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KDOC-TV
Anaheim/Santa Ana, California
Branding	KDOC
Slogan	Endless Classics
Channels	Analog: 56 (UHF) Digital: 32 (UHF)
Affiliations	independent
Owner	Ellis Communications
Founded	October 1, 1982
Call letters meaning	K Dynamic Orange County
Transmitter Power	2450 kW (analog) 1000 kW (digital)
Height	927 m (analog) 949 m (digital)
Facility ID	24518
Transmitter Coordinates	34°13′35.3″N, 118°4′0.9″W
Website	www.kdoctv.net

KDOC-TV (Channel 56) is an independent television station based in Orange County, California (licensed to Anaheim, with studios and offices in Santa Ana). The station's programming consists mainly of syndicated repeats of past television shows.

From the beginning, KDOC-TV was owned by locally-based Golden Orange Broadcasting, whose investors included entertainer Pat Boone. KDOC has been on the air since 1982 and was for many years the home of conservative commentator Wally George and televangelist Dr. Gene Scott. George died in 2003, while Scott died in 2005. During this period, the station was also popular for weekend broadcasts of Asian programming, which also gained a significant non-Asian audience with the broadcast of the 1984-1985 (subtitled) Japanese Miyamoto Musashi television series.

On April 4, 2006, Bert Ellis along with Anaheim Ducks owners Henry and Susan Samueli bought KDOC-TV for $149.5 million from Golden Orange Broadcasting. The sale was closed in July 2006. In September 2006, KDOC made significant changes in its line-up, including more current syndicated repeats, more sports coverage such as Anaheim Ducks hockey, locally-produced shows like The Pet Place, variety of movies and less infomercials on weekdays. Also notable in this change was that Dr. Gene Scott is no longer part of the line-up. KDOC also debuted a new slogan Endless Classics (a reference to the Beach Boys album and the 1966 film The Endless Summer), and a new logo.

KDOC specializes in past television shows, not normally or have been shown on other local outlets in the Los Angeles market. In 2006, KDOC became the broadcast flagship station of the Anaheim Ducks hockey team. For the 2007-2008 season, KDOC will broadcast 14 games. [1]

On September 10th, 2007, KDOC-TV in partnership with the Orange County Register, launched a new two-hour morning newscast named Daybreak OC. The newscast primarily covers the Orange County area with OC specific weather, traffic, and news. KDOC-TV moved their broadcast center to a new facility at the headquarters of the Orange County Register in Santa Ana, California. The newscast is also produced in High Definition, making it the LA DMA's 5th high definition newscast.[2] Anchors for Daybreak OC include Nancy Aziz, Pete Weitzner and Judy Alley among others. [3] [4]

Daybreak OC is the 2nd newscast specifically covering the Orange County, the other being KOCE's Real Orange.

[5] Some of KDOC's programming include:

• The Andy Griffith Show
• The Brady Bunch
• Cheers
• Daybreak OC
• First Business
• Frasier
• Get Smart
• Happy Days
• Hawaii Five-O
• Hogan's Heroes
• KDOC Monster Movies
• Laverne & Shirley
• Little House on the Prairie
• Mad About You
• Magnum, P.I.
• Matlock
• Mork And Mindy
• The Nanny
• Partridge Family
• Perry Mason
• Quincy, M.E.
• The Twilight Zone

• KDOC website
• Daybreak OC website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KDOC