KENS-TV

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KENS-TV
San Antonio, Texas
Branding	KENS 5 (KENS pronounced as one word)
Slogan	KENS 5 Eyewitness News: Coverage You Can Count On, San Antonio's News Leader
Channels	5 (VHF) analog, 55 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	CBS
Owner	Belo Corporation
Founded	February 15, 1950
Call letters meaning	Express-News Service
Former callsigns	KEYL (1950-54)
Former affiliations	DuMont (1950-56), ABC (1950-57)
Website	www.mysanantonio.com

KENS-TV, "KENS 5" is the CBS television affiliate in San Antonio, Texas, owned by Belo Corporation. KENS also manages KCWX under a local marketing agreement (LMA). Its transmitter is located in Elmendorf, Texas.

Contents 1 History 2 Newscasts 2.1 Newscast lineup 2.2 Newscast titles 2.3 Eyewitness Newsreel 2.4 Newsteam 2.5 Former newscasters 2.6 Former personalities 3 Former station logos 4 External links

[edit] History

KENS signed on the air on February 15, 1950, as KEYL, a CBS affiliate with secondary affiliations with ABC and DuMont. Four years later, KEYL changed its call letters to KENS after the San Antonio Express-News bought the station. KENS was the second station to begin broadcasting in San Antonio, three months behind WOAI-TV. DuMont ceased most network operations in 1955, but would honor network commitments until 1956; at that point, DuMont disappeared from the station's schedule. It lost ABC when KONO-TV (now KSAT-TV) signed on in 1957, leaving KENS as a full-time CBS affiliate.

In 1962, the Express-News and KENS-AM/TV were purchased by Harte-Hanks Communications. Due to the Federal Communications Commission's tightening of cross-ownership rules, Harte-Hanks sold the newspaper in 1973 to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation while keeping the KENS stations. In September 1997, Harte-Hanks sold its remaining media properties, including the KENS stations, to the E. W. Scripps Company in order to concentrate on direct marketing; the sale was finalized on October 15 of that year. Scripps, in turn, swapped the KENS stations to Belo on December 4, 1997 in exchange for controlling ownership of the Food Network. The radio station was sold off to Disney/ABC in 2003, becoming Radio Disney station KRDY.

KENS is still closely associated with the Express-News, even though the station and newspaper have been under separate ownership for many years. The station shares its main website with the newspaper.

In the mid-1980s, KENS broadcasted a short-lived second channel, exclusively on Rogers Cablevision channel 24, called KENS II.

KENS is one of the broadcast homes of NBA San Antonio Spurs and also home of game shows for two decades with Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!.

Bob Rogers sill is KENS most successful and longest running News Director. Rogers kept KENS in the number one ratings spot for over two decades. He was also responsible for hiring, coaching and helping the careers of many local and national news anchors, reporters and correspondents. He left KENS in the late 90's and retired.

[edit] Newscasts

As of the end of the February 2007 ratings period, KENS had taken first place for their 10 o'clock newscast. As of the November 2006 ratings period, KENS took first place in the morning newscasts. KENS is in a spirited battle with KSAT-TV for first place at noon and 6 p.m. newscasts. Rival WOAI-TV is at third place in all time slots.

[edit] Newscast lineup

Weekdays

• KENS5 Eyewitness News at 5 AM - 5AM-7AM
• KENS5 Eyewitness News at 7 AM shared with Early Show - 7AM-8AM
• Great Day S.A. - 9AM-10AM
• KENS5 Eyewitness News at Noon - NOON-12:30PM
• KENS5 Eyewitness News at 5 - 5PM-5:30PM
• KENS5 Eyewitness News at 6 - 6PM-6:30PM
• KENS5 Eyewitness News at 10 - 10PM-10:35PM

Weekends

• KENS5 Eyewitness News - 7:30AM-9AM Saturdays, 7AM-8AM Sundays (KENS is among the few CBS affiliates that do not carry The Early Show on Saturday mornings.)
• KENS5 Eyewitness News at 5:30 - 5:30PM-6PM Sundays
• KENS5 Eyewitness News at 6 - 6PM-6:30PM Saturdays
• KENS5 Eyewitness News at 10 - 10PM-10:35 Saturdays and Sundays

[edit] Newscast titles

• Eyewitness News (1970-present)

[edit] Eyewitness Newsreel

A long-running, occasional segment of the news is the "Eyewitness Newsreel" in which anchor Chris Marrou narrates a faux, old-style newsreel at the end of the 10 p.m. newscast. The Newsreel usually consists of humorous segments of local news juxtaposed with out-of-context snips of CBS news anchors, politicians or celebrities "commenting" on the situation.

[edit] Newsteam

Personalities:

• Megan Alexander, traffic reporter
• Bob Ballou, weekend sports anchor
• Vicki Buffolino, morning anchor
• Joe Conger, weeknight and I-Team reporter
• Barry Davis, Sunday morning anchor and I-Team reporter
• Karen Grace, reporter
• Itza Gutierrez, Saturday morning anchor and crime reporter
• Marvin Hurst, reporter
• Deborah Knapp, anchor 5 p.m. (former wife of former Congressman Henry Bonilla)
• Nydia Lopez, reporter
• Fred Lozano, morning anchor
• Sarah Lucero, anchor 6 and 10 p.m.
• Chris Marrou, anchor 5, 6 and 10 p.m.
• Paul Mireles, morning meteorologist
• James Munoz, reporter
• Joe Reinagel, sports director
• Wendy Rigby , medical reporter at 5 p.m.
• Drew Roesgen, reporter
• Jessica Silva, reporter
• Jared Silverman, weekend meteorologist
• Bridget Smith, Bridget's Beat at 6 p.m.
• Bill Taylor, chief meteorologist 5, 6, and 10 p.m.

[edit] Former newscasters

• Jud Ashmore
• Kelly Chapman
• Dan Cook
• Gary DeLaune
• Mary Denman
• Ainsley Earhardt (moved to Fox News in 2007)
• Patricio Espinoza
• Albert Flores
• Alex Garcia
• Glenn Glazer
• Maclovio Perez
• Sylvan Rodriguez (died in 2000)
• Lynn Russell
• Bob Salter
• Ron Taylor
• Paul Thompson
• Gene Tuck
• Maury Vasquez

[edit] Former personalities

• Joe Alston (Cap'n Gus / Captain Amigus) (died 1989)

[edit] Former station logos

Station logo, June 1974.

Station logo, 1990s.

[edit] External links

• MySA.com
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KENS

Broadcast television in the San Antonio market  (Nielsen DMA #37)
KCWX 2 (The CW) - WOAI 4 (NBC) - KENS 5 (CBS) - KLRN 9 (PBS) - KSAT 12 (ABC) - K14LM 14 (3ABN) - KNIC 17 (TFU) - KHCE 23 (TBN) - KPXL 26 (ION) - KABB 29 (Fox) - KVDF-CA 31 (AZA) - KNIC-CA 34 (Silent) - KMYS 35 (MNTV) (The Tube on DT2) - KWEX 41 (UNI) - KQVE-LP 46 (DS) - K52EA 52 (Multimedios) - KVDA 60 (TEL)
See also, Broadcast television in Del Rio / Eagle Pass