KFOX-TV

KFOX-TV, virtual channel 14 (UHF digital channel 15), is a Fox-affiliated television station located in El Paso, Texas, United States. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a duopoly with CBS affiliate KDBC-TV (channel 4). KFOX-TV maintains studio facilities located on North Mesa Street (near the Coronado Tower) in northwest El Paso, and its transmitter is located atop the Franklin Mountains on the El Paso city limits. On cable, the station is available on Time Warner Cable channel 8.

History

The station first signed on the air in August 1979 as KCIK-TV (standing for "Christ Is King"); originally operating as a nonprofit Christian-oriented religious independent station, it was the first UHF television station to sign on in the El Paso market. The station was founded by International Christian Television (owned by the late Pete E. Meryl Warren III, who subsequently started KJLF-TV (channel 65, now UniMás affiliate KTFN) in June 1991). Warren and Alex Blomerth had been involved in a church outreach using a leased access channel on cable channel 8. The two partnered to sign on channel 14, broadcasting from the transmitter facilities and studios (located an old church building at 3100 North Stanton Street) that were used by the cable channel.