KNPL-LD (channel 10) is a
low-power television station
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in
North Platte, Nebraska
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, United States, affiliated with
CBS. It is owned by
Gray Television
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alongside
NBC
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affiliate
KNOP-TV
KNOP-TV (channel 2) is a television station in North Platte, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Gray Television alongside two low-power stations: CBS affiliate KNPL-LD (channel 10) and Class A Fox affiliate KIIT-CD ...
(channel 2) and
Class A Fox
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Twelv ...
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
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in the northern part of the city.
Originally a
translator
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of
KOLN/KGIN in
Lincoln
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* Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the United States
* Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England
* Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Nebraska, U.S.
* Linco ...
/
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
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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 those translators, K25KA-D (formerly K57CZ), which directly repeated KOLN and was owned by Gray Television. The other translator, K04ED, was owned by the city of North Platte and directly repeated KGIN. News director Stephanie Hedrick explained that the launch of KNPL, along with
KSNB-TV
KSNB-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to York, Nebraska, United States, serving southeastern and central Nebraska as an affiliate of NBC. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Lincoln-licensed CBS affiliate KOLN, channel 10 ...
, were a part of Gray's aim to build a statewide chain of news stations, and "provide viewers in North Platte with local news and instant access to other news that matters to North Platte."
[
KNPL-LD signed on under the branding 10/11 North Platte on September 3, 2013.]
News operation and programming
At launch, KNPL broadcast two North Platte-specific newscasts at 6:30 p.m. and 10:00 p.m., branded as ''10/11 North Platte News''. Those newscasts launched in high definition
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, making them the first local newscasts in the market to be broadcast in HD.[ KNPL also simulcasts programming from KOLN/KGIN, including ''Pure Nebraska'' and ''10/11 PrepZone''.]KNEP
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titled ''10/11 North Platte Today At 5''. It simulcasts all of KOLN/KGIN's other newscasts, as well as all network and syndicated programming.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Translator
References
External links
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CBS network affiliates
MeTV affiliates
Gray Television
Television channels and stations established in 2013
NPL-LD
Low-power television stations in the United States
2013 establishments in Nebraska