For the weekend, we will see the heat return. Fox 33 News Ark-La-Tex (Weeknights 9 to 9:30 P.M.), KMSS uses additional news personnel from KETK in Longview, Texas, see that article for a complete listing. On September 20, 2010, the program was expanded to a half-hour and was retitled to Fox [33] News Ark-La-Tex. The station originally operated from studio and office facilities located at 3519 Jewella Avenue (between Claiborne Avenue and Ninock Street) in southwestern Shreveport. For years it had been the de facto Fox affiliate for the Longview area until 1991 when then-CBS affiliate, and current sister station, KLMG switched to Fox and became KFXK. Nexstar planned to operate KMSS and KSHV under a shared services agreement, forming a virtual triopoly with KTAL. Much like Fox News Shreveport, it is taped earlier in the evening, with stories by Shreveport-based reporters, plus a local forecast and sportscast prepared by the Tyler-based crew. Subsequently, on August 3, KTAL began producing a one-hour-long weekday morning newscast at 7:00 a.m., titled Fox 33 News: Good Day, which replaced paid programming in that time period and restored a morning newscast to its schedule after an eight-year absence. Because Nexstar could not legally purchase KMSS under FCC ownership rules as Shreveport has only eight full-power stations (the FCC requires a market to have at least eight unique owners once a duopoly is formed), and KTAL and KMSS were among the four highest-rated stations in the Shreveport market at the time of the transaction, plans called for KMSS to be acquired by Westlake, Ohio-based Nexstar partner company Mission Broadcasting for $27 million, while KSHV was to be sold to a female-controlled company, Denton, Texas-based Rocky Creek Communications (owned by Shirley Green), for $2.1 million. Net income attributed to Dish increased to $410 million, compared with $324 million a year earlier. Channel 33 first signed on the air on April 11, 1985. So Fox 33 (Secondary) Bringing you all the FOX entertainment you could ever need!! Dish Network-Fox Sports outage:Fox Sports networks dropped from Dish Network, Sling Friday in new carriage dispute. The original format of the broadcast consisted of local news headlines and a local forecast geared specifically towards the program's Ark-La-Tex audience during the first 20 minutes, with the final two segments of the program consisting of a direct partial simulcast of WGMB's live 9:00 newscast, which included a national and international news summary from Jeff Beimfohr, along with a statewide sportscast anchored by Chris Mycoskie. KMSS FOX 33 Creative; Videos Playlists; Channels; About; Home Trending History Get YouTube Premium ... 33 views; 1 year ago; 0:16. It is also produced by KETK in Tyler, TX. (Syndicated E/I compliant programs accompany the Saturday Xploration Station broadcasts.)[23]. (KMSS filling part of its former time slot with Montel, which previously aired on sister station KSHV-TV.). That format was later changed to where the entire KMSS newscast was taped. On May 1, 1987, Media South announced it would sell KMSS-TV to Austin, Texas-based Southwest Multimedia Corp. (owned by Billy Goldberg and Lester Kamin) for $7 million; the sale received FCC approval on June 24.[6]. Nexstar issued a statement calling the allegations "spurious and without merit.”[19][20]. The final edition of Fox News Shreveport aired on September 5, 2008. By Jon Lafayette September 26, 2019. The minority-owned Marshall intended to fund the acquisitions—which were subject to FCC approval of Nexstar's acquisition of the ComCorp and White Knight Broadcasting stations as well as its concurring purchase of Grant Broadcasting—through borrowings guaranteed by Nexstar; Marshall planned to launch news operations and provide sports and minority-oriented public affairs programming on KMSS and the other two stations (opting instead to have Nexstar-owned stations produce additional newscasts for the Marshall stations in each of the three markets), with Nexstar providing sales and certain non-programming services including engineering, master control and other administrative functions. Bringing you all the FOX entertainment you could ever need!! DISH Network Channels Guide – 2021. Fox News Shreveport was produced by Baton Rouge Fox affiliate WGMB. 375 were here. You can watch KMSS local news, weather, traffic, live sports, daytime, primetime, & late night programming. The blackout affects stations in 17 markets across 23 … Much like the original half-hour 9:00 p.m. newscast, it was recorded earlier in the evening and featured stories filed by Shreveport-based reporters, although meteorologists and sports anchors employed with KETK provided and prepared local forecast and sports segments out of that station's Tyler studios. It is one of two stations in the market (KSLA being the other) not to change affiliates, and the only station not to be affiliated with any other network. On April 24, 2013, Irving, Texas-based Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced that it would acquire the nineteen television stations owned by Communications Corporation of America and White Knight Broadcasting, including KMSS and its time brokerage agreement with KSHV-TV, for $270 million in cash and stock. KMSS-TV, virtual channel 33 (UHF digital channel 34), is a Fox - affiliated television station licensed to Shreveport, Louisiana, United States and also serving Texarkana, Texas. Next week, rain and thunderstorm chances will return. KMSS first went on the air on April 11, 1985 as the first independent station in the market and the first television station to sign on since ABC affiliate KTBS (channel 3) came on the air thirty years earlier in 1955. [1] Washington, D.C.-based Media South Broadcasting Corp. (a subsidiary of Multi Media Communications and owned by Raymond A. Goudreau, Martin E. Firestone and John A. Fergie) filed a separate license application for channel 33 three weeks later on July 6. KMSS-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 33, 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. On April 23, 2007, KMSS debuted a half-hour prime time newscast at 9:00 p.m. each weeknight. ArkLaTex news and Weather videos live and on demand VOD, KTAL TV 6 NBC. Channel 33 also aired CBS programs that KSLA-TV (channel 12) declined to air, mostly the network's late night and morning lineup (with the exception of The Price Is Right and The Young and the Restless) and most of its Saturday morning children's programming. KMSS-TV, virtual channel 33 (UHF digital channel 34), is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Shreveport, Louisiana, United States and also serving Texarkana, Texas. The news anchor and meteorologist were provided by the centralized production hub and other WGMB personnel filled-in as necessary. Fox has also removed cable networks FS1, FS2, Big 10 Network, Fox Soccer Plus and Fox Deportes. A Dish Dump Impacts A Nexstar-Run TV Group. They are a typical Fox affiliate station with a blend of Fox first-run prime time shows, syndicated talk shows, reality shows, court shows, and off-network sitcoms. [5] Though it was technically a network affiliate, KMSS continued to be programmed as a de facto independent station as Fox's initial programming lineup consisted solely of a late-night talk show, The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers. KMSS-TV (branded as "Fox 33") is the Fox affiliate in Shreveport, Louisiana. For most of its history, KMSS-TV was one of several Fox-affiliated stations throughout the United States that did not have a local newscast; in lieu of a regular news program, starting in 1991, KMSS ran daily local weather inserts during regular programming that were produced by WeatherVision, a Jackson, Mississippi-based company formed by meteorologist Edward St. Pe to provide weather forecasts for stations without a news department; the agreement with WeatherVision was discontinued in December 2006. It also formerly broadcast Big 12 Conference football games after that conference formed in the mid-1990s, and until the launch of the cable SEC Network in August 2014, carried with KSHV Southeastern Conference football and basketball games. Through KTAL NBC 6, KMSS FOX 33, and KSHV 45, we bring you local news that matters, including Texarkana First News, the region’s only newscast dedicated to the Four States area. It is produced by Tyler, Texas Fox affiliate KFXK. Bringing you all the FOX entertainment you could ever need!! Domestic Television; because its Fox programming commitments precluded PTEN programming (which consisted of mainly first-run drama series) from airing during prime time, KMSS carried the latter's offerings in late night until the programming service ceased operations in September 1997. (Prior to the 2014 deal with Nexstar, Pluria Marshall Jr.—who is African American—had struggled to obtain financing for station purchases dating to the late 1980s, including a rebuffed 2008 offer to buy stations from Media General, which Nexstar would eventually acquire in 2017.) As the duopoly partner of KTAL, the station may also simulcast long-form severe weather coverage from the NBC affiliate in the event that a tornado warning is issued for any county (or parish in Louisiana) in its Ark-La-Tex viewing area. On that date, the prime time newscast was retitled Fox 33 News: First at 9 and was converted into a live, seven-night-a-week broadcast. Fox’s stations and cable networks were blacked out Thursday on Dish Network in a dispute over retransmission consent and carriage fees. Originally, the first 20 minutes of the program were taped earlier in the evening and geared specifically towards the Ark-La-Tex audience, with stories by Shreveport-based reporters, plus a local forecast. We remain as frustrated as our DISH Network viewers. From Masterchef to the Teen Choice Awards, FOX has programs that appeal to anyone. Originally broadcasting daily from 6:00 a.m. until 3:00 a.m., KMSS-TV—which was also the first independent station to sign on in the market—initially maintained a programming format consisting of a mix of recent and classic sitcoms, westerns and drama series, cartoons, religious programs and some older movies. The station is co-managed in a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate KSHV-TV (channel 45), which is owned by Communications Corporation of America. Highs will return into the middle and upper 90s. Its transmitter is located near Mooringsport, Louisiana. Besuche eine Webseite; Login to Save as Favorite; Rate Channel ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Related Channels Region North America Country USA City Shreveport Genre/Category Weather. Home; TV Listings; Streaming; TV Apps; About Us; Contact Us ; KMSS HDTV. Shreveport, LA, USA. Find the channels you and your family watch, and compare package lineups side-by-side. The station was the first one in Louisiana to broadcast in stereo. Thank you for your patience! (It is one of two television stations in the market, alongside KSLA, that has retained the same network affiliation, and the only station not to be affiliated with any other network. "KMSS Kid's Club", which was similar to the "Fox Kids' Club", was introduced to incorporate short feature stories which were inserted during breaks in the Warner Brothers animation programs in the mornings and afternoons, increasing viewership and adding value to the children's program blocks. As a result, Nexstar began operating KMSS and KSHV under separate shared services agreements with Marshall and White Knight, forming a virtual triopoly with KTAL, leaving Shreveport's six major commercial stations under the control of just three broadcasting companies (the Wray family—through Wray Properties Trust—owns KTBS, while KSLA is owned by Gray Television); KMSS and KSHV subsequently migrated their operations into KTAL's North Market Street studios in northeastern Shreveport. For a long period of time, KMSS was one of several Fox stations that did not have a local newscast, but that changed on April 23, 2007, when KMSS began airing Fox News Louisiana (which was later rebranded as Fox News Shreveport) weeknights at 9 p.m. On August 20, 2007, KMSS debuted Fox News Louisiana AM, a morning news program seen weekdays from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Like the evening news, certain segments were taped and included stories by the Shreveport-based reporting staff, while other portions were carried live. [24], On August 20, 2007, about five months after the 9:00 p.m. newscast debuted, KMSS debuted a two-hour-long weekday morning newscast, titled Fox News Louisiana AM. [16][17][18], On April 3, 2019, Marshall filed a lawsuit against Nexstar in the New York Supreme Court, accusing it of sabotaging the value of KMSS, KPEJ and KLJB for future direct acquisition under a waiver of duopoly rules (which allow groups to seek approval for duopolies involving two of a given market's four highest-rated stations), being undermined in favor of Nexstar under the terms of Marshall's financing deal with that group (which Nexstar is alleged to have threatened to withdraw), being given an $16-million overevaluation of the collective worth of the stations, and withholding retransmission fees. KMSS was formerly one of several affiliates of Edward St. Pe's WeatherVision daily updates. [9] On June 1, 1995, White Knight Broadcasting—an arm of Associated Broadcasters/ComCorp (owned by media executive Sheldon Galloway), which purchased the station from Word of Life Ministries for $3.8 million that April[10]—entered into a local marketing agreement to operate upstart independent station KWLB (channel 45), which subsequently changed its call letters to KSHV-TV on July 26, under which Associated Broadcasters/KMSS would provide programming, advertising and other administrative services for KSHV. KMSS also airs a half-hour sports program called The Show on Sunday nights at 11 p.m. Oct. 29, 2010 -- DISH Network L.L.C., a subsidiary of DISH Network Corporation (Nasdaq: DISH) and Fox Networks, an operating unit of News Corporation (Nasdaq: NWS), today announced a wide-ranging distribution agreement to provide the third-largest video distributor in the United States with continued access to programming from Fox Broadcasting and Fox local television stations in major cities. The Latest News and Updates in KMSS FOX 33 brought to you by the team at ArkLaTexHomepage: News, Weather, Sports | KTAL NBC 6/KMSS FOX 33/KSHV 45 - Shreveport, Marshall, Texarkana Skip to content KMSS-TV Shreveport, Louisiana Branding Fox 33 (general) Fox 33 News Ark-La-Tex (newscast) Slogan Your Fox for the Ark-La-Tex (general) So Fox 33 (Secondary) News With a Fox Edge (newscast) Channels Digital: 34 (UHF) Virtual: 33 (PSIP) Affiliations Fox Owner Communications Corporation of America (Comcorp of Texas License Corporation) First air date April 11, 1985 Sister station(s) KSHV-TV Former channel number(s) Analog: 33 (UHF, 1985-2009) Former affiliations independent (1985-1986) Transmitt… After Fox began offering programming on a nightly basis (with the addition of programming on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings) in January 1993, KMSS became less reliant on movies during the period, due to the growing cable television industry impacting the ability of broadcast stations to acquire film content; channel 33 relegated its movie presentations to weekend afternoons (except on days when Fox offered sports programming) and late nights. ! On September 20, 2010, it has reverted to a half hour newscast and was renamed again to Fox 33 News Ark-La-Tex. In 1992, KMSS hired Chuck Smith, Director of News & Information to produce interstitial program elements pertaining to community relations / public affairs programming and newscasts/newsbreaks. ), For its first four years as a Fox affiliate, KMSS-TV—which, in compliance with Fox's stricter branding requirements, began identifying as "KMSS Fox 33" in on-air verbiage in 1989 and within its logo in 1991—served as a default Fox station for the Tyler–Longview market. In February 1985, Media South requested and received approval to assign KMSS-TV (in reference to the licensee, Media South of Shreveport, Inc.) as the call letters for its television station.[3][4]. The UHF channel 33 allocation was contested between seven groups that competed for approval by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to be the holder of the construction permit to build and license to operate a new television station on the first commercial UHF allocation to be assigned to Shreveport. On cable, the station is available on Comcast Xfinity channels 8 (standard definition) and 1008 (high definition) in Shreveport; Suddenlink channel 8 (SD and HD) in Bossier City; NewWave Communications channels 3 (SD) and 202 (HD) in Blanchard, Vivian, Springhill and Mansfield; and Cable One channels 33 (SD) and 1033 (HD) in Texarkana and Fouke, Arkansas. KMSS HDTV schedule and local TV listings. By the fall of 2008, the KMSS newscast's format was altered to have the entire broadcast be pre-recorded. On June 12, 2009, KMSS-TV left channel 33 and moved to channel 34 when the analog to digital conversion completed.[1]. During the early- and mid-2000s, KMSS lessened its reliance on running cartoons and classic sitcoms, and began acquiring more talk shows, reality series and court shows, although more recent sitcoms remained as part of its schedule (including as part of its early evening and late prime time lineups surrounding the Fox nighttime schedule). ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Sept. 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- DISH today reported that Fox Corporation blocked DISH and Sling TV customers' access to its local channels in 17 markets across 23 states and the District of Columbia (the full list of affected stations can be viewed here). Fox channels are also removed from Sling TV. What about us? In its early years, KMSS was the local over-the-air broadcaster of Major League Baseball games from both the Texas Rangers and the Houston Astros, and broadcast games from the now-defunct Shreveport Captains minor league baseball team. [15], The sale of ComCorp to Nexstar, as well as that of KMSS to Marshall and a concurring acquisition of the time brokerage agreement with KSHV, received FCC approval on December 4, 2014, and was completed on January 1, 2015. 376 were here. Visit the post for more. ArkLaTex news and Weather videos live and on demand VOD, KTAL TV 6 NBC. DISH delivers hundreds of channels in plans that fit your lifestyle! “Mission proudly claims on its website that its stations ‘provide free over-the-air programming,’ but clearly their actions could not run more counter to that claim,” said Brian […] Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. FOX is a local channel and the channel number will vary based on location. It was the fifth commercial television station in the Shreveport–Texarkana market (as well as the first to sign on in the market since ABC affiliate KTBS-TV (channel 3) debuted thirty years earlier on September 3, 1955), and the second UHF station to have signed on in the market (after PBS member station and Louisiana Public Broadcasting satellite KLTS-TV [channel 24], which debuted six years prior on August 9, 1978). A company founded in 1996 that currently owns broadcast TV stations in 18 markets is currently at an impasse with Dish Network. It was also the home of Big 12 football when that conference began in the mid-90s back when Fox Sports Net was coming into its own. KMSS is a Fox local network affiliate in Shreveport, LA. Even after its programming expanded with the launch of a three-hour Sunday night lineup in April 1987, Fox aired its prime time programming exclusively on weekends until September 1989, when it began a five-year expansion towards a nightly prime time schedule. The best series meet on FOX. It, along with KSHV, currently airs Southeastern Conference football and basketball from the SEC Network. [2], On December 7, 1984, administrative law judge Byron E. Harrison – who oversaw the dispute over the UHF channel 33 construction permit – granted a motion for resolving disqualifying issues levied against Media South Communications as well as a joint settlement agreement request and applications dismissals by Shreveport Metro Communications 33 Ltd, Godfrey & Associates, and Shreveport Television Co. with prejudice. Similar to other outsourced newscasts by its sister Fox stations in Texas and Louisiana under Comcorp ownership, the program – which had its in-studio segments taped earlier in the evening – featured stories filed by reporters based in the Shreveport–Texarkana area, with a local forecast segment compiled and presented by WGMB's evening meteorologist Nelson Robinson. The original half-hour incarnation of the 9:00 p.m. newscast was discontinued on September 5, 2008. The decision also granted a merger between Great Southern TV Broadcasting (owned by Joseph D. Waggoner and Grey Teekell, whose separate application as existed prior to the merger was dismissed with prejudice) and Media South Broadcasting, whose amended application for channel 33 was given approval. The company had 13.593 million paying customers at the … Thursday, March 4th TV listings for Fox (KMSS) Shreveport, LATodayTomorrowSaturday, Mar 6Sunday, Mar 7Monday, Mar 8Tuesday, Mar 9Wednesday, Mar 10Thursday, Mar 11Friday, Mar 12Saturday, Mar …