KNXV-TV is a television station in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, affiliated with ABC.
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14 Facts About KNXV
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KNXV-TV signed on September 9,1979, more than four and a half years after the construction permit was granted.
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KNXV-TV proved itself a tough partner for Oak's subscription service.
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KNXV then became a full-time general entertainment independent station, relying on a movie library and those syndicated shows not already owned by KPHO-TV, the established independent in Phoenix, or the network affiliates.
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In mid-1985, KNXV began producing Friday Night at the Frights starring "Edmus Scarey", a series of decidedly campy B-movie wraparounds.
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Under Scripps, KNXV began to purchase more recent sitcoms, often outbidding KPHO for strong shows.
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KNXV joined Fox at the network's inception on October 9,1986; as Fox's first and only program was The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers, KNXV remained essentially independent.
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KNXV was already in the process of building a local news department when the affiliation switch was announced; in September 1993, the station had hired its first news director, and the station's staff of 30 had reported to Phoenix in the weeks before the New World deal was announced.
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Bob Rowe, a station manager "excommunicated" by Scripps to Phoenix, was just as influential in the early years of KNXV news, laying the groundwork for a "no chit-chat" approach.
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Scripps Company, owner of KNXV-TV, announced the formation of Local News Service, a model for pooling newsgathering efforts for local news events in which each station provided employees to the pool service in exchange for the sharing of video.
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In 2012, KNXV relaunched an 11 am newscast, and it added weekend morning news in 2013, and a 6:30 weeknight half-hour in 2014, among other new newscasts.
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KNXV's first subchannel offering was a traffic subchannel, launched in 2008.
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KNXV-TV is broadcast on these translators in northern and northwestern Arizona:.
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KNXV did not have any translator coverage until 1989, when it signed on a translator in Flagstaff.
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