90-530: KCEB (channel 54) is a television station in Longview, Texas , United States, affiliated with beIN Sports Xtra . The station is owned by Innovate Corp. alongside Tyler -licensed low-power station KPKN-LD , both of which share RF channel 35. Although KCEB is licensed as a full-power station, it shares spectrum with KPKN-LD, whose low-power signal only covers the immediate Tyler–Longview area. Therefore, KCEB relies on cable and satellite carriage to reach
180-615: A rebroadcast of sister station KYTX's morning newscast, preempting classic television programs aired by MeTV from 7 to 9 a.m. weekdays. Beginning with the 2012 football season, KCEB carried Southland Conference college football and basketball games from the Southland Conference Television Network, which included game telecasts from nearby Nacogdoches -based Stephen F. Austin State University . Southland Conference sports coverage
270-400: A television network , or a particular radio or television program that plays a key role in the branding of and consumer loyalty to a network or station. This includes both direct network feeds and broadcast syndication , but generally not backhauls . Not all networks or shows have a flagship station, as some originate from a dedicated radio or television studio . The term derives from
360-603: A barbershop, which also closed in 1986. The building was ultimately demolished in 1995. In 1942, construction began on the Big Inch pipeline in Longview. From 1943 to 1945, the pipeline transported over 261,000,000 barrels of crude oil to the East Coast . At the time of construction, Big Inch and its smaller twin, Little Inch, comprised the longest petroleum pipeline ever built in the world. Both were integral in supplying
450-401: A channel sharing agreement with Shreveport-based ABC affiliate KTBS-TV. KCEB had previously agreed to go off the air after selling its spectrum in the 2017 broadcast incentive auction . KCEB began broadcasting on KTBS' frequency on April 29, 2018. The station did not have to change its city of license , as KTBS' signal completely covers Longview. The Federal Communications Commission granted
540-499: A comparatively small area on its east that is within Harrison County . At the 2010 census , Longview had a population of 80,455. The median age was 34. The racial and ethnic composition of the population was 56.2% non-Hispanic White , 22.6% Black or African American , 0.5% Native American , 1.4% Asian , 9.5% from some other race, and 2.3% from two or more races . About were 18.0% Hispanics or Latinos of any race. In
630-713: A digital subchannel, while KAZA-TV alongside KHTV-CD, KPOM-CD, and KSFV-CD in Los Angeles carries MeTV, MeTV Plus, Catchy Comedy, Story Television, and Heroes & Icons, while WJLP and WZME in New York City carry MeTV and MeTV Plus, with KAXT-CD and KTLN-TV in San Francisco carries Catchy Comedy and Heroes & Icons. Heartland, Retro TV and Rev'n are all based in Chattanooga, Tennessee , the home base of WOOT-LD and common owner Get After It Media . NEWSnet
720-596: A fireplace in every room. Mobberly was located in the junction part of town near the train depot. The hotel was destroyed by fire on June 13, 1965. On May 23, 1894, Bill Dalton and three members of his posse robbed the First National Bank of Longview. Several men died in the resulting gunfight , bandit Jim Wallace along with citizens J. W. McQueen, Charles Learn, and George Buckingham. The robbers escaped with 2,000$ in cash and some unsigned bank notes. The Gregg County Historical Museum holds it's exhibit on
810-528: A flagship station, as Clay Travis is based in Nashville. WWRL in New York City was an affiliate of the now-defunct Air America Radio and carries some of its programs (along with those from other distributors) but is separately owned and operated and does not produce any programs for the network. Originally, Air America Radio leased WLIB (also in New York City) as its flagship station; the station
900-697: A fully owned broadcast building in Metro Manila, thus giving the Manila station equal flagship. In the United States, the term "flagship station" may also be used in the broadcasting industry to refer to a station which is co-located with the headquarters of its station group and considered the company's most important station (such a station may or may not be affiliated with one of the major networks). For example, WDIV-TV in Detroit, affiliated with NBC,
990-415: A local cable broadcaster to distribute preseason and team programming. An anti-siphoning policy is also used by the league in order for local stations to bid for all games not on broadcast television for over-the-air distribution when local teams play. Most of the league's teams partner with a local station or regional network of stations, which distributes team programming and weekly analysis shows featuring
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#17327880841111080-409: A median income of $ 33,078 versus $ 21,400 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 15,676. About 13.0% of families and 16.0% of the population were below the poverty line , including 22.7% of those under age 18 and 10.6% of those age 65 or over. By 2020, the median household income for Longview residents grew to $ 50,019, and monthly housing costs were $ 854. As of 2020's religion census by
1170-515: A network of telenovelas (or soap operas), returning KCEB to Spanish language programming, on January 13, 2023. This, too, would be a short lived programming change for KCEB, as just one week later, Novelisima programming would be dropped from the station as it flipped to another infomercial based network operated over many HC2 Holdings stations, Magnificent Movies Network. MMN programming is similar to Timeless TV, featuring infomercials, combined instead with old movie titles which are readily available in
1260-719: A secondary system to the main CTV network, maintains its eastern flagship in Barrie (which is on the northwestern fringe of the Toronto market) and West Coast flagship in Victoria (which is on the southwestern fringe of the Vancouver market). CIII-DT-41 had always been considered the flagship station of Global in Toronto despite being a technical satellite station of CIII-DT, which is licensed to Paris, Ontario . However, since July 2009,
1350-465: A service that was created in September 1998 to expand The WB's national coverage primarily through cable-only outlets in smaller markets, which were managed locally by cable providers (since it was cable-exclusive, the channel used the "KWTL" callsign in a fictional manner). During the transition, KTPN and KLPN became independent stations . Shortly after receiving the affiliation, on January 24, 2006,
1440-454: A similar model: flagship stations WOR in New York City (which it acquired in 2012) and KFI in Los Angeles are both operated mostly separately from its syndication wing, Premiere Networks (Premiere does produce some limited programming, including The Jesus Christ Show , The Tech Guy and Handel on the Law , through KFI). Premiere's The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show uses WLAC as
1530-858: A team's head coach , with those stations allowed to market as a team's 'official station', often tied into preseason and often pay-television games (which are syndicated to primary market stations under the league's anti-siphoning policy). In a lesser arrangement, Major League Baseball teams often name a local broadcast station their official weather forecasting partner and allow them to market as such. Canadian network flagship locations vary by language. Most English-language networks eastern flagships are located in Toronto , French-language eastern flagships are located in Montreal , and West Coast flagships (regardless of language) are located in Vancouver . CTV 2 , being
1620-663: Is Rolin McPhee. Bonds retired January 31, 2022 and Rolin McPhee became the city manager on February 1. With the addition of McPhee as city manager, the city of Longview underwent some restructuring namely adding an assistant city manager, MaryAnn Hagenbucher. Longview is represented in the Texas Senate by Republican Bryan Hughes , District 1 , and in the Texas House of Representatives by Republican Jay Dean , District 7 . The Texas Department of Criminal Justice operates
1710-554: Is also one of the major economic hubs for Northeast Texas alongside Tyler . According to the municipal Fiscal Year 2021–2022 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report , the top employers in the city were: Longview Public Library operates a main branch, and the Broughton Branch. Longview’s cultural district—a 320-acre (130 ha) area in downtown Longview which includes museums, restaurants, parks, live music, theater, and historic buildings—was designated by
1800-819: Is based in Cadillac, Michigan . True Crime Network and Quest are all based in Atlanta, Georgia . Comet, Charge!, TBD, and The Nest are all based in Baltimore, Maryland . Circle is based in Nashville, Tennessee . The Dallas station for TBN is listed as the network is based in Fort Worth . While the Virginia-based Public Broadcasting Service in the United States does not have an official "flagship" television station, WNET in
1890-957: Is flagshipped at KZOY in Sioux Falls, South Dakota , with much of its programming voicetracked from WGWE in Little Valley, New York . Former flagship stations for now-defunct networks in American radio's "Big Four" era of the 1940s–1980s were: In Canada, current CBC / Radio-Canada flagships are CBLA-FM (99.1) in Toronto , which broadcasts in English, and CBF-FM (95.1) in Montréal , which broadcasts in French. Both are former AM clear channel operations which have moved to FM. Former flagship stations for now-defunct networks were: While CJBC remains on-air on its original frequency, it
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#17327880841111980-572: Is flagshipped at WSM-FM in the same city. MeTV FM , a classic oldies / soft rock network, is flagshipped at WRME-LD in Chicago , the home base of its owner, television broadcaster Weigel Broadcasting . The Satellite Music Network networks were flagshipped at a cluster of stations in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex during their existence; KMEO , for example, served as the flagship for Unforgettable Favorites . CloudCast
2070-494: Is listed for NBC because its parent company Comcast is headquartered here. Meanwhile, Miami stations are also listed for Univision, Telemundo and UniMás (formerly TeleFutura) due to their operations being major production bases for those networks. The Miami area station for Ion Television is also listed due to their parent company being based out of West Palm Beach ; however none of the Ion stations listed originate programming for
2160-726: Is located in a suburb of that city. However, Cox owns WFXT in Boston, which is larger than Atlanta. The same can be said for TEGNA who lists three of its properties as its flagship stations ( WXIA-TV in Atlanta, WUSA in Washington, D.C., and KUSA in Denver) , but also owns WFAA in Dallas , which is larger than Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and Denver in terms of Media market . Likewise, prior to merging with Gannett in 2013, WFAA served as
2250-542: Is nominally flagshipped at WFAN (although that station does not produce programming for the network). ESPN Radio has no true flagship station, as it operates out of ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut ; Windsor Locks -licensed WUCS (owned by iHeartMedia) serves as its de facto flagship, serving ESPN's home market of Hartford . Nash FM , a country music network, is nominally flagshipped at WKDF in Nashville, Tennessee ; its classic-leaning counterpart Nash Icon
2340-552: Is now an owned-and-operated station of the French-language Radio-Canada network. The CKO network's Toronto frequency was re-issued to CBL (as CBLA-FM 99.1) but the namesake CKO (AM) flagship in Montréal is silent; the frequency remains vacant. For syndicated radio programs, it refers to the originating station from which a program is fed by satellite or other means to stations nationwide, although
2430-407: Is owned collectively by the local PBS member stations. A station's importance to the system is built as much or more on the programming it produces for national distribution (a metric which places WNET as a strong third-place contender behind WGBH in Boston and WETA in Washington, D.C.) instead of local media market size. The jointly-owned KCET and KOCE are the primary and secondary PBS stations in
2520-411: Is seen the calls of CBS's KCBS (AM) being based in their original city of San Francisco instead of Los Angeles (the use of KCBS-TV in Los Angeles only dates back to 1984), while KNBR (which was subsequently sold to another party by NBC in 1987) was formerly known as KNBC before the network moved those calls to KRCA-TV in Los Angeles in 1962. ABC, CBS and NBC are headquartered in New York City, which
2610-734: Is served by four school districts. The Gregg County portion of Longview is part of the Tyler-Longview-Lufkin-Nacogdoches designated market area, and the Harrison County portion of Longview is within the Shreveport-Texarkana market. KLGV-LD broadcasts from Longview. East Texas Regional Airport is located south of Longview. The city's public transit system, Longview Transit, runs daily routes, excluding Sundays and holidays. Its fixed routes provide transportation to key districts throughout
2700-483: Is the flagship station of Graham Media Group ; and WGN-TV in Chicago was the flagship station of Tribune Broadcasting until it was purchased by Nexstar Media Group in 2019. In essence, a flagship can be located in the market where the station's owner is headquartered, or in the largest market where that owner operates. For example, WSB-TV in Atlanta is the flagship of Cox Media Group , because Cox's headquarters
2790-556: Is the largest television market in the U.S., so their respective radio and television stations in that market are considered the overall network flagship stations. As programming schedules increased and modern technology improved transmission to affiliates, the networks set up operations centers in New York City (for the East Coast feed) and Los Angeles (for the West Coast feed). Los Angeles is the second largest television market in
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2880-810: Is the radio flagship station of the Baltimore Orioles baseball team, which feeds Orioles' games to 20 stations in Maryland and adjacent states. A flagship television station is the principal privately owned television station of a television network in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, Australia and the Philippines. In the late 1920s, network owned-and-operated stations (or "O&O") for radio in New York City began producing live entertainment and news programs, fed by telephone lines to affiliates. These eventually were dubbed flagship stations. When television networks were formed in
2970-405: The 2020 U.S. census , the city had a population of 81,638. Longview is the principal city of the Longview metropolitan statistical area , comprising Gregg, Upshur , and Rusk counties. The population of the metropolitan area as of 2021 census estimates was 287,858. Longview was established in 1870 in what was at the time southern Upshur County; the town incorporated in 1871. After Gregg County
3060-628: The Association of Religion Data Archives , Baptists were the largest set of Christians, with Christianity being the predominant religion for Longview's metropolitan area. Altogether, Baptists from the American Baptist Association , Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship , Free Will Baptists , National Baptists , National Missionary Baptists , and Southern Baptists numbered 88,811. Non/inter-denominational Protestants numbered 26,874. Other large Christian communities for
3150-552: The CRTC has considered CIII-DT-41 "the originating station" of Global Ontario. The secondary French-language networks TVA and Noovo are not carried terrestrially in Western Canada, although they are usually available on pay television . Networks/systems with only one flagship station As of 2017, Mexico's national networks hold a nationwide virtual channel , thus all of the flagship stations mentioned below in most of
3240-489: The Dallas suburb of Greenville ), which will result in only the second instance in which a duopoly will be legally and operationally separated (the Sinclair Broadcast Group is similarly splitting up its Birmingham duopoly of WTTO and WABM , to acquire WBMA-LD and its satellites as part of its purchase of Allbritton Communications ). On March 28, 2018, it was announced that KCEB had entered into
3330-500: The Gannett Company announced that it would acquire KYTX and five other London Broadcasting stations in a $ 215 million all-cash transaction. Gannett's CEO Gracia Martore touted that the acquisition would give the company a presence in several fast-growing markets, and opportunities for local advertisers to leverage its digital marketing platform. London exempted KCEB from the deal (as well as company flagship KTXD-TV in
3420-514: The KFXK-TV tower near New London . In May 2008, they submitted an application to the FCC to move their digital allotment from channel 38 to channel 51, to use the antenna used by KFXK that would be effectively abandoned by that station when it terminated its analog signal upon the digital television transition . In January 2009, the application was approved, and a modification of the construction permit
3510-756: The National Hockey League and the National Basketball Association . This trend is reversing in the 2020's. KJZZ (Utah Jazz) and KTVK (Phoenix Suns) are flagship stations in the NBA, as both teams have contracts with station groups (Sinclair in Utah and Gray in Phoenix). The National Football League has a different structure, as all games require over-the-air broadcast and the league and teams are generally loath to use only
3600-558: The University of Texas at Tyler 's Longview University Center. The modern-day city of Longview was founded in 1869. In 1870, O.H. Methvin, Sr. sold 100 acres (40 ha) to the Southern Pacific Railroad for one dollar to persuade them to build their line in the direction of land he owned. Later that year, he sold another 100 acres (40 ha) for $ 500 in gold. He hoped the coming of the railroad would increase
3690-657: The Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner and CBS Corporation announced that the two companies would shut down The WB and UPN and combine the networks' respective programming to create a new "fifth" network called The CW , which would be aimed at young adults between the ages of 18 and 34. One month later on February 22, the News Corporation announced the launch of a new network of its own called MyNetworkTV , which would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television , which
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3780-416: The census of 2000, 73,344 people, 28,363 households, and 19,116 families resided in the city. The population density was 1,341.8 inhabitants per square mile (518.1/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 70.10% White, 22.11% African American, 0.50% Native American, 0.83% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander , 4.92% from other races, and 1.51% from two or more races; Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 10.31% of
3870-410: The 28,363 households at the 2000 census , 33.2% had children under 18 living with them, 48.9% were married couples living together, 14.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.6% were not families. About 27.9% of all households were individuals who lived alone, and 10.7% of all households were 65 or older and living alone. The average household size was 2.50, and the average family size
3960-735: The I-20 corridor, bringing passenger rail service to that corridor for the first time since the Texas and Pacific 's unnamed successor to the Louisiana Eagle in the late 1960s. Longview is served by Amtrak, the BNSF Railway , and the Union Pacific Railroad . Flagship (broadcasting) In broadcasting , a flagship (also known as a flagship station or key station ) is the broadcast station which originates
4050-489: The Longview District Parole Office in Longview. Longview is part of Texas's 1st congressional district , which is currently represented by Republican Nathaniel Moran . Moran was elected after former Republican Louie Gohmert announced he was not seeking reelection in 2022. The city of Longview is home to three institutions of higher learning and two trade (cosmetology) schools: Longview
4140-451: The Longview station serves the Chicago to Los Angeles trains. The return train, Los Angeles to Chicago, stops in Longview on Sunday, Tuesday, and Friday. It serves about 20–50 passengers per day. From the station, passengers can connect to Nacogdoches , Lufkin , Houston , and Galveston , as well as Shreveport, Louisiana , by motorcoach. A proposal is in the works for a high-speed rail system from Dallas / Fort Worth to Shreveport along
4230-453: The Los Angeles market respectively, while KLCS is a tertiary PBS station. In sports broadcasting, the flagship television station is the sports team's primary station in the team's home market that produces NFL preseason telecasts, along with in-season surrounding programming such as team, coach's, and pre-game/post-game shows and feeds them to affiliates. For example, WJBK in Detroit is
4320-662: The MSA were Methodists , Pentecostals , Jehovah's Witnesses , and Mormons . Its Catholic Christian community numbered 22,952. Longview is one of several cities in East Texas that serve as a center for the " patent troll " industry, due to a perception that the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas is a favorable venue for patent infringement plaintiffs. As such, it
4410-509: The New York City area held an official primary role with PBS predecessor, National Educational Television (NET). There cannot be any owned-and-operated stations within the Public Broadcasting Service; individual PBS stations are typically owned by local non-profit groups (such as WPBS-TV ), universities (such as KPBS ) or state-level entities as part of a state network (such as KETA-TV and WGTV ). The system itself
4500-677: The Texas Commission on the Arts in 2019. The 29-acre (12 ha) Longview Arboretum and Nature Center opened in 2019. Among other centers, the city has a vast trail system that is being connected to create 10 consecutive miles of connected walking/biking trails. According to the 2007 comprehensive annual financial report, the city's various funds had $ 75.9 million in revenues, $ 87.7 million in expenditures, $ 47.6 million in total assets, $ 9.0 million in total liabilities, and $ 12.2 million in cash in investments. The city manager as of 2023
4590-650: The U.S., and traditional home to the motion picture industry and its pool of popular talent, one of the reasons the radio networks set up operations there in the 1930s and 1940s (just as the medium of television was starting to take off). This arrangement is reversed for the Fox Broadcasting Company . When Fox was launched in 1986, its network operations center was (and still is) based in Los Angeles. However, Fox's parent company, Fox Corporation (which spun off its broadcasting properties in July 2013 into
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#17327880841114680-504: The United States in the late 1940s and grew during the early 1950s, network-owned stations in New York City became the production centers for programs originating on the East Coast, feeding affiliates of ABC , CBS , and NBC in the eastern three-fourths of the country. Stations in Los Angeles similarly started producing programs on the West Coast, feeding affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone , Alaska and Hawaii . Consequently,
4770-695: The United States' war effort in World War II . After World War II, Longview's population grew from 24,502 to 40,050 in 1960, its growth fueled by migration from rural Gregg County and the annexation of Greggton and Spring Hill . Longview is located within Northeast Texas , a subregion of East Texas . North of Kilgore , and is bordered to the west by the city of White Oak . Longview was founded in Gregg County, and has annexed surrounding land as it has grown in population and area, including
4860-486: The affiliation across most of the former WB affiliates they owned at the time. Nexstar Media Group then bought Tribune in 2019; however, it had to sell off WPIX to the E. W. Scripps Company to prevent breaching the required market ownership cap set by the FCC for each broadcaster. Two years after WPIX returned to Nexstar control through partner company Mission Broadcasting , the Irving, Texas-based media firm announced that it would buy 75% of CW's shares in August 2022. With
4950-438: The announcement of Scripps to combine the True Real and Defy TV networks in to one, KPKN-LD DT2 switched to Ion Television , becoming the area's second affiliate, alongside KETK-TV DT3. KCEB was one of a handful of MeTV affiliates that preempted portions of the network's schedule (many of the network's affiliates carry at least the majority of the schedule, with any preemptions usually limited to local newscasts produced for
5040-427: The attackers and the men in the house. Eventually, Jones made a getaway. The white men then began to burn buildings in the black section of the town. The Gregg Hotel opened in 1930, and served oil boom customers. It had various operators as a hotel until 1978, when it was converted to dormitories for use by male students of LeTourneau College . Following the 1984 spring semester, the building sat empty except for
5130-556: The city. City of Longview Transit (COLT) provides demand-response transportation services for those who are unable to use the regular Longview Transit fixed-route service. Amtrak passenger rail service is available on the Texas Eagle through a downtown terminal . Longview's Amtrak station is the fifth-busiest in Texas and the fourth-busiest station along the Texas Eagle route. Daily trains between Chicago and San Antonio stop each morning (Chicago–San Antonio) and each evening (San Antonio–Chicago). Monday, Wednesday, and Friday,
5220-418: The construction permit for the station, as K33KN-D, on February 25, 2010. The station's call letters were changed to the current KPKN-LD on March 29, 2016. The station signed on in April 2016 as an affiliate of FremantleMedia ’s Buzzr network. Buzzr was previously on KDKJ-LD4 until that point. Katz Broadcasting ’s male-oriented Grit replaced Buzzr on KDKJ-LD4 upon KPKN’s sign on. On March 10, 2023, following
5310-546: The country are on the same channel on the rest of the stations in each network with some exceptions along the American, Guatemalan and Belizean border areas. Source: Notes The total number of stations is including the three stations listed in the table. Among the subkey stations, the four major networks are wide area stations.TXN network member stations (Osaka and Aichi) are prefectural area broadcasts. There are 13 independent stations in Japan. Note Sonshine's main headquarters are in Davao City, but also has
5400-411: The digital signal out to its maximum authorization. On December 12, 2009, KCEB was issued a construction permit to install a 500 kW transmitter. Longview, Texas Longview is a city in, and county seat of, Gregg County, Texas , United States. Longview is located in East Texas , where Interstate 20 and U.S. highways 80 and 259 converge just north of the Sabine River . According to
5490-422: The entire market. The station first signed on the air on July 27, 2003; operating as a UPN affiliate, it originally served as the full-power satellite of low-power stations KTPN-LP (channel 48) in Tyler and KLPN-LP (channel 58, later 47; now defunct) in Longview. The stations were collectively branded as "UPN 58/54/48". The station's original analog transmitter facilities were located northwest of Longview, at
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#17327880841115580-436: The event within the bank vault which was robbed, and holds a yearly event to mark the anniversary of the occasion. In the Longview race riot in July 1919, a reporter for The Chicago Defender was in Longview looking into the mysterious death of a black man named Lemuel Walters . An armed white mob attacked a home where the reporter, S.L. Jones, was staying, and attempted to batter their way in. A gunfight began between
5670-467: The flagship station for Belo , as its headquarters were located in Dallas. KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh served as the flagship station for New York City-based Westinghouse Broadcasting for decades as its parent company was Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Corporation ; ironically, KDKA-TV lost its flagship status due to Westinghouse acquiring CBS, as opposed to another company acquiring Westinghouse. The same also can be said for Nexstar listed two of
5760-490: The flagship station of the Detroit Lions Television Network , which feeds Detroit Lions pre-season football games to six stations in Michigan. However, the "sports flagship television station" is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, with the growing popularity of cable- and satellite-exclusive regional sports networks such as Fox Sports Networks and NBC Sports Regional Networks , which hold exclusive broadcast rights to several teams in their market for Major League Baseball ,
5850-423: The intersection of State Highway 300 and FM1844 , near the town of East Mountain . On January 1, 2006, KCEB, KLPN-LP and KTPN-LP lost the UPN affiliation to CBS affiliate KYTX (channel 19), which carried the network on its second digital subchannel . The station immediately switched its affiliation to The WB , effectively replacing "KWTL", a cable-only WB outlet that was part of The WB 100+ Station Group ,
5940-479: The local owned-and-operated or affiliated stations in the same city are now separate and may come under different corporate entities. In the U.S., CBS News Radio produces programming for distribution by Skyview Networks, but local stations WCBS and WINS in New York City and KNX (and formerly KFWB ) in Los Angeles are operated separately from the network radio news operation, under a separate company with common shareholders, Audacy, Inc. iHeartMedia follows
6030-441: The national Ion network (whose only original programming is the WNBA games in the summer as the network's schedule is completely automated ). Networks designated for digital subchannels are usually flagshipped at local stations in the home cities of their corporate headquarters. MeTV, MeTV Plus, Catchy Comedy, and Heroes & Icons are owned by Weigel Broadcasting in Chicago ; Weigel-owned WCIU carries each full network feed as
6120-402: The naval custom where the commanding officer of a group of naval ships would fly a distinguishing flag . In common parlance, " flagship " is now used to mean the most important or leading member of a group, hence its various uses in broadcasting. The term flagship station is primarily used in TV and radio in the United States , Canada , and the Philippines (though it is seldomly used), while
6210-429: The network's de facto East Coast and West Coast flagships, respectively, due to CBS owning half of The CW's controlling shares at the time. New York's affiliate WPIX and Los Angeles' affiliate KTLA did not have such status since the network's inception, as Tribune Media (who had a minority stake in The WB) opted not to have any controlling interest with The CW, by selling off its share of The WB; instead, to secure
6300-401: The networks' New York City stations became known as the "East Coast flagships" of their respective networks and the networks' Los Angeles stations became known as the "West Coast flagships". However, before the 1950s, San Francisco was also considered a West Coast flagship market for the networks, with much of the CBS and NBC network's West Coast news programming originating from that city. This
6390-436: The population. By the 2020 United States census , Longview's population grew to 81,683. Its racial and ethnic makeup per the 2020 census was 49.73% non-Hispanic white, 23.49% Black or African American, 0.31% American Indian or Alaska Native, 1.6% Asian alone, 0.27% some other race, 3.82% multiracial, and 20.75% Hispanic or Latino of any race. Among its population at the 2020 American Community Survey , 52.7% of its population
6480-605: The public domain, as opposed to sitcoms. On May 16, 2023, HC2 Holdings moved the Magnificent Movies Network to the relaunched KCEB-DT2, and returned the Novelisima Network to the primary station. Novelisima is simulcast with sister station channel 29 KBJE-LD3. In early March 2024, Novelisima programming was discontinued from the main KCEB signal replaced by beIN Sports Xtra Español . Because it
6570-616: The purchase completion announced on October 3, 2022, both WPIX and KTLA formally became flagship stations for the first time. However, as part of the Nexstar agreement, Paramount was given a right with the transaction to disaffiliate all eight of their CW affiliates, which was exercised on May 5, 2023. By the time of the disaffiliations on September 1, Nexstar repatriated The CW affiliations onto their MyNetworkTV affiliates in Philadelphia, San Francisco and Tampa–St. Petersburg, announced
6660-407: The purchase of Detroit station WADL through affiliate company Mission Broadcasting, and signed long-term agreements with Hearst Television , Gray Television Sinclair Broadcast Group , and the E. W. Scripps Company . East Coast flagships are normally in the New York City designated market area (DMA), while the West Coast flagships are located in the Los Angeles area. WCAU in Philadelphia
6750-497: The separate 21st Century Fox , then that company spun off many of its film and cable assets to Disney in 2019), is headquartered in New York City, along with its news division . Fox-owned WNYW in New York City is considered the network's overall flagship, while sister station KTTV in Los Angeles is considered a second flagship station. In 2006, when The WB and UPN merged to form The CW , Philadelphia station WPSG and San Francisco station KBCW (now KPYX) were designated as
6840-483: The show may also originate elsewhere or from a home studio via an ISDN line. Some programs are simulcast on television, while others are simulcasted on XM Satellite Radio and / or Sirius Satellite Radio . Flagship stations of prominent syndicated radio programs currently include: In sports broadcasting, the flagship radio station is the sports team's primary station in the team's home market that produces game broadcasts and feeds them to affiliates. For example, WJZ-FM
6930-875: The station's cable channel assignment on Suddenlink Communications in the Tyler area. On November 6, 2009, the station was sold to the London Broadcasting Company, owner of KYTX. London initially operated the station under a sales and management agreement prior to the Federal Communications Commission giving approval for London to acquire the license assets. The sale was finalized on August 31, 2010. KCEB swapped affiliations with KYTX in May 2012, taking that subchannel's MeTV affiliation, while KYTX's second digital subchannel began carrying programming from The CW Plus. On May 14, 2014,
7020-920: The stations as flagships, one cited was WYOU-TV in Scranton , which Perry Sook said it was the flagship , the other listed was KDAF-TV in Dallas, which became its flagship after its acquisition of Tribune Media in 2019, the latter partially is located in a suburb of that city and also owns and operates several stations larger than Dallas, such as WPIX-TV in New York , KTLA in Los Angeles , WGN-TV in Chicago and WPHL-TV in Philadelphia . Shortly after its acquisition of Young Broadcasting by Media General in 2013, WRIC-TV in Richmond become one of
7110-456: The subchannel/station or any network programming that a co-owned major network affiliate chooses to shift to the subchannel to air live due to breaking news or severe weather coverage). The station preempted much of the network's Sunday morning schedule (which consists primarily of either a secondary block of E/I programming or classic television series depending on the market) with televised church services and paid programming . KCEB also carried
7200-607: The term key station ( キー局 , kī kyoku ) is primarily used in TV in Japan (and formerly in the United States). Lotteries Shows Networks Events A flagship radio station is the principal station from which a radio network 's programs are fed to affiliates . In the United States, traditional radio networks currently operate without flagship stations as defined in this article. Network operations and those of
7290-756: The two flagship stations of the Media General group prior to the 2017 acquisition by Nexstar, the other flagship was WFLA in Tampa Bay , which was always the television flagship of the group. The same can even be said for Scripps , which listed WCPO-TV in Cincinnati as the flagship, but also owned Ion Media , which is several times larger than Cincinnati themselves. Even the same can be said for Sinclair Broadcast Group, which listed WBFF-TV in Baltimore and WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C. , listed as
7380-575: The value of the rest of his land. Two railroad surveyors coined the name of the town when they stated, "What a long view!" from the porch of Methvin's home. In June 1871, Longview was incorporated as the first town in Gregg County. In 1884, the Mobberly Hotel opened for business servicing railroad travelers and as the center of social gatherings for Longview. The hotel featured cherrywood furniture with carved bed posts, marble-top washstands , linen tablecloths, electric crystal chandeliers, and
7470-400: Was 3.06. Among the estimated 31,450 households at the 2020 American Community Survey, the average household size was 2.49; the 19,965 families had an average size of 3.13. Of the households and families estimated, 53.6% were in owner-occupied housing units and 46.4% were renter-occupied. In 2000, the median income for a household in the city was $ 33,858, and for a family was $ 42,378. Males had
7560-495: Was completely automated and produced no local programming. The network would later lease WZAA in Washington, D.C., as its lone self-operated station. Fox Sports Radio 's flagship station is KLAC in Los Angeles, with which it merged operations in 2009. SB Nation Radio is flagshipped at KGOW in Houston; one of its predecessors, Sporting News Radio , was previously flagshipped at WIDB (now WNTD ) in Chicago. CBS Sports Radio
7650-428: Was created in 1873, Longview was voted the county seat. Today, Longview is considered a major hub city for the region, as is the nearby city of Tyler . Companies with significant presence in Longview include Eastman Chemical , Trinity Rail Group , AAON Coil Products , and Komatsu Mining , Dollar General and Old Navy / GAP . Colleges and universities in the area include LeTourneau University , Kilgore College , and
7740-552: Was created to give UPN and WB stations that did not strike affiliation agreements with The CW another option besides converting to independent stations. KCEB affiliated with The CW upon the network's launch on September 18, 2006 (affiliated with the network through The WB 100+ Station Group's successor The CW Plus), while KLPN and KTPN chose to join MyNetworkTV, which launched two weeks earlier on September 5. In 2008, KCEB changed its on-air branding from "CW 54" to "CW 54/5", adding
7830-517: Was discontinued with the transition to the Azteca América network affiliation. With the discontinuance of the Azteca América programming on December 31, 2022, KCEB switched programming to "Timeless TV", an offering of infomercials mixed with older episodes of public domain programs such as The Beverly Hillbillies , The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet , Bonanza , and The Lucy Show . Timeless TV would then be replaced with Novelisima ,
7920-403: Was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the digital television allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not originally receive a companion channel for a digital television signal. In May 2007, the station was granted a construction permit by the FCC to construct a digital transmitter facility to broadcast a signal on UHF channel 38, and move its transmitter to
8010-495: Was granted for channel 51 at 1000 kW. On June 12, 2009, KCEB shut down its analog signal on channel 54, while KFXK ceased its analog signal on channel 51. KCEB then flash-cut its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 51 from the New London tower on a temporary 70 kW transmitter under special temporary authority from the FCC. At that point, KCEB was under severe financial hardship and could not afford to build
8100-408: Was non-Hispanic white, 22.4% Black or African American, 0.1% American Indian or Alaska Native, 1.4% Asian alone, 0.2% Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander, 0.1% some other race, 2.7% two or more races, and 20.3% Hispanic of Latino American of any race. The 2020 census and 2020 survey reflected nationwide demographic trends of greater diversification among traditional minority populations. Of
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