KSBR-TV

KSBR-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Seaboard, Robloxia, affiliated with the Central Television Network. It is the flagship television station of the locally based Seaboard Media (owned by the Allison family), which formerly published the Seaboard-based statewide daily newspaper, The Robloxian Courier, and is one of a handful TV stations today to remain in local ownership; it is one of three locally-owned television stations in the Seaboard area. Seaboard Media also owns multicultural independent station KRMT (channel 23) and Class A Telemundo/Univision affiliate KSBR-CD (channel 10), and radio stations KSBR (750 AM), KSBR-FM (102.5 FM), and KRFM (99.5 FM). The stations share studios at KSBR Plaza in downtown Seaboard, where its transmitter is also located.
KSBR-TV also serves as Central's affiliate of record in nearby Peyton, which does not have an affiliate of its own; the station has news bureaus located in the area as well. At any event that a Central station in another city in Robloxia is being pulled amid renegotiations, DirecTV and Dish serves as the default Central affiliate.
==History==
===Seaboard's first television station===
KSBR-TV began broadcasting on June 7, 1948. Robert Allison's Seaboard Broadcasting Company (now Seaboard Media), which has long been the owner of KSBR radio (750 AM and 99.5 FM, now KRFM), won the TV license just before the FCC imposed a freeze on new television permits. The freeze meant that channel 5, which also share ownership with The Robloxian Courier newspaper, operated as Seaboard's only television station.
KSBR-TV carried programming from all four television networks: NBC, CBS, ABC, and DuMont, but it was primarily an NBC affiliate; KSBR radio was an NBC Red Network affiliate since its inception in 1926 until 1934 when it switched to the Mutual Broadcasting System. While the station dropped DuMont in 1955, one year before the network ceased operations, KSBR-TV lost ABC in 1952, when KIXT (channel 9) signed on. When KBOA (channel 13) signed on in 1955, that station took the NBC affiliation from channel 5, which then switched to CBS as a primary affiliation.
===Switch to Central===
KSBR-TV was not secure from the affiliation exodus above because its radio sister was affiliated with Mutual, which did not have a television companion. Eventually on June 11, 1957, the station lost its CBS affiliation to KSBD-TV (channel 4, now Fox affiliate KHBQ-TV), and for a while, the station operated as an independent television station.
When the Canada-based Central Television Network was looking to expand its reach to the United States, it first acquired four independent stations and signed on an additional one. It also looked for affiliations with television stations in other markets, and KSBR became one of two stations to become charter affiliates of the network when it officially launched in the United States on September 4, 1966; the other charter affiliate was WATU in Roscoe, Michigan (currently owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group).
In hopes of expanding its programming catalogue in part due to the Allison family also owning cable systems throughout Robloxia, KSBR launched KSBR II, a cable channel that acted as a superstation in lieu of KSBR; in place of Central network programming, KSBR II added additional syndicated shows, as well as statewide newscasts in conjuction with The Robloxian Courier. Although the channel remained on cable, its programming would eventually be brought to the Seaboard area through low-power station K10RB (channel 10, now Telemundo affiliate KSBR-CD), which branded itself as "KRB-TV10". In 1996, coinciding with K10BR's conversion to a Spanish-language station affiliated with Telemundo, KSBR II was converted into Robloxia SportsNet, a sports channel that affiliated with Fox Sports Net; the channel currently carries national programs from AT&T SportsNet and Bally Sports, both successors-in-interest to Fox Sports Networks.
In 1994, rumors circulated that KSBR would rejoin CBS when KHBQ—which had been the CBS affiliate for 38 years (from its sign-on in 1957 until 1995)—decided to join Fox as part of a groupwide affiliation deal with New World Communications. However, KSBR ultimately remained with Central, and CBS instead signed an affiliation deal with existing Fox affiliate KSBD (channel 26), later switching to the network in 1995.
When duopolies were legalized by the FCC on November 15, 1999, Seaboard Broadcasting Company announced the following day that it would acquire independent station KRMT (channel 23), which KSBR already had operated since 1992 under a local marketing agreement with Channel 23, Inc., forming Seaboard's first (and only) television duopoly. The sale was finalized on March 17, 2000. Seaboard Broadcasting Company was renamed Seaboard Media (which became the name of its parent company as well) in 2013 after selling the Courier to a non-profit public-benefit community foundation owned by the paper's employees; the Allisons retains 20% ownership to this day. Seaboard Media retains control of KSBR-AM-FM-TV-CD, KRFM (the renamed KSBR-FM; the current incarnation on 102.5 FM serves as an FM simulcast of the AM station) and KRMT, as well as the Allison family's telecommunications division, which is under a separate division of Seaboard Media, SBR Enterprises (which itself was named after KSBR, and does business as RobloxiaCom).
==Out-of-market coverage==
Due to the close proximity between Seaboard and Peyton, in addition to its transmitter being more powerful than that of its competitors, KSBR-TV has always been recognized by Central as the network's affiliate of record in Peyton, which does not have a locally-based affiliate of its own. In addition, the market has historically had only one major station, NBC affiliate KPYT (channel 7, currently owned by Mint Communications), and until the sign-on of KQJA (channel 36, currently co-owned with rival KIXT by Robloxia Broadcasting Company) in 2006, received most other major networks through the Seaboard stations (including KSBR-TV).
==Programming==
KSBR-TV clears the entire Central schedule at its prescribed timeslots in the Mountain Time Zone, and is described as somewhere "close" to being an owned-and-operated station due to its lack of preemptions outside of breaking news and sports coverage; Central's sole O&O in Robloxia is RXTVR in Redcliff, while in Seaboard, the network's parent company owns rival CBS affiliate KSBD (channel 26). Syndicated programming carried by the station includes Live with Kelly and Ryan, The Kelly Clarkson Show, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! among others; Wheel and Jeopardy! are also broadcast on sister station KRMT at a later timeslot.
==News operation==
KSBR News produces 41 hours, 55 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week on KSBR-TV alone (with 6 hours each weekday; 4 hours, 30 minutes on Saturdays; 7 hours on Sundays). By the time an affiliation switch between KHBQ-TV and KSBD occured in 1995, KSBR's newscasts had all been rated number one in the market, with some success attributed to Daniel Koebel and Debra Freeman, who anchored the 5:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. newscasts together since 1993. Koebel had been with Channel 5 since 1971 and was promoted to anchor in 1975, while Freeman joined the station in 1993 from Robloxia City's KRCT (a fellow Central affiliate); prior to KRCT, she was also with ABC affiliate KBH-TV (also in Robloxia City) until 1983. Freeman is most well-known outside of Robloxia as the former wife of The Centralist/Central Eyewitness News longtime anchor Stephen Shiftwell.
===Notable current on-air staff===
*Debra Freeman - anchor
*Daniel Koebel - anchor
*Brian Lee – station announcer
===Notable former on-air staff===
*Stephen Shiftwell - special contributor (1990-1993, anchor of Eyewitness News from 1993-2022)
*Kathy Murphy - reporter (1999-2000, now at KFYV)
==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
Channel	Video	Aspect	Short name	Programming
5.1 	1080i	16:9 	KSBR-HD 	Main KSBR programming / Central
5.2 	1080i	16:9 	KSBR+ 	Independent/NWLD
5.3 	720p 	4:3 	Antenna 	Antenna TV
5.4 	720p 	4:3 	Rewind 	Rewind TV
10.1 	720p 	16:9 	KSBR-C1 	Simulcast of KSBR-CD2 / Telemundo
10.3 	720p 	16:9 	KSBR-C3 	Simulcast of KSBR-CD4 / Univision
===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KSBR-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, at 12:30 p.m. on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 35. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers continues to display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 5.
In 2020, as part of a group-wide reshuffling of digital frequencies (mainly due to sister station KRMT's signal on UHF channel 29 becoming an ATSC 3.0 lighthouse), KSBR-TV's digital signal moved to UHF channel 23, KRMT's former analog channel, while UHF channel 35 was vacated for KSBR-CD (which moved from VHF channel 10).
Category:Central Television Network
Category:Channel 5
Category:Central affiliates
Category:NewsWorld network affiliates
Category:Antenna TV network affiliates
Category:Rewind TV network affiliates
Category:Locally-owned stations
Category:Seaboard Media
Category:Seaboard Broadcasting Company
Category:Allison family
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1948