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97-624: KNXV-TV (channel 15) is a television station in Phoenix, Arizona , United States, affiliated with ABC . It was established in 1979 as the Phoenix area's second independent station with part-time subscription television programming from ON TV . It was originally owned by the New Television Corporation, which had attempted to set up the station for nearly five years prior to its launch. In 1985, Scripps-Howard Broadcasting,
194-622: A barter in some cases. Arizona State Sun Devils The Arizona State Sun Devils are the athletic teams that represent Arizona State University . ASU has nine men's and eleven women's varsity teams competing at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level as a member of the Big 12 Conference . The mascot was adopted in 1946; earlier nicknames were the Normals and later,
291-940: A "basketball atmosphere" and level of excitement to the ASU campus that had been absent for years. In his first four seasons at ASU, Sendek led the Sun Devils to three consecutive 20 win seasons, the 2009 Pac-10 conference tournament finals, and the second round of the NCAA tournament. Thirty-six ASU Sun Devils have been selected in the NBA draft , including future NBA Most Valuable Player James Harden , Byron Scott , Isaac Austin , Mark Landsberger , Lafayette Lever , Alton Lister , Lionel Hollins , Sam Williams, Jeff Ayres (known as Jeff Pendergraph when he played at ASU), Stevin "Hedake" Smith , Mario Bennett , Tommy Smith , Ike Diogu , Eddie House . Freddie Lewis , and Joe Caldwell . Paul Stovall
388-677: A 17–14 upset of the Nebraska Cornhuskers in the 1975 Fiesta Bowl . After the 2006 season, Dirk Koetter was fired after six seasons, and on December 6, 2006, athletic director Lisa Love hired Dennis Erickson to become the head coach at ASU. Erickson, in his first year as coach of the Arizona State Sun Devils, led the team to 10 wins, a share of the Pac-10 title with USC, and the Holiday Bowl against
485-414: A 2021 George Polk Award . KNXV-TV also airs one non-news local program: Sonoran Living , a long-running late morning lifestyle program which debuted in 2000. It is broadcast each weekday at 9 a.m. and hosted by Susan Casper and Terri Ouellette. The station's signal is multiplexed : KNXV's first subchannel offering was a traffic subchannel, launched in 2008. In 2011, subchannel 15.2 began carrying
582-637: A 9 p.m. local newscast for one of its other Fox affiliates, KSHB-TV in Kansas City, and the proposed newscast was intended to be unconventional to match the target demographic of Fox network programming. A news director had been hired in September 1993; the set was already under construction; and anchors and staff had reported to Phoenix in the first weeks of May 1994. However, the New World deal and consequent affiliation switch to ABC occurred late in
679-692: A half years after the construction permit was granted. One early station promotion featured the "Bluebird of Happinews", with the voice of Elroy "Buzz" Towers (who was voiced by an early station master control and videotape operator) in an invisible sky-blue helicopter taking jabs at local news on other stations. In Phoenix, ON TV held telecast rights at various times to ASU sports, the Phoenix Suns , Phoenix Giants minor league baseball and Los Angeles Kings hockey. By July 1982, ON TV had 39,000 subscribers in Phoenix, but sporting events and subscribers were moving from subscription television to cable. In 1981,
776-547: A history producing top competitive athletes to compete in the Olympics even before 2004. The Arizona State golf teams use Papago Golf Course as their home course. They play and practice, as of September 2019 at The Thunderbird Golf Complex, and the Phil and Amy Mickelson Player Development Practice Facility. In 1960, 1962, 1969 and 1970, JoAnne Gunderson , Carol Sorenson , Jane Bastanchury and Cathy Gaughan , respectively, won
873-466: A local morning newscast at the end of August, Good Morning America was the first ABC program to move to KNXV. KNXV then picked up World News Tonight and Nightline on December 12, the day after the Fox affiliation ended. The rest of ABC's programming moved to KNXV on January 9, 1995. In 1999, the station moved to a new $ 31 million studio facility that included two studios and a helipad; KDRX-LP ,
970-415: A much shorter wavelength, and thus requires a shorter antenna, but also higher power. North American stations can go up to 5000 kW ERP for video and 500 kW audio, or 1000 kW digital. Low channels travel further than high ones at the same power, but UHF does not suffer from as much electromagnetic interference and background "noise" as VHF, making it much more desirable for TV. Despite this, in
1067-544: A new duopoly between KNXV and KASW, the third in the Phoenix market after Fox Television Stations 's KSAZ-TV/KUTP and Meredith Corporation 's KPHO-TV/KTVK. The sale was approved by the FCC on September 16 and was completed on September 19, 2019. On October 5, 2023, the Arizona Coyotes announced their departure from the troubled regional sports network Bally Sports Arizona as, during its parent company's bankruptcy ,
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#17327903844701164-575: A new program best record and first ever 30 plus win season with a record of 35–8–1, its first ever Final Four Appearance, first ever National Ranking of No. 1, and a benchmark win over NCAA DI Penn State. During the 2013–2014 season, ASU Hockey won the ACHA DI National Championship, with Powers named ACHA DI National Coach of the Year. The Sun Devils were also named WCHL Conference Champions both for 2013–2014 and 2014–2015, and Powers
1261-493: A police pursuit in downtown Phoenix . All four people on both helicopters were killed, including KNXV pilot Craig Smith and photographer Rick Krolak. KNXV-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 15, at 12:01 a.m. on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. At 2 a.m. on that date,
1358-711: A pressure campaign led by Scripps to coerce a reluctant ABC to switch from longtime affiliate and market leader KTVK by threatening disaffiliation in Detroit and Cleveland, having been told by ABC executive Bryce Rathbone that "Scripps has a gun to their head". Meanwhile, KNXV general manager Raymond Hunt was receiving calls congratulating him on KNXV's new CBS affiliation, even though no such deal had been made. On June 15, 1994, ABC officially gave KNXV-TV its affiliation for Phoenix, effective January 9, 1995, and agreed to affiliate with Scripps-owned stations in Tampa and Baltimore. KNXV
1455-492: A second Phoenix station, KASW (channel 61), which was the CW affiliate for Phoenix. The CW affiliation briefly moved to a subchannel of KNXV-TV to allow channel 61 to air Arizona Coyotes hockey games. The two stations share studios on 44th Street on Phoenix's east side; KNXV-TV's transmitter is located atop South Mountain . Its signal is relayed across northern Arizona through a network of low-power translators . In February 1975,
1552-563: A signature win over the #1 ranked Kansas Jayhawks on December 22, 2018 – the first win over a top ranked team at home in program history. Herb Sendek stepped down as head coach of the North Carolina State Wolfpack and accepted the head coaching job at Arizona State in 2006. Sendek took the Wolfpack to five consecutive NCAA Tournaments and also won ACC coach of the year in 2004. Sendek was credited for bringing
1649-432: A station manager "excommunicated" by Scripps to Phoenix, was just as influential in the early years of KNXV's news operation, laying the groundwork for a "no chit-chat" approach. The resulting news product attracted increased viewership: News 15 rose as high as second place at one point. It also led to critical acclaim: in 1995, channel 15 won the most regional Emmy Award nominations for a Phoenix station. After Sullivan left
1746-457: A three-run home run, Katie Burkhart pitched a four-hitter and Arizona State routed Texas A&M 11–0 to win the title. Cochran slammed the first pitch from Megan Gibson over the left field fence in the fifth inning to give the sixth-seeded Sun Devils a 4–0 lead in the fifth inning. The margin ended up matching the second-most lopsided game in Women's College World Series history. On June 7, 2011,
1843-425: A variety of ways to generate revenue from television commercials . They may be an independent station or part of a broadcasting network , or some other structure. They can produce some or all of their programs or buy some broadcast syndication programming for or all of it from other stations or independent production companies. Many stations have some sort of television studio , which on major-network stations
1940-496: Is non-commercial educational (NCE) and considered public broadcasting . To avoid concentration of media ownership of television stations, government regulations in most countries generally limit the ownership of television stations by television networks or other media operators, but these regulations vary considerably. Some countries have set up nationwide television networks, in which individual television stations act as mere repeaters of nationwide programs . In those countries,
2037-752: Is broadcast on these translators in northern and northwestern Arizona: KNXV did not have any translator coverage until 1989, when it signed on a translator in Flagstaff. When it became an ABC affiliate in 1995, it replaced KTVK on some transmitters in Mohave County 's translator network, the largest in the state. The second transmitter in Cottonwood rebroadcast KASW prior to its ATSC 3.0 conversion. Television station The Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow ( TV Station Paul Nipkow ) in Berlin , Germany ,
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#17327903844702134-470: Is broadcast via terrestrial radio waves. A group of television stations with common ownership or affiliation are known as a TV network and an individual station within the network is referred to as O&O or affiliate , respectively. Because television station signals use the electromagnetic spectrum, which in the past has been a common, scarce resource, governments often claim authority to regulate them. Broadcast television systems standards vary around
2231-792: Is often used for newscasts or other local programming . There is usually a news department , where journalists gather information. There is also a section where electronic news-gathering (ENG) operations are based, receiving remote broadcasts via remote pickup unit or satellite TV . Outside broadcasting vans, production trucks , or SUVs with electronic field production (EFP) equipment are sent out with reporters , who may also bring back news stories on video tape rather than sending them back live . To keep pace with technology United States television stations have been replacing operators with broadcast automation systems to increase profits in recent years. Some stations (known as repeaters or translators ) only simulcast another, usually
2328-492: Is the head coach, while his wife, Jessica Santos is an associate coach for Sun Devil Gymnastics. Arizona State University began their Women's Lacrosse program during the 2018 season. ASU is one of fourteen schools to have played Women's Lacrosse in the Pac-12 Conference, along with California, Colorado, Oregon, Stanford, and USC. Courtney Martinez Connor became Head Coach starting with the 2018 campaign, Tim McCormack
2425-939: The College World Series 22 times. The Sun Devils have also reached the NCAA tournament 41 times, most recently in 2021. Starting with Rick Monday as the No. 1 pick of the first ever Major League Baseball draft in '65, ASU leads all schools with 459 total picks. ASU also has the third most alumni to ever play in Major League Baseball . Baseball alumni include Barry Bonds , Paul Lo Duca , Fernando Viña , Dustin Pedroia , Mike Leake , Andre Ethier , Willie Bloomquist , Bob Horner , Sal Bando , Ike Davis , Jason Kipnis , Brett Wallace , Ian Kinsler , Hubie Brooks , Hunter Bishop , and Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson . The Arizona State Sun Devils have appeared in
2522-698: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a construction permit to New Television Corporation to build a new UHF television station on channel 15 in Phoenix. The president was Edwin Cooperstein, who had started New Jersey's WNJU-TV in the 1960s before moving to Phoenix. New Television Corporation expected to begin broadcasting within a year and was intended to place a heavy emphasis on news programming, airing three 90-minute newscasts at different times between 4 p.m. and midnight. The lone legacy of this intended format
2619-582: The Live Well Network ; LWN was replaced with classic television network Antenna TV on January 1, 2014. The Antenna TV subchannel, beginning with the 2024–25 NHL season , airs select Utah Hockey Club and Vegas Golden Knights games during conflicts with sister station KASW. The main 61.1 subchannel of KASW is also broadcast on the KNXV-TV multiplex; KASW, Phoenix's high-power ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) station, carries KNXV-TV in that format. KNXV-TV
2716-802: The NCAA Division I Championship in 1990 and 1996 while claiming six individual titles: Jim Carter (1983), Phil Mickelson (1989, 1990, 1992), Todd Demsey (1993), and Alejandro Cañizares (2003). The ASU women's golf program is the most successful is NCAA history with eight NCAA Division I national championships, most recently in 2017. Golf alumni include Paul Casey , Bob Gilder , Matt Jones , Billy Mayfair , Phil Mickelson (6 time major champion), Mike Morley , Tom Purtzer , Jeff Quinney , Jon Rahm , Chez Reavie , Howard Twitty , JoAnne Carner , Heather Farr , Giulia Molinaro , Azahara Muñoz , Anna Nordqvist , Grace Park , Pearl Sinn and Wendy Ward . Former students of Arizona State University top
2813-497: The NCAA tournament 17 times, including 3 Elite Eights (1961, 1963, 1975). They have won 8 conference championships (4 WAC and 4 BOR) and finished in the final AP rankings 7 times. The highest national ranking the Sun Devils have achieved was No. 3 under Ned Wulk during the 1980–81 season when the starting lineup included Byron Scott , Fat Lever , and Alton Lister . Ned Wulk was the men's basketball coach from 1958 to 1982 and remains
2910-399: The NCAA tournament 17 times, including 7 Sweet Sixteens (1982, 1983, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2015, 2019) and 2 Elite Eights (2007, 2009). They have produced WNBA talent such as Kym Hampton , Briann January , Dymond Simon , Monique Ambers , Promise Amukamara , Amanda Levens , Sophie Brunner , Emily Westerberg , and more. Under head coach Charli Turner Thorne , the program has become one of
3007-757: The Olympics , most recently in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. There have been two Olympic silver medalists from Arizona State; Zeke Jones and Townsend Saunders . Six Sun Devil wrestlers have participated in the World Championships of Wrestling since 1985 (on 16 occasions). Those wrestlers placed in the top 10 a total of ten times, including Zeke Jones, who was the 1991 World Champion at 52 kg or 114.6 pounds. ASU announced plans to transition their ACHA men's hockey program to an NCAA varsity program on November 18, 2014. The Sun Devils continued play in
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3104-405: The broadcast range , or geographic area, that the station is limited to, allocates the broadcast frequency of the radio spectrum for that station's transmissions, sets limits on what types of television programs can be programmed for broadcast and requires a station to broadcast a minimum amount of certain programs types, such as public affairs messages . Another form of television station
3201-534: The electricity bill and emergency backup generators . In North America , full-power stations on band I (channels 2 to 6) are generally limited to 100 kW analog video ( VSB ) and 10 kW analog audio ( FM ), or 45 kW digital ( 8VSB ) ERP. Stations on band III (channels 7 to 13) can go up by 5 dB to 316 kW video, 31.6 kW audio, or 160 kW digital. Low-VHF stations are often subject to long-distance reception just as with FM. There are no stations on Channel 1 . UHF , by comparison, has
3298-686: The 2013–2014 season, coach Powers helped guide the Sun Devils to their first ever ACHA Division I National Championship. He holds a 164–27–9 career record, and his team ended the 2014–2015 season ranked number three in the ACHA with a 35–4–1 record, qualifying for the team's third-straight ACHA Division I Final Four. Since taking the reins as head coach, Greg has also coached eight ACHA Div. I All-Americans and 15 ACHA Academic All-Americans. Coach Powers has helped lead Sun Devil Hockey to five consecutive ACHA National Tournament appearances, starting with his first year as head coach in 2010. In 2012–2013, he led ASU to
3395-473: The 2019 campaign (6–12) overall, (2–8) in Pac-12 play, (4–6) at home, (2–5) on the road, and (0–1) in neutral site contests. The Devils finished the shortened 2020 season (5–3) overall, (1–1) in Pac-12 play, (3–1) at home, and (2–2) on the road. Arizona State completed the 2021 campaign (10–6) overall, (5–4) in Pac-12 play, (6–2) at home, (3–3) on the road, and (1–1) in neutral site games. The Sun Devils finished
3492-418: The 2022 season (11–8) overall, (7–3) in Pac-12 play, (7–3) at home, and (4–5) on the road. ASU completed the 2023 campaign (6–13) overall, (3–7) in Pac-12 play, (3–3) at home, (1–9) on the road, and (2–1) in neutral site contests. The Devils finished the 2024 season (9–10) overall, (3–4) in Pac-12 play, (6–3) at home, (2–6) on the road, and (1–1) in neutral site contests. One of the nation's founding programs,
3589-416: The ACHA in 2014–15, played a hybrid schedule in 2015–16 with a mix of NCAA and ACHA competition, and played as a Division I independent in 2016–17 with plans to join a conference in 2017–18. The National Collegiate Hockey Conference , Western Collegiate Hockey Association , and Big Ten were all seen as potential landing spots for Arizona State. However, no conference move materialized until 2023, when ASU
3686-524: The Big 12 Conference, ASU competes with UCLA, UC Berkeley, University of Stanford, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Arizona, and other schools in the Big 12. Among the all-time Pac-12 records, three of the top ten times in the men's 4x400 relay are held by ASU (2004, 2004, 2005). The women hold three of the top ten spots in the 400m (1991, 2004, 2015). Sun Devil alumni include Olympian Dwight Phillips (Long Jump Gold Medal at 2004 Olympic games). ASU has
3783-1079: The Bulldogs. The Sun Devil mascot, Sparky , was designed by Bert Anthony, a former Disney illustrator. ASU's chief rival is the University of Arizona Wildcats , and both universities' athletics departments compete against each other in the Territorial Cup Series . On August 4, 2023, Arizona State accepted an invite to join the Big 12 Conference, effective August 2, 2024. ASU has 25 NCAA team national championships, including baseball (five times), women's tennis (three times), men's gymnastics (one), men's track and field (one), men's indoor track and field (one), women's outdoor track and field (two times), women's indoor track and field (one), wrestling (one), men's golf (two times), women's golf (eight times), softball (two times), and men's swimming and diving (one). ASU also has numerous individual NCAA national champions in different sports. Additionally,
3880-721: The Gold Coast Conference, which is part of American College Rugby, the USA Rugby -sanctioned governing body of Division I-AA, II and III college rugby since the summer of 2019. The Sun Devils formerly played in the Division 1-A PAC Rugby Conference , which is part of the College Rugby Association of America (also sanctioned by USA Rugby), in which their rivals included Pac-12 foes such as Arizona and UCLA. With 98 registered players, Arizona State
3977-915: The Honda Award (1994 Wendy Ward, 1995 Wendy Ward, 1998 Kellee Booth, 1999 Grace Park, & 2017 Monica Vaughn). Arizona State has had 5 coaches win the WGCA National Coach of the Year (1989 Linda Vollstedt , 1994 Linda Vollstedt, 1995 Linda Vollstedt -(Co-Winner), 2009 Melissa Luellen, & 2017 Missy Farr-Kaye). The Sun Devils have also claimed 5 winners of the Golfweek National Coach of the Year (1993 Linda Vollstedt, 1994 Linda Vollstedt, 1995 Linda Vollstedt, 1997 Linda Vollstedt, & 2017 Missy Farr-Kaye). The men's golf team has won 21 conference championships: They won NCAA regional championships in 1991 (co-champions), 1995, 1998 (co-champions), 1999, 2001, and 2009. They won
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4074-524: The NCAA. After NCAA violations from the Sun Devil football team in 2024, ASU became the most-penalized school in NCAA history with ten major infractions. Arizona State University sponsors teams in 11 men's and 15 women's NCAA sanctioned sports, following the 2015 elevation of the men's ice hockey club team to varsity status. In the fall of 2015, Arizona State announced the addition of women's triathlon and women's lacrosse. Triathlon began competition in
4171-559: The Phoenix LNS agreement shortly after the announcement. By 2020, all four English-language television newsrooms in Phoenix shared a helicopter. In the 2010s, KNXV steadily expanded its news product to additional time slots. In 2012, KNXV relaunched an 11 a.m. newscast, and it added weekend morning news in 2013 and a 6:30 weeknight half-hour in 2014, among other new newscasts. After acquiring KASW, Scripps launched extended morning, midday, and 9 p.m. newscasts on that station over
4268-407: The Phoenix metro area. The affiliation lasted less than three months on KNXV 15.2; effective February 1, 2024, the network moved to KAZT-TV (channel 7) after CW owner Nexstar Media Group entered into a time brokerage agreement with KAZT-TV's owner, Londen Media Group, to program that station. In 1993, Scripps announced that it would start a local newscast for KNXV in 1994. It had already started
4365-488: The Sun Devil Volleyball team. Led by 30+ year coach John Spini, the Sun Devils women's Gymnastics team had many strong years over his reign with many all-American Gymnasts to Spinis credit as well as a facility named after him. Below is the history of top qualifiers coach has had as well as his predecessors at ASU. Jean-Luc Cairon served as an assistant coach for the women's gymnastics team. Jay Santos
4462-545: The Sun Devils captured their second NCAA national championship by defeating the Florida Gators. ASU pitcher, Dallas Escobedo, became the first freshman pitcher to lead a team to the NCAA title since 1990. Entering his 19th season, Greg Kraft is the head coach of the Track and Field team. During his tenure the Sun Devils have won 4 NCAA Championships, 32 NCAA individual titles and produced 13 Olympians. As part of being in
4559-518: The Sun Devils have had three head coaches. Jason Watson led ASU for two seasons from 2014 to 2015, Jackie Bunker for one season in 2016, Brad Keenan for seven seasons from 2017 to 2023, and Kristen Rohr starting in 2024. In 2024, the Sand Devils earned their 1st NCAA Tournament appearance in program history. Completed in February 2022, ASU opened their new Sun Devil Beach Volleyball Facility on
4656-526: The Sun Devils to two NCAA national championships. Myers joined Linda Vollstedt (women's golf – 7), Greg Kraft (women's track & field indoor – 2, women's track & field outdoor – 1, men's indoor track & field – 1), Bobby Winkles (baseball – 3) and Jim Brock (baseball – 2) as Sun Devil coaches with more than one NCAA title. The Sun Devils capped off the 2008 season with their first WCWS NCAA national championship on June 3, 2008. Kaitlin Cochran hit
4753-869: The Sun Devils went 5–1 at home including two Top-15 upsets over Michigan State and Utah . After a string of poor performances, Edwards was fired just 3 games into the 2022 season. He was replaced by Sun Devil alumnus Kenny Dillingham on November 26, 2022. Anderson stepped down from his position as athletic director on November 13, 2023 and was replaced by Graham Rossini . Notable football alumni include Terrell Suggs , Jim Jeffcoat , Mike Pagel , Jake Plummer , Todd Heap , J.R. Redmond , Danny White , Randall McDaniel , David Fulcher , Darren Woodson , Pat Tillman , Eric Allen , Zach Miller , Shaun McDonald , John Jefferson , Paul Justin , Jimmy Verdon , Mike Haynes , Al Harris , Vontaze Burfict , Ryan Torain , Brock Osweiler , Jaelen Strong , Curley Culp and N'Keal Harry . The Arizona State Sun Devils have appeared in
4850-746: The Suns signed a 13-year agreement to telecast games through American Cable, resulting in the launch of the Arizona Sports Programming Network ; American Cable sub-licensed games to ON TV, partly because they had not yet wired all of the metropolitan area. KNXV-TV was at times uncooperative with ON TV's programming plans; the station resisted a request to expand ON TV to start before 7 p.m. on weekdays and 5 p.m. on weekends, and it threatened to stop airing ON TV's "adults only" late-night fare. ON TV sued KNXV over its refusal to cede early evening hours, which generated 60 percent of
4947-776: The Tempe campus. It cost $ 1.2 million and includes four courts. It is located just East of the Alberta B. Farrington Softball Stadium. Home matches were originally hosted at the PERA Club, which is located on 1 E. Continental Drive in Tempe. The PERA Club (short for Project Employees Recreation Association) is a private country club for employees and families of the Salt River Project, the major water and power utility in Phoenix and surrounding cities. It holds three volleyball courts after completing major renovations to accommodate
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#17327903844705044-559: The U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking another large portion of this band (channels 52 to 69) away, in contrast to the rest of the world, which has been taking VHF instead. This means that some stations left on VHF are harder to receive after the analog shutdown . Since at least 1974, there are no stations on channel 37 in North America for radio astronomy purposes. Most television stations are commercial broadcasting enterprises which are structured in
5141-610: The University of Texas Longhorns. Erickson was fired on November 28, 2011, after five seasons with the Sun Devils. He was replaced by coach Todd Graham on December 14, 2011. Love was fired from her position as vice president for University Athletics and athletics director on March 28, 2012, and was immediately replaced by Steve Patterson. The athletic director from 2014-2023 was Ray Anderson , who selected former NFL player and coach Herm Edwards to replace Graham as Arizona State's head coach in 2018. In Edwards’ first season in 2018,
5238-483: The affiliation, having become by 1992 the second most successful Fox affiliate in ratings after KTXL in Sacramento, California . On May 22, 1994, New World Communications signed a long-term groupwide affiliation agreement with Fox that would result in longtime CBS affiliate KSAZ-TV (channel 10), which New World was in the process of acquiring, becoming the Phoenix area's new Fox affiliate. The deal also affected
5335-595: The all time money list for PGA tour career earnings. Phil Mickelson ($ 92.2M), Paul Casey ($ 32.2M), Pat Perez ($ 26.8M), Jon Rahm ($ 23.6M), Billy Mayfair ($ 20.3M), Chez Reavie ($ 16.7M), Matt Jones ($ 13.4M), Dan Forsman ($ 8.7M), Jim Carter ($ 4.8M), Tom Purtzer ($ 4.2M), Bob Gilder ($ 3.0M), Grayson Murray ($ 2.9M), Howard Twitty ($ 2.7M), John Adams ($ 2.0M), Morris Hatalsky ($ 1.7M) and Mike Morley ($ 526K) have collectively earned $ 255,706,471 from 89 wins. The Sun Devil wrestling team have captured one NCAA team national championship (1988) beating out powerhouse Iowa for
5432-635: The baseball team has appeared in the College World Series 22 times, the men's basketball team has participated in 13 NCAA tournaments, and the ASU football team won the Rose Bowl in 1987 and the Fiesta Bowl in 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, and 1982. ASU varsity teams won national championships in men's archery 15 times, women's archery 21 times, mixed archery 20 times, men's badminton 13 times, women's badminton 17 times, mixed badminton 10 times and triathlon four times, all of which are not recognized by
5529-529: The best in the country. She is the winningest coach in ASU history, leading the Sun Devils to two conference championships and 14 NCAA Tournaments in her tenure. Arizona State began their Sand Volleyball program in 2014. It officially became an NCAA Championship sport in 2016, as they changed the sport's name to Beach Volleyball. ASU is one of nine schools to play Beach Volleyball in the Pac-12 Conference, along with Arizona, California, Stanford, Oregon, UCLA, USC, Utah, and Washington. In their first four seasons,
5626-701: The broadcast division of the E. W. Scripps Company , acquired KNXV-TV. Channel 15 affiliated with Fox in 1986 and became the leading independent in the market, one of Fox's strongest affiliates. In 1994, Fox announced a multi-city affiliation agreement with New World Communications which included Phoenix's then- CBS affiliate, KSAZ-TV , and mostly CBS affiliates in several other major markets. CBS expressed interest in affiliating with Scripps's ABC affiliates in other cities and Scripps used this as leverage to force ABC to move its Phoenix affiliation from market leader KTVK to KNXV-TV beginning in January 1995. The station
5723-568: The course of 2020. In the mid-2010s, KNXV also became a leader at digital news within the Scripps group, particularly under the leadership of Chris Kline, who was promoted to news director from digital director. It was the first station in the company to launch a channel on Roku , later expanded throughout the group, and the use of a "digital-first" newsroom methodology helped lead to ratings increases for channel 15's newscasts. KNXV-TV has won three George Foster Peabody Awards . The first, in 2007,
5820-406: The development of the newscast. This forced Scripps to rethink both the product to go out on air and the long-term trajectory of KNXV's news department. As a result, the intended style was toned down slightly; a staff of 30 was expanded to 85; and what was once a 9 p.m. newscast slated to launch July 7 turned into a 10 p.m. newscast, News 15 , that debuted on August 1, 1994. The new newscast
5917-438: The early days, "The only definition of failure at Fox at that time was not trying things." During this period, KNXV made steady gains. By 1990, channel 15 had surpassed KPHO in total-day ratings, even though the station still produced no local newscasts, and it was regularly appearing as one of the top five Fox affiliates by ratings in the country. While KPHO attempted to woo Fox away with its existing news operation, KNXV retained
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#17327903844706014-573: The fall of 2016, with lacrosse starting competition in the spring of 2018. In spring 2016, ASU announced the reinstatement of men's tennis, which had been dropped after the 2007–08 school year. The Sun Devils played in the Border Conference between 1931 and 1961, before joining the Western Athletic Conference . Led by head coach Frank Kush , the Sun Devils posted a 64–9 record between 1970 and 1975, culminating in
6111-438: The figure increasing to 30 beginning in the 1990–91 season. KNXV beat out KPHO-TV and KUTP to become Phoenix's Fox affiliate at the network's inception on October 9, 1986; as Fox's first and only program was The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers , KNXV remained essentially independent. The station had a unique view of the development of the network, as general manager Powell sat on Fox's first board of governors; he would remark of
6208-420: The highest point available in the transmission area, such as on a summit , the top of a high skyscraper , or on a tall radio tower . To get a signal from the master control room to the transmitter, a studio/transmitter link (STL) is used. The link can be either by radio or T1 / E1 . A transmitter/studio link (TSL) may also send telemetry back to the station, but this may be embedded in subcarriers of
6305-450: The launch of its newscast a month to August 1. KTVK's loss of the ABC affiliation was attributed to it being a standalone, family-run operation, while Scripps held substantial clout as a major broadcast chain. Over the second half of 1994, ABC programming migrated from KTVK to KNXV in stages as the outgoing affiliate shed a variety of its soon-to-be former network's offerings. When KTVK launched
6402-400: The local television station has no station identification and, from a consumer's point of view, there is no practical distinction between a network and a station, with only small regional changes in programming, such as local television news . To broadcast its programs, a television station requires operators to operate equipment, a transmitter or radio antenna , which is often located at
6499-445: The longer-established newscasts that already drew frequent news watchers and noted that his station sought to attract "low-use TV news viewers". On April 1, 2009, Scripps joined with Fox Television Stations, owner of KSAZ-TV, to form Local News Service, a model for pooling newsgathering efforts for local news events in which each station provided employees to the pool service in exchange for the sharing of video. KPHO-TV eventually joined
6596-512: The low-power Telemundo affiliate, then acquired KNXV's former building in 2001, allowing it to start producing its own local newscasts; KNXV-TV had previously produced KDRX's first local news program in 1997. Scripps opted to centralize its advertising traffic operation at hubs in Phoenix and Tampa in 2009, choosing Phoenix as one of its westernmost properties at the time, allowing the traffic hub to stay open later. On July 27, 2007, two news helicopters leased to KNXV and KTVK collided while covering
6693-419: The main broadcast. Stations which retransmit or simulcast another may simply pick-up that station over-the-air , or via STL or satellite. The license usually specifies which other station it is allowed to carry. VHF stations often have very tall antennas due to their long wavelength , but require much less effective radiated power (ERP), and therefore use much less transmitter power output , also saving on
6790-459: The mid-1980s and former KSHB-TV general manager, coaxed Muscare out of retirement to work in Phoenix. Muscare resigned in September 1986, shortly before being arrested on charges of sexual battery with a minor stemming from an incident in Florida. The station also became the over-the-air broadcaster of the Suns again; it lost the rights to televise the team's games to KUTP (channel 45) in 1988 with
6887-428: The monthly magazine program Coyotes Insider ). Scripps announced on November 16 that The CW would move to KNXV's second subchannel as "CW 6 Arizona" beginning November 20, freeing up KASW to become an independent station and air subsequent Coyotes games. The subchannel continued to carry programming from Antenna TV in all other time periods and assumed KASW's former cable channel 6 allotment on Cox Communications in
6984-521: The most successful coach in the history of the program with a record of 406 – 272 (.599). Arizona State appeared in the NAIA Men's Basketball National Tournament two years ( 1948 and 1953 ). In both years they lost in the second round, leaving the NAIA with a tournament record of 2–2. Bobby Hurley is the head coach of the Sun Devils, leading Arizona State to a 12–0 non-conference record in 2017, and
7081-466: The network affiliates. After going full-time with the end of ON TV, potential buyers expressed interest in acquiring channel 15. Cooperstein rebuffed a $ 22 million (equivalent to $ 54.6 million in 2023) bid from the Tribune Company but accepted a $ 30 million (equivalent to $ 74.5 million in 2023) offer from Scripps-Howard in 1984; the sale was finalized in 1985 after Scripps
7178-523: The network rejected the Coyotes' contract. That same day, the team and Scripps Sports announced a new contract. As part of the deal, games would be broadcast by KNXV in Phoenix and Scripps stations in other markets. Because of network programming commitments between KNXV and KASW, most games would air on KNXV's second subchannel, which usually carries Antenna TV , though both stations would carry surrounding Coyotes team content on their main channels (such as
7275-476: The programmes seen on its owner's flagship station, and have no television studio or production facilities of their own. This is common in developing countries . Low-power stations typically also fall into this category worldwide. Most stations which are not simulcast produce their own station identifications . TV stations may also advertise on or provide weather (or news) services to local radio stations , particularly co-owned sister stations . This may be
7372-508: The station in 1996, Michael Kronley was installed as station manager from Charlotte ABC affiliate WSOC-TV . Under Kronley, the investigative reports were discontinued and replaced by more live shots, and the station acquired a helicopter. KNXV and KPHO both adopted the slogan "Live, Local, Late Breaking", requiring KPHO to alter its version and ultimately leading KNXV to adopt a new slogan, "We won't waste your time". Under Jeff Klotzman, channel 15's fourth news director, ratings generally fell for
7469-460: The station the next year. The catalyst and financial backer was Oak Industries , which would broadcast the ON TV subscription television service in evening hours while New Television would program the station during the day as a commercial independent station , airing first-run and off-network syndicated shows and children's programs. KNXV-TV began broadcasting on September 9, 1979, more than four and
7566-709: The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 56, which was among the high band UHF channels (52–69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its analog-era UHF channel 15. Scripps has since expanded its operations in Phoenix and the state. Its 2015 acquisition of Journal Communications included KGUN-TV and KWBA-TV , the ABC and CW affiliates in Tucson . On March 20, 2019, Scripps announced that it would acquire Phoenix's affiliate of The CW, KASW, and seven other stations from Nexstar Media Group as part of that company's proposed acquisition of Tribune Media. This would create
7663-439: The station's newscasts; he resigned in 1998 and was replaced by Bob Morford, whose format tended to deemphasize reporters. A 2000 Columbia Journalism Review study of local newscasts nationwide gave KNXV an "F" rating for its short stories lacking investigations and mentioned sources, though it praised the focus on local issues and geographic diversity in local news coverage. Morford defended KNXV's news format as an alternative to
7760-560: The station's revenue. Phoenix was one of the first ON TV markets to show serious subscriber erosion. By April 1983, its subscriber base had dipped below 25,000—a drop of more than 35 percent. Oak Communications ultimately shuttered ON TV in Phoenix on May 4, 1983, resulting in the loss of 140 jobs. KNXV then became a full-time general-entertainment independent station, relying on a movie library and syndicated shows not already owned by KPHO-TV (channel 5)—the established independent in Phoenix—or
7857-995: The title, followed by two years of national runners-up in 1989 and 1990, losing out to Oklahoma State both years. The Sun Devil wrestling team has produced 10 individual NCAA champions and over 100+ All-American wrestling honors in its history. Arizona State has won 24 Pac-12 Championships in program history. Wrestling alumni include several Mixed Martial Arts stars, such as: Dan Severn (inductee to UFC Hall of Fame ), Don Frye , Cain Velasquez (former UFC Heavyweight Champion ), Ryan Bader , Aaron Simpson , Dan Henderson , John Moraga , Clifford Starks , C.B. Dollaway , and Bubba Jenkins (2011 157 lbs NCAA Champion). Other notable wrestlers include: Anthony Robles (2011 125 lbs NCAA Champion with one leg), Curley Culp (1967 NCAA Heavyweight Champion and member of Pro Football Hall of Fame ), and Zahid Valencia (two-time NCAA Champion). Eight Sun Devil wrestlers have participated at
7954-588: The two other Fox stations owned by Scripps-Howard, KSHB-TV and WFTS-TV in Tampa . New World also owned CBS affiliates switching to Fox in Detroit and Cleveland . CBS was highly interested in moving to the successful Scripps-owned ABC affiliates— WXYZ-TV and WEWS-TV —in these markets, which ABC estimated to generate half a rating point by themselves for World News Tonight , per a declaration made by KTVK general manager Bill Miller in an FCC filing. Miller described
8051-651: The two-time NCAA national champion Sun Devils are in their 45th season on the diamond. ASU has recorded twenty-seven seasons of 30 or more wins and twelve with 40 or more, including an all-time high of 66 wins in 2008. The Sun Devils have appeared in 23 NCAA tournaments (33 postseason bids overall) and have made nine trips to the Women's College World Series . Prior to the existing NCAA format, ASU went to seven WCWS, claiming back-to-back national titles in 1972 and 1973. Arizona State's storied tradition of softball excellence continues to flourish under head coach Clint Myers, who has led
8148-906: The women's intercollegiate individual golf championship (an event conducted by the Division of Girls' and Women's Sports , which was succeeded by the existing NCAA women's golf championship). In 1975, the ASU women's golf team won the AIAW national championship . Monica Vaughn won the NCAA women's individual golf championship in 2017. The women's golf team has won 8 national championships (1990, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2009, & 2017). There have been 10 women's individual champions in school history (1960 Joanne Gunderson-Carner, 1962 Carol Sorenson, 1969 Jane Bastanchury-Booth, 1970 Cathy Gaughan, 1985 Danielle Ammaccapane, 1994 Emilee Klein, 1995 Kristel Mourgue d'Algue, 1999 Grace Park, 2008 Azahara Munoz, & 2017 Monica Vaughn). ASU women's golf has had 5 winners of
8245-399: The world. Television stations broadcasting over an analog system were typically limited to one television channel , but digital television enables broadcasting via subchannels as well. Television stations usually require a broadcast license from a government agency which sets the requirements and limitations on the station. In the United States, for example, a television license defines
8342-529: Was a Charles Barkley type standout with a dominating presence on the court but his non-conducive actions off the court limited his notoriety. ASU has one of the most successful baseball programs in the country. The Sun Devils have won five national championships ( 1965 , 1967 , 1969 , 1977 , 1981 ), the fourth most by any school, and have the third most College World Series victories with 61. ASU baseball has won 21 conference championships (including four consecutive Pac-10 titles from 2007 to 2010) and reached
8439-472: Was announced as the newest NCHC member effective with the 2024–25 season. The ASU hockey team has a proud history of ACHA hockey. The highlight included winning the 2013–2014 ACHA National Championship, beating Robert Morris 3–1 to win its first national championship in hockey. The team is led by Coach Greg Powers. Coach Powers enters his eighth overall season on the Sun Devil coaching staff and his first as head coach of ASU's NCAA Division I Hockey program. In
8536-529: Was fast-paced with a high story count, and it was also the start of a rapid expansion to fit the needs of a Big Three affiliate. A 6 p.m. newscast soon followed, with a 5 p.m. show added in December and 6 and 11 a.m. programs in January 1995. The founding news director, Mary Cox, soon exited; she was replaced by Susan Sullivan, who created an environment focused on enterprise and investigative reporting that employees described as "utopian". Bob Rowe,
8633-483: Was for "Security Risks at Sky Harbor", which exposed lapses in security at the airport overnight. The station won a second in 2012 for "Ford Escape: Exposing a Deadly Defect", which led to a recall of SUVs, and a third in 2020 for reporter Dave Biscobing's investigation, "Full Disclosure", on the state of Brady lists in the state, which also received an Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award and The Hillman Prize . Another Biscobing report, "Politically Charged", won
8730-418: Was in the advanced stages of building a local news department when the affiliation switch was announced; in September 1993, the station had hired its first news director, and the station's newly hired staff of 30 had reported to Phoenix in the weeks before the New World deal was announced. As a result of the switch and the consequent demand for more newscasts, the news staff expanded to 85, and the station delayed
8827-420: Was in the process of organizing a local newsroom when the switch was announced and aired its first newscast on August 1, 1994; News 15 received critical acclaim in its early years but sank in ratings and quality in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The news department recovered, expanding the number of local newscasts it produced, and has since received three George Foster Peabody Awards . In 2019, Scripps acquired
8924-409: Was named Head Coach beginning with the 2020 season, and Taryn VanThof was named Head Coach beginning with the 2023 season. Home games for the Arizona State Sun Devils are played at Sun Devil Soccer Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. During their inaugural season in 2018, the Sun Devils finished (6–12) overall, (1–9) in Pac-12 play, (1–6) at home, (5–5) on the road, and (0–1) in neutral site games. ASU completed
9021-532: Was named WCHL Coach of the Year for 2013–2014. Powers was also named an ACHA Division I National Coach of the Year finalist in 2012–2013, and 2014–2015. Since 2009, Coach Power's ASU hockey teams held a 37-game winning streak over the rival college hockey team located in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1975, the Arizona State University men's rugby team has played college rugby in Division 1 of
9118-403: Was ranked as the largest college rugby program in the United States in 2009. Arizona State was led by head coach Gary Lane from 2001 until 2017, when he agreed to resign as part of disciplinary action taken by D-I Rugby (the College Rugby Association of America) in response to a violent on-field incident involving an ASU player. The team has since then been coached by Pieter Hugo. Arizona State
9215-558: Was required by the FCC to divest itself of radio stations KMEO- AM - FM . The new owner's connections showed in a program KNXV debuted shortly after the sale. In mid-1985, KNXV began producing Friday Night at the Frights starring "Edmus Scarey" (portrayed by Ed Muscare ), a series of hosted B-movies . Ed Muscare had previously hosted shows for another Scripps station, KSHB-TV in Kansas City . Stu Powell, general manager of KNXV in
9312-678: Was the first regular television service in the world. It was on the air from 22 March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow , the inventor of the Nipkow disk . Most often the term "television station" refers to a station which broadcasts structured content to an audience or it refers to the organization that operates the station. A terrestrial television transmission can occur via analog television signals or, more recently, via digital television signals. Television stations are differentiated from cable television or other video providers as their content
9409-786: Was the station's call sign, KNXV-TV, standing for "Newswatch 15" (the "XV" stood for 15 in Roman numerals ). Plans were soon delayed due to the inability to secure financing in a difficult economy, and by the end of 1976, the station was still unbuilt. In 1977, Cooperstein and his investors sold a majority of New Television Corporation to Byron Lasky's Arlington Corporation. Lasky would end up launching or purchasing three other stations: WTTO in Birmingham, Alabama ; WCGV-TV in Milwaukee ; and WQTV in Boston . In late 1978, plans were made to launch
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