wx defunct kjbc 33 35 55 christian religious home shopping kern krnt 65 ind. educational public access california television bakersfield chico redding eureka fresno las vegas nv los angeles medford or monterey inland empire palm springs reno nv sacramento san