KGPE originally signed on the air as KJEO on September 30, 1953, as an ABC affiliate. It was originally owned by O'Neill Broadcasting Company, which sold the station in 1961 to Shasta Telecasting Corporation.
1958–1961[]
1961–1966[]
1967–1973[]
1967–1970[]
SVG NEEDED
Retlaw Broadcasting, a unit of Retlaw Enterprises (a company owned by relatives of Walt Disney), acquired channel 47 from Shasta Telecasting in 1968.
1970–1973[]
SVG NEEDED
1973–1992[]
1973–1985[]
SVG NEEDED
"We're the One" (1978–1979)
"Come On Along" (1982–1983)
1985–1992[]
SVG NEEDED
On September 9, 1985, KJEO-TV switched affiliations with KFSN-TV after Capital Cities, purchased and merged with ABC, converting it to an ABC owned-and-operated station; the 1973 logo was kept.
1992–1999[]
SVG NEEDED
1998–2000[]
Fisher Broadcasting merged with Retlaw in 1999, and sold KJEO to the The Ackerley Group (which owned Bakersfield-based NBC affiliate KGET at the time) in 2000, although Fisher would reenter the Central Valley market with the acquisition of KBAK-TV on January 1, 2008.
KGPE[]
2000–2004[]
2000–2001[]
Under its Ackerley ownership, KJEO became KGPE on September 14, 2000; Clear Channel Communications' television subsidiary merged with Ackerley in 2001.
2001–2004[]
2004–present[]
2004–2009[]
Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire group of television stations to Newport Television on April 20, 2007.
2009–2013[]
Newport Television agreed to sell KGPE, along with NBC affiliate KGET-TV and Telemundo affiliate KKEY-LP in Bakersfield, to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group on November 5, 2012. The FCC approved the sale on January 23, 2013; which was completed on February 19. Nexstar subsequently announced the acquisition of KSEE from Granite Broadcasting, in the process forming a duopoly with KGPE.
1Owns a 75% stake of the network, the other 12.5% stake is co-owned between Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery. 2Joint venture with Warner Bros. Discovery, in which Nexstar owns 31% while Warner Bros. Discovery owns the remaining 69%. 3Nexstar operates these stations owned by Mission Broadcasting. 4Nexstar operates this station owned by Cunningham Broadcasting. 5Nexstar operates this station owned by White Knight Broadcasting through an SSA. 6Nexstar operates this station owned by Vaughan Media. 7Predecessor company of LIN Media. 8Nexstar operates this station owned by Londen Media Group.
