KCEN-TV

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KCEN-TV/KMAY-LP

KCEN: Temple/Waco, Texas KMAY: Bryan/College Station, Texas
Branding	NBC 6 NBC 23
Slogan	Where Central Texas Comes First
Channels	6 (VHF) / 23 (UHF) analog, 9 (VHF) digital
Affiliations	NBC
Owner	Frank Mayborn Enterprises, Inc. (Channel 6, Inc.)
Founded	KCEN: 1953 KMAY: January 20, 2003
Call letters meaning	KCEN: K Central Texas KMAY: K MAYborn (owners and founders of the station)
Former affiliations	CBS (secondary, 1953-55), ABC (secondary, 1953-85)
Transmitter Power	100 kW
Website	www.kcentv.com

KCEN-TV (NBC 6) is the NBC affiliate for Waco, Texas. Licensed to nearby Temple, it is owned by the Mayborn family, publishers of the Temple Daily Telegram. With studio and transmitter on a 25-acre tract of land one mile south of Eddy on I-35, KCEN-TV broadcasts locally on channel 6, with digital transmissions on channel 9. KCEN-TV also has a low-power satellite rebroadcaster, KMAY-LP on channel 23 in Bryan, Texas, which serves the Brazos Valley area. KMAY-LP began rebroadcasting KCEN in 2003. Previously, KCEN maintained a low-power channel 62 for the Bryan/College Station area for a number of years. NBC 6 WeatherPlus is offered through KCEN's digital feed.

The station was founded in 1953 by Frank Mayborn, longtime publisher of the Telegram. It was owned along with KTEM-AM 1400, which Mayborn signed on in 1936. Mayborn, however, realized that Temple-Killeen and Waco were going to be a single television market (although they are separate radio markets). To signify his goal to serve all of Central Texas, he decided to call his new station KCEN-TV (for CENtral Texas) rather than KTEM-TV (for TEMple). KCEN signed on with one of the tallest towers in the Southwest, at 830 feet. The station originally carried programming from all three major networks, but has always been a primary NBC affiliate except for a brief period in the mid 1970s.

In 1981, KCEN moved to a new 1,924-foot tower, expanding its coverage area to almost 29,000 square miles--one of the largest in the nation. The station now provides at least secondary coverage from the fringes of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex to the fringes of Austin.

The station was the first in Central Texas to broadcast in closed captioning, in 1989.

KCEN broadcasts on cable channel 3 in Waco, Killeen and Temple, while KMAY broadcasts on cable channel 6 in Bryan/College Station. Its audio can also be heard on 87.7 FM in much of central Texas, since the audio signals of all television stations located on channel 6 are on the same frequency as 87.7 FM.

KCEN also maintains business offices at 17 South Third Street in Temple, as well as sales and news offices in Killeen and Waco.

[edit] Newscasts

Monday-Friday

NBC 6 Texas Today: 5:30 AM-7 AM
NBC 6 News at 6: 6 PM-6:30 PM
NBC 6 News at 10: 10 PM-10:35 PM

Saturday

NBC 6 News Weekend Edition at 6: 6 PM-6:30 PM
NBC 6 News Weekend Edition at 10: 10 PM-10:35 PM

Sunday

NBC 6 News Weekend Edition at 5: 5:00 PM-5:30 PM
NBC 6 News Weekend Edition at 10: 10 PM-10:30 PM

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Broadcast television in the Waco market (Nielsen DMA #95)
Waco / Temple / Killeen: KCEN 6 (NBC) - KWTX 10 (CBS, The CW on DT2) - KXXV 25 (ABC) - KPLE-LP 31 (TBN) - KWBU 34 (PBS) - K38FN 38 (TBN) - KWKT 44 (FOX/MNTV) - KNCT 46 (PBS) - KAKW 62 (UNI)
Bryan / College Station: KBTX 3 (CBS, The CW on DT2) - KSCM-LP 12 (A1) - KAMU 15 (PBS) - KMAY-LP 23 (NBC) - KYLE 28 (FOX/MNTV) - KRHD-LP 40 (ABC) - K47ED 47 (TBN)
Significantly Viewed Out-of-Market Broadcast Stations Reception may vary by geographical location KUHT 8 (PBS, Houston) - WFAA 8 (ABC, Dallas)

Radio stations in the Waco, Texas market (Arbitron #201)

By Frequency: (FM) 87.7¹ | 88.1 | 88.9 | 89.9 | 91.3 | 92.9 | 94.5 | 95.3 | 95.7 | 96.7 | 97.5 | 99.9 | 100.7 | 101.7 | 102.5 | 103.3 | 104.1 | 104.9 | 107.9

(AM) 940 | 1010 | 1230 | 1400 | 1560 | 1590 | 1660

¹ Audio for TV channel 6 (NBC)

Texas Radio Markets

Abilene · Amarillo AM/FM · Austin AM/FM · Beaumont-Port Arthur · Bryan-College Station AM/FM · Corpus Christi AM/FM · Dallas/Fort Worth AM/FM · El Paso AM/FM · Houston AM/FM · Killeen Temple · Laredo · Lubbock · Lufkin-Nacogdoches · McAllen AM/FM · Odessa-Midland · San Angelo · San Antonio AM/FM · Tyler-Longview · Texarkana · Waco · Wichita Falls

Other Areas

Brownwood · Perryton · Kingsville-Alice-Falfurrias · Del Rio · Eagle Pass · Bay City-Freeport · Galveston · Big Spring-Snyder

See also: List of radio stations in Texas and List of United States radio markets

Radio stations in the Killeen-Temple, Texas market (Arbitron #156)

By Frequency: (FM) 87.7¹ | 88.1 | 88.5 | 89.9 | 91.3 | 92.3 | 93.3 | 94.3 | 96.3 | 97.5 | 98.3 | 99.9 | 101.7 | 101.9 | 103.1 | 104.5 | 104.7 | 105.5 | 106.3 | 107.3

(AM) 590 | 820 | 940 | 1010 | 1050 | 1260 | 1400 | 1450 | 1660