KNOP-TV

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KNOP-TV
KNOP logo 2023.svg
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Channels
Branding
  • KNOP 2; KNOP News 2
  • Fox 11 (DT2)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KIIT-CD, KNPL-LD, KNEP, KNHL, KOLN/KGIN, KSNB-TV, WOWT
History
First air date
December 15, 1958(65 years ago) (1958-12-15)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 2 (VHF, 1958–2009)
  • Digital: 22 (UHF, until 2009)
Call sign meaning
North Platte
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 49273
ERP 16 kW
HAAT 196 m (643 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 41°12′13″N100°44′0″W / 41.20361°N 100.73333°W / 41.20361; -100.73333
Links
Public license information
Website www.knopnews2.com

KNOP-TV (channel 2) is a television station in North Platte, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Gray Television alongside two low-power stations: CBS affiliate KNPL-LD (channel 10) and Class A Fox affiliate KIIT-CD (channel 11). The three stations share studios on South Dewey Street in downtown North Platte; master control and some internal operations are based at the facilities of sister station KOLN on North 40th Street in Lincoln. KNOP-TV's transmitter is located at the site of its former studio on US Route 83 north of North Platte.

Contents

KNEP (channel 4) in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, operates as a semi-satellite of KNOP-TV.

History

KNOP-TV was founded by local investors headed by attorney Rush Clarke and went on-air December 15, 1958. [2]

In 1968, it was purchased by Richard F. Shively, Harold O. Shively and Ulysses Carlini Sr. [3] Richard died on December 4, 2003. [4] In 1997, Shively and Carlini bought KHAS-TV in Hastings, and formed Greater Nebraska Television as a holding company for their television interests.

In 2005, Greater Nebraska Television sold its stations (including KNOP-TV) to Hoak Media. [5]

KNOP started rebroadcasting NBC programming in high definition, and carrying K11TW's Fox programming on its second digital subchannel, in March 2011. [6]

KNOP gained national attention in February 2012 for being the only station in the country to air a Will Ferrell-produced Super Bowl commercial for Old Milwaukee beer. [7] [8]

On November 20, 2013, Hoak announced the sale of most of its stations, including KNOP-TV and K11TW, to Gray Television. The sale made them sister stations to North Platte CBS affiliate KNPL-LD, a semi-satellite of Gray's KOLN/KGIN; it would have also partially separated KNOP from KHAS-TV, which was planned to be sold to Excalibur Broadcasting but be operated by Gray's KOLN/KGIN and KSNB-TV through a shared services agreement. [9] However, in the wake of heightened FCC scrutiny about local marketing agreements, on June 11, 2014, KHAS-TV announced it would leave the air at midnight on June 13 and NBC programming would be moved to KSNB-TV and the digital subcarrier of KOLN/KGIN. [10] The whole sale was completed on June 13. [11] (KHAS was ultimately sold to Legacy Broadcasting, [12] the call letters were changed to KNHL, [13] and it returned to the air in June 2015 as a SonLife Broadcasting Network affiliate. [14]

On September 14, 2015, Gray announced that it would purchase the television and radio stations owned by Schurz Communications, including Scottsbluff, Nebraska based KDUH-TV (a satellite of Rapid City's ABC-affiliated KOTA-TV) for $442.5 million. [15] [16] [17] Gray planned to convert KDUH into a semi-satellite of KNOP-TV, [18] [19] change the station's call letters to KNEP, and also change KDUH/KNEP's city of license to Sidney, Nebraska (which will move it from the Cheyenne–Scottsbluff market to the Denver market, eliminating an ownership conflict with KSTF, a Gray-owned, Scottsbluff-based semi-satellite of Cheyenne, Wyoming-based CBS affiliate KGWN-TV). [20] [21] [22] The sale approved by the FCC on February 12, 2016, [23] and was completed on February 16. [24] The FCC approved the change of station's city of license on May 16. [25] KNEP's NBC feed for the Nebraska Panhandle (which is branded as "NBC Nebraska Scottsbluff" and produces its own newscasts) signed on May 5, 2016. [26] The station formerly aired KOTA-TV programming on its DT1 channel until 2020. [27]

Newscasts

KNOP-TV presently broadcasts 17 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with three hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). The station also produces 2+1⁄2 hours of weekly news programming each for CBS and Fox affiliated sister stations KIIT-CD and KNPL-LD. Between the three stations, the news operation produces about 22 hours of news programming each week.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KNOP-TV [28]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
2.1 1080i 16:9 KNOP NBC
2.2 720p KIIT Fox (KIIT-CD)
2.3 480i ION TV Ion Television
2.4CIRCLE Outlaw
  Simulcast of subchannels of another station

Analog-to-digital conversion

KNOP-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 2, on February 10, 2009. [29] [30] The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 22 to VHF channel 2 for post-transition operations. [31]

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for KNOP-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ 1959 Broadcasting Yearbook (PDF), 1954, p. B-53
  3. ↑ Sportscaster Joe Swift out of job - The North Platte Bulletin
  4. ↑ Application for Consent to Assign Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License, or to Transfer Control of Entity Holding Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License - Federal Communications Commission
  5. ↑ KNOP may get new owners - The North Platte Telegraph
  6. ↑ New Broadcasting Qualities - KNOP News 2
  7. ↑ Burke, Timothy. "We Now Have The Will Ferrell Old Milwaukee Super Bowl Ad In HD, Along With More Info About It". Deadspin. Retrieved 7 February 2012.
  8. ↑ Carlini, Holly. "Commercial Ran Only On KNOP-TV". KNOP-TV. Archived from the original on 8 February 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2012.
  9. ↑ "Gray Buying Hoak, Prime Stations For $342.5M". TVNewsCheck. November 20, 2013. Retrieved November 20, 2013.
  10. ↑ "KHAS TV - KSNB TV Statement". KHAS-TV. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
  11. ↑ Gray closes Hoak deal; completes refinancing., rbr.com, Retrieved 13 June 2014.
  12. ↑ "Gray Sets Buyers For Its Six SSA Stations". TVNewsCheck. 27 August 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  13. ↑ "Resumption of Operations". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. June 9, 2015.
  14. ↑ "September 2015". NorthPine.com: Upper Midwest Broadcasting. 11 September 2015.
  15. ↑ "GRAY TELEVISION PURCHASES KOTA-TV, KDUH". KNEB. September 15, 2015. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
  16. ↑ "Schurz Communications to sell WSBT and other TV, radio stations". South Bend Tribune . September 14, 2015. Retrieved September 14, 2015.
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  18. ↑ "Comprehensive Exhibit" (PDF). CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission . Retrieved September 18, 2015.
  19. ↑ Gray Television unveils some changes for Scottsbluff station. KOTA-TV, 17 February 2016, Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  20. ↑ "Comprehensive Exhibit" (PDF). CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. October 2015. Retrieved October 24, 2015.
  21. ↑ KOTA Territory News to bring more statewide coverage., Scottsbluff Star-Herald, 19 February 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2016.
  22. ↑ "Sale of KDUH-TV Parent Complete". KCSR. February 16, 2016. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
  23. ↑ FCC Approves Gray-Schurz TV Station Deal. Broadcasting & Cable, 12 February 2016, Retrieved 13 February 2016
  24. ↑ Gray Closes Schurz Acquisition, Related Transactions, And Incremental Term Loan Facility Press Release, Gray Television, Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  25. ↑ Report and Order, Federal Communications Commission, 16 May 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2016.
  26. ↑ "KOTA announces switch to KNEP in May". Scottsbluff Star-Herald . March 29, 2016. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
  27. ↑ May 2016 - Upper Midwest Broadcasting
  28. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KNOP-TV
  29. ↑ Notification of Suspension of Operations - Federal Communications Commission
  30. ↑ KNOP switches to digital - The North Platte
  31. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
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