KRIC-TV

KRIC-TV, virtual channel 4, is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Richfield, Texas, United States and serving the Lake Junction region of Texas. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group, as part of a duopoly with Badger-licensed CW affiliate KLJC-TV. 
==History==
===As KJN-TV===
Since moving to Richfield in the mid-1940s, Kayla J. Norman—founding owner of KJN Communications Inc.—always played pretend with what the future of media looked like when television came to her city, always making television sets out of cardboard boxes and marker, and letting kids go inside of the "televisions" while watching. Norman also used a radio set that was tuned to her radio station, KJN, while the kids were playing inside of the boxes.
On May 2, 1948, Norman submitted a permit application to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build and sign-on a television station that would operate on VHF channel 4.
Channel 4 officially signed on the air at 6:30 p.m. on January 3, 1950.
Channel 4 has been affiliated with CBS since its debut, having inherited it through KJN radio's longtime relationship with the progenitor CBS Radio Network, with which the station had been affiliated since March 1929. (KJN-TV's first CBS program, Homemaker's Exchange, aired a bit late than expected.) It also maintained secondary affiliations with NBC, ABC, and the DuMont Television Network.
===As KRIC-TV===
====Disney ownership====
On May 26, 1981, KJN Technologies sold KJN-TV to Burbank, California-based Walt Disney Productions (later known as The Walt Disney Company) for $65.1 million in cash and stock. The Normans chose to water down their television station group by selling off most of its major television network affiliates, as it wanted to shift its emphasis to primarily independent stations in markets outside of Richfield. The sale was approved by the FCC on August 19, and was consummated two months later on October 8.
In order to comply with an FCC rule in place at the time that prohibited separately owned radio and television stations in the same market from sharing the same bass call letters, on October 22, channel 4's call letters were changed to the current KRIC-TV (in reference to its city of license, Richfield). Throughout most of its tenure as a Disney-owned station, KRIC was the company's sole broadcast property, although it would gain a sister station in late 1989 in Los Angeles independent station KCAL-TV. During its tenure under Disney ownership, KRIC aired cartoons from Walt Disney Television Animation (both as part of CBS's saturday morning block and on the company's syndicated Disney Afternoon block).
====New York Times and Local TV ownership====
On February 9, 1996, following Disney's acquisition of ABC corporate parent Capital Cities/ABC, Disney formed a new company for its television stations group, ABC Inc.
Following the purchase of ABC, Disney also announced that it would sell off its non-ABC stations. On March 31, 1996, Disney announced that it would sell KRIC to the New York Times Company (through its Memphis-based broadcasting subsidiary) for $10.2 million; the sale was finalized on July 10th of that year. Disney had agreed to sell KRIC both as part of its sale of its non ABC-stations, and to avoid having to switch its network affiliation.
====Tribune ownership====
On November 6, 2013, station president and general manager Howard Dinkmann announced plans to construct a new 83,000 square-foot (7,710 m2) facility on North Ruby Drive in Richfield (located on the site of a former McDonald's outlet) to house the operations of KRIC-TV and KLJC-TV.