KDOC-TV
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| KDOC-TV | |
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| Anaheim/Santa Ana/Los Angeles, California | |
| Branding | KDOC |
| Slogan | Endless Classics |
| Channels | Analog: 56 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | independent Bohemia Visual Music (DT3) |
| Owner | Ellis Communications, Inc. (Ellis Communications KDOC Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | October 1, 1982 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Dynamic Orange County |
| Transmitter Power | 2450 kW (analog) 1000 kW (digital) |
| Height | 927 m (analog) 949 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 24518 |
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| Website | www.kdoctv.net |
KDOC-TV (Channel 56) is an independent television station based in Orange County, California (licensed to Anaheim, with studios and offices in Santa Ana). The station's programming consists mainly of syndicated repeats of past television shows.
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[edit] History
KDOC-TV was initially owned by locally-based Golden Orange Broadcasting, whose investors included entertainer Pat Boone. KDOC has been on the air since 1982. It was the home of conservative commentator Wally George and televangelist Dr. Gene Scott until their deaths. George died in 2003, while Scott died in 2005.
During this period, the station was also popular for weekend broadcasts of Asian programming, which gained a significant non-Asian audience with the broadcast of the 1984–1985 (subtitled) Japanese Miyamoto Musashi television series.
On April 4, 2006, Bert Ellis along with Anaheim Ducks owners Henry and Susan Samueli bought KDOC-TV for $149.5 million from Golden Orange Broadcasting. The sale closed in July 2006.
In September 2006, KDOC-TV made significant changes in its line-up and debuted a new slogan Endless Classics (a reference to the Beach Boys album and the 1966 film The Endless Summer), and a new logo. The new lineup included more current syndicated repeats, more sports coverage such as Anaheim Ducks hockey, locally-produced shows like The Pet Place, a greater variety of movies, and less infomercials on weekdays.
KDOC specializes in past television shows that have not normally been shown on other local outlets in the Los Angeles market. In 2006, KDOC became the broadcast flagship station of the Anaheim Ducks hockey team.
Bohemia Visual Music started broadcasting on KDOC digital subchannel 56.3 on March 1, 2008[1]
[edit] Daybreak OC
On September 10th, 2007, KDOC-TV in partnership with the Orange County Register, launched a new two-hour morning newscast named Daybreak OC. The newscast primarily covers the Orange County area with OC specific weather, traffic, and news. The newscast is also produced in High Definition, making it the LA DMA's 5th high definition newscast. [2] For this program change the station moved their broadcast center to a new facility at the headquarters of the Orange County Register in Santa Ana, California. Daybreak OC is one of three newscasts specifically covering the Orange County, the others being KOCE's Real Orange and KOCE's fulltime news/information digital subchannel, the OC Channel.[3]
[edit] Current Programming
Some of KDOC's programming include:
- The Andy Griffith Show
- Blind Date
- Cheers
- Daybreak OC
- Frasier
- Get Smart
- Happy Days
- Hawaii Five-O
- Hogan's Heroes
- Infomercials
- Little House on the Prairie
- Mad About You
- Magnum, P.I.
- Matlock
- The Nanny
- Perry Mason
- Quincy, M.E.
- The Twilight Zone
[edit] References
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- KDOC website
- Daybreak OC website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KDOC
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KDOC-TV
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