Bill Text: TX HR310 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Commemorating the 60th anniversary of KDBC-TV in El Paso.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-02-21 - Reported enrolled [HR310 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HR310-Enrolled.html
| H.R. No. 310 | ||
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| WHEREAS, In December 2012, the pioneering El Paso television | ||
| station, KDBC, celebrated the 60th anniversary of its inaugural | ||
| broadcast; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The Roderick Broadcasting Corporation obtained a | ||
| television license from the Federal Communications Commission in | ||
| 1952 and began construction on a TV station with the same call | ||
| letters as its radio station, KROD; when it went on the air on | ||
| December 14 of that year, KROD-TV became El Paso's first television | ||
| station; and | ||
| WHEREAS, KROD-TV initially broadcast only from 4 p.m. to 11 | ||
| p.m. on weekdays and from 1:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Sundays, with such | ||
| early programming as the children's shows, Red Brown and Anna Lee | ||
| and Bozo's Big Top, and a wrestling program, Mitchell's Mat Time; | ||
| the station was originally affiliated with three networks, CBS | ||
| Broadcasting, Inc., American Broadcasting Company (ABC), and | ||
| DuMont Television Network, but for most of its existence, the | ||
| station has been El Paso's CBS affiliate; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The station's call letters were changed to KDBC in | ||
| 1973 when the station was purchased by the Doubleday Broadcasting | ||
| Company, and since 2009, KDBC has been owned by the Titan TV | ||
| Broadcast Group; that same year, the station became the first in El | ||
| Paso to broadcast a digital-only signal and the third station to air | ||
| its news broadcast in the high definition format; and | ||
| WHEREAS, For six decades, since the dawn of television | ||
| broadcasting in West Texas, KDBC has been a reliable source of news, | ||
| sports, and entertainment for the people of El Paso, and today the | ||
| station continues to enrich and enlighten its community; now, | ||
| therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 83rd Texas | ||
| Legislature hereby commemorate the 60th anniversary of KDBC-TV in | ||
| El Paso and extend to the station's owners and staff sincere best | ||
| wishes for the future; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
| prepared for the station as an expression of high regard by the | ||
| Texas House of Representatives. | ||
| Marquez | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Speaker of the House | ||
| I certify that H.R. No. 310 was adopted by the House on | ||
| February 18, 2013, by a non-record vote. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
