KOAT-TV

'KOAT-TV' is a television station in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is an ABC network affiliate and broadcasts on channel 7. Its transmitter is located on Sandia Crest, east of Albuquerque.
KOAT uses a version of the Circle 7 logo used by many other ABC affiliates.
Weather forecaster Howard Morgan worked at KOAT for 28 years before retiring in 1999.

Contents

History

Satellite stations

News

Notable Personalities

Current On-Air Talent

Former On-Air Talent

News/Station Presentation

Newscast Titles

Station Slogans

External links

History

Channel 7 KOAT signed on September 30, 1953, less than a week before 13 KGGM (now KRQE). They were locally owned by AM Caldwell & Walter Stiles. The station signed on as an ABC Affiliate. In 1959 KOAT was sold to Alvarado Television and in 1962 to Steinman Television.
Pulitzer would buy KOAT 7 in 1979. In 1999, as a result of a corporate merger, Hearst-Argyle Broadcasting became the owners of KOAT TV.

Satellite stations

These stations rebroadcast KOAT's signal and add local content for other parts of the broadcast market:

★ 'KOFT', Farmington, New Mexico (analog channel 3, digital channel 8) {Signed on KWNM-TV from June 1, 1986 to 1997}. KOFT also serves Durango, Colorado.

★ 'KOVT', Silver City, New Mexico (analog channel 10, digital channel 12) {Signed on KOAV from July 3, 1990 to 1997}

★ 'KOCT', Carlsbad, New Mexico (analog channel 6, digital channel 19) {Signed on KAVE-TV from July 28, 1956 to 1982 & then KVIO-TV from 1982 to 1997} KOCT also serves Roswell, Artesia, Ruidoso and other locations in southeastern New Mexico.
KOCT, formerly KAVE-TV and KVIO-TV, became part of the KOAT-TV operation in 1993 after previously serving as a satellite of El Paso ABC affiliate KVIA-TV Channel 7. The Carlsbad station began in 1956 as KAVE-TV, a CBS affiliate with studio and transmitter facilities on Church Street in Carlsbad. In 1966, when Roswell, New Mexico station KBIM-TV became the CBS affiliate for southeastern New Mexico, KAVE became a satellite station of then-ABC affiliate KMOM-TV Channel 9 in Monahans, Texas (now NBC affiliate KWES-TV, Midland-Odessa, Texas) and then of KVIA-TV in El Paso in 1976.
In addition, there are several low-powered repeaters that carry KOAT's programming throughout New Mexico, northeastern Arizona and southern Colorado.

News

Ordinarily, KOAT produces just over 4 hours of local news each weekday, 4 hours each Saturday, and 3 hours each Sunday. The station's newscasts identify themselves as "Action 7 News."

Notable Personalities

Current On-Air Talent

'KOAT ANCHORS'

★ 'Doug Fernandez:' Weekday Evening Anchor

★ 'Mike Garofalo:' Weekday Morning and Noon Anchor

★ 'Cynthia Izaguirre:' Weekday Evening Anchor

★ 'Christine Jones:' Weekend Anchor/Reporter

★ 'Marisa Maez:' Weekday Morning and Noon Anchor
'KOAT REPORTERS'

★ 'Sasha Andrade:' General Assignment Reporter

★ 'Larry Behrens:' Silver City Bureau Reporter

★ 'Dominic Garcia:' General Assignment Reporter

★ 'Rod Green:' General Assignment Reporter

★ 'Matt Grubs:' Santa Fe Bureau Reporter

★ 'Chris Ramirez:' General Assignment Reporter

★ 'Dr. Barry Ramo:' Health Reporter

★ 'Dave Roberts:' Farmington Bureau Reporter

★ 'Drew Rudnick:' Southeast New Mexico Bureau Reporter

★ 'AJ Smith:' General Assignment Reporter

★ 'Natalie Swaby:' General Assignment Reporter
'HEARST-ARGYLE WASHINGTON BUREAU'

★ 'Sally Kidd:' Washington Bureau Correspondent

★ 'Laurie Kinney:' Washington Bureau Correspondent

★ 'Tracy Mitchell:' Washington Bureau Correspondent
'FIRST ALERT WEATHER TEAM'

★ 'Joe Diaz (AMS/NWA Seals of Approval):' Chief Meteorologist, seen weeknights

★ 'Byron Morton (AMS/NWA Seals of Approval):' Weekend Meteorologist

★ 'Jason Stiff (AMS Seal of Approval):' Weekday Morning Meteorologist
'SPORTS ANCHORS/REPORTERS'

★ 'Bob Brown:' Sports Director/Anchor, seen weeknights

★ 'John Salazar:' Weekend Sports Anchor

Former On-Air Talent

★ 'Diane Anderson:' Longtime anchor/reporter (1985-2004, later moved to KRQE-TV)

★ 'Ed Lopez:' Morning Anchor (1994-2000)

★ 'Nelson Martinez:' Longtime anchor (1981-2002, later moved to KOB-TV)

News/Station Presentation

Newscast Titles

★ ''Action 7 News'' (1970s-present)

Station Slogans

★ ''News Mexico's News Leader'' (1980s-1990s)

★ ''7 On Your Side'' (1990s)

★ ''Coverage You Can Count On'' (1998-present)

External links

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