KMIR-TV

KMIR-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for the Inland Empire's Coachella Valley. Licensed to Palm Springs, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 46 from a transmitter on Edom Hill in Cathedral City north of I-10/Redlands Freeway. The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable channel 13 both in standard definition and in high definition. Owned by OTA Broadcasting, LLC (a company controlled by Michael Dell's MSD Capital), KMIR is sister to low-powered MyNetworkTV affiliate KPSE-LD and the two share studios on Park View Drive in Palm Desert. Syndicated programming on this station includes: The Insider, Entertainment Tonight, Two and a Half Men, Judge Judy, and The People's Court.

Digital programming

History

The station was the first to broadcast in the Coachella Valley on September 15, 1968. Airing an analog signal on UHF channel 36, it has been an NBC affiliate from the start. Actor John Conte owned the station along with the El MIRador hotel in Palm Springs, from which the call letters were derived. Desert Regional Medical Center now occupies the site of the old hotel. Today, one can still see the El Mirador broadcasting tower standing in front of the hospital. This is where the station originally transmitted from. The current tower is a replica structure emulating the original, which was destroyed in a 1989 fire.