KXMC-TV
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| HAAT | 334 m (1,096 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 48°3′0″N 101°23′32″W / 48.05000°N 101.39222°W |
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| Website | www |
KXMC-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Minot, North Dakota, United States, serving as an affiliate of CBS and an owned-and-operated station of The CW Plus. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station has studios at the intersection of 2nd Street SE and 18th Avenue SE in Minot, and its transmitter is located near South Prairie.
KXMC-TV is the oldest station and served as the
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History
KXMC was the first television station in North Dakota, going on the air as KCJB-TV in April 1953. Minot businessman Chester Reiten and Fargo businessman John Boler, owners of KBMB-TV in Bismarck (now KXMB), bought the station in 1958 and changed KCJB's call letters to the current KXMC-TV.[2]
Boler sold his interest in the KX stations to Reiten in 1971. Reiten retired in the 1990s and turned over his interest to his five children: Steve Reiten, Dave Reiten, Kathleen Reiten Hruby, Tim Reiten, and Melanie Reiten Shonkwiler. Tim served as company president.
The KX stations formerly had a secondary affiliation with ABC before full-time ABC affiliate
Until 1986, KXMD was carried by
In 2006, the stations began a web portal-like website called KX Net, with each station's website displaying a localized front page. The stations continue to be branded as "KX Television" and as "KX News" on the air, but also use the "KX Net" moniker on the air also. KXNet.com combined the previous domains kxma.com, kxmb.com, kxmc.com and kxmd.com under one umbrella. The original domains are still active. KXNet.com won the 2007 Teddy Award for Best Website and the 2007 Eric Severaid Award for best website small market television in a 6 state region.
In October 2007, KXNet.com along with Midkota Solutions launched DakotaPolitics.com, a web site focusing on North Dakota political news coverage. DakotaPolitics featured profile information, voting records and some analysis. DakotaPolitics also launched weekly tracking polls for the 2008 elections. In 2008 KXNet.com became the first web site in North Dakota to deliver a live news broadcast over the Internet when they streamed a 1-hour special coverage of the 2008 Presidential Caucuses from Bismarck.
In July 2008, Reiten Television began a joint agreement to sell television commercial slots on both KXMC and
On June 23, 2011, then anchorman/reporter Shaun Sipma received a phone call from Minot native Josh Duhamel who was in Moscow, Russia at the time to pledge his support when his hometown got flooded during KXMC's 24-hour flood coverage.[4]
Programming
The KX network carries the
The North Dakota State Fair parade in Minot is aired live across the KX network every July as well as a July 4th Parade in Mandan.
News operation
For many years, KXMC and KXMB produced separate daily local newscasts at noon, 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. on weekdays, 6 and 10 p.m. on Saturdays, and 10 p.m. on Sundays. However, after Nexstar bought the KX stations, KXMC's noon and weeknight newscasts, as well as all weekend newscasts, were dropped. It now places sports and weather inserts into KXMB's newscasts in those timeslots.
KXMC co-produces two newscasts with KXMB—a morning show at 6 a.m., Good Day Dakota (formerly KX News Morning) and a 5 p.m. newscast. Both are simulcast on all four stations.
KXMD simulcasts KXMC, while KXMA simulcasts KXMB. All of the local newscasts are broadcast in high definition.
For many years, KXMD placed inserts into KXMC's newscasts. However, recent cutbacks have resulted in KXMD's operations being largely merged with those of KXMC, and local inserts have been eliminated.
As a whole, KX Television has long trailed NBC North Dakota in the ratings by a significant margin; the main stations and their satellites are counted as one station for ratings and regulatory purposes. However, KXMC has historically been well ahead of KMOT in the ratings for the northern part of the market. This was largely because it was the only station airing a full schedule of local news for the northern part of the market. Also, Good Day Dakota has recently surged well ahead of NBC North Dakota's Country Morning Today—the only time in recent memory that NBC North Dakota has lost consecutive ratings periods in any time slot.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 13.1 | 1080i | 16:9 |
KXMC-HD | CBS |
| 13.2 | 720p | KXMC-WX | The CW Plus[9] | |
| 13.3 | 480i | Laff | ||
| 13.4 | Ion Mystery |
Analog-to-digital conversion
KXMC-TV shut down its analog signal, over
See also
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KXMC-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ FCC History Cards for KXMC-TV. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Require Prime Evening Time for NTA Films", Boxoffice: 13, November 10, 1956
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Josh Duhamel calls KXMC to pledge support for Minot". YouTube.
- ^ "Nexstar Buys 4 North Dakota Stations". TVNewsCheck. September 17, 2015. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
- ^ Consummation Notice - Federal Communications Commission
- ^ Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License - Federal Communications Commission
- RabbitEars.info. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
- ^ "KX Adds The CW to Western North Dakota". wordpress.com. July 1, 2016. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
- ^ http://www.kxmc.com/News/329365.asp [bare URL]
- ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
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