KLAS-TV

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KLAS-TV
KLAS-TV logo.svg
Channels
BrandingChannel 8; 8 News Now
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
July 8, 1953(70 years ago) (1953-07-08)
Former channel number(s)
Analog: 8 (VHF, 1953–2009)
ABC (secondary, 1953–1956)
Call sign meaning
Las Vegas (also the IATA code for Harry Reid International Airport)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID 35042
ERP 30.1 kW
HAAT 609.1 m (1,998 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 35°56′45.1″N115°2′38.3″W / 35.945861°N 115.043972°W / 35.945861; -115.043972
Links
Public license information
Website www.8newsnow.com

KLAS-TV (channel 8) is a television station in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, affiliated with CBS and owned by Nexstar Media Group. The station's studios are located on Channel 8 Drive near the northern portion of the Las Vegas Strip in the unincorporated community of Winchester (though with a Las Vegas mailing address), and its transmitter is located on Mount Arden in Henderson.

Contents

History

Early years

KLAS-TV initially broadcast a test pattern for two weeks, beginning on July 8, 1953. The station went on-air on the evening of July 22, 1953, becoming Nevada's first television station. [2] [3] The station was originally owned by Las Vegas Television Inc., run by Hank Greenspun, owner of the Las Vegas Sun . KLAS has always been a CBS affiliate, but maintained a secondary affiliation with ABC, which it would share with KLRJ/KORK-TV (channel 3, now KSNV-DT) from that station's sign on in January 1955, until KSHO-TV (channel 13, now KTNV-TV) debuted in May 1956.[ citation needed ]

Billionaire and aviation magnate Howard Hughes enjoyed staying up late and watching television, and he wanted KLAS to broadcast all night for him to watch. Hughes also requested the station to play more films about airplanes and cowboys. He eventually decided to purchase the station so he could have it operate as he wanted. [4] Greenspun sold the station to Hughes Tool Company on March 30, 1968. [5] After Hughes' death in 1976, the station was held in an outside trust for another two years until 1978, when it was sold to Landmark Communications (Landmark Communications renamed itself to Landmark Media Enterprises in September 2008).

Since 1996

On April 16, 1996, KLAS-TV became the first commercial television station in Nevada (and one of the first in the United States) to carry a digital broadcast signal. This signal was first launched during the National Association of Broadcasters annual convention that year. On April 6, 2000, the first scheduled high definition network broadcasts in Las Vegas began on KLAS-TV's digital signal.

On January 30, 2008, Landmark announced its intention to sell KLAS, along with its other television station WTVF in Nashville. [6] No suitable buyer for KLAS was found until Landmark took most of its properties off the market in October 2008 due to the economic recession. KLAS and WTVF remained under Landmark ownership for more than four years.

On September 4, 2012, Journal Broadcast Group (owners of one of KLAS-TV's local rivals, ABC affiliate KTNV-TV) announced that it would purchase WTVF for $215 million. The sale was finalized on December 6. [7] This left KLAS-TV as the only television station in Landmark's portfolio.

On November 21, 2014, Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced that it would purchase KLAS for $145 million. [8] The sale was completed on February 13, 2015. [9]

On January 29, 2016, shortly prior to Super Bowl 50, KLAS was dropped from Cox Communications due to a retransmission consent dispute with Nexstar across nine markets. As a contingency plan, Cox announced on February 3, 2016, that it would offer a free preview of ESPN Deportes (which was broadcasting the game in Spanish) over the Super Bowl weekend, and encouraged viewers to listen to the English radio broadcast along with it. The next day, KLAS was restored after Cox reached a new deal with Nexstar. [10] [11]

Programming

Sports programming

In 2020, Nexstar and KLAS were named the official television partners of the NFL's Las Vegas Raiders. Along with carrying the bulk of the team's games as part of the NFL on CBS , KLAS carries preseason games and team-produced ancillary programming (such as The Silver & Black Show). [12] By virtue of CBS holding the rights to the game, [13] KLAS was the local broadcaster of Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium.

News operation

George Knapp and Matt Adams of KLAS-TV at the 68th Annual Peabody Awards George Knapp and Matt Adams at the 68th Annual Peabody Awards for Crossfire-Water, Power and Politics.jpg
George Knapp and Matt Adams of KLAS-TV at the 68th Annual Peabody Awards

KLAS-TV presently broadcasts 38 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 6+12 hours each weekday, two hours on Saturdays and 3+12 hours on Sundays); in addition, the station formerly produced an additional five hours of local newscasts for its second subchannel (with one hour each weekday). Although channel 8 does not produce a Saturday edition of its morning newscast, 8 News Now: Good Day, the station does produce a newscast which airs for 3 hours weekday mornings from 4 to 7 a.m. and on Sunday mornings for an hour at 5:30 a.m. and a half-hour at 8 a.m., since channel 8 airs CBS Saturday Morning . The evening news runs at 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. and is anchored by Denise Valdez, Paul Joncich and Christianne Klein.

KLAS previously branded its newscasts as Eyewitness News , taking over the name from 1982 after KVBC discontinued using the branding, and used it until late 2009, when its newscasts adopted the 8 News Now title from KOLO-TV in Reno. In the early 1980s, the station's newscasts were branded as Newscenter 8, and used the opening Phenix Horns music of Earth, Wind & Fire's 1979 single "In the Stone" for two years. On September 21, 1981, KLAS-TV became the first station in the state of Nevada to provide hour-long newscasts. For years, KLAS produced a daily interview show, which aired on sister channel Las Vegas One; the program moved to NBC affiliate KVBC (channel 3, now KSNV) in January 2010.

Beginning in the fall of 2002, KLAS produced a 10 p.m. newscast for KTUD-CA called Eyewitness News at 10 on UPN. In the fall of 2006, when KTUD became an independent station, that station was rebranded on-air as "Vegas TV" and the newscasts was renamed to suit the new identity. Shortly after the merger, however, the station dropped the 10 p.m. newscast. KTUD later revived its 10 p.m. newscast, this time produced by KSNV, from October 2009 to August 2010.

In March 2006, KLAS revamped the station's morning newscast, which was branded as Eyewitness News This Morning at the time.

On September 17, 2006, KLAS became the first station in the Las Vegas market and the state of Nevada, and the eleventh station in the United States, to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition.

Just after Nexstar purchased the station, it was announced that Nexstar might discontinue the 4 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. half-hours of the station's weekday morning newscast. Starting on February 25, 2015, Nexstar would lay off at least 18 of the station's employees, mainly in the news department's business and traffic divisions; some jobs related to the station's Internet operations were also removed as the station's web operations moved onto Nexstar's Lakana platform. The station's news helicopter was also discontinued. [14] [15] [16] [17]

On October 10, 2018, channel 8 began producing an hour-long weeknight 9 p.m. newscast for its second digital subchannel, making it the only television station in Las Vegas to air a local newscast in that timeslot.

Reception

KLAS has won more than 100 awards for its news coverage, [18] including investigative documentaries about the American Mafia and UFOs. [3] In 1986, United Press International awarded it "Best Newscast in America". As of 1992, it frequently dominated ratings in local newscasts. [18] In 2011, KLAS received 19 nominations from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, eclipsing its rival news stations. [19] Channel 8 has been the ratings leader in the Las Vegas market for many years. However, the station did not finish in first place in any timeslot as of the May 2015 sweeps period and dropped to last place in some timeslots. Rivals KTNV, KVVU and KSNV had eroded ratings for KLAS' newscasts. [20]

Notable news staff

Bob Stoldal joined KLAS as a reporter and anchor in 1967, before becoming the network's news director in 1970. [21] Sue Lowden joined KLAS as a reporter in 1978, and later became an anchor. [22] Gary Waddell became an anchor in 1980. [23] Lowden departed the station in 1987, [22] and Paula Francis joined as an anchor the following year. George Knapp has also been a longtime anchor for the station. [24] Polly Gonzalez joined KLAS in 1994, [25] becoming the first prime-time Hispanic anchor in Las Vegas. [26]

In 2002, Stoldal was named as vice president of news, overseeing operations for KLAS while retaining his position as news director. [21] Dave Courvoisier, a former anchor for KVBC, was hired as a KLAS anchor in 2003. [27] [28] [29] Gonzalez worked as a KLAS anchor until her death from an auto accident in 2005. [30] She was widely remembered, [31] [32] [33] [34] and a memorial park was later opened. [35] [36] Gonzalez was replaced by Denise Valdez as anchor. [37]

Stoldal retired in 2008, as he felt the timing was right considering Landmark Communications' intentions to sell KLAS. [38] [39] [40] Dayna Roselli became a fulltime morning anchor in 2008, after joining KLAS four years earlier as a helicopter reporter and also working as a fill-in and traffic anchor. [41] Roselli was considered one of Las Vegas' prominent media figures. [41] [42] She left KLAS in 2012, [42] when the station added two new anchors in an effort to increase morning ratings. The effort ultimately failed to produce a notable change in the ratings, and one of the new anchors, Shauna Khorrami, was fired after eight months. [43] [44]

Waddell retired in 2012, after spending 32 years with KLAS. Waddell had become the longest-serving news anchor in Las Vegas. [23] [45] [46] [47] Francis left KLAS in 2016 to retire as well, [24] [48] [49] and was replaced by Valdez. [50] Courvoisier retired in 2017. He had anchored news in the Las Vegas market for 27 years. But he came out of retirement to return as a morning anchor at KTNV-TV starting in August 2020. [51] Tedd Florendo and Sherry Swensk are the channel's weather presenters. [52] [53] [54] [55]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KLAS-TV [56]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
8.1 1080i 16:9 CBSMain KLAS-TV programming / CBS
8.2 480i Rewind Rewind TV
8.3 4:3 Get TV getTV
8.4 16:9 ShopLC Shop LC
33.3 480i16:9TBD TBD (KVCW)
33.4 ThisTV This TV (KVCW)
33.5 Stadium The Nest (KVCW)
  Broadcast on behalf of another station

In 2010, KLAS launched a second subchannel affiliated with MeTV. As of June 2013, the station launched another subchannel, this time with Movies!. Ion Television began airing on 8.4 in 2017 and was replaced by Circle in April 2021 and Rewind TV on November 1, 2021. In January 2022, Movies! was replaced by SportsGrid. On June 1 of that year, MeTV moved to KHSV resulting in Rewind TV moving to DT2, and Shop LC took its place on DT4. In October 2022, SportsGrid was replaced by getTV.

Analog-to-digital conversion

KLAS-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 8, 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 signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 7. [57] [58] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 8.

Translators

City of licenseCallsignChannel ERP HAAT Facility ID Transmitter coordinatesOwner
Caliente K09FL-D 90.014 kW−159 m (−522 ft)37522 37°37′17.9″N114°30′31.6″W / 37.621639°N 114.508778°W / 37.621639; -114.508778 (K09FL-D) Lincoln County TV District No. 1
Ely K24GY-D 240.796 kW1,007 m (3,304 ft)72241 39°9′44.7″N114°36′35″W / 39.162417°N 114.60972°W / 39.162417; -114.60972 (K24GY-D) White Pine Television District #1
Ely
McGill
K17NT-D 173.549 kW270 m (886 ft)72241 39°15′52.8″N114°53′38.1″W / 39.264667°N 114.893917°W / 39.264667; -114.893917 (K17NT-D)
Laughlin K22DR-D 221.63 kW679 m (2,228 ft)35043 35°14′57.2″N114°44′35.9″W / 35.249222°N 114.743306°W / 35.249222; -114.743306 (K22DR-D) Nexstar Media Group
Lund
Preston
K25PX-D 253.549 kW305 m (1,001 ft)72249 39°14′38.7″N115°0′10.5″W / 39.244083°N 115.002917°W / 39.244083; -115.002917 (K25PX-D) White Pine Television District #1
Overton K18IP-D 181.8 kW134 m (440 ft)43319 36°41′8.7″N114°31′12.7″W / 36.685750°N 114.520194°W / 36.685750; -114.520194 (K18IP-D) Moapa Valley TV Maintenance District
Pahrump K24BY-D 240.283 kW−43 m (−141 ft)67417 36°12′28.8″N115°58′38.4″W / 36.208000°N 115.977333°W / 36.208000; -115.977333 (K24BY-D) Pahrump
K30PR-D 307.3 kW1,072 m (3,517 ft)48806 35°57′21.8″N115°29′45.1″W / 35.956056°N 115.495861°W / 35.956056; -115.495861 (K30PR-D) Nexstar Media Group
Panaca K06DM-D 60.06 kW613 m (2,011 ft)37523 37°27′33.8″N114°27′59.9″W / 37.459389°N 114.466639°W / 37.459389; -114.466639 (K06DM-D) Lincoln County TV District No. 1
Pioche K09FJ-D 90.014 kW249 m (817 ft)37530 37°55′22.1″N114°27′4″W / 37.922806°N 114.45111°W / 37.922806; -114.45111 (K09FJ-D)
Ruth K03DS-D 30.002 kW−33 m (−108 ft)72238 39°16′26.7″N114°59′15″W / 39.274083°N 114.98750°W / 39.274083; -114.98750 (K03DS-D) White Pine Television District #1
Ursine K09FK-D 90.027 kW−93 m (−305 ft)37525 37°59′0.3″N114°13′29.3″W / 37.983417°N 114.224806°W / 37.983417; -114.224806 (K09FK-D) Lincoln County TV District No. 1
Kingman, AZ K31PI-D 312.15 kW855 m (2,805 ft)43406 35°6′37″N113°52′57.8″W / 35.11028°N 113.882722°W / 35.11028; -113.882722 (K31BI-D) Mohave County Board of Supervisors

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