branding abc 30 general abc 30 action news newscasts slogan number one in central california live local latebreaking channels digital 30 uhf virtual 30 psip subchannels 30.1 abc 30.2 live well network 30.3 laff affiliations abc o & o owner disney abc kfsn television llc first air date may 10 1956 1956 05 10 call letters meaning fresno former callsigns kfre tv 1956 1971 former channel number s analog 12 vhf 1956 1961 30 uhf 1961 2009 digital 9 vhf until 2009 former affiliations cbs 1956 1985 transmitter power 260 kw height 625 metres 2 051 feet facility id 8620 transmitter coordinates 37 4 37.4 n 119 26 4.6 w 37.077056 n 119.434611 w 37.077056 ; 119.434611 licensing authority fcc public license information profile cdbs website abc30.com kfsn tv channel 30 is an abc owned and operated television station located in fresno california united states . the station is owned by abc owned television stations a unit of the disney abc television group division of the walt disney company . kfsn tv maintains studio and office facilities located on g street in downtown fresno ; its transmitter is located on bear mountain near meadow lakes california . contents 1 history 2 digital television 2.1 digital channels 2.2 analog to digital conversion 3 news operation 3.1 notable former on air staff 4 references 5 external links history edit after the federal communications commission s four year long freeze on awarding television station licenses was lifted in 1952 two radio stations karm 1430 am now kyno and kfre 940 am now kfig competed for the construction permit to operate a station on channel 12 the sole vhf allocation given to fresno . kfre won the permit 1 and the station first signed on the air on may 10 1956 as kfre tv . 2 it is the third oldest television station in the fresno market and upon signing on kfre tv took the cbs affiliation from kjeo channel 47 now kgpe . 3 4 the kfre stations were acquired by triangle publications in 1959 . 5 on february 17 1961 kfre tv reluctantly moved to uhf channel 30 to make fresno an all uhf market under orders from the fcc . it was known by the term deintermixture the move was made for the purpose of leveling the playing field and eliminating the potential of unfair competition between the vhf and uhf bands . 6 a similar situation occurred in nearby bakersfield where that city s lone vhf station kero tv on channel 10 moved to uhf channel 23 in 1963 . 7 the move of kfre tv to channel 30 opened up channel 12 for use by kcoy tv in santa maria which went on the air in 1964 . variant of kfsn tv logo used from 2007 to 2013 . triangle began its exit from broadcasting in 1971 and sold the kfre stations to capital cities communications . 8 9 the new owners sold off the am and fm radio stations as a condition of the purchase 10 and kept the television station changing its call letters to kfsn tv in april 1971 the kfre tv calls are now used on fresno s cw affiliate on channel 59 ; that station is unrelated to the current kfsn tv . on march 18 1985 capital cities announced it would purchase abc . 11 nearly six months later on september 9 1985 kfsn tv traded network affiliations with kjeo and became an abc affiliate . 12 the transaction was finalized on january 3 1986 making channel 30 an abc owned and operated station . in 1996 the walt disney company acquired capital cities abc . five current syndicated programs on kfsn are shared with most of the other abc owned stations live with kelly produced by sister station wabc rachael ray jeopardy wheel of fortune and who wants to be a millionaire . digital television edit digital channels edit the station s digital channel is multiplexed channel video aspect psip short name programming 13 30.1 720p 16 9 kfsn hd main kfsn tv programming abc 30.2 kfsn lw live well network 30.3 480i 4 3 kfsn aw laff on april 27 2009 kfsn began carrying live well network on a new second digital subchannel digital subchannel ; a standard definition simulcast was carried on digital subchannel 30.3 until it was replaced with laff on april 15 2015 . kfsn tv serves as the production facility for two programs seen on the live well network motion and my family recipe rocks . kfsn dt3 is expected to lose its affiliation with laff in the near future due an affiliation agreement between nexstar broadcasting group owner of cbs affiliate kgpe and katz broadcasting owners of laff . 14 analog to digital conversion edit kfsn tv shut down its analog signal over uhf channel 30 at noon 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 relocated from its pre transition vhf channel 9 to uhf channel 30 . 15 16 news operation edit former abc 30 action news live at six newscast title card . kfsn tv presently broadcasts 39 hours of locally produced newscasts each week with 6 hours on weekdays and 3 hours each on saturdays and sundays ; in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming it is the highest local newscast output among the broadcast television stations in the fresno market . unlike most abc affiliates in the pacific time zone the station does not broadcast a 5 30 p.m. newscast on weekdays opting to fill the half hour with abc world news as a result of that program airing one hour earlier that other abc stations in the time zone kfsn airs an extension of its 6 00 p.m. newscast in world news s recommended 6 30 timeslot . in addition the station produces the public affairs program valley focus which airs sunday mornings at 10 00 a.m. kfsn has dominated the local news ratings in the san joaquin valley for decades dating back to its pre abc merger years as a cbs affiliate . its 5 p.m. newscast live at five frequently attracts more viewers than all other area stations combined . the station s newscasts are not branded eyewitness news nor does it use the gari media group composed eyewitness news music package like most of abc s other owned and operated stations . instead kfsn retains the action news branding made famous at philadelphia sister station wpvi tv when the format debuted on that station in 1970 . kfsn also used the original version of 615 music s news one music package from 1994 2014 also used at the time by san francisco sister station kgo tv . in 2003 the station began pooling resources with sister stations kabc tv in los angeles and kgo tv to hire a full time reporter and photographer to staff a sacramento bureau following arnold schwarzenegger s election as governor during the 2003 california recall election ; the sacramento bureau was shut down in september 2013 . 17 on april 23 2007 beginning with the 5 p.m. newscast kfsn tv became the seventh abc owned and operated station to begin broadcasting their local newscasts in high definition following its sister stations kabc tv wpvi tv wabc tv in new york city wls tv in chicago kgo tv in san francisco and ktrk tv in houston and updated its news branding to abc 30 action news hd . on september 12 2011 kfsn launched an hour long 4 00 p.m. newscast which replaced the oprah winfrey show . 18 this follows the trend of the four other sister stations wabc tv wpvi tv kgo tv and wtvd in durham north carolina that started their own 4 00 p.m. newscast after oprah ended its syndication run . on january 7 2013 kfsn began producing a half hour 10 00 p.m. newscast for mynetworktv affiliate kail tv channel 7 ; the program titled abc 30 action news live at 10 00 19 ended in july 2014 . notable former on air staff edit laura diaz anchor 1981 1983 ; later at kabc tv and kcbs kcal in los angeles ; now at kttv references edit lee breaks stalemate kfre gets fresno vhf . broadcasting telecasting january 16 1956 pg . 67 . 1 kfre tv fresno goes on the air . broadcasting telecasting may 14 1956 pg . 9 . 2 kfre tv joins cbs tv . broadcasting telecasting march 12 1956 pg . 84 . 3 kfre tv to join cbs tv . broadcasting telecasting may 7 1956 pg . 88 . 4 changing hands . broadcasting november 24 1958 pg . 96 kfre tv moves to uhf ; backed deintermixture . broadcasting february 20 1961 pg . 44 . 5 vhf to uhf change approved for kero tv . broadcasting november 19 1962 pg . 78 . 6 capcities buys 9 triangle outlets . broadcasting february 16 1970 pg . 9 . 7 last minute clearance for capcities . broadcasting march 1 1971 pp. 19 20 . 8 9 part of capcities package comes in . broadcasting july 13 1970 pg . 36 . 10 capcities abc and fcc approval of capcities abc deal likely . broadcasting march 25 1985 pp. 31 34 . 11 12 13 14 in brief . broadcasting august 19 1985 pg . 96 rabbitears tv query for kfsn bounce tv grit escape laff multicast deal covers 81 stations 54 markets . broadcasting & cable . june 15 2016 . retrieved july 16 2016 . dtv tentative channel designations for the first and second rounds pdf . retrieved 2012 03 24 . cdbs print at abc stations eliminate last political reporters in san francisco bay area tvspy september 4 2013 . kfsn to launch 10 p.m. newscast on kail tvspy january 7 2013 . kfsn set to replace oprah with 4 p.m. newscast tvspy august 25 2011 . broadcastpioneers.com a history of the wfil stations external links edit official website query the fcc s tv station database for kfsn tv biafn s media web database information on kfsn tv program information for kfsn at titantv.com v t e television stations in central california including fresno and visalia english language stations kvhf ld 4.1 tv scout 4.2 tuff tv 4.3 ustv 4.4 rev n 4.6 biz tv 4.7 launch tv 4.8 classic shows 32.8 kjeo kail 7.1 mntv 7.2 cozi tv 7.3 h & i k13zl d 13.1 creation tv 13.2 hsn 13.10 sab tv kvbc lp 13.1 metv kgmc 43.6 13.2 heartland 13.3 movies 13.4 retro tv 13.05 justice network 13.06 youtoo america 13.07 buzzr 13.8 ind 13.9 drtv 13.10 pbj kshc lp 16.1 kjoi fm 16.2 real estate barker channel 16.4 sonlife 16.5 infomercials k17ji d 17 k03hk 3 3abn kmph cd 17.1 fox kmph 26.1 kvpt 18.1 pbs 18.2 create kftv 21.2 gettv 21.3 escape 21.4 grit kzmm cd 22.2 evine live 22.3 sonlife ksee 24.1 nbc hd 24.2 nbc sd 24.3 grit kmph 26.1 fox 26.2 this tv 26.3 comet kjkz lp 27.1 the works kfsn 30.1 abc 30.2 live well 30.3 laff kbid lp 31.1 euronews kjeo ld 32 32.1 bounce tv 32.2 qvc 32.4 mana 3 kgof lp 33 33.2 fam 33.3 escapes 33.4 amgtv 33.6 france 24 33.7 thecooltv kmsg ld 39.3 tcn 43.3 daystar kgmc 43.4 hsn 43.5 antenna tv 43.6 metv kgpe 47.1 cbs hd 47.2 escape knxt 49.1 religious ind knso 51.3 ion kfre 59.1 cw spanish language stations kvhf ld 4.3 aza kshc lp 16.3 infomercials spanish 22.4 3an latino kzmm cd 22.1 ind kmsg ld 39 kfaz ca 8 kvvg ld 43.2 54.1 aza 39.3 euronews spanish kvpt 18.3 v me kftv dt 21.1 uni ksee 24.3 latv kbid lp 31.2 micasa tv kjeo ld 32 32.5 esf kgof lp