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| City | Clovis, California |
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| Branding | Telemundo Fresno |
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| Founded | October 2, 1989 |
First air date | September 11, 1992 (33 years ago) (1992-09-11) |
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Call sign meaning | Transposition of last three letters in "Fresno" |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 23302 |
| ERP | 385kW |
| HAAT | 578 m (1,896 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°4′19.1″N119°25′52.5″W / 37.071972°N 119.431250°W /37.071972; -119.431250 |
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| Website | www |
KNSO (channel 51) is atelevision station licensed toClovis, California, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-languageTelemundo network to theFresno area.Owned and operated byNBCUniversal'sTelemundo Station Group, KNSO maintains a transmitter on Bald Mountain, south ofMeadow Lakes inFresno County.
The UHF channel 43 allocation in the Fresno market was originally licensed toKICU-TV. Operating as anindependent station, the station signed on the air on December 23, 1961, five days after Fresno's first independent station,KAIL (channel 53, now aTCT O&O on channel 7) took to the air. KICU carried a mix ofmovies and other independent fare. Toward the end of its run, KICU also picked up someNBC programs that were not cleared to air by that network's Fresno affiliate, KMJ-TV (channel 24, nowKSEE-TV). The station ceased operations in 1968; theKICU-TV call letters are now used by aMyNetworkTV station inSan Jose.
Channel 43 returned to the air on September 11, 1992, as KSDI; the station was originally an affiliate of the viewer-requestmusic video networkThe Box. That December, the station changed its call letters to KGMC (the calls were previously used byKOCB inOklahoma City from 1979 to 1989).
In January 1995, the station entered into alocal marketing agreement withPappas Telecasting Companies, owner ofFox affiliateKMPH-TV (channel 26). Pappas programmed the station from 7 to 9 a.m. and again from 3 to 11 p.m. daily, airing a blend ofcartoons, classicsitcoms and older movies. On January 11 of that year, the station became a charter affiliate ofThe WB. KGMC continued to runreligious programs,paid programming, and home shopping programs during time periods that were not programmed by Pappas.
In 1997, KGMC terminated the LMA with Pappas, switching full-time to a format of infomercials and religious programs. Pappas then moved the WB affiliation first to KMPH on a secondary basis, and later to KNSO (channel 51) in 1998 and finally toKFRE-TV (channel 59) in 2001, where the network remained until The WB ceased operations in September 2006 and wasreplaced byThe CW. In the meantime, KGMC would join home shopping channelAmerica's Store in 1998; after America's Store was shut down byHSN in 2007, KGMC switched its programming toJewelry Television. KGMC had been the only full-power independent television station in the Fresno market, until August 1, 2012, when it became an affiliate of theSpanish-language networkMundoFox. On December 1, 2016, with the demise of MundoMax, KGMC switched toLiberman Broadcasting'sEstrella TV network.
On February 27, 2020, NBCUniversal agreed to transfer the license assets of KNSO to Cocola Broadcasting in exchange for acquiring theKGMC license.[2] The sale was completed on September 1, 2020.[3] Upon completion of transfer in which the call signs were also swapped,[4] KNSO now operates on UHF channel 27, while KGMC operates on VHF channel 11.
On September 1, 2015, KNSO (then licensed toMerced) launched its first local news production and the second local Spanish-language newscast in the market,Noticiero Telemundo Valle Central. It is an hour-long weekday newscast produced from the studio ofNexstar Broadcasting Group-ownedKSEE andKGPE; Serestar elected to partner with the two stations so that the production could leverage the resources of the stations' new facilities. The newscast is anchored and executive produced by Vanessa Ramirez-Avila, formerly ofKFTV-DT, and features reporting from KGPE, KSEE, and itsBakersfield sister stationsKGET andKKEY-LP.[5][6]
In 2017, an 11 p.m. weeknight newscast (co-produced and simulcast on sister stationKCSO-LD inSacramento) was added. Branded asNoticiero Telemundo California, the newscast features some Fresno-area news via a pre-recorded package from the KSEE/KGPE studio.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 51.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KNSO-DT | Telemundo |
| 51.2 | 480i | Exitos | TeleXitos | |
| 51.3 | COZI TV | Cozi TV | ||
| 51.4 | CRIMES | NBC True CRMZ | ||
| 51.5 | Oxygen | Oxygen | ||
| 59.4 | 480i | 16:9 | Charge! | Charge! (KFRE-TV) |
KNSO (as KGMC) ended regular programming on its analog signal, overUHF channel 43, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal was relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 44 to channel 43.[8]
As part of theSAFER Act, KGMC kept its analog signal on the air until June 26 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop ofpublic service announcements from theNational Association of Broadcasters.[9]
KNSO (as KGMC) was one of nearly 1,000 television stations that were required to change their digital channel allocation in the upcoming spectrum auction repack in early 2018. The station reallocated its digital signal to UHF channel 27 in phase one of the auction.[10]
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