KOAT-TV

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KOAT-TV

Albuquerque, New Mexico-Santa Fe, New Mexico
Branding	KOAT 7 (general) Action 7 News (newscasts)
Slogan	Coverage You Can Count On.
Channels	7 (VHF) analog, 21 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	ABC
Owner	Hearst-Argyle Television
Founded	September 30, 1953
Call letters meaning	COAT or KO Albuquerque Television
Former affiliations	None
Transmitter Power	30 kW/439 m (analog) 10.5 kW/270 m (digital)
Website	www.koat.com/

KOAT-TV is a television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is an ABC network affiliate and broadcasts on channel 7. Its transmitter is located on Sandia Crest, east of Albuquerque.

KOAT uses a version of the Circle 7 logo used by many other ABC affiliates.

Weather forecaster Howard Morgan worked at KOAT for 28 years before retiring in 1999.

1 History
2 Satellite stations
3 News
- 3.1 Newscast Lineup
4 First Alert Weather
5 External links

[edit] History

Channel 7 KOAT signed on September 30, 1953, less than a week before 13 KGGM (now KRQE). They were locally owned by AM Caldwell & Walter Stiles. The station signed on as an ABC Affiliate. In 1959 KOAT was sold to Alvarado Television and in 1962 to Steinman Television.

Pulitzer would buy KOAT 7 in 1979. In 1999, as a result of a corporate merger, Hearst-Argyle Broadcasting became the owners of KOAT TV.

[edit] Satellite stations

These stations rebroadcast KOAT's signal and add local content for other parts of the broadcast market:

KOFT, Farmington, New Mexico (analog channel 3, digital channel 8) {Signed on KWNM-TV from June 1, 1986 to 1997}
KOVT, Silver City, New Mexico (analog channel 10, digital channel 12) {Signed on KOAV from July 3, 1990 to 1997}
KOCT, Carlsbad, New Mexico (analog channel 6, digital channel 19) {Signed on KAVE-TV from July 28, 1956 to 1982 & then KVIO-TV from 1982 to 1997}

KOCT, formerly KAVE-TV and KVIO-TV, became part of the KOAT-TV operation in 1993 after previously serving as a satellite of El Paso ABC affiliate KVIA-TV Channel 7. The Carlsbad station began in 1956 as KAVE-TV, a CBS affiliate with studio and transmitter facilities on Church Street in Carlsbad. In 1966, when Roswell, New Mexico station KBIM-TV became the CBS affiliate for southeastern New Mexico, KAVE became a satellite station of then-ABC affiliate KMOM-TV Channel 9 in Monahans, Texas (now NBC affiliate KWES-TV, Midland-Odessa, Texas) and then of KVIA-TV in El Paso in 1976.

In addition, there are several low-powered repeaters that carry KOAT's programming throughout New Mexico and southern Colorado.

[edit] News

Ordinarily, KOAT produces just over 4 hours of local news each weekday, 4 hours each Saturday, and 3 hours each Sunday. The station's newscasts identify themselves as "Action 7 News."

Current News Anchors of the Action 7 News team are:

News: Sasha Andrade, Larry Behrens, Geoff Corkum, Jeffery DeMars, Doug Fernandez, Mike Garofalo, Ellen Goldberg, Rod Green, Matt Grubs, Cynthia Izaguirre, Christine Jones, Marisa Maez, Chris Ramires, Dr. Barry Ramo, Dave Roberts, AJ Smith, Natalie Swaby, Sally Kidd, Laurie Kinney, Tracy Mitchell

First Alert Weather: Joe Diaz, Byron Morton, Jason Stiff

Sports: Bob Brown, John Salazar

Management: Mary Lynn Roper

[edit] Newscast Lineup

Action 7 News Live This Morning
- 5 AM-7 AM Monday-Friday
- 6 AM-8:30 AM Saturday-Sunday
Action 7 News Live at Noon - Noon-12:30 PM Monday-Friday
Action 7 News Live at Five - 5 PM-5:30 PM seven days a week
Action 7 News Live at Six - 6 PM-6:30 PM Monday-Saturday
Action 7 News Live at Ten - 10 PM-10:35 PM seven days a week
Action 7 News Live at Ten (Rebroadcast) 1:05AM-1:40AM seven days a week

[edit] First Alert Weather

The First Alert Weather team has now given an easier way to know what kind of weather will affect each region. This is unique for the 130,000 square miles they cover. It is a 5-day forecast for each region, including cities such as:

Farmington
Taos
Santa Fe
Silver City
Carlsbad

The region forecast also has a detailed forecast for two cities on the right of the TV screen, with the 5-day forecast for the cities (listed above) on the bottom of the screen.

[edit] External links

Broadcast television in the Albuquerque / Santa Fe market (Nielsen DMA #45)
KASA 2 (Fox) (The Tube on DT2) - KOB 4 (NBC) - KNME 5 (PBS) - KOAT 7 (ABC) - KCHF 11 (Ind.) - KRQE 13 (CBS) - KTFQ 14 (TeleFutura) - KWBQ 19 (The CW) - KNAT 23 (TBN) - KQDF-LP 25 (AZA) - KYNM-LP 30 (Almavision) - KAZQ 32 (LeSea/3ABN) - KTVS-LP 36 (Ind.) - K38IM 38 (3ABN) - KLUZ 41 (Univision) - KTFA-LP 48 (HSN) - KASY 50 (MNTV) - KTEL-LP 53 (TEL) - K56FB 56 (JTV)
Local digital television channels
KNMD 9 (PBS)
Out-of-market stations covering parts of the market and other over the air stations in New Mexico KENW 3 (PBS) - KVIH 12 (ABC) - KRWG 22 (PBS) - KRPV 27 (GLC) - KUPT 29 (MNTV) - K47DR 47 (TBN) - KTDO 48 (Telemundo)

ABC affiliates licensed to and serving New Mexico

KOAT-TV: KOFT 3 (Farmington) - KOCT 6 (Carlsbad) - KOAT 7 (Albuquerque) - KOVT 10 (Silver City) KVII-TV: KVIH 12 (Clovis)
See also: CBS, Fox, CW, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, Spanish, and other English stations in New Mexico

Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc.

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Radio Stations: WBAL¹ | WIYY¹

CBS Network Affiliates: KCCI | WLKY

The CW Network Affiliates: KCWE¹ | WKCF

MyNetwork TV Affiliate: KQCA

Independent Television Station: WMOR¹

¹Hearst-Argyle operates these stations owned by Hearst Corporation.

Annual Revenue: $785.4 million USD (2006) | Employees: Approx. 3,000 (full-time) | Stock Symbol: NYSE: HTV | Website: www.hearstargyle.com