KXMD-TV
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HAAT | 257 m (843 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 48°8′30″N 103°53′36″W / 48.14167°N 103.89333°W |
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Website | www |
KXMD-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Williston, 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 maintains a news bureau and advertising sales office at the intersection of 13th Avenue West and 18th Street West (near US 2/85) in Williston, and its transmitter is located west of the city near the North Dakota–Montana border.
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KXMD operates as a
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History
KXMD signed on October 25, 1969, as a semi-satellite of KXMC-TV in Minot. Previously, Williston viewers had to pick up CBS programming on cable from KOOK-TV in Billings, Montana (now KTVQ), although KUMV-TV had not been above breaking away from the KFYR/KMOT feed when CBS had something very important to present.
Boler sold his interest in the KX stations to Reiten in 1971. Steve Reiten, Dave Reiten, Kathleen Reiten Hruby, Tim Reiten, and Melanie Reiten Shonkwiler, Chester's children, still own the stations today (including KXMA-TV in Dickinson, which he bought in 1985).
The KX stations previously 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 its existing stations and KMCY, Minot's ABC affiliate owned by Forum Communications Company. KMCY became available in Williston on a full-power signal on KXMD's second digital subchannel in 2009.
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
KXMC produces local newscasts daily at 6 a.m., noon, 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. KXMC produces a morning show at 6 a.m., KX News Morning, and co-produces a 5 p.m. newscast with KXMB. Both are simulcast on all four stations. 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 is largely because it is the only station airing a full schedule of local news for the northern part of the market. Also, KX News Morning has recently surged well ahead of NBC North Dakota's Country Morning Today—the first 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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11.1 | 1080i | 16:9 |
KXMD-DT | CBS |
11.2 | 720p | KXMA-CW | The CW Plus[8] | |
11.3 | 480i | Laff | Laff | |
11.4 | MYSTERY | Ion Mystery |
Analog-to-digital conversion
KXMD-TV shut down its analog signal, over
Translator
- K22KY-D Poplar, MT
See also
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KXMD-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "RabbitEars.Info".
- ^ "Require Prime Evening Time for NTA Films", Boxoffice: 13, November 10, 1956
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.