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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

KCBD 11 Lubbock celebrates 70 years


 KCBD NewsChannel 11 Lubbock is celebrating 70 years on the air as the station signed on May 10, 1953. 

It was the second television station in Lubbock and the KCBD call letters were first used on 1590 AM.

“We were the first ones to have Doppler radar, the first ones to go color, the first ones to go high definition,” Forecaster Steve Divine said on the station's website. “We just have been an industry leader, not just in Lubbock, but in many parts of the country. KCBD has been cited for many things. For 70 years it has managed to be a leader. That’s amazing.”

“When I first came here, literally, my map was magnetized and I cut out the symbols for it,” Chief Meteorologist John Robison said. “We jumped forward from that quite a bit. We were the first ones with Doppler radar here. I had the opportunity, prior to that, through the National Weather Service, to meet one of the top scientists up in Oklahoma City, in Norman, to see what Doppler would be like and how amazing the radar would be. Its ability to detect tornado development is really a key to helping save a lot of people’s lives.”




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