KPHO-TV virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 17) is a CBS-affiliated television station located in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. The station is owned by the Meredith Corporation as part of a duopoly with independent station KTVK (channel 3). KPHO has its studios located on North Seventh Avenue in Uptown Phoenix with its transmitter located on South Mountain on the city's south side. KPHO extends its signal throughout northern Arizona by way of more than a dozen translators.
The station first signed on the air on December 4, 1949 as the first television station in Arizona. It was originally owned by a group of entrepreneurs – one of whom, John Mullins, would later launch KBTV (now KUSA) in Denver. Majority interest was held by Phoenix Broadcasting, owners of KPHO radio (910 AM, now KFYI at 550 AM); the television station, which was originally assigned the call letters KTLX, had its callsign changed to KPHO-TV to match its radio sister shortly before its debut. It originally broadcast from studios at the Hotel Westward Ho in downtown Phoenix. The Meredith Corporation purchased the KPHO stations on June 25, 1952. In April 1950, the Lew King Ranger children's show broadcast live on KPHO with a young Wayne Newton as announcer. In 1954, it began airing The Wallace and Ladmo Show, a children's program which aired weekday mornings until 1989 – one of the longest-running locally produced children's shows in television history.
Do you feel like a chain store
Practically floored
One of many zeros
Kicked around bored
Your ears are full but you're empty
Holding out your heart
To people who never really
Care how you are
So give me coffee and TV
History
I've seen so much
I'm going blind
And I'm brain dead, virtually
Sociability is hard enough for me
Take me away from this big bad world
And agree to marry me
So we can start over again
Do you go to the country
It isn't very far
There's people there who will hurt you
Cause of who you are
Your ears are full of their language
There's wisdom there, you're sure
Till the words start slurring
And you can't find the door
So give me coffee and TV
History
I've seen so much
I'm going blind
And I'm brain dead, virtually
Sociability is hard enough for me
Take me away from this big bad world
And agree to marry me
So we can start over again
So give me coffee and TV
History
I've seen so much
I'm going blind
And I'm brain dead, virtually
Sociability is hard enough for me
Take me away from this big bad world
And agree to marry me
So we can start over again
Oh, we can start over again
Oh, we can start over again
Oh, we can start over again