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1948–1959[]
The station initially signed on the air on November 29, 1948 as a primary NBC affiliate on VHF channel 4, it is the 45th television station in the U.S. and first in the state of New Mexico, originally owned by Albuquerque Journal owner and publisher Tom Pepperday, who also owned the AM radio station of the same name (770 AM, now KKOB). Later, in May 1952, the KOB stations were purchased by magazine publisher Time-Life (later Time Inc.) and former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Wayne Coy. It was Time-Life's first television asset. In 1953, two new TV stations signed on within a week—KGGM-TV (channel 13, now KRQE), which affiliated with CBS, followed by KOAT-TV, which took ABC; DuMont shut down in 1956. Stanley E. Hubbard, founder of Hubbard Broadcasting, bought KOB-AM-TV from Time-Life in 1957, and his heirs have owned the station since. KOB's radio cousins were sold off in 1986 and are now known as KKOB and KOBQ.
1959–1961[]
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1961–1965[]
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1965–1970[]
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1970–1974[]
1974–1994[]
1974–1983[]
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1983–1994[]
1994–2003[]
The "4" is similar to those used by KCNC-TV in Denver until 2003, KNBC in Los Angeles, WNBC in New York City, WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., and WTVJ in Miami–Fort Lauderdale until 1995, all owned-and-operated by NBC at the time.
2003–2010[]
Although the KOB radio stations had long amended their callsigns, KOB-TV did not drop the "-TV" suffix until June 13, 2009, when the FCC allowed a limited opportunity for stations to change their suffixes (adding "-TV" or "-DT") or drop them in the wake of the digital transition that was completed the previous day.
2010–present[]
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External links[]
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Television stations: Former/Defunct: All News Channel2 | Prime Sports Upper Midwest3 | United States Satellite Broadcasting
1Owned by Hubbard and operated by News-Press & Gazette Company under a local marketing agreement.  |
