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{{short description|ABC affiliate in Midland, Texas}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign = KMID
| city = Midland, Texas
| logo = KMID2022Logo.png
| logo_size = 175px
| branding = ABC Big 2 News
| digital = 26 ([[UHF]])
| virtual = 2
| subchannels =
| translators =
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''2.1:''' [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| network =
| country = United States
| founded =
| airdate = {{start date and age|1953|12|18|p=y}}
| last_airdate =
| location = [[Midland, Texas|Midland]]–[[Odessa, Texas]]
| callsign_meaning = Midland
| former_callsigns = KMID-TV (1953–1992)
| former_channel_numbers = '''Analog:''' 2 ([[VHF]], 1953–2009)
| owner = [[Nexstar Media Group]]
| licensee = Nexstar Media Inc.
| sister_stations = [[KPEJ-TV]]
| former_affiliations = {{ubl|[[NBC]] (1953–1982)|[[DuMont Television Network|DuMont]] (secondary, 1953–1955)|[[CBS]] (secondary, 1953–1955)|ABC (secondary, 1953–1958)}}
| erp = 1,000 [[kW]]
| haat = {{convert|275|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| class =
| facility_id = 35131
| coordinates = {{coord|32|5|51.4|N|102|17|22.5|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
| website = {{URL|https://www.yourbasin.com/}}
}}
'''KMID''' (channel 2) is a [[television station]] licensed to [[Midland, Texas]], United States, serving as the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] affiliate for the [[Permian Basin (North America)|Permian Basin]] area. It is owned by [[Nexstar Media Group]], which provides certain services to [[Odessa, Texas|Odessa]]-licensed [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] affiliate [[KPEJ-TV]] (channel 24) under a [[shared services]] agreement (SSA) with [[Mission Broadcasting]]. The two stations share studios on Windview Street (along [[Interstate 20 in Texas|I-20]]) in southwestern Odessa; KMID's transmitter is located on [[FM 1788]] in rural southeastern [[Andrews County]].
==History==
KMID-TV went on the air on December 18, 1953,<ref name="KMID History">{{cite web |title=About Us - Yourbasin |url=https://www.yourbasin.com/about-us/ |website=www.yourbasin.com|date=May 30, 2019 }}</ref> making it the longest-running station in the Midland–Odessa market. It carried programming from all four networks, but was a primary [[NBC]] affiliate. It lost [[CBS]] to [[KOSA-TV]] (channel 7) in 1956 and lost ABC to [[KWES-TV]] (channel 9, then known as KVKM) in 1958. On September 5, 1982, KMID became an ABC affiliate when it swapped its NBC affiliation with channel 9 (by then known as KMOM, which became KTPX simultaneous with the switch). [[Lorimar-Telepictures]] sold KMID and two of its sister stations, [[KGHZ|KSPR]] in [[Springfield, Missouri]], and KCPM-TV (now [[KNVN]]) in [[Chico, California|Chico]]–[[Redding, California]], to Goltrin Communications in 1987.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}{{clarify|date=February 2015|reason=When did Lorimar-Telepictures acquire & from whom?}} In 1988, Goltrin sold all three stations to Davis Goldfarb Communications.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} Cottonwood Communications bought the station in 1995.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}}{{clarify|date=February 2015|reason=Just KMID?}} KMID, along with KSPR and KCPM, was purchased by GOCOM Communications in 1997.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} KMID was acquired by current owner Nexstar Broadcasting in 2000.<ref name="KMID History"/>
Since 1974, KMID was known as "Big 2", but adopted the "ABC2" moniker in early 2004. In part because many Permian Basin residents still called the station "Big 2", though, that nickname was revived in 2009, only to be scrapped once more on December 12, 2015, in favor of "Local 2". The "Big 2" branding returned again in June 2018.
In 2003, KMID dropped weekend evening newscasts, which were the lowest-rated newscasts in the Permian Basin. In late 2006, the Sunday night news broadcasts were reinstated.
On April 24, 2013, [[Communications Corporation of America]] announced the sale of its entire group to Nexstar. [[KPEJ]] was to be sold to [[Mission Broadcasting]],<ref>https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101552312&qnum=5040&copynum=1&exhcnum=1 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2022}}</ref> but on June 6, 2014, Nexstar announced that it would instead sell KPEJ-TV to a new minority-owned company, [[Marshall Broadcasting Group]] (marking the company's first television station acquisitions), for $58.5 million. Nexstar would operate KPEJ under a [[shared services agreement]], forming a virtual [[duopoly (broadcasting)|duopoly]] with KMID.<ref>[http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/76865/nexstar-selling-3-fox-affils-for-585-million Nexstar Selling 3 Fox Affils For $58.5 Million], ''TVNewsCheck'', June 6, 2014.</ref> The sale was completed on January 1, 2015.<ref>[http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1667018&Service=DT&Form_id=905&Facility_id=12524 Consummation Notice], ''CDBS Public Access'', [[Federal Communications Commission]], Retrieved January 6, 2015.</ref>
==Notable former on-air staff==
*[[Dayna Devon]]
*[[Mike Emanuel]]
*[[Edward Platt]]
==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The station's signal is [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of KMID<ref>[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KMID#station RabbitEars TV Query for KMID]</ref>
! [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! Short name
! Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 2.1
| [[720p]] || rowspan=4| [[16:9]] || KMID-DT || Main KMID programming / [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 2.2
| rowspan=3| [[480i]] || Laff || [[Laff (TV network)|Laff]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 2.3
| Escape || [[Ion Mystery]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 2.4
| Grit || [[Grit (TV network)|Grit]]
|-
|}
===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KMID shut down its analog signal, over [[VHF]] channel 2, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States [[Digital television transition in the United States|transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts]] under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition [[UHF]] channel 26,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |access-date=March 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 }}</ref> using [[virtual channel]] 2.
==See also==
*[[Channel 2 virtual TV stations in the United States]]
*[[Channel 26 digital TV stations in the United States]]
==References==
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==External links==
*{{official website|https://www.yourbasin.com/}}
{{Midland-Odessa TV}}
{{ABC Texas}}
{{NXST TV}}
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[[Category:1953 establishments in Texas]]
[[Category:American Broadcasting Company affiliates]]
[[Category:Grit (TV network) affiliates]]
[[Category:Ion Mystery affiliates]]
[[Category:Laff (TV network) affiliates]]
[[Category:Nexstar Media Group]]
[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 1953]]
[[Category:Television stations in Midland–Odessa|MID]]