KVOA

KVOA is a full-service television station serving Tucson, Arizona as the NBC affiliate. It broadcasts in analog on VHF channel 4 and in digital on UHF channel 23 from its transmitter on Mount Bigelow, northeast of Tucson. The station has low-power translators in Casas Adobes, Duncan / Safford and Sierra Vista, and is owned by Cordillera Communications, a subsidiary of the Evening Post Publishing Company of Charleston, South Carolina. In September 1953, KVOA signed on as Tucson's second television station and NBC affiliate, eight months after KOLD-TV signed on as the CBS affiliate. It was owned by Chicago advertising executive John Louis, Sr., along with KVOA-AM 1290 (now KCUB). It was a sister station to KTAR-AM in Phoenix. In October 1953, KVOA brought Tucson its first-ever live television event: a World Series broadcast. The Louis broadcasting empire eventually became known as Pacific & Southern Broadcasting, headquartered in Phoenix. In 1968, Phoenix advertising mogul Karl Eller... full article at wikipedia