KONB-DT

== Oil Ocean’s Second Oldest Television ==
KONB-DT is second oldest television station in the Oil Region, Texas. It’s current affiliation is NBC it’s broadcast station used to be in Metropolis 5 miles west of Oil Ocean, Texas. It’s previous call sign was chosen from Metropolis its original site in 1952 to 1967 when they moved to Oil Ocean. KONB started as KMRT-TV on January 3, 1952 along side with DuMont. DuMont lasted from January 3-January 30, 1952 after DuMont was dropped from KMTR on January 30, DuMont left Oil Ocean and hasn’t come back to the market ever since 1952. In 1967 KMTR-TV decided to move to the nearby city of Oil Ocean and started to move its equipment to the new studio/station the move lasted 3 months and temporarily went off the air for a couple of weeks to get set up and moving its control room. With the new studio the station changed its call sign to reflect its new city that they moved to so they chose KONB-TV. In 2009, KONB shut off its analog signal along with the rest of the stations. NBC has been in the market before 1952, it was WOIL-TV Channel 5 as a secondary affiliation.
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