KAMC
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Lubbock, Texas United States |
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| Branding | KAMC ABC (general) KAMC News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Local. Live. Late Breaking. |
| Channels |
Digital: 27 (UHF) Virtual: 28 () |
| Subchannels | 28.1 ABC 28.2 Escape 28.3 Bounce TV |
| Affiliations | ABC (1969–present) |
| Owner |
Mission Broadcasting (Mission Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| Operator | Nexstar Media Group |
| First air date | November 11, 1968 |
| Call letters' meaning | station calls are pronounced Kay-Mack (KA-MC) |
| Sister station(s) | KLBK-TV |
| Former callsigns | KSEL-TV (1968–1975) KMCC (1975–1979) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 28 (UHF, 1968–2009) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1968–1969) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 219.4 m |
| Facility ID | 40820 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 33°31′33.8″N 101°52′8.6″W / 33.526056°N 101.869056°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
KAMC, UHF digital channel 27, is the ABC-affiliated television station serving the Lubbock, Texas metropolitan area. KAMC is owned by Mission Broadcasting and operated by Nexstar Media Group under a local marketing agreement. This makes it sister station to CBS affiliate KLBK-TV and the two stations share studios and transmitter facilities on South University Avenue (Loop 289) in Lubbock.
KAMC first began broadcasting in the fall of 1968 as KSEL-TV. Originally an independent station, KSEL soon began broadcasting some ABC programming which was previously split between CBS affiliate KLBK and NBC affiliate KCBD. After a few months of sharing secondary affiliations with the local CBS and NBC affiliates, KSEL became the primary and exclusive ABC affiliate for the Lubbock market in the fall of 1969. A few years later (1975 after sale of sister stations KSEL (AM) (now KJTV (AM) and KSEL-FM (now KLBB-FM) channel 28 changed its call letters to KMCC, then later (1979) to the current KAMC. From 1979 to 1986, KAMC applied the former KMCC call sign to a satellite station on Channel 12 in Clovis, New Mexico that is currently operating as KVIH-TV, now a satellite of Amarillo, Texas ABC affiliate KVII-TV. KMCC is now the callsign for the unrelated NTSC channel 34 and ATSC channel 32 in Laughlin, Nevada.
KSEL-TV entered as a competitor to established KLBK (as noted above, a full-time CBS and part-time ABC affiliate) and NBC affiliate KCBD, and recent sign-on (and, with regards to signal, weaker) channel 34, KKBC-TV (later KMXN-TV). KKBC operated from 1967 to 1973. A new channel 34, KJAA, signed on in 1981; it is now Fox affiliate KJTV-TV.
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