"KOB" redirects here. For the animal, see Kob. KOB-TV is a television station based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It's an NBC network affiliate and broadcasts on channel 4. KOB is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting. Its transmitter is located on Sandia Crest, east of Albuquerque. Station history KOB-TV started operations on September 13, 1948, after Albuquerque Journal owner and publisher Tom Pepperday won a television license on his second try. Pepperday, who also owned KOB-AM and KOB-FM, had previously applied for one in 1943. It is the oldest television station in New Mexico, the first television station between the Mississippi River and the West Coast, and the second oldest in the Mountain Time Zone (KDYL-TV in Salt Lake City, now KTVX, had signed on a month earlier). Initially KOB-TV ran programming from all four networks--NBC, ABC, CBS and DuMont Television Network. However, it has always been a primary NBC affiliate.Later, in May 1952, the station was purchased by Time Life (no

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