4:00 p.m. on Monday through Friday afternoons (the station opted to slot Jeopardy! to bookend the 4:00 and 5:00 p.m. newscasts). On January 10, 2011, KENS expanded its weekday morning newscast to 2½ hours, through the addition of a half-hour broadcast at 4:30 a.m. In April 2022, KENS 5 dropped the Eyewitness name from its newscast title after 52 years, its newscasts from that date onward are now branded as KENS 5 News. Notable former on-air staff Dan Cook (retired in 2000, died in 2008) Gary DeLaune (former sports anchor; died in 2022) Ainsley Earhardt (now at Fox News) Chris Marrou – anchor (1973–2009; retired) Lynne Russell – anchor (1980–1983; later at CNN) Michael Tuck – (1967–1970; later anchored in San Diego; died in 2022) Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion KENS discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal relocated its digital signal from its pre-transition UHF channel 58, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to UHF channel 39 for post-transition operations. The station vacated channel 55 in November 2008 to allow Qualcomm to begin testing for its now-defunct mobile television service MediaFLO. In the interim period between November 2008 and June 2009, KENS' new digital signal hosted Univision owned-and-operated station KWEX-DT, whose pre-transition digital signal broadcast on channel 39. After the digital transition was complete, KENS-DT retained the channel 39 facilities, while KWEX-DT launched its permanent digital operations on UHF channel 41 (the station's previous analog frequency). The transition also allowed former sister station KCWX (which prior to the conversion, did not have an over-the-air digital signal) to begin transmitting its digital signal on VHF channel 5. KENS moved from RF channel 39 to RF channel 29 on June 21, 2019 as a result of the 2016 United States wireless spectrum auction. References External links CBS network affiliates Estrella TV affiliates True Crime Network affiliates Tegna Inc. Quest (American TV network) affiliates Circle (TV network) affiliates Twist (TV network) affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1950 Television stations in San Antonio 1950 establishments in Texas Former Gannett subsidiaries