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KVIA-TV
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El Paso, Texas <tr><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">Branding</th><td style="text-align: left;">ABC 7</td></tr><tr><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">Slogan</th><td style="text-align: left;">Where News Comes First</td></tr>
Channels	7 (VHF) analog, 17 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	ABC (Digital signal carries The CW)
Owner	News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG of Texas, LLC)
Founded	September 1, 1956 (On channel 13, Moved to channel 7 in 1981) <tr><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">Call letters meaning</th><td style="text-align: left;">K with V-I-A derived from the Roman numeral for 7 which represented former sister station KVII’s channel number in Amarillo.</td></tr><tr><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">Former callsigns</th><td style="text-align: left;">KLIT (1956-60), KELP (1960-76)</td></tr><tr><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">Former affiliations</th><td style="text-align: left;">None</td></tr> <tr><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">Website</th><td style="text-align: left;">www.kvia.com</td></tr>

KVIA-TV is an ABC affiliate in El Paso, Texas. It broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 7, and its digital signal on UHF channel 17. It is owned by and was the flaghip television station of the News-Press & Gazette Company of St. Joseph, Missouri before the company aquired KRDO-TV. Its transmitter is located in El Paso.

Contents 1 History 2 Personalities 2.1 Anchors 2.2 Reporters 2.3 ABC 7 Sports 2.4 StormTRACK Weather 2.5 Former Staff Members 3 Newscasts 3.1 Monday-Friday 3.2 Saturday 3.3 Sunday 4 Programming Notes 5 References 6 External links

[edit] History

The station signed on the air on September 1, 1956 on channel 13, originally as KLIT, and was owned by famous television and radio personality Gordon McLendon. It later adopted the KELP-TV call sign in the 1960s, then the current KVIA-TV call sign after being bought by Stanley Marsh 3 in February 1976. The KVIA swapped channels with PBS member station KCOS on July 10, 1981, moving from channel 13 to channel 7. It is said that the move was made to compete better with KDBC and KTSM. In 1995, KVIA-TV was bought by its current owner, News-Press & Gazette.

KVIA also uses a red version of the "circle 7 logo" as opposed to the more widely-used blue version. The "red 7" is very similar to the logos from Boston, MA's NBC affiliate WHDH and Miami, FL's FOX affiliate WSVN. KVIA's current slogan is "Where News Comes First".

News anchor Gary Warner has been with KVIA since the mid-1970s, except for a few years when he was working for CNN in the late-1980s.

From 1976 until 1983, KVIA had a satellite station based in Carlsbad, New Mexico; KAVE-TV, Channel 6, which carried a circle 6 logo. That station is now a satellite affiliate of Albuquerque's KOAT-TV, Channel 7 and known today as KOCT.

The old KELP-TV Channel 13 was home to the popular dance show Crosno's Hop, hosted by the late El Paso radio DJ Steve Crosno in the 1960s.

KVIA is the first station in El Paso to introduce a computerized weather radar, implemented in 1979.

Since 1993, Gary Warner and Estela Casas have anchored the evening newscasts together, and dubbed as the longest running anchor team.

Plans for launching KVIA's digital signal of The CW Television Network have been put off. [1]

[edit] Personalities

[edit] Anchors

• Celina Avila - ABC 7 at 4
• Martin Bartlett - Good Morning El Paso Weekend
• Rick Cabrera - Good Morning El Paso & ABC 7 at Noon
• Estela Casas - ABC 7 at 5, 6, & 10
• Hillary Floren - Good Morning El Paso
• Bob Harp - ABC 7 Weekend at 5/6, & 10
• Lizette Luna - ABC 7 Weekend at 5/6, & 10
• Sheyenne Rodriguez - ABC 7 at Noon
• Stephanie Valle - Good Morning El Paso Weekend
• Gary Warner - ABC 7 at 5, 6, & 10

[edit] Reporters

• Rachel Abell - General Assignment Reporting
• Troy Barrett - General Assignment Reporting
• Christina Boomer - General Assignment Reporting
• Maria Garcia - General Assignment Reporting
• Bob Harp - General Assignment Reporting
• Darren Hunt - General Assignment Reporting
• Sheyenne Rodriguez - General Assignment Reporting for Good Morning El Paso
• Jayme Rubenstein - General Assignment Reporting for Las Cruces Bureau

[edit] ABC 7 Sports

• Raul Martinez - Weekdays ABC 7 at 6 & 10
• Autumn Sam - Weekends ABC 7 at 5/6 & 10

[edit] StormTRACK Weather

• "Doppler" Dave Speelman - Chief Meteorologist Weekdays ABC 7 at 4, 5, 6, & 10
• Amber Sullins - Meteorologist Weekdays Good Morning El Paso & ABC 7 at Noon
• Troy Barrett - StormTRACKER Weekends Good Morning El Paso Weekend, ABC 7 at 5/6 & 10

[edit] Former Staff Members

• Al Hinojos
• Alex Delgado
• Alexander Perez
• Amy Jacobson
• Anne Semmer
• Betsy McArthur
• Bill Zortman
• Brian Heap
• Carolyn Hughes
• David George
• David Johnston (Ono)
• Fred Alberts
• Gary Munday
• Indra Peters
• Jason Kadah
• Jim Gamble
• Jim Scott
• John Fausett
• John Purvis
• Julia Hilder
• KC Counts
• Kim Lamb
• Larry Wolpe
• Laura Palka
• Lillian Maric
• Lou Romano
• Mike Borschow
• Mirna Membrilla
• Noreen Jaramillo
• Raymond Mesa
• Rene Romo
• Richard Jordan
• Rick Glancey
• Rick Provencio
• Rob Elgas
• Robert Bettes
• Robert Garcia
• Robert Holguin
• Robert Nitzburg
• Shea Rial
• Stu Bowersox
• Suzanne Michaels
• Ty Shesky
• Marce Galaviz

[edit] Newscasts

[edit] Monday-Friday

• Good Morning El Paso - 5 a.m. to 7 a.m.
• ABC 7 at Noon - 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
• ABC 7 at Four - 4 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• ABC 7 at Five - 5 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
• ABC 7 at Six - 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
• ABC 7 at Ten - 10 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

[edit] Saturday

• Good Morning El Paso Weekend - 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. & 8 a.m. to 9 a.m.
• ABC 7 at Five - 5 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
• ABC 7 at Six - 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
• ABC 7 at Ten - 10 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

[edit] Sunday

• Good Morning El Paso Weekend - 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. & 8 a.m. to 9 a.m.
• ABC 7 at Five - 5 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
• ABC 7 at Ten - 10 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

[edit] Programming Notes

KVIA clears ABC's entire schedule. However, KVIA airs the ABC daytime soap opera lineup out of pattern: General Hospital airs at 1 PM and One Life to Live airs at 2 PM. Traditionally, OLTL airs before GH in these same time slots vice versa.

[edit] References

• "A History of ABC 7", KVIA.com, January 20, 2006.

[edit] External links

• KVIA Website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KVIA-TV