KHMS

KHMS
Location	Shreveport, LA
Branding	KHMS Fox 11 Fox 11 News
Slogan	The Ark-La-Tex Spirit The News Station
Channel(s)	Analog: 11 Digital: 14
subchannel(s)	11.1 Fox 11.2 Fox Family 11.3 MyNetworkTV 11.4 Stadium
Affiliation	Fox
First air date	April 11, 1985
Former call letters	none
Former channel number	none
Former Affiliation	Ind (1985-1986)
Owner	Sinclair Broadcast Group (KHMS Licensee, LLC)

KHMS is the FOX affiliate serving Shreveport, LA, and the Ark-La-Tex broadcast area. Broadcasting on channel 11, KHMS is owned and operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group.

History

Early History

The station first signed on the air on April 11, 1985, originally operating as an independent station; it was the first independent in the market. The station aired CBS programs that KOMS (channel 13) declined to air, mostly the network's late night and morning lineup (with the exception of The Price Is Right and The Young and the Restless) and most of its Saturday morning children's programming.

FOX Affiliation

On October 6, 1986, KHMS became a charter affiliate of Fox (it is one of two television stations in the market, alongside KOMS, that has retained the same network affiliation, and the only station not to be affiliated with any other network). Media South sold the station to Southwest Multimedia in 1987. During the mid-1980s, KHMS became the first television station in Louisiana to broadcast in stereo. From 1993 to 1997, the station also carried the Prime Time Entertainment Network, an ad-hoc syndicated programming venture between Chris-Craft Television and Warner Bros. Domestic Television. The Communications Corporation of America purchased the station in 1994.

On April 24, 2013, Communications Corporation of America announced that it would sell its stations to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group. Because Nexstar could not legally purchase KHMS under FCC ownership rules as Shreveport has only eight full-power stations (the FCC requires a market to have at least eight unique owners once a duopoly is formed). Nexstar planned to sell the license of KHMS to its partner company Mission Broadcasting.

However, on June 6, 2014, Nexstar announced that it would instead sell KHMS to Higgins Broadcasting for $58.5 million. The minority-owned HIggins intends to fund the acquisitions through borrowings guaranteed by Nexstar, and are subject to FCC approval of the stations Nexstar plans to acquire from ComCorp, White Knight Broadcasting and Grant Broadcasting; Higgins plans to launch news operations and provide sports and minority-oriented public affairs programming to KHMS. The sale was completed on January 1, 2015. It was sold on January 30, 2016 to Kenny Broadcasting as Higgins was exiting broadcasting. On April 18, 2017, KHMS was sold by Kenny Broadcasting to Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Programming Schedule

All Times Central	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
5-9 AM	KHMS 11 News @ Daybreak					5-6 AM: Paid Programming 6-8 AM: Wake Up, Shreveport! 8-10 AM: Xploration Station Block	5-6 AM: Paid Programming 6-8 AM: Wake Up, Shreveport! 8-9: In My Opinon...
9-10 AM	The Wendy Williams Show						FOX News Sunday
10-11 AM:	The Take					10-10:30 AM: Double Dare 3000 10:30-11 AM: MEGA Guts	10 AM-12 PM: Various Religious Programming
11 AM-12 PM	KHMS 11 News At Noon					Ring of Honor Wrestling
12-1 PM	The Real					12-5 PM: FOX Sports Programming (Varies by Season)
1-1:30 PM	Divorce Court
1:30-2 PM	Divorce Court
2-2:30 PM	Times to Remember
2:30-3 PM	Family Feud
3-4 PM	Steve
4-4:30 PM	Judge Judy
4:30-5 PM	Judge Judy
5-6 PM	KHMS 11 News Live At Five
6-6:30 PM	Hot in Cleveland						6-7 PM: FOX Programming
6:30-7 PM	Modern Family
7-9 PM	FOX Programming
9-10 PM	KHMS 11 News Tonight
10-10:30 PM	Hot in Cleveland					10-11 PM: FOX Repeats	Sports Xtra
10:30-11 PM	Modern Family						10:30-11:30 PM: The LSU Coach's Show
11-11:30 PM	TMZ					11 PM-12 AM: Bones
11:30 PM-12 AM	Dish Nation						The Tulane Coach's Show
12-12:30 PM	South Park					Tosh.O	12-1 AM: TMZ
12:30-1 AM	South Park					Tosh.O
1-5 AM	Paid Programming