KNAZ-TV (fictional)

KNAZ-TV, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 22), is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Flagstaff, Arizona, United States. The station is owned by Gray Television as part of a duopoly with CW affiliate KKTM (channel 13). KNAZ-TV and KKTM's studios are located on the campus of Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and KNAZ's transmitter is located southeast of the city in rural Coconino County.

History
On August 31st, 1953, KNAZ-TV signed on as KOAI-TV, the first station in Flagstaff. It was owned by Oasis Media of Flagstaff, which also owned KOAI (700 AM) and KOAI-FM (91.7). It initially carried all the major networks at the time (CBS, NBC, ABC, and DuMont) with the station primarily affiliated with NBC. In 1956, KOAI-TV would lose its CBS and ABC affiliations when both networks start to switch to newly launched stations, KPHF-TV (channel 11) for CBS and KKWW (channel 7) for ABC. DuMont, on the other hand ceased operation the same year.

Back when the station launched, the station was heavily notable in Flagstaff for being the first station in Arizona to produce its own local programming while still airing syndicated and or NBC shows. The most notable being Flagstaff Daily, a daily produced program about the events of Flagstaff, Arizona.

In 1970, Oasis Media of Flagstaff would spun off its assets. KOAI and KOAI-FM were sold to the locally based Northern Arizona Broadcasters while KOAI-TV would be sold to Kansas businessman Wendell Elliott, Sr. The former stations would rebrand to KOAF-AM and KOAF-FM before becoming KFAZ and KJIT-FM.

Under Elliot's ownership, the station would relocate its studios to the campus of Northern Arizona University. Allowing better coverage of local news in that area. When Wendell Elliott, Sr. died in 1974, his assets including KGNO-FM, KBSD-TV, and KOAI-TV would be sold to a group owned by his son, Wendell Elliott, Jr.

In 1981, Elliott, Jr. would sell KOAI-TV to Capitol Broadcasting which also owned WJTV in Jackson, MS and KKTV in Colorado Springs, CO. The station would then change its call-letters to KNAZ-TV. However only two years later in 1983, both WJTV and KNAZ-TV were sold to the News-Press & Gazette Company.

In 1993, NPG sold several of its stations, including WJTV and WHLT, to the first incarnation of New Vision Television. In turn, New Vision sold its entire stations group to Ellis Communications in 1995. Bert Ellis, founder of Ellis Communications was a longtime fan of his hometown's long-stating ABC affiliate WSB-TV and thus adopted a style reminiscent of that station's logo for his stations, KNAZ-TV was no exception. Ellis would then merge with Aflac's broadcasting division and Federal Broadcasting to form Raycom Media in 1998.

Sale to Gray Television
On June 25, 2018, Atlanta-based Gray Television announced it had reached an agreement with Raycom to merge their respective broadcasting assets under the former's corporate umbrella. The sale was approved on December 20, and was completed on January 2, 2019.