Nebraska Television Network
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KFXL-TV | |
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First air date | December 25, 1953 | , with the launch of KHOL-TV (now KHGI-TV) in Kearney
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The Nebraska Television Network (NTV) is the
NTV serves North Platte as well as the western half of the Lincoln–
The first station in the network went on the air as KHOL-TV in December 1953. Owned by a group of businessmen from
In 1994, NTV began managing KTVG-TV in Grand Island, which became a Fox affiliate; KSNB-TV was switched from ABC to Fox in 1996. NTV's owner in the 1990s and 2000s, Pappas Telecasting, started Lincoln's channel 51 in 2006; that station and subchannels of most of the NTV stations became Fox affiliates in 2009. Sinclair acquired NTV at bankruptcy auction in 2015. The station produces news programs focusing on southwestern Nebraska and the Tri-Cities area.
History
Early years
On March 20, 1953,
Construction was completed on December 24, 1953, when the transmitter was turned on and began broadcasting a
In its early years, KHOL-TV featured extensive local programming; by July 1954, the station was producing 13 of its 24 weekday programs from the lone studio at the facility in Axtell, including a women's program, The Woman's Voice, and local news and sports coverage.[21]: 46 Bob Stoltz, an early station employee, described the studio as a "cracker box" before it was tripled in size in 1955.[21]: 45–46 Early popular shows included Saturday night studio wrestling and Friday night boxing;[9] the wrestling program was discontinued after hostile combatants kicked a television monitor.[21]: 48
Bi-States applied in February 1955 to have channel 6 allotted at
Bi-States expanded into radio in June 1959 with the launch of KHOL-FM (98.9 FM, now KKPR-FM);[31] in 1961, the company also purchased KRNY (1460 AM, now KXPN).[32] KRNY was sold to Radio Kearney in 1964;[33] the following year, the same company purchased KHOL-FM.[34]
On February 2, 1961, KHOL-TV and KHPL-TV dropped CBS to become full ABC affiliates,[35] eight months before KGIN-TV (channel 11) signed on from Grand Island in October as a satellite of Lincoln's CBS affiliate, KOLN-TV (channel 10).[36] In 1962, the FCC permitted KHOL-TV to build a new tower near Lowell, which would be 1,163 feet (354 m) tall—the tallest structure in the state—and carry a maximum-power signal.[37] Construction was completed in 1963.[38]
The 1960s brought two more transmitters into the network. Bi-States petitioned the FCC in 1960 and 1961, respectively, to allot channel 4 to Superior, to the southeast, and channel 8 to Albion, a community to the northeast of the Tri-Cities.[39][40] In November 1962, the FCC affirmed the assignment of both channels after educational television interests also sought channel 8.[41][42] Formal applications were then made for Superior and Albion in November 1963,[43] with construction permits issued in February 1964 for both stations.[44] With the call sign KHQL-TV—matching KHOL-TV and its satellite KHPL-TV—the Albion station was constructed and began telecasting on December 3, 1964.[45][46] KHTL-TV in Superior followed on October 1, 1965.[47] The four stations began branding as the Nebraska Television Network.[48]
In the late 1960s, KHOL-TV produced a local weekly variety show: The Bobby Mills Show, featuring the Bobby Mills Orchestra, similar to The Lawrence Welk Show. The program aired for 86 consecutive weeks from 1968 to 1970.[49]
NTV
NTV Enterprises—a company owned by the Oldfather and Payne families of Kearney[9]—acquired the NTV stations in 1974 for $1.9 million.[50] On June 3, the new owners changed the call letters of all the stations: KHOL became KHGI-TV, KHPL became KWNB-TV, KHQL became KCNA-TV, and KHTL became KSNB-TV.[51] The new call signs were chosen to reflect the areas served by each station; KHGI stands for "Kearney, Hastings, Grand Island", while KWNB refers to that station's service to western Nebraska.[52]
After negotiations with Grit Publishing of Pennsylvania stalled,[53] Joseph Amaturo bought the NTV stations in 1979 in an $8.5 million deal funded by the sale of KQTV in St. Joseph, Missouri.[54] KCNA was split off from NTV on November 1, 1983, to become an independent station under the call letters KBGT-TV;[55] Amaturo Group sold KHGI-TV, KWNB-TV, and KSNB-TV to Gordon Broadcasting for $10 million in 1985;[56] the sale separated the NTV stations from the money-losing KBGT-TV, which was separately sold a year later to Citadel Communications and became KCAN, a satellite of Sioux City, Iowa's KCAU-TV.[57][58] Gordon passed on buying Big 8 because it was unsure if cable systems in Lincoln would continue to carry the station.[59]
While NTV had lost one of its four high-power stations with the failed Big 8, Gordon Broadcasting tried to extend and improve the network's reach in the late 1980s. In January 1987, NTV attempted to enter Lincoln when it announced its intent to acquire a channel 45 construction permit held by Native American Communications Corporation.
Gordon Broadcasting planned to sell the NTV stations to Sterling Communications for $11 million in 1989.[63] However, the Sterling sale was unable to be completed, and in May, ownership reverted to Joseph Amaturo under a court-appointed receivership.[64][65] The next month, Chicago-based Heller Financial sued Gordon Broadcasting; Gordon had borrowed $7 million from Heller to purchase the stations and still owed the entire principal and $1.6 million in interest on the loan.[66] Joseph Girard was appointed successor receiver in 1991.[67] During this time, NTV was put on the market; a bid by Pappas Telecasting in 1990 received court approval, but the company failed to obtain financing,[68][69] while television meteorologist John Coleman later sought to purchase the stations.[70] Under Girard, who operated NTV through Girard Communications, KHGI-TV, KWNB-TV, and KSNB-TV were sold to Fant Broadcasting, owner of WNAL-TV in Gadsden, Alabama, for $2 million in 1993.[71] The Fant purchase took a year to come together because the receivership status required the company to buy NTV's assets on an individual basis.[72]
Addition of Fox stations; sale to Pappas
On April 1, 1994, Fant took over the operations of Hill Broadcasting Company's KTVG-TV (channel 17), an upstart independent station in Grand Island, under a local marketing agreement (LMA), making it a sister station to the NTV stations.[73] After the LMA was signed, NTV secured a primary Fox affiliation for KTVG-TV; as part of the deal, the NTV ABC stations took on a secondary Fox affiliation to carry the network's NFL coverage.[74][75] Fant also activated the Lincoln translator—changed from channel 18 to 22—in 1994.[76] The Lincoln translator attracted little interest locally, and NTV was not added on cable there.[77]
In July 1995, Fant announced a deal to sell KHGI, KWNB, and KSNB to Blackstar, LLC, a minority-controlled company in which nonvoting equity interests were held by
In July 1996, Fant agreed to sell KHGI-TV, KWNB-TV, and KSNB-TV to
KHGI-TV and KWNB-TV shut down their analog signals on February 17, 2009, the original target date on which full-power television stations in the United States were to
NTV converted from analog to digital broadcasting in McCook in March 2010, when KWNB-LD, previously KUVR-LD, replaced what was the former KBVZ-LP on channel 42 as well as WCWH-LD, which rebroadcast Fox on channel 40. KUVR-LD had previously broadcast Fox only.[97][98]
NTV's Grand Island news bureau moved to the
Sale to Sinclair
Pappas Telecasting filed for bankruptcy in May 2008.[100] Seven years later, in August 2015, the liquidating trust for Pappas announced that it was soliciting bids for a bankruptcy auction of the company's central and western Nebraska stations—NTV and KFXL—which took place October 27, 2015.[101][b] Of the four companies that participated in the auction, Sinclair Broadcast Group emerged as the winning bidder;[103] on November 4, 2015, the company announced that it had agreed to acquire the stations for $31.25 million.[102] The sale was completed on May 1, 2016.[104]
In 2021, KHGI-TV received FCC approval to convert to the UHF band on channel 18;[105][106] the change was completed on June 29, 2023, after the removal of the original channel 13 antenna and the installation of a new antenna for the UHF channel.[107][108]
News operation
NTV's news established itself as the second-place news in the Kearney–Hastings–Grand Island portion of the market by 1989, behind KOLN/KGIN, though its news staff was half the size.[109] The news department produced 6:30 a.m., noon, and 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts by 1995;[110] the market's only 5 p.m. newscast debuted in 1997,[111][112] though the station had previously aired a news program in that time slot in the 1980s.[113]
As with its competition in the market, NTV has generally been characterized by long-tenured, homegrown news personalities.[114] Bob Booe anchored the news in the late 1970s and then again from the early 1980s to 1992;[115] upon his death in 2011, he was remembered as a reason people tuned in to the station's newscasts and for training young journalists.[116] Bob Geiger was weather forecaster for the station from 1981 until he died of a heart attack in 2005;[117] his replacement, Kent Boughton, has been with the station for more than 20 years.[118]
Pappas brought additional resources to NTV during its ownership, particularly because it owned KPTM in Omaha. In 1998, when that station got a new set, the previous set was shipped to Axtell and reassembled at NTV's studios.[119] In addition, Pappas included NTV in equipment purchases along with its news-producing stations in Omaha and Fresno, California.[120] The station was number two in the market by 2002, despite not covering it in its entirety.[121] In May 2013, NTV added a weekly agricultural news program, called NTV's Grow, which was the station's first regular broadcast in high definition.[122]
A 2016 incident in which an NTV crew unwittingly filmed potential jurors for a murder trial in Kansas led to the judge declaring a mistrial; in an apology, NTV's news director cited differences with courtroom filming practices in Nebraska and Kansas.[123] In March 2018, a producer for NTV's morning newscast resigned, citing what he called Sinclair's "obvious bias" and requirements that stations include conservative-leaning national news packages in their newscasts. The resignation came after the company required its stations to produce and air local promotions, with local anchors reading a script provided by the corporate office.[124]
Former on-air staff
- Rick Benjamin — news anchor (1986–1988)[125]
- Marg Helgenberger – weekend weather anchor (1980; now an actress, best known for playing Catherine Willows on CSI)[c]
- Howard Morgan – weather forecaster (1950s)[10][129]
- Linda Vester — reporter (late 1980s)[130]
Stations
Station | City of license | Channel | FID | ERP | HAAT | Transmitter coordinates |
Start date[d] | Former call signs | Public license information |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
KHGI-TV | Kearney | 18, virtual 13 | 21160 | 1,000 kW
|
338 m (1,109 ft) | 40°39′27.9″N 98°52′5″W / 40.657750°N 98.86806°W | December 25, 1953 | KHOL-TV (1953–1974) | |
KWNB-TV | Hayes Center
|
6 | 21162 | 11.9 kW | 221 m (725 ft) | 40°37′32″N 101°1′47″W / 40.62556°N 101.02972°W | February 8, 1956 | KHPL-TV (1956–1974)[e] | |
KWNB-LD | McCook | 29 | 126405 | 4.7 kW | 92 m (302 ft) | 40°12′52.0″N 100°39′51″W / 40.214444°N 100.66417°W | June 22, 2004[f] |
|
LMS |
KHGI-CD | North Platte
|
27 | 168339 | 15 kW | 143 m (469 ft) | 41°13′22.0″N 100°41′17″W / 41.222778°N 100.68806°W | October 10, 1989[g] |
|
In 2021, NTV shut down a fifth transmitter, KHGI-LD in O'Neill.[134][135]
Subchannels
The stations' signals are
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
KHGI-TV | KWNB-TV KWNB-LD |
KHGI-TV | KWNB-TV | KWNB-LD | |||
13.1 | 6.1 | 720p | 16:9 |
KHGI-DT | KWNB-DT | KWNB-LD | ABC |
13.2 | 6.2 | KFXL-DT | Fox (KFXL-TV) | ||||
13.3 | 6.3 | 480i | TBD | TBD |
Unlike the other three stations, KHGI-CD only carries the main ABC NTV subchannel.[138] The Fox affiliate in North Platte is KIIT-CD.[139]
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
---|---|---|---|---|
27.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KHGI-CD | ABC |
Notes
- ^ This was resolved by also adding channel 24 to Albion. Citadel's channel 24 station operated as KLKE from 1996 to 2003.[82][83]
- ^ Helgenberger was known on air as Margi McCarty, using her grandmother's maiden name. This was because of the surnames of her co-anchors, Eisenminger and Knocklinger; a producer felt Helgenberger too long opposite those names.[126][127][128]
- ^ First day of programming, though most sources list the first day as the day the transmitter was turned on. For KHGI-TV, this was December 24, 1953. For KWNB-TV, this was February 8, 1956.[131]
- ^ The construction permit bore the call sign KHOK-TV from September 21 to October 7, 1955.[132]
- ^ Split license history, separate from KBVZ-LP (channel 42), in service until March 19, 2010.
- ^ Split license history. The original K13VO, later KHGI-CA, was facility ID 21163. It closed in 2011.[133]
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