History
KBFX began in 1989 as a low-powered relay translator of KMPH-TV channel 26 broadcasting out of Visalia/Fresno. Later, the Fox network wanted to include a new separate affiliate station for the Bakersfield market. It changed call letters from KMPH-LP in 1998 and became KBFX-LP. Among the features on the new station was a KBAK-produced 10pm newscast, "Fox 58 News @ 10". It was so successful that KBAK's then-owner Westwind Communications bought the station outright in 2005 from KMPH's owners, Pappas Telecasting.
On August 6, 2007, Westwind Communications announced the sale of KBAK and KBFX-CA to Fisher Communications of Seattle, with the sale closing on January 1, 2008.
On February 28, 2010, Bright House Networks announced that KBFX will be carried in Tehachapi also on cable 6. KBFX just recently launched their new digital transmitter on RF channel 29. This signal carries This TV on its subchannel, which maps to virtual channel 29-2. In January 2011 KBFX began airing it's local news in high definition.
KBFX is the only Bakersfield television station to never change its affiliation, having always been a Fox affiliate.
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