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KENS-TV
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| San Antonio, Texas | |
| Branding | KENS 5 (KENS pronounced as one word) |
| Slogan | KENS 5 Eyewitness News: Coverage You Can Count On, San Antonio's News Leader |
| Channels | Analog: 5 (VHF) Digital: 55 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | CBS |
| Owner | Belo Corporation |
| Founded | February 15, 1950 |
| Call letters meaning | Express-News Service |
| Former callsigns | KEYL (1950-54) |
| Former affiliations | DuMont (1950-56) ABC (1950-57) |
| Website | www.mysanantonio.com |
KENS-TV, "KENS 5" is the CBS television affiliate in San Antonio, Texas, owned by Belo Corporation. KENS also manages KCWX under a local marketing agreement (LMA). Its transmitter is located in Elmendorf, Texas.
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KENS signed on the air on February 15, 1950, as KEYL, a CBS affiliate with secondary affiliations with ABC and DuMont. Four years later, KEYL changed its call letters to KENS after the San Antonio Express-News bought the station. KENS was the second station to begin broadcasting in San Antonio, three months behind WOAI-TV. DuMont ceased most network operations in 1955, but would honor network commitments until 1956; at that point, DuMont disappeared from the station's schedule. It lost ABC when KONO-TV (now KSAT-TV) signed on in 1957, leaving KENS as a full-time CBS affiliate.
In 1962, the Express-News and KENS-AM/TV were purchased by Harte-Hanks Communications. Due to the Federal Communications Commission's tightening of cross-ownership rules, Harte-Hanks sold the newspaper in 1973 to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation while keeping the KENS stations. In September 1997, Harte-Hanks sold its remaining media properties, including the KENS stations, to the E. W. Scripps Company in order to concentrate on direct marketing; the sale was finalized on October 15 of that year. Scripps, in turn, swapped the KENS stations to Belo on December 4, 1997 in exchange for controlling ownership of the Food Network. KENS-AM, a radio station acquired in the 90s, was sold off to Disney/ABC in 2003, becoming Radio Disney station KRDY.
KENS is still closely associated with the Express-News, even though the station and newspaper have been under separate ownership for many years. The station shares its main website with the newspaper.
In the mid-1980s, KENS broadcast a short-lived second channel, exclusively on Rogers Cablevision channel 24, called KENS II.
KENS is one of the broadcast homes of the NBA San Antonio Spurs, and has also been the home of game shows Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! for two decades.
Bob Rogers still is KENS most successful and longest running News Director. Rogers kept KENS in the number one ratings spot for over two decades. He was also responsible for hiring, coaching and helping the careers of many local and national news anchors, reporters and correspondents. He left KENS in the late 90's and retired.
As of the end of the February 2007 ratings period, KENS had taken first place for their 10 o'clock newscast. As of the November 2006 ratings period, KENS took first place in the morning newscasts. KENS is in a spirited battle with KSAT-TV for first place at noon and 6 p.m. newscasts. Rival WOAI-TV is at third place in all time slots.
A long-running, occasional segment of the news is the "Eyewitness Newsreel" in which anchor Chris Marrou narrates a faux, old-style newsreel at the end of the 10 p.m. newscast. The Newsreel usually consists of humorous segments of local news juxtaposed with out-of-context snips of CBS news anchors, politicians or celebrities "commenting" on the situation.
KENS Anchors
- Vicki Buffolino: Weekday Morning Anchor
- Barry Davis: Sunday Morning Anchor/"I-Team" Reporter
- Itza Gutierrez: Saturday Morning Anchor/Crime Reporter
- Deborah Knapp: 5PM Anchor (former wife of former Congressman Henry Bonilla)
- Fred Lozano: Weekday Morning Anchor
- Sarah Lucero: 6PM and 10PM Anchor
- Chris Marrou: Weekday Evening Anchor
- Ross Palombo: Weekend Evening Anchor
KENS Reporters
- Kellie Patterson: Traffic Reporter (From South Carolina)
- Joe Conger: General Assignment Reporter/"I-Team" Reporter
- Karen Grace: General Assignment Reporter
- Marvin Hurst: General Assignment Reporter
- Nydia Lopez: General Assignment Reporter
- James Munoz: General Assignment Reporter
- Wendy Rigby: Medical Reporter, seen at 5PM
- Selena Hernandez: General Assignment Reporter
- Jessica Silva: General Assignment Reporter
- Bridget Smith: "Bridget's Beat" Feature Reporter, seen at 6PM
KENS Meteorologists
- Bill Taylor: Chief Meteorologist, seen at 5, 6, and 10PM
- Paul Mireles: Morning Meteorologist
- Jared Silverman: Weekend Meteorologist
Sports Anchors/Reporters
- Joe Reinagel: Sports Director
- Dyrol Joyner: Weekend Sports Anchor
- Megan Alexander: Traffic Reporter (Moved to New York as reporter on 'Inside Edition').
- Jim Abbott
- Anita Jane Anderson
- Jud Ashmore
- Joe Alston: "Cap'n Gus"/"Captain Amigus" Children's Host (died 1989)
- Dennis M. DuPriest co-host on "Cap'n Gus" and host of his own children's show "Gobs of Fun"
- Bob Ballou: (now Sports Director at KEYE in Austin)
- Kelly Chapman
- Dan Cook (Retired)
- Gary DeLaune(as a reporter, he was pushed aside by Jack Ruby when he shot Lee Harvey Oswald)
- Mary Denman
- Ainsley Earhardt (moved to Fox News in 2007)
- Patricio Espinoza
- Albert Flores
- Alex Garcia (Moved to KABB-TV)
- Glenn Glazer
- Sara Lee Kessler (worked at WWOR-TV in the 1980s)
- Maclovio Perez: (moved to WOAI-TV)
- Brandy Ralston:
- Sylvan Rodriguez (died in 2000)
- Lynn Russell (Moved to CNN Headline News)
- Bob Salter
- Margo Spitz
- Amanda Taylor
- Ron Taylor
- Jim Thomas
- Paul Thompson
- Gene Tuck
- Michael Tuck
- Maury Vasquez
- Jerry Zimmerman
- Al Zimmerman
- Michael Marsh
- Leslie Mouton ( Moved to KSAT-TV)
- Kristina Huey
- Maury Vasquez
- Michael Turcot
- Ted Dracos
- Melvin Epps
- Kim Benson
- Barry Brickman
- Tony Mann
- Mike Pesina
- Mary Alice Salinas
- Liz Wiggins
- Don Hammond
- Anne Wheeler
- Cindy Casiano
- Channel 5 Eyewitness News (1970-1998)
- KENS 5 Eyewitness News (1998-present)
- Coverage You Can Count On (1998-present)
- San Antonio's News Leader (2002-present)
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KCWX 2 (The CW) - WOAI 4 (NBC, WX Plus on DT2) - KENS 5 (CBS) - KLRN 9 (PBS) - KSAT 12 (ABC) - K14LM 14 (3ABN) - KNIC 17 (TFU) - KHCE 23 (TBN) - KPXL 26 (ION) - KABB 29 (Fox) - KVDF-CA 31 (AZA) - KNIC-CA 34 (Silent) - KMYS 35 (MNTV) (The Tube on DT2) - KWEX 41 (UNI) - KQVE-LP 46 (DS) - K51JF 51 (Multimedios) - KVDA 60 (TEL) |
| See also, Broadcast television in Del Rio / Eagle Pass |
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KDBC 4 (El Paso) - KGBT 4 (Harlingen) - KENS 5 (San Antonio) - KAUZ 6 (Wichita Falls) - KFDM 6 (Beaumont) - KOSA 7 (Odessa) - KLST 8 (San Angelo) - KFDA 10 (Amarillo) - KWTX 10 / KBTX 3 (Waco / Bryan) - KZTV 10 (Corpus Christi) - KHOU 11 (Houston) - KTVT 11 (Fort Worth) - KXII 12 (Sherman) - KLBK 13 (Lubbock) - KVTV 13 (Laredo) - KYTX 19 (Nacogdoches) - KTAB 32 (Abilene) - KEYE 42 (Austin) |
| See also: ABC, CW, Fox, MyNetwork TV, NBC, PBS, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, Religious, Other English and Other Spanish stations in Texas |