KGPE originally signed on the air as KJEO on September 30, 1953, as an ABC affiliate. It was originally owned by O'Neill Broadcasting Company, which sold the station in 1961 to Shasta Telecasting Corporation.
1958–1961
1961–1966
1967–1973
1967–1970
SVG NEEDED
Retlaw Broadcasting, a unit of Retlaw Enterprises (a company owned by relatives of Walt Disney), acquired channel 47 from Shasta Telecasting in 1968.
1970–1973
SVG NEEDED
1973–1992
1973–1985
SVG NEEDED
"We're the One" (1978–1979)
"Come On Along" (1982–1983)
1985–1992
On September 9, 1985, KJEO-TV switched affiliations with KFSN-TV after Capital Cities, purchased and merged with ABC, converting it to an ABC owned-and-operated station; the 1973 logo was kept.
1992–1999
SVG NEEDED
1998–2000
Fisher Broadcasting merged with Retlaw in 1999, and sold KJEO to the The Ackerley Group (which owned Bakersfield-based NBC affiliate KGET at the time) in 2000, although Fisher would reenter the Central Valley market with the acquisition of KBAK-TV on January 1, 2008.
KGPE
2000–2004
2000–2001
Under its Ackerley ownership, KJEO became KGPE on September 14, 2000; Clear Channel Communications' television subsidiary merged with Ackerley in 2001.
2001–2004
2004–present
2004–2009
Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire group of television stations to Newport Television on April 20, 2007.
2009–2013
Newport Television agreed to sell KGPE, along with NBC affiliate KGET-TV and Telemundo affiliate KKEY-LP in Bakersfield, to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group on November 5, 2012. The FCC approved the sale on January 23, 2013; which was completed on February 19. Nexstar subsequently announced the acquisition of KSEE from Granite Broadcasting, in the process forming a duopoly with KGPE.
1Owns a 75% stake of the network, the other 12.5% stake is co-owned between Paramount Skydance Corporation and Warner Bros. Discovery. 2Joint venture with Warner Bros. Discovery, in which Nexstar owns 31% while Warner Bros. Discovery owns the remaining 69%. 3Nexstar operates these stations owned by Mission Broadcasting. 4Nexstar operates this station owned by Cunningham Broadcasting. 5Nexstar operates this station owned by White Knight Broadcasting through an SSA. 6Nexstar operates this station owned by Vaughan Media. 7Predecessor company of LIN Media. 8Nexstar operates this station owned by Londen Media Group. 9Nexstar operates this station owned by Gray Media through an SSA. 10Nexstar operates this station owned by American Spirit Media through an SSA. 11The station is yet to be sold to a third party as a condition of the Nexstar-Tegna merger. 12Co-owned by Cox Communications.
