KMID (TV)

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KMID
KMID Big 2 logo.png
Midland–Odessa, Texas
United States
CityMidland, Texas
ChannelsDigital: 26 (UHF)
Virtual: 2 (PSIP)
BrandingABC Big 2 (general)
ABC Big 2 News (newscasts)
Programming
Affiliations
  • 2.1: ABC (secondary 1953–1958; primary since 1982)
  • 2.2: Laff
  • 2.3: Court TV Mystery
  • 2.4: Grit
Ownership
OwnerNexstar Media Group
(Nexstar Inc.)
KPEJ-TV
History
First air date
December 18, 1953 (67 years ago) (1953-12-18)
Former call signs
KMID-TV (1953–1992)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
2 (VHF, 1953–2009)
Former affiliations
  • Primary:
  • NBC (1953–1982)
  • Secondary:
  • DuMont (1953–1955)
  • CBS (1953–1955)
Call sign meaning
MIDland
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID35131
ERP1,000 kW
HAAT275 m (902 ft)
Transmitter coordinates32°5′51.4″N 102°17′22.5″W / 32.097611°N 102.289583°W / 32.097611; -102.289583
Links
Public license information
Profile
LMS
Websitewww.yourbasin.com

KMID, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 26), is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Midland, Texas, United States and serving the Permian Basin area. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which also operates Odessa-licensed Fox affiliate KPEJ-TV (channel 24) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with owner Mission Broadcasting. The two stations share studios on Windview Street (along I-20) in southwestern Odessa; KMID's transmitter is located on FM 1788 in rural southeastern Andrews County.

On cable, KMID is available on Grande Communications and Reach Broadband channel 3, and on channel 2 on other systems in the market.

History[]

Former logo as Big 2, used until 2015

KMID-TV went on the air on December 18, 1953,[1] making it the longest-running station in the Midland–Odessa market. It carried programming from all four networks, but was a primary NBC affiliate. It lost CBS to KOSA-TV (channel 7) in 1956 and lost ABC to KWES-TV (channel 9, then known as KVKM) in 1958. On September 5, 1982, KMID became an ABC affiliate when it swapped its NBC affiliation with channel 9 (by then known as KMOM, which became KTPX simultaneous with the switch). Lorimar-Telepictures sold KMID and two of its sister stations, KSPR in Springfield, Missouri, and KCPM-TV (now KNVN) in Chico–Redding, California, to Goltrin Communications in 1987.[citation needed][clarification needed] In 1988, Goltrin sold all three stations to Davis Goldfarb Communications.[citation needed] Cottonwood Communications bought the station in 1995.[citation needed][clarification needed] KMID, along with KSPR and KCPM, was purchased by GOCOM Communications in 1997.[citation needed] KMID was acquired by current owner Nexstar Broadcasting in 2000.[1]

Since 1974, KMID was known as "Big 2", but adopted the "ABC2" moniker in early 2004. In part because many Permian Basin residents still called the station "Big 2", though, that nickname was revived in 2009, only to be scrapped once more on December 12, 2015, in favor of "Local 2". The "Big 2" branding returned again in June 2018.

In 2003, KMID dropped weekend evening newscasts, which were the lowest-rated newscasts in the Permian Basin. In late 2006, the Sunday night news broadcasts were reinstated.

On April 24, 2013, Communications Corporation of America announced the sale of its entire group to Nexstar. KPEJ was to be sold to Mission Broadcasting,[2] but on June 6, 2014, Nexstar announced that it would instead sell KPEJ-TV to a new minority-owned company, Marshall Broadcasting Group (marking the company's first television station acquisitions), for $58.5 million. Nexstar would operate KPEJ under a shared services agreement, forming a virtual duopoly with KMID.[3] The sale was completed on January 1, 2015.[4]

Digital television[]

Digital channels[]

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP short name Programming[5]
2.1 720p 16:9 KMID-DT Main KMID programming / ABC
2.2 480i 4:3 Laff
2.3 Court TV Mystery
2.4 Grit

Analog-to-digital conversion[]

KMID shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 2, 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 UHF channel 26.[6] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 2.

Programming[]

Syndicated programming on KMID includes The Rachael Ray Show, Judge Judy, AgDay, Jeopardy!, and Wheel of Fortune, among others.

Notable former on-air staff[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "About Us - Yourbasin". www.yourbasin.com.
  2. ^ https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101552312&qnum=5040&copynum=1&exhcnum=1
  3. ^ Nexstar Selling 3 Fox Affils For $58.5 Million, TVNewsCheck, June 6, 2014.
  4. ^ Consummation Notice, CDBS Public Access, Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved January 6, 2015.
  5. ^ RabbitEars TV Query for KMID
  6. ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.

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