KTAB-TV
KTAB-TV (channel 32) is a television station in Abilene, Texas, United States, affiliated with CBS and Telemundo. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which provides certain services to NBC affiliate KRBC-TV (channel 9) under joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with Mission Broadcasting. The two stations share studios on South 14th Street in western Abilene; KTAB-TV's transmitter is located on Texas State Highway 36 in neighboring Callahan County.
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Sister stations | KRBC-TV |
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First air date | October 6, 1979 |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 59988 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 258 m (846 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°16′38″N 99°35′52″W |
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KTAB-TV went on the air in October 1979 as the third major TV station for the Abilene area, bringing a full schedule of CBS programs to the Big Country area. It was built by a consortium headed by Bill Terry, who had been KRBC-TV's general manager, and several of that station's on-air personalities moved to the new channel 32. The news product was successful and supplanted KRBC as the dominant station for local news in town. The station was sold several times in the 1980s and 1990s, including an 11-year ownership tenure by Shamrock Broadcasting, before being purchased by Nexstar in 1999. Nexstar acquired the assets of KRBC-TV in 2003 and merged the two operations together in that station's studios in 2004.