general kamc news newscasts slogan local . live . late breaking . channels digital 27 uhf virtual 28 psip subchannels 28.1 abc 28.2 escape 28.3 bounce tv affiliations abc 1969 present owner mission broadcasting mission broadcasting inc. operator nexstar broadcasting group first air date november 11 1968 ; 47 years ago 1968 11 11 call letters meaning station calls are pronounced kay mack ka mc sister station s klbk tv former callsigns ksel tv 1968 1975 kmcc 1975 1979 former channel number s analog 28 uhf 1968 2009 former affiliations independent 1968 1969 transmitter power 1000 kw height 219.4 m facility id 40820 transmitter coordinates 33 31 33.8 n 101 52 8.6 w 33.526056 n 101.869056 w 33.526056 ; 101.869056 coordinates 33 31 33.8 n 101 52 8.6 w 33.526056 n 101.869056 w 33.526056 ; 101.869056 licensing authority fcc public license information profile cdbs website www.everythinglubbock.com kamc is the abc network affiliated television station serving the lubbock texas metropolitan area . its studios and transmitter are located on south university avenue loop 289 in lubbock both of which are shared with klbk . syndicated programs on this station includes entertainment tonight dr. phil live with kelly rachael ray and the meredith vieira show . kamc is licensed to broadcast digitally on uhf channel 27 . kamc was acquired by mission broadcasting in late 2003 as part of nexstar s acquisition of quorum broadcasting ; most mission stations have local marketing agreements with nexstar stations in the same market ; in this case it is klbk in lubbock . contents 1 history 2 digital television 2.1 digital channels 2.2 analog to digital conversion 3 news operation 4 references 5 external links history edit kamc first began broadcasting in the fall of 1968 as ksel tv . originally an independent station ksel soon began broadcasting some abc programming which was previously split between cbs affiliate klbk and nbc affiliate kcbd . after a few months of sharing secondary affiliations with the local cbs and nbc affiliates ksel became the primary and exclusive abc affiliate for the lubbock market in the fall of 1969 . a few years later 1975 after sale of sister stations ksel am now kjtv am and ksel fm now klbb fm channel 28 changed its call letters to kmcc then later 1979 to the current kamc . from 1979 to 1986 kamc applied the former kmcc call sign to a satellite station on channel 12 in clovis new mexico that is currently operating as kvih tv now a satellite of amarillo texas abc affiliate kvii tv . kmcc is now the callsign for the unrelated ntsc channel 34 and atsc channel 32 in laughlin nevada . ksel tv entered as a competitor to established klbk as noted above a full time cbs and part time abc affiliate and nbc affiliate kcbd and recent sign on and with regards to signal weaker channel 34 kkbc tv later kmxn tv . kkbc operated from 1967 to 1973 . a new channel 34 kjaa signed on in 1981 ; it is now fox affiliate kjtv tv . ksel drew resources from sister stations ksel am now kjtv 950 am and ksel fm now klbb fm 93.7 fm . the stations had unified sales staffs spots were sold on both radio and tv by one sales force which often voiced spots or appeared in commercials or as on camera talent i.e. bill maddox was sales manager and late news anchor . all stations were owned by r.b. mac mcalister his son bill and the department heads at the stations a.c. ace wimberly bill maddox lew dee bill baker etc. . ksel filled air time with many movies each accompanied by an on camera host . the late lew dee 1935 2011 also known as lewis t. d elia hosted a movie show in addition to co hosting this that and the other on radio and ksel tv . the news department gathered and delivered news for all three stations . the old kamc studios which later housed the transmitter . since the analog to digital tv conversion this site has not been used by kamc . the radio stations were sold to other interests in 1974 75 and moved out of the shared building at 1201 84th street in south lubbock in picture though the fm transmitter remained at this site until sold to the ramar interests and moved to new kjtv tv tower in 2009 . ksel tv changed its call sign to kmcc and invested in better equipment rca tcr 100 video cartridge player and programming including m a s h reruns . between growth of abc s ratings in the late 1970s an improving news operation and the syndicated product the station became a real player in the early 1980s . a satellite station was added in 1979 . kfdw tv channel 12 in clovis new mexico had been a satellite station of kfda tv in amarillo for many years under the same ownership once the bass brothers from 1966 to 1976 and under mel wheeler from 1976 to 1979 . the mcalisters changed kfdw s call sign to kamc which triggered a complaint from nbc affiliate kamr tv which was carried on cable systems in clovis . the call signs were exchanged the repeater in clovis took the kmcc calls while channel 28 in lubbock became kamc . the station is now kvih tv a satellite station of kvii tv ; it was sold in 1986 as part of kamc s financial restructuring as former news anchor jeff klotzman now at kjtv tv later wrote . 1 bill mcalister who served as lubbock s mayor in the early 1980s died in 1983 . eight years later in an effort to make the station more profitable mcalister s son greg took over the station before selling it in 1999 . klotzman who spent much of the late 1970s and almost all of the 1980s as an anchor reporter wrote in 2000 that kamc s position as a distant 3 behind kcbd and klbk and low prices for cotton and other agricultural commodities which were lubbock s economic base as some of the primary factors hurting the station s financial situation . 2 former kamc meteorologist matt laubhan shocked his girlfriend of two and a half years kamc morning anchor emily leonard in an on air proposition to wed clips of which first surfaced on various websites in early october 2008 . digital television edit digital channels edit the station s digital channel is multiplexed channel video aspect psip short name programming 3 28.1 1080i 16 9 kamc dt main kamc programming abc 28.2 480i 4 3 bounce escape 28.3 bounce tv on june 15 2016 nexstar announced that it has entered into an affiliation agreement with katz broadcasting for the escape laff grit and bounce tv networks the last one of which is owned by bounce media llc whose coo jonathan katz is president ceo of katz broadcasting bringing one or more of the four networks to 81 stations owned and or operated by nexstar including kamc . 4 analog to digital conversion edit kamc shut down its analog signal over uhf channel 28 on february 17 2009 the original target date in which full power television stations in the united states were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate which was later pushed back to june 12 2009 . the station s digital signal remained on its pre transition uhf channel 27 . 5 through the use of psip digital television receivers display the station s virtual channel as its former uhf analog channel 28 . news operation edit kamc s news coverage centers around the city of lubbock and across the south plains region of west texas . newscasts air weekday mornings from 5 00 7 00 a.m. 11 00 a.m. and weeknights at 5 00 6 00 and 10 00 p.m. saturday night newscasts air at 6 00 and 10 00 p.m. only one newscast airs on sunday nights at 10 00 p.m. in july 2013 the station became the fourth news operation in lubbock to begin broadcasting all newscasts in high definition . on that day the station debuted its newly constructed sets updated branding and image and a new state of the art weather graphics system from wsi . in april 2014 the station debuted a new half hour midday newscast that airs weekday mornings at 11 00 a.m. references edit jeffery a. klotzman the history of mcalister television enterprises of lubbock texas m.a. thesis texas tech university august 2000 p. 77 https repositories.tdl.org ttu ir bitstream handle 2346 9709 312950165 46797.pdf sequence 1 . klotzman pp. 83 97 9 5 6 . rabbitears tv query for kamc bounce tv grit escape laff multicast deal covers 81 stations 54 markets . broadcasting & cable . june 15 2016 . retrieved june 16 2016 . dtv tentative channel designations for the first and the second rounds pdf . retrieved 2012 03 24 . external links edit official website query the fcc s tv station database for kamc biafn s media web database information on kamc tv v t e television stations in the greater lubbock levelland area stations kttz 5.1 pbs 5.2 create kfmp lp 6 ind kcbd 11.1 nbc 11.2 this tv 11.3 grit klbk 13.1 cbs 13.2 laff kptb 16.1 glc kdkw ld 21.1 mundomax klcw 22.1 cw 22.2 mntv 22.3 tmd k24gp multimedios ktgb lp 26.1 insp kamc 28.1 abc 28.2 escape 28.3 bounce tv kupt kmyl ld 29.1 14.1 mntv kjtv cd 32.1 news weather 32.2 weathernation tv kjtv 34.1 fox 34.2 news weather k44hh tbn kxtq cd 46 tmd klbb ld 48.1 metv 48.2 h & i 48.3 movies kylu lp 49 mtv2 kbzo ld 51.1 uni defunct kglr lp 30 fn k38hp ind. texas broadcast television areas by city abilene sweetwater amarillo texas panhandle austin hill country beaumont port arthur corpus christi dallas fort worth north texas ciudad acu a del rio eagle pass el paso west texas houston laredo lubbock south plains midland odessa permian basin rio grande valley san angelo san antonio sherman ada ok texarkana shreveport la tyler longview east texas victoria waco bryan brazos valley wichita falls lawton ok v t e abc network affiliates in the state of texas kmid 2 midland kiii 3 corpus christi krgv 5 weslaco kltv 7 ktre 9 tyler lufkin kvia 7 el paso kvii 7 amarillo wfaa 8 dfw ngns 8.2 laredo kbmt 12 beaumont ksat 12 san antonio ktxs 12 ktxe 38 sweetwater san angelo ktrk 13 houston kvue 24 austin kavu 25 victoria kxxv 25 krhd 40 waco bryan kamc 28 lubbock see also abc cbs cw fox ion mynetworktv nbc pbs other stations in texas see also telemundo unim s univision azteca mundomax religious other spanish language stations in texas v t e nexstar broadcasting group abc kamc2 kcau kmid kode2 kqtv ksvi ktvx watn wawv2 wdhn weht wivt wjet wmbb woi wsyr wtvo2 wutr2 wvny2 wwti cbs kgpe klas klbk klst kolr2 krex kreg krey ktab kxmb kxmc kxmd kxma wcia wfrv whbf wjmn wmbd wroc wtaj wyou2 the cw kasn2 kasw kcwi kgcw kget1 kucw wbrl wcwj wlmt wtvw2 wwcw wwti1 fox kadn kard kcit2 khmt2 kfqx kfta3 kfxk6 kjtl2 kljb5 klrt2 kmss5 kpej5 kwkt wfff wfft wfxp2 wfxr wfxv wgmb wjkt wlax weux wntz wqrf wyzz4 wzdx mynetworktv karz kcpn2 kgjt kjbo2 kadn1 kozl kshv6 ktpn klpn6 kyle wzdx1 wcix wlmt1 wntz wpny wtvo1 2 nbc kadn1 kamr kark ketk kfdx kget klaf knwa krbc2 ksan2 ksee ksnf ktal ktsm ktve2 kveo wbgh wbre wetm wtwo wvla6 other telemundo kkey ktab1 independent station kzup independent station heroes & icons whag tv cms company lakana online ad company yashi acquisitions communications corporation of america grant broadcasting newport television west virginia media holdings 1 these stations broadcast these networks on their digital subchannels . 2 nexstar operates these stations owned by