KMSP-TV

==KEYD-TV==
===1955–1956===
KEYD-TV began broadcasting on January 9, 1955, and was affiliated with the DuMont Television Network. However, DuMont shut down in late 1956, leaving the station as an independent outlet; on June 3, 1956, the KEYD stations were sold to United Television, whose principals at the time included several stockholders of Pittsburgh station WENS, for $1.5 million.
==KMGM-TV==
===1956–1958===
Channel 9 changed its call letters to KMGM-TV on May 23, 1956. At the time, the station was in negotiations with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to acquire the Twin Cities television rights to the company's films, along with selling a 25 percent stake in KMGM-TV to the studio.
==KMSP-TV==
===1958–1961===
National Telefilm Associates, which later purchased WNTA-TV (channel 13) in the New York City area, purchased the 75 percent of United Television not owned by MGM for $650,000 in November 1957, joining it to the NTA Film Network until it ended in 1961. A few months later, on February 10, 1958, NTA bought MGM's stake for $130,000 and announced that it would change channel 9's calls to KMSP-TV; the call sign change took effect that March over the objections of KSTP-TV (channel 5).
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===1961–1962===
KMSP-TV took over the ABC affiliation from WTCN-TV (channel 11, now an NBC affiliate as KARE) on April 16, 1961. The "ABC" logo shown here was replaced in 1962.
====1962–1965====
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===1965–1969===
Notice the different typeface used for the ABC logo shown here.
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09kmsptv11.jpg|St. Paul Winter Carnival (1967)
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===1969–1972===
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Note the non-standard ABC logo typeface in this logo.
===1972–1999===
This "9" design would later be influenced by KAWE-TV in Bemidji, KGUN-TV in Tucson, KUSA in Denver, KTSM-TV in El Paso, Texas, KWTV in Oklahoma City, WNCT-TV in Greenville, North Carolina, WSOC-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina, and WUSA in Washington, D.C., long after nearly five decades.
====1972–1983====
On August 29, 1978, ABC announced that KSTP-TV (channel 5) would become the network's new Twin Cities affiliate the following spring. The signing of channel 5 made nationwide news, as it had been an NBC affiliate for three decades. In retaliation for losing ABC, KMSP-TV immediately removed all ABC branding and regularly preempted network programming, prepared to become an independent station. The affiliation switch occurred on March 5, 1979, and KMSP debuted its new independent schedule featuring cartoons, syndicated shows and even the locally based American Wrestling Association, with much of the station's programming having been acquired from WTCN-TV. 
KMSP (1978).svg|Used until the ABC affiliation moved to KSTP-TV in 1979.
KMSP legal ID 1976.PNG|Station ID (1976)
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FB IMG 1625504497825 01.jpg|20th anniversary (1976)
====1979–1984====
Following the loss of its ABC affiliation, KMSP began referring to themselves as Receptive Channel 9; in on-air and in print advertisements, an antenna was added onto the "9" logo in most cases (sometimes added to the "circle 9" variant).
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KMSP 9 1980's.jpg|Station ID seen during 9:00 p.m. newscast (1981–1983)
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====1984–1985====
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====1985–1989====
KMSP would resume its status as a network affiliate on October 9, 1986, when it became a charter outlet of the upstart Fox network. The station disaffiliated from the network in 1988, due to dissatisfaction with the network's low-rated programming and its effect on KMSP's primetime viewership; the Fox affiliation in the Twin Cities subsequently moved to KITN (channel 29, now sister station WFTC).
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====1989–1993====
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====1993–1999====
=====1995–1999=====
Following another six-year tenure as an independent station, KMSP became a charter O&O station of the United Paramount Network when that network launched on January 16, 1995, joining the network by way of the station's ownership under UPN co-parent Chris-Craft/United Television.
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Kmsp 1995.jpg|Station ID #1 (1995)
Kmsp1995 upn.jpg|Station ID #2 (1995)
===1999–2006===
====1999–2002====
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Kmsp012000.jpg|Station ID (2000)
====2002–2006====
KMSP-TV once again became a Fox station on September 8, 2002, as part of an affiliation swap between the two stations following WFTC's 2001 acquisition by Fox Television Stations Group from Clear Channel Communications; They also purchased BHC Communications (which included KMSP) on July 31, 2001, but kept the UPN affiliation on KMSP until after the expiration of its affiliation agreement with that network on September 8, 2002, when the affiliation swap took effect. The station kept its 1999 '9' logo with the change of affiliation and ownership.
===2006–2020===
KMSP ID logo.svg|Logo with designated market area description
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KMSP (Print).svg|Print logo (until 2020)
===2020–present===
KMSP (2020 - Print).svg|Print logo
KMSP-TV9 (2020).svg|With blue background
Fox 9 App (2020).svg|App icon
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KMSP & WFTC Translators 2020.png|KMSP & WFTC Translators (2020)
KMSP-TV news opens
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