verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . march 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message kold tv tucson arizona united states branding kold news 13 slogan live local latebreaking channels digital 32 uhf virtual 13 psip subchannels 13.1 cbs 13.2 metv 13.3 grit tv translators 13 vhf tucson affiliations cbs secondary through 1956 owner raycom media kold license subsidiary llc first air date january 13 1953 ; 63 years ago 1953 01 13 call letters meaning disambiguation from then sister station kool tv in phoenix sister station s kmsb kttu former callsigns kopo tv 1953 1957 former channel number s analog 13 vhf 1953 2009 former affiliations secondary dumont 1953 1956 dt3 the tube music network transmitter power 108 kw height 1123 m facility id 48663 transmitter coordinates 32 24 55.8 n 110 42 51.9 w 32.415500 n 110.714417 w 32.415500 ; 110.714417 licensing authority fcc public license information profile cdbs website www.tucsonnewsnow.com kold tv virtual channel 13 uhf digital channel 32 is a cbs affiliated television station located in tucson arizona united states . owned by raycom media it is a sister to fox affiliate kmsb channel 11 ; owned by tegna inc. and mynetworktv affiliate kttu channel 18 ; owned by tucker operating co. llc through its shared services agreement . kold maintains transmitter facilities located atop mount bigelow . all three stations share studios located on north business park drive on the northwest side of tucson near the casas adobes neighborhood which are shared with the raycom design group 1 an in house firm that designs graphics packages for raycom media s television stations . kold also operates a fill in translator station on vhf channel 13 which maintains transmitter facilities located atop the tucson mountains west of tucson . contents 1 history 2 digital television 2.1 digital channels 2.2 analog to digital transition 3 programming 4 news operation 5 references 6 external links history edit on november 13 1952 the federal communications commission fcc granted a construction permit to country singer gene autry for vhf channel 13 in tucson . two months later on january 13 1953 autry signed the station on the air as kopo tv the second television station in arizona and first in tucson . known as lucky 13 kopo played up the 13 angle coming on the air at 1 13 13 pm the 13th second of the 13th minute of the 13th hour of the 13th day of the year . 2 it was a sister station to kopo radio am 1450 now ktzr ; and 98.3 fm now koht . the station originally operated from studio facilities located on west drachman street close to downtown tucson . channel 13 took the cbs affiliation due to its radio sisters long affiliation with cbs radio . it also had a secondary dumont affiliation . 3 in 1957 the station changed its call letters to kold tv playing off its sister station kool tv now ksaz tv in phoenix . kool and kold remained sister stations until autry sold off kold to universal communications the broadcasting arm of the detroit based evening news association in 1969 . universal communications was acquired by the gannett company as part of gannett s purchase of the evening news association in 1986 . gannett had owned the tucson citizen since 1977 and fcc regulations of the time forced gannett to sell kold along with ktvy now kfor tv in oklahoma city and wala tv in mobile alabama to knight ridder broadcasting after just one day of ownership . the news press & gazette company acquired kold in 1989 when knight ridder bowed out of broadcasting . kold tv used this logo from 2004 to 2010 . in 1993 atlanta based new vision television bought npg s entire television station group of the time which included cbs affiliates kold wjtv in jackson mississippi and its semi satellite whlt in hattiesburg mississippi nbc affiliates wsav tv in savannah georgia and wect in wilmington north carolina and abc affiliate ksfy tv in sioux falls south dakota . in 1995 new vision sold all of its stations to another atlanta based company ellis communications new vision later rebuilt with smaller market stations and later resold the group to lin tv . ellis in turn was sold the next year to a media group funded by the retirement systems of alabama who purchased two additional broadcasting groups aflac s broadcasting unit and federal broadcasting several months later . that same year kold relocated its longtime studios on west drachman street to their current location on north business park drive on the northwest side of tucson . the three groups merged in 1997 to form raycom media . during 2011 the raycom station web sites are being redesigned to a uniform format previously the raycom station sites were a hodgepodge of different formats that were inherited from their previous owners . raycom is worldnow s largest client in number of station web sites but was dwarfed in total market coverage in spring 2012 by fox television stations which relaunched its web sites during that time . on november 15 2011 dallas based broadcasting company belo corporation owners of local fox affiliate kmsb and mynetworktv affiliate kttu announced that it will enter into a shared services agreement with raycom media beginning in february 2012 resulting in kold taking over the two stations operations and moving their advertising sales department to the kold studios . all remaining positions at kmsb and kttu including news engineering and production will be eliminated and master control operations will move from belo s phoenix independent station ktvk to kold . kold will also take over operations of kmsb s website . though fcc rules disallow common ownership of more than two stations in the same market combined ssa duopoly operations are permissible with such operations existing in youngstown topeka duluth nashville and honolulu . 4 digital television edit digital channels edit the station s digital channel is multiplexed channel video aspect psip short name programming 5 13.1 1080i 16 9 kold dt main kold tv programming cbs 13.2 480i 4 3 me tv metv 6 13.3 16 9 grit grit analog to digital transition edit kold tv discontinued regular programming on its analog signal over vhf channel 13 on june 12 2009 as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television . 7 the station s digital signal remained on its pre transition uhf channel 32 using psip to display kold tv s virtual channel as 13 on digital television receivers . oddly a 13.3 subchannel also exists which formerly carried until about april 2011 a message apologizing for the discontinuation of the tube music network which ended operations in late october 2007 . on august 15 2011 kold tv added metv to subchannel 13.2 and moved its news 13 now programming to the previous vacant 13.3 . 8 in january 2012 kold tv dropped the 13.3 subchannel discontinuing the news 13 now service . 9 while kold s analog station originates from the electronics site in the tucson mountains west of downtown kold s digital transmitter is at the mount bigelow electronics site to the northeast of the city . kold tv has a construction permit for a fill in digital translator on its pre analog channel 13 which will benefit viewers who live in certain rugged terrain areas that are having difficulty receiving the signal on channel 32 . 10 programming edit as a cbs affiliate it now clears the entire cbs lineup . the station also airs syndicated programming such as fix it & finish it flip my food with chef jeff crime watch daily rightthisminute and entertainment tonight . it was formerly tucson s home of the jerry springer show and in 1998 was one of numerous stations that refused to carry the episode i married a horse which led to it being pulled before airing . 11 the station has had an arguably more confusing schedule than most cbs affiliates ; as an example it ran the price is right on a one day delay when it initially broadcast the current version of the show 12 and at one point it ran many of cbs daytime programs out of pattern . 13 in 1971 kold picked up the tucson rights for the syndicated version of the lawrence welk show which ran on kgun tv from its launch in 1956 until the latter s affiliate abc cancelled it late in the 1970 71 tv season . kold often pre empted the 7 00 ct or even the 7 30 ct portion of the cbs saturday night line up in order to air the welk show ; 14 cbs pressured the station to air it at 6 00 pm in the later years of the welk show s syndicated run . 15 following welk s retirement and the subsequent cancellation of his show in 1982 ten years before his death at age 89 kold scrambled to find a replacement for his old program finally settling on a then new hour long weekend edition of the increasingly popular syndicated entertainment newsmagazine entertainment tonight . pbs reruns of the show currently air locally on kuat . news operation edit this section needs expansion with further information on the history of kold s news operation . you can help by adding to it . november 2011 currently kold tv broadcasts a total of 29 hours of local newscasts each week with 5 hours on weekdays and one hour each on saturdays and sundays . on august 30 2010 kold became the second station in tucson to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition . on november 15 2011 kmsb owner belo corporation announced that due to a lack of advertising revenue that in february 2012 it will enter into a news share agreement with kold and shut down kmsb s in house news department . kold will take over production of kmsb s nightly 9 p.m. newscast as well as debut a two hour 7 9 a.m. newscast on weekday mornings on that station . 16 17 references edit graphic consolidation broadcasting & cable august 19 2007 . kopo tv airs first telecast with no. 13 in starring role tucson daily citizen p. 20 1953 01 14 cable will mean more shows tucson daily citizen p. 24 1953 09 26 belo turning over kmsb kttu to kold tvnewscheck november 15 2011 . rabbitears tv query for kold where to watch me tv http hraunfoss.fcc.gov edocs public attachmatch doc 288530a2.pdf where to watch me tv kold ua theatre presents ... kold news now gone retrieved january 20 2012 http licensing.fcc.gov prod cdbs pubacc auth files 1296902.pdf springer s latest i married a horse . cincinnati post . may 21 1998 . archived from the original on december 18 2007 . http www.radiodiscussions.com showthread.php 602759 retro tucson and nogales arizona tuesday april 29 1975 http www.radiodiscussions.com showthread.php 594010 retro tucson and phoenix december 8 1980 & p 5325797 & viewfull 1 post5325797 http www.radiodiscussions.com showthread.php 602759 retro tucson and nogales arizona tuesday april 29 1975 & p 5416049 & viewfull 1 post5416049 http www.radiodiscussions.com showthread.php 602759 retro tucson and nogales arizona tuesday april 29 1975 & p 5416258 & viewfull 1 post5416258 belo shuts down kmsb news operations ; dozens of layoffs expected tvspy november 15 2011 . fox 11 to lay off news staff cancel newscast in feb. external links edit news 13 kold tv home query the fcc s tv station database for kold query tv fool s coverage map for kold dt query tv fool s coverage map for kold tv biafn s media web database information on kold tv program information for kold at titantv.com v t e broadcast television in tucson arizona metro tucson kvoa 4.1 nbc 4.2 cozi tv kuat 6.1 pbs 6.2