K26GF - Station Identification

Station Identification

Over the years, KPNX has used legal station identifications that did not comply with FCC regulations, which require that in the legal identification broadcast aurally or visually (a station must state its call sign, followed by its city of license). Dating back to its days as KTAR-TV, channel 12 has long identified its service area as "Phoenix/Mesa", though legally it should have been properly addressed as "Mesa/Phoenix." Beginning in 2008, KPNX begun using an FCC-compliant station ID on its analog and primary digital channels. On its 12 News Weather Plus service on digital subchannel 12.2, KPNX still identifies using non-compliant station identification, and does not air a separate ID at the top of the hour (as they already use one on the bottom left of the screen).