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R E S O L U T I O N
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WHEREAS, In December 2012, the pioneering El Paso television |
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station, KDBC, celebrated the 60th anniversary of its inaugural |
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broadcast; and |
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WHEREAS, The Roderick Broadcasting Corporation obtained a |
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television license from the Federal Communications Commission in |
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1952 and began construction on a TV station with the same call |
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letters as its radio station, KROD; when it went on the air on |
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December 14 of that year, KROD-TV became El Paso's first television |
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station; and |
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WHEREAS, KROD-TV initially broadcast only from 4 p.m. to 11 |
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p.m. on weekdays and from 1:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Sundays, with such |
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early programming as the children's shows, Red Brown and Anna Lee |
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and Bozo's Big Top, and a wrestling program, Mitchell's Mat Time; |
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the station was originally affiliated with three networks, CBS |
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Broadcasting, Inc., American Broadcasting Company (ABC), and |
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DuMont Television Network, but for most of its existence, the |
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station has been El Paso's CBS affiliate; and |
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WHEREAS, The station's call letters were changed to KDBC in |
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1973 when the station was purchased by the Doubleday Broadcasting |
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Company, and since 2009, KDBC has been owned by the Titan TV |
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Broadcast Group; that same year, the station became the first in El |
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Paso to broadcast a digital-only signal and the third station to air |
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its news broadcast in the high definition format; and |
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WHEREAS, For six decades, since the dawn of television |
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broadcasting in West Texas, KDBC has been a reliable source of news, |
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sports, and entertainment for the people of El Paso, and today the |
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station continues to enrich and enlighten its community; now, |
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therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 83rd Texas |
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Legislature hereby commemorate the 60th anniversary of KDBC-TV in |
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El Paso and extend to the station's owners and staff sincere best |
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wishes for the future; and, be it further |
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RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be |
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prepared for the station as an expression of high regard by the |
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Texas House of Representatives. |
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Marquez |
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______________________________ |
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Speaker of the House |
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I certify that H.R. No. 310 was adopted by the House on |
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February 18, 2013, by a non-record vote. |
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______________________________ |
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Chief Clerk of the House |
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