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KNOP-TV (channel 2) is a television station in North Platte, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Gray Media 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.

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.[1]

In 1968, it was purchased by Richard F. Shively, Harold O. Shively and Ulysses Carlini Sr.[2] Richard died on December 4, 2003.[3] 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.[4]

KNOP started rebroadcasting NBC programming in high definition, and carrying K11TW's Fox programming on its second digital subchannel, in March 2011.[5]

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.[6][7]

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.[8] 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.[9] The whole sale was completed on June 13.[10] (KHAS was ultimately sold to Legacy Broadcasting,[11] the call letters were changed to KNHL,[12] and it returned to the air in June 2015 as a SonLife Broadcasting Network affiliate.[13]

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.[14][15][16] Gray planned to convert KDUH into a semi-satellite of KNOP-TV,[17][18] 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).[19][20][21] The sale approved by the FCC on February 12, 2016,[22] and was completed on February 16.[23] The FCC approved the change of station's city of license on May 16.[24] 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.[25] The station formerly aired KOTA-TV programming on its DT1 channel until 2020.[26]

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 <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />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[27]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
2.1 1080i 16:9 KNOP NBC
2.2 720p KIIT Fox (KIIT-CD)
2.3 480i ION TV Ion Television
2.4 OUT Outlaw
10.1 1080i KNPL CBS (KNPL-LD)
10.2 480i MeTV MeTV (KSNB-TV)

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Analog-to-digital conversion

KNOP-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 2, on February 10, 2009.[28][29] The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 22 to VHF channel 2 for post-transition operations.[30]

References

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  1. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  2. ↑ Sportscaster Joe Swift out of job - The North Platte Bulletin
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ KNOP may get new owners - The North Platte Telegraph
  5. ↑ New Broadcasting Qualities - KNOP News 2
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  10. ↑ Gray closes Hoak deal; completes refinancing., rbr.com, Retrieved June 13, 2014.
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  18. ↑ Gray Television unveils some changes for Scottsbluff station. KOTA-TV, February 17, 2016, Retrieved February 23, 2016.
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  20. ↑ KOTA Territory News to bring more statewide coverage., Scottsbluff Star-Herald, February 19, 2016. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
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  22. ↑ FCC Approves Gray-Schurz TV Station Deal. Broadcasting & Cable, February 12, 2016, Retrieved February 13, 2016
  23. ↑ Gray Closes Schurz Acquisition, Related Transactions, And Incremental Term Loan Facility Press Release, Gray Television, Retrieved February 16, 2016.
  24. ↑ Report and Order, Federal Communications Commission, May 16, 2016. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
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  26. ↑ May 2016 - Upper Midwest Broadcasting
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  28. ↑ Notification of Suspension of Operations - Federal Communications Commission
  29. ↑ KNOP switches to digital - The North Platte
  30. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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