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KPHO-TV
Phoenix, Arizona
Branding	CBS 5
Slogan	Live, Late Breaking, Investigative
Channels	Analog: 5 (VHF) Digital: 17 (UHF)
Affiliations	CBS (since 1995)
Owner	Meredith Corporation
First air date	December 4, 1949
Call letters meaning	K PHOenix
Former affiliations	ABC / NBC (1949-1953) CBS / DuMont (1949-1955) independent (1955-1995)
Transmitter Power	100 kW (analog) 1000 kW (digital)
Height	539 m (analog) 507 m (digital)
Facility ID	41223
Transmitter Coordinates	33°20′3.3″N, 112°3′43.1″W
Website	www.kpho.com

KPHO-TV, "CBS 5" is the CBS affiliate television station in Phoenix, Arizona. Its transmitter is located on South Mountain in Phoenix. It can be seen on Channel 5 in Phoenix and operates several translators throughout Northern Arizona. It is currently owned by Meredith Corporation.

Contents 1 History 2 Digital Television 3 Trivia 4 Notable personalities 4.1 Current news personalities 4.2 Past news personalities 5 Station name and slogan over the years 6 Digital subchannels 7 Rebroadcasters 8 External links

KPHO is Arizona's oldest television station. It signed on December 4, 1949. As the only television station in Phoenix during the first three-and-a-half years of operation, it carried programming from all four networks of the time: CBS (primary affiliation), NBC, ABC and the now-defunct DuMont Television Network. [1] NBC disappeared from KPHO's schedule when KTYL-TV (now KPNX) signed on April 23, 1953, followed by ABC when KOOL-TV (now KSAZ-TV) signed on a few months later, on October 24. KPHO remained a dual CBS-DuMont affiliate until February 28, 1955, when CBS moved its affiliation to KOOL-TV after KTVK signed on and took the ABC affiliation from KOOL. KPHO became an independent station when DuMont ceased network operations in 1956.

The station was originally owned by a group of local investors. Meredith Broadcasting purchased the station in 1952.

Over the years, it ran cartoons, off-network sitcoms, old movies, a 9 p.m. newscast, and drama shows. It also produced a children's show called Wallace & Ladmo, which aired weekday mornings from 7-9 a.m. until the early 1980s, and 7-8 a.m. until 1989 (when it was decided by the stars of the show that it would end). During the 1970s, KPHO became a regional superstation available on cable in much of Arizona and New Mexico, as well as parts of California, Utah and Nevada

KPHO was the sole independent station in Phoenix until 1979, when KNXV signed on channel 15 with general entertainment during the day and Subscription TV at night. (KNXV became a full-time general entertainment station by 1983.)

Even though KPHO was the leading independent station in the market, the new Fox network opted to affiliate with KNXV after it was purchased by Scripps-Howard, which promised to upgrade the station's syndicated programming and launch a newscast. This made KNXV a very strong competitior against KPHO (even though KNXV never started a newscast for the duration of its Fox affiliation).

The CBS affiliation returned to KPHO in 1994, when a massive shift in network affiliations occurred in the market in the wake of KSAZ (formerly KTSP) taking the Fox affiliation. Initially, KPHO continued to run a number of sitcoms during local time, but the station gradually added more newscasts and talk/reality shows, with the sitcoms being phased out and moved to KTVK, KUTP, and KASW.

Today, KPHO is a typical CBS affiliate, clearing the entire CBS schedule and running a decent amount of local news and the typical syndicated fare. But instead of the 5:30 timeslot like most CBS counterparts, KPHO airs CBS Evening News at 6 p.m. instead.

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In June 2006, the station's website was redesigned (along with those of four of Meredith Corporation's other stations). The old website was operated by the Local Media Network division of World Now. Now Internet Broadcasting operates the site.

The station's digital channel:

Digital channels

Channel	Programming
5.1 / 17.1	Main KPHO programming / CBS HD
5.2 / 17.2	"Weather Now" (local weather)

For decades, KPHO was the largest station in terms of market size to be owned by Meredith. That distinction changed in 2000 when sister station WGCL-TV in Atlanta would be purchased from Tribune Company. But WGCL is a UHF station, so this makes KPHO the owner's largest station on VHF.

• Catherine Anaya, 6:30PM & 10PM Anchor/Reporter
• Jason Barry, General Assignment Reporter
• Jerry Clifton, Catalina Island Correspondent/Semi-Retired
• Scott Clifton, NewsHawk 5 Pilot/Reporter/Co-Aviation Director
• Captain Connie Sullivan, NewsHawk 5 Pilot/Reporter/Co-Aviation Director
• Mike Chamberlin, Weekend Sports Anchor/Sports Director/Substitute Anchor
• Chris Coraggio, Morning & Midday Anchor
• Nicole Crites, Morning Anchor/General Assignment Reporter
• Gary Cruz, Weeknight Sports Anchor
• Kent Dana, 5PM, 6:30PM, & 10PM Anchor/Reporter
• Steve Garry, Meteorologist
• Jeanne Herwerth, General Assignment Reporter; Substitute Morning/Noon Anchor
• Paul Horton, Morning & Midday Meteorologist and General Assignment Reporter
• Randy Kollins, Morning & Midday Meteorologist
• Tammy Leitner, General Assignment Reporter
• Cara Liu, General Assignment Reporter
• Morgan Loew, 5i Team Investigative Reporter
• Sean McLaughlin, Chief Meteorologist; Primetime Anchor at 5pm on Weekdays and at 5pm and 10pm on Sundays; General Assignment Reporter
• Greg Mocker, General Assignment Reporter
• Marya Piani, General Assignment Reporter; Morning Co-Anchor; Substitute Anchor
• Donna Rossi, General Assignment Reporter; Substitute Anchor
• Diana Sullivan, Noon & 5PM Anchor/Reporter; Substitute Anchor
• Marcy Valenzuela, General Assignment Reporter
• Christina Wofford, Weekend Anchor/Reporter; former morning and noon anchor with Ted Koppy
• Omadelle Nelson, General Assignment Reporter
• Julie Durda, Time Saver Traffic and Meteorologist
• Detour Dan Beach Airbourne, Time Saver Traffic and KTAR-FM Traffic Reporter
• Peter Busch, General Assignment Reporter

Name	Position at KPHO	Years Active	Whereabouts
Roger Downey	Morning, Noon, 9pm Anchor	?? to late 1990s	PIO, Arizona Medical Board
Linda Turley	Morning, Noon, 9pm Anchor	?? to late 1990s	Syndicated columnist in Ahwatukee Foothills News
Jeff Kelly	Morning/Noon Meteorologist	mid 1990s to 2006; Previously at rival KPNX	KPAX-TV Missoula, MT Chief Meteorologist
Jay Alan	Primetime Anchor and Reporter	1995-2000	news/talk radio host at Newstalk 1530 KFBK Sacramento
Elise Finch	Meteorologist	To 2004	Now at WCBS-TV.
Mike Harvey	Chief Meteorologist	To 2005	Now at WTKR-TV.
Bob Jeswald	Meteorologist	Unknown	Chief Meteorologist at WRBL-TV.
Christien Kafton	Anchor, Reporter	2000-2003	Now at KNTV.
Ted Koppy	Morning/Noon News Anchor with Christina Wofford	mid 1990s to 2002	6PM and 11PM news anchor at WTNH-TV.
Mark Lodato	General Assignment Reporter	1995 to 2006	Professor of Practice at Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication since Fall 2006.
Gina Maravilla	Morning news anchor with John Overall	1996 to 2006	now in California as a freelancer at KGTV
John Overall	Morning news anchor	2002 to 2006	Weekend Anchor at KVOA-TV in Tucson
June Thomson	Primetime news anchor	1994 to 2000	Unknown
Gil Tyree	Sports anchor, Reporter	Unknown	Now at WGCL-TV
Rich Robertson	5 Investigates Reporter	1995 to 1998	Robertson Consulting & Investigations, Mesa, AZ.
CJ Ward	5 Investigates Reporter	1995 to 1998	Anchor, KEYT, Santa Barbara, CA.
Ted Simons	Weekend Sports	1980 to ??	News Anchor at KTAR, Phoenix, news radio
Jon Brictson	Sports Director/Anchor	1980s	News Anchor at KGLN 11 - Glendale, AZ Public Access

• 5'll Getcha (late 1970s)
• TV5/News5 (1980s)
• Arizona5 (1990s)
• CBS5: Welcome Home, Arizona (1990s)
• KPHO-TV5 & TV5: Be in the Know with KPHO (late 1990s)
• News5: Your Valley News Station (2002-2003)
• CBS 5 NEWS: Live, Late Breaking, Investigative (current)

On December 11, 2006, KPHO began broadcasting CBS 5 Weather Now on digital subchannel 5.2[2]. CBS 5 Weather Now is located on Qwest Choice TV on channel 64 and CableOne.

KPHO is rebroadcast on the following translator stations:

• K11OB Bouse (broadcasts on channel 6)
• K11LX Bullhead City
• K55IY Camp Verde
• K07WI Cedar Creek
• K30GG Chloride
• K07WK Cibecue
• K40AD Cottonwood
• K43GU Dolan Springs
• K53DL Duncan/Clifton/Morenci
• K50HU Flagstaff
• K50DZ Fort Apache
• K59CI Globe/Miami
• K41FT Kingman
• K43GJ Lake Havasu City
• K47HE Meadview
• K09KV Prescott
• K21FU Topock/Bullhead City
• 940415CD Whiteriver (Special Temporary Authorization)

• KPHO
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KPHO-TV
• The Official Wallace and Ladmo Website (History, Photos, Desktops)

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Broadcast television in the Phoenix / Flagstaff / Kingman market (Nielsen DMA #12)

Local over-the-air television stations KTVK 3 (Ind) - KPHO 5 (CBS) - KAET 8 (PBS, Create on DT2, World on DT3, KBAQ on DT4) - KSAZ 10 (Fox) - KPNX 12 (NBC, WX Plus on DT2) - KNXV 15 (ABC) - KPAZ 21 (TBN, TCC on DT2, JCTV on DT3, Enlace on DT4, Smile on DT5) - KTVP-LP 22 (Almavision) - K25DM 25 (LAT) - KAZT-CA 27 (Ind) - KCOS-LP 28 (Fe-TV) - KTVW 33 (UNI, KFPH-CA on DT2) - KFPH-CA 35 (TFU) - KTAZ 39 (TEL) - KPDF-CA 41 (AZA) - KVPA-LP 42 (LAT) - KEJR-LP 43 (MTV3) - KPHE-LP 44 (MMTV) - KUTP 45 (MNTV) - KDTP-CA 48 (DS) - KPPX 51 (ION, qubo on DT2, ION Life on DT3, Worship on DT4) - K53GF 53 (Ind) - K57HX 57 (HSN) - KDTP-LP 58 (JTV) - KASW 61 (CW)

Outlying area stations KNAZ 2 (NBC) - KMOH 6 (MTV3) - KNJO-LP 6 (A1) - KTVW-CA 6 (UNI) - KAZT 7 (Ind) - KCFG 9 (A1) - KBBA-LP 10 (silent) - KWKM-LP 10 (A1) - KDTP 11 (DS) - KWSJ-LP 12 (A1) - KFPH 13 (TFU) - K18DD 18 (3ABN / ShopNBC) - K19FD 19 (HOPE) - K21GE 21 (3ABN) - K25AL 25 (TBN) - K25HD 25 / K27EC 27 (CTVN) - KCAB-LP 28 (A1) - K36DU 36 (Worship) - KKAX-LP 36 (A1) - KLHU-CA 45 (Ind) - KDFQ-LP 47 (AZA)

Defunct television stations KTFL 4 (FN) - KVSW-LP 38 (A1)

v • d • e CBS Network Affiliates in the state of Arizona
KPHO 5 (Phoenix) - KOLD 13 (Tucson) - KSWT 13 (Yuma)
See also: ABC, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, Religious, Spanish, and Other English stations in Arizona

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