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KNOP-TV
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. In 1968, it was purchased by Richard F. Shively, Harold O. Shively and Ulysses Carlini Sr. Richard died on December 4, 2003. In 1997, Shively and Carlini bought KHAS-TV in Hastings, and formed Greater Nebraska Television as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KIIT-CD
KIIT-CD (channel 11) is a low-power, Class A television station in North Platte, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Gray Media alongside NBC affiliate KNOP-TV (channel 2) and low-power CBS affiliate KNPL-LD (channel 10). The three stations share studios on South Dewey Street in downtown North Platte; KIIT-CD's transmitter is located on US 83 in the northern part of the city. Master control and some internal operations are based at the studios of sister station KOLN in Lincoln. Although KIIT broadcasts a digital signal, it is limited to the immediate North Platte area. It is therefore simulcast in high definition on KNOP's second digital subchannel. Fox programming also airs in the area on Lincoln's KFXL-TV, which is carried on KWNB's subchannel. History From the grant of its original construction permit on December 12, 1994, through June 26, 2014, the station was assigned the translator-style call sign of K11TW, and retained it even afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KNPL-LD
KNPL-LD (channel 10) is a low-power television station in North Platte, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Gray Media alongside NBC affiliate KNOP-TV (channel 2) and Class A Fox affiliate KIIT-CD (channel 11). The three stations share studios on South Dewey Street in downtown North Platte; KNPL-LD's transmitter is located on US 83 in the northern part of the city. Originally a translator of KOLN/KGIN in Lincoln/ Grand Island, the station was relaunched on September 3, 2013, as a semi-satellite featuring local news programming specific to the North Platte market. Master control and some internal operations of KNPL-LD are based at KOLN's facilities on North 40th Street in Lincoln. History In March 2013, Gray Television announced that it would launch a dedicated CBS station for the North Platte market, KNPL-LD. It would replace two low-powered KOLN translators that had been in operation since the early 1980s. KNPL operates under the license of one of tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KNHL
KNHL (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Hastings, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with The CW Plus. It is a full-power satellite of Lincoln-based KCWH-LD (channel 18) which is owned by Gray Media. As KHAS-TV, it formerly served as the NBC affiliate for the western side of the Lincoln–Hastings– Kearney market. KNHL is a sister station to NBC affiliate KSNB-TV (channel 4) in York and CBS affiliates KOLN/KGIN (channels 10 and 11) in Lincoln and Grand Island. KNHL's transmitter is located on US 281 north of Hastings. In 2014, Gray acquired Hoak Media; as it already owned the three aforementioned stations (KOLN/KGIN and KSNB) in the same market, it planned to sell KHAS to the shell company Excalibur Broadcasting and operate KHAS under a shared services agreement (SSA). As a result of growing FCC scrutiny towards " virtual duopolies", Gray instead let KHAS fall silent on June 13, 2014, and its programming and news operation were relocated to KSNB-TV, pend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KOLN
KOLN (channel 10) and KGIN (channel 11) are television stations licensed respectively to Lincoln and Grand Island, Nebraska, United States, serving as the CBS affiliates for southeastern and central Nebraska. Owned by Gray Media and jointly branded as "10/11", the two stations maintain studios on North 40th Street in Lincoln, as well as a news bureau and sales office on West State Street in Grand Island. KOLN's transmitter is located near Beaver Crossing, while KGIN's transmitter is based near Heartwell. The stations serve one of the largest coverage areas in the United States, stretching across 42 counties in southern and central Nebraska—almost two-thirds of the state's geographical land area—and an additional four counties in Kansas. KOLN/KGIN share common ownership with York-licensed NBC affiliate KSNB-TV (channel 4), which was acquired by Gray in 2013 and simulcasts in high definition on the second digital subchannel of KGIN. It previously broadcast MyNetworkTV an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WOWT
WOWT (channel 6) is a television station in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Gray Media. The station's studios are located at the Kiewit Plaza on Farnam Street near downtown Omaha, and its transmitter is located on a " tower farm" near North 72nd Street and Crown Point Avenue in north-central Omaha. WOWT is Gray's only Nebraska station that is not part of its Nebraska News & Weather Network which includes sister stations KOLN/KGIN, KSNB-TV, KNEP, and KNOP-TV. History The station signed on the air on August 29, 1949, at noon as WOW-TV; it was the first television station in Nebraska and is one of the oldest in the Upper Midwest. It also claims to have gone on the air earlier than any station in four other Midwestern states—Iowa, Kansas, North Dakota and South Dakota. The station was owned by Radio Station WOW, Inc., alongside WOW radio (590 AM, now KXSP, and 92.3 FM, now KEZO). The owners operated under a United States Supreme Court ruli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoak Media
Hoak Media Corporation was a broadcast media company based in Dallas, Texas. Hoak once owned eighteen television stations (including satellites), all in medium and small-markets, mostly in the Great Plains states and Colorado. Hoak Media was established in August 2003. On November 20, 2013, Gray Television announced that it would purchase Hoak Media and Parker Broadcasting, excluding KREX (and its satellites), KFQX and WMBB (which could not be sold to Gray as it already owned stations in the markets affected), and as well as KAUZ-TV. Some of Hoak's stations were originally going to be sold to Excalibur Broadcasting and they would have been operated by Gray under local marketing agreements. On December 19, it was announced that KREX and WMBB would be sold to Nexstar Broadcasting Group, while KFQX would be sold to Mission Broadcasting. The sale was completed on June 13, 2014. However, some stations were forced to go off the air and their programming was moved to subchannels of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadcast Relay Station
A broadcast relay station, also known as a satellite station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator (U.S.), re-broadcaster (Canada), repeater ( two-way radio) or complementary station (Mexico), is a broadcast transmitter which repeats (or transponds) the signal of a radio or television station to an area not covered by the originating station. These expand the broadcast range of a television or radio station beyond the primary signal's original coverage or improves service in the original coverage area. The stations may be (but are not usually) used to create a single-frequency network. They may also be used by an AM or FM radio station to establish a presence on the other band. Relay stations are most commonly established and operated by the same organisations responsible for the originating stations they repeat. Depending on technical and regulatory restrictions, relays may also be set up by unrelated organisations. Types Translators In its simplest form, a broadcast tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hastings, Nebraska
Hastings is a List of cities in Nebraska, city in and the county seat of Adams County, Nebraska, Adams County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 25,152 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of cities in Nebraska, 8th most populous city in Nebraska. Edwin Perkins (inventor), Edwin Perkins invented Kool-Aid in Hastings in 1927; the town celebrates the invention with the Kool-Aid Days festival every August. During World War II, Hastings operated the largest Naval Ammunition Depot in the United States, and for this reason was awarded the distinction of World War II Heritage City, American World War II Heritage City by the National Park Service in 2023. History Settlement Hastings was founded in 1872 at the intersection of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad and the St. Joseph and Denver City Railroad. It was named for Colonel D. T. Hastings of the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railroad, who was instrumental in building the railroad throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High-definition Television
High-definition television (HDTV) describes a television or video system which provides a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation of technologies. The term has been used since at least 1933; in more recent times, it refers to the generation following standard-definition television (SDTV). It is the standard video format used in most broadcasts: Terrestrial television, terrestrial broadcast television, cable television, satellite television. Formats HDTV may be transmitted in various formats: * 720p (): 921,600 pixels * 1080i () interlaced scan: 1,036,800 pixels (≈1.04Mpx). * 1080p () progressive scan: 2,073,600 pixels (≈2.07Mpx). ** Some countries also use a non-standard CTA resolution, such as : 777,600 pixels (≈0.78Mpx) per field or 1,555,200 pixels (≈1.56Mpx) per frame When transmitted at two megapixels per frame, HDTV provides about five times as many pixels as SD (standard-definition television). The increased resolution provides for a cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Subchannel
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a method of transmitting more than one independent program stream simultaneously from the same digital radio or television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual program stream, and multiplexing to combine them into a single signal. The practice is sometimes called " multicasting". ATSC television United States The ATSC digital television standard used in the United States supports multiple program streams over-the-air, allowing television stations to transmit one or more subchannels over a single digital signal. A virtual channel numbering scheme distinguishes broadcast subchannels by appending the television channel number with a period digit (".xx"). Simultaneously, the suffix indicates that a television station offers additional programming streams. By convention, the suffix position ".1" is normally used to refer to the station's main d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Platte, Nebraska
North Platte is a city in and the county seat of Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States. It is located in the west-central part of the state, along Interstate 80, at the confluence of the North and South Platte Rivers forming the Platte River. The population was 23,390 at the 2020 census, making it the 11th most populous city in Nebraska. North Platte is a railroad town; Union Pacific Railroad's large Bailey Yard is located within the city. Today, North Platte is served only by freight trains, but during World War II the city was known for the North Platte Canteen, a volunteer organization serving food to millions of traveling soldiers. North Platte is the principal city of the North Platte Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Lincoln, Logan, and McPherson counties. History North Platte was established in 1866 when the Union Pacific Railroad was extended to that point. It derives its name from the North Platte River. North Platte was the western terminus o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Ferrell
John William Ferrell (; born July 16, 1967) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. He is known for his leading man roles in comedy films and for his work as a television producer. Ferrell received various accolades, including six Primetime Emmy Awards and a British Academy Television Award, in addition to nomination for two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award. In 2011, Farrell was honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. In 2015, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was named the best comedian in British '' GQ''. Ferrell first established himself in the mid-1990s as a cast member on the sketch comedy series ''Saturday Night Live'', where he performed from 1995 to 2002, and has subsequently starred in a string of comedy films. After starring in the 2003 comedy film '' Old School,'' Ferrell became considered a member of the " Frat Pack", a generation of leading Hollywood comic actors who emerged in the late 1990s and the 2000s, inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
