KMPH-TV

KMPH-TV, virtual channel 26 (UHF digital channel 28), is a Fox-affiliated television station serving Fresno, California, United States that is licensed to Visalia. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a duopoly with CW affiliate KFRE-TV (channel 59). The two stations share studio facilities located on East McKinley Avenue in eastern Fresno (one mile southwest of Fresno Yosemite International Airport); KMPH maintains transmitter facilities located on Big Baldy Mountain in northwestern Tulare County.

KMPH-TV's focus is on the San Joaquin Valley and Central California. KMPH-TV's signal is receivable as far way as the Bakersfield area; however, local Fox affiliate and sister station KBFX-CD (itself once a KMPH repeater) exclusively carried on cable providers in the Bakersfield market. KMPH's airwaves extend northward to Mariposa and Merced, and the southern Sierra Nevada, and sometimes can be received in Monterey County for those who live just north of King City. KMPH has been received over-air sometimes in eastern Kern County (Ridgecrest) and San Luis Obispo.

KMPH

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KMPH (AM)

KMPH (840 AM is a radio station licensed to and serving the Modesto, California area. The station is owned by Immaculate Heart Radio, through licensee IHR Educational Broadcasting.

History

KMPH signed on in July 2006 with an Adult Standards/MOR format, with some talk programming. It effectively replaced sister station KTRB, which had operated from Modesto since 1933, but had just signed off the previous month in preparation of a move to the San Francisco Bay Area. The station switched to an all-talk format on March 10, 2008.

Pappas Telecasting shut KMPH down on August 31, 2010 due to lack of revenue.

KMPH later returned to air with brokered programming provided by Paulino Bernal Evangelism of Texas, then temporarily switched to a Talk format in May 2013 fed via KOMY (1340 AM) in La Selva Beach, California. On July 1, 2013, KMPH switched to a 1950s/1960s "Graffiti Gold" Oldies format, re-launching as "Modesto's Power House" and drawing on Modesto's connection to hometown hero George Lucas's classic 1973 motion picture, American Graffiti.