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Channels
Branding
  • 40/29
  • Arkansas CW (on DT2)
  • MeTV Arkansas (on DT3)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
July 28, 1971(53 years ago) (1971-07-28)
Former call signs
KFPW-TV (1971–1983)
Former channel number(s)
Analog: 40 (UHF, 1971–2009)
CBS (1971–1978)
Call sign meaning
Hernreich Broadcasting System (prior owner)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 60353
ERP 325 kW
HAAT 602 m (1,975 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 35°4′15.5″N94°40′44″W / 35.070972°N 94.67889°W / 35.070972; -94.67889 (KHBS)
Links
Public license information
Website www.4029tv.com
Satellite station
KHOG-TV
Channels
Programming
Affiliations
History
First air date
December 8, 1977(46 years ago) (1977-12-08)
Former call signs
KTVP (1977–1987)
Former channel number(s)
Analog: 29 (UHF, 1977–2009)
CBS (1977–1978)
Call sign meaning
 Hog (mascot for the University of Arkansas)
Technical information [2]
Facility ID 60354
ERP 180 kW
HAAT 266 m (873 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 36°0′57″N94°5′0″W / 36.01583°N 94.08333°W / 36.01583; -94.08333 (KHOG-TV)
Links
Public license information

KHBS (channel 40) and KHOG-TV (channel 29) are television stations licensed respectively to Fort Smith and Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States, serving as the ABC and CW Plus affiliates for the Arkansas River Valley and Northwest Arkansas. Owned by Hearst Television and jointly branded as "40/29", the two stations maintain studios on Ajax Avenue in Rogers. KHBS' transmitter is located on Cavanal Hill in northwestern Le Flore County, Oklahoma (northwest of Poteau), while KHOG-TV's transmitter is based near Ed Edwards Road in rural northeastern Washington County, Arkansas, just southeast of the Fayetteville city limits.

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KHOG-TV relays KHBS' programming to areas of far northwestern Arkansas and southwestern Missouri that are not covered by the primary station's signal. During the analog era, the Fort Smith–Fayetteville market's size and terrain precluded stations with transmitters closer to Fort Smith from reaching northern portions of the market.

History

Channel 40 began as KFPW-TV on July 28, 1971. It was owned by local businessman Bob Hernreich along with KFPW radio (1230 AM). The station was a primary CBS affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation. Before channel 40's arrival, all three networks had been shoehorned on primary NBC affiliate KFSA-TV (channel 5, now CBS affiliate KFSM-TV).

KFPW-TV found the going difficult against channel 5 largely because of the difficulties experienced by UHF stations operating in rugged terrain. Most seriously, it was all but unviewable in Fayetteville and the surrounding area. Its transmitter in Fort Smith provided secondary coverage of Fayetteville's southern suburbs but just missed Fayetteville itself. [3] Many viewers in the northern part of the market watched CBS on KTVJ in Joplin, Missouri (now NBC affiliate KSNF).

Although Fort Smith and Fayetteville have been treated as a single market since the 1950s, it soon became apparent that the rugged terrain would make it impossible to cover it from a single UHF transmitter. A solution came in the form of the license for KGTO-TV, which had served Fayetteville as a primary NBC and secondary CBS affiliate on channel 36 from February 8, 1969, to December 23, 1973. [4] Hernreich's father, George, had actually bought KGTO in 1973 with the intent of turning it into a satellite of KFPW-TV, but concerns by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about Heinreich's operation of KAIT in Jonesboro [5] delayed final FCC approval for the purchase until 1976. [6] Further delays came when severe damage to KGTO's transmitter, as well as a series of thefts, required building a completely new transmitter. In order to save money and return the station to the air, Hernreich moved the station's license to channel 29. [7] The station finally went on the air on December 8, 1977, as KTVP.

In 1983, the Hernreich family sold off its radio stations, KFPW and KXXI-FM. The Hernreichs changed channel 40's call letters to KHBS (for Hernreich Broadcasting System) on March 21. Two years later, in 1985, Bob Hernreich bought a stake in Sigma Broadcasting (becoming its chairman and CEO in 1989), merging KHBS and KTVP into Sigma. On September 1, 1987, KTVP became KHOG-TV—a nod to the Arkansas Razorbacks, who are often called "the Hogs". Argyle Television bought the stations in 1996. A year later, Argyle merged with Hearst. In October 2007, KHBS and KHOG-TV moved their operations to new, state of the art studios in Rogers.

Subchannel history

KHBS-DT2/KHOG-DT2

KHBS-DT2/KHOG-DT2 (branded as Arkansas CW) is the CW-affiliated second digital subchannel of KHBS and KHOG, broadcasting in high definition on channel 40.2 in Fort Smith and channel 29.2 in Fayetteville. All programming on KHBS-DT2/KHOG-DT2 is received through The CW's programming feed for smaller media markets, The CW Plus, which provides a set schedule of syndicated programming acquired by The CW during time periods without network programs; however, Hearst Television handles local advertising and promotional services for the subchannel.

KHBS-DT2's history traces back to the September 18, 2006, launch of a cable-only affiliate of The CW—a network created as a joint venture between CBS Corporation and the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner, as a de facto consolidation of UPN and The WB that initially featured programs from its two predecessor networks as well as new series specifically produced for The CW. [8] [9] —that was managed, promoted and had its advertising sales handled by local cable provider Cox Communications, alongside the launch of The CW Plus, a national service that was created to provide broad coverage of The CW to smaller areas with a Nielsen Media Research market ranking above #100 and was affiliated via local origination channels managed by cable providers or local television stations and primary or subchannel-only affiliations with broadcast stations. The channel—which was branded on-air as "KCWA" (for "The CW Arkansas"), an unofficial callsign assigned by Cox as it was a cable-exclusive outlet not licensed by the FCC—was one of the few cable-only CW Plus affiliates to have signed on at the network's launch. (The predecessor service operated by The WB, The WB 100+ Station Group, was affiliated with Harrison-licensed KWBM [channel 31, now a Daystar owned-and-operated station], since 2001; in most markets where The CW Plus was initially available via cable, the successor cable-only CW Plus outlet usually was a former affiliate of The WB 100+.)

On April 9, 2008, in a joint announcement by the network and KHBS/KHOG's parent company, Hearst-Argyle Television announced that it would launch a CW-affiliated digital subchannel on the DT2 feeds of KHBS and KHOG to relay the network's programming throughout the Fort Smith–Fayetteville market. Hearst-Argyle assumed promotional and advertising control of "KCWA"—which had its former "CW Arkansas" branding retained in the over-the-air transition—from Cox Communications with the subsequent sign-on of KHBS/KHOG's CW subchannels, and converted the cable-only affiliate into an over-the-air digital feed on KHBS-DT 40.2 and KHOG-DT 29.2 to provide The CW's programming to viewers throughout Northwest Arkansas who do not subscribe to cable television. KHBS-DT2/KHOG-DT2 signed on as an affiliate of The CW (via The CW Plus) on April 28, 2008, assuming "KCWA"'s former channel slot on Cox basic cable channel 4 (a high definition feed of the channel was also provided to Cox subscribers on digital channel 2004). [10] [11] [12] On June 15, 2012, KHBS/KHOG upgraded "The Arkansas CW" subchannel to 720p high definition, providing over-the-air access to HD content from The CW in the Fort Smith–Fayetteville market for the first time. [13]

KHBS-DT3/KHOG-DT3

KHBS-DT3/KHOG-DT3 (branded as MeTV Arkansas) is the MeTV-affiliated third digital subchannel of KHBS and KHOG, broadcasting in widescreen standard definition on channel 40.3 in Fort Smith and channel 29.3 in Fayetteville. In addition to carrying MeTV programming, KHBS-DT3/KHOG-DT3 is also designated as an alternate ABC affiliate, and carries network (and occasionally, syndicated) programs that KHBS/KHOG must preempt to carry extended breaking news or severe weather coverage or special event programming on its main channel.

KHBS/KHOG launched a digital subchannel on virtual channels 40.3 and 29.3 on January 2, 2017, to serve as an affiliate of the classic television network MeTV, under an extension of an affiliation agreement between Hearst and MeTV parent Weigel Broadcasting. On August 28, 2017, KHBS-DT3/KHOG-DT3 switched to a 16:9 widescreen standard definition format; prior to the upgrade, ABC and syndicated programs presented in widescreen were transmitted on the subchannel in a horizontally compressed format to fit the subchannel's 4:3 aspect frame.

Programming

KHBS/KHOG currently broadcasts the complete ABC network schedule, although it does not clear the ABC News Brief that airs during ABC Daytime programming in order to run additional local advertising. The station airs the Litton's Weekend Adventure block on a one-hour delay from its "live feed" due to the third hour of its Saturday morning newscast, although midday college football games carried by ABC during the fall may subject Weekend Adventure programs normally aired on Saturdays in the 11 a.m. hour to be deferred to Sunday mornings to fulfill educational programming obligations.

The station may preempt some ABC programs in order to air long-form breaking news or severe weather coverage, or occasional specials produced by KHBS/KHOG's news department. However, Power Rangers , which was part of the now-defunct ABC Kids block until August 28, 2010, was preempted by the station, and most of the other Hearst-owned ABC affiliates of the time, for lacking E/I content. As well, in 2004, KHBS and the other Hearst-owned ABC affiliates ran Far and Away instead of an unedited broadcast of Saving Private Ryan . [14]

ABC shows preempted or otherwise interrupted by such content may either be rebroadcast on tape delay over KHBS/KHOG's main channel in place of regular overnight programs or diverted to its DT3 subchannel in place of MeTV programming. Station personnel also gives viewers who subscribe to AT&T U-verse, DirecTV, Dish Network and other pay television providers within the KHBS/KHOG viewing area that do not carry its DT3 feed the option of watching the affected shows on ABC's desktop and mobile streaming platforms or its cable/satellite video-on-demand service the day after their initial airing.

News operation

As of September 2017, KHBS/KHOG presently broadcasts 31+1⁄2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with five hours each weekday, three hours on Saturdays, and 3+1⁄2 hours on Sundays). In addition, the station produces 9+1⁄2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week for its CW-affiliated DT2 subchannel (with 1½ hours on weekdays, and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). The station may also simulcast long-form severe weather coverage on KHBS-DT2/KHOG-DT2 in the event that a tornado warning is issued for any county in its viewing area within northwest Arkansas and east-central Oklahoma.

On April 18, 2011, KHBS/KHOG expanded its weekday morning newscast 40/29 News Sunrise, to 2+1⁄2 hours from 4:30 to 7 a.m., becoming one of the smallest stations in terms of market size to extend its morning newscast to a 4:30 a.m. start time. [15] On September 13, 2011, the stations became the first in the Fort Smith–Fayetteville television market to begin broadcasting its newscasts in 16:9 widescreen standard definition. The station is currently broadcast in full 1080i high definition.

On August 20, 2012, KHBS/KHOG debuted a half-hour prime time newscast at 9 p.m. for its DT2 subchannel, titled 40/29 News at 9:00 on The Arkansas CW. The nightly program – which airs in place of syndicated programs shown on The CW Plus's national feed during that slot. [16]

An additional news expansion on "The Arkansas CW" took place on September 6, 2016, when KHBS/KHOG began producing a half-hour 7 a.m. extension of its weekday morning show for the subchannel, under the title 40/29 News Sunrise on The Arkansas CW. The program features the same team that anchors 40/29 News Sunrise. The newscast expanded to a full hour on September 11, 2017. [17] [18] The following year, on September 23, 2017, the station began producing a half-hour Saturday and Sunday edition of its 5 p.m. newscast for KHBS-DT2/KHOG-DT2. [19] [20]

Technical information

Subchannels

The stations' signals are multiplexed:

Subchannels of KHBS [21]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
40.1 720p 16:9 KHBS-DT ABC
40.2ARK-CW The CW Plus
40.3 480i MeTV-AR MeTV
40.4STORY Story Television
40.5NoseyNosey
Subchannels of KHOG-TV [22]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
29.1 720p 16:9 KHOG-DT ABC
29.2ARK-CW The CW Plus
29.3 480i MeTV-AR MeTV
29.4Ion Ion Plus
29.5HSN HSN

Analog-to-digital conversion

Both stations discontinued regular programming on their analog signals, respectively on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital channel allocations post-transition are as follows: [23]

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  2. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KHOG-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
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