KNOP-TV, channel 2, is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed in North Platte, Nebraska. The station is owned by Gray Television, and is a sister station to CBS affiliate KNPL-LD and Fox affiliate KIIT-CD. The station maintains studio and transmitter facilities located on the U.S. Route 83 in North Platte.
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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 2005, Greater Nebraska Television sold its stations (including KNOP-TV) to Hoak Media.
KNOP started rebroadcasting NBC programming in high-definition, and carrying K11TW's Fox programming on its second digital subchannel, in March 2011.
KNOP gained national attention in February 2012 for being the only station in the country to air a Will Ferrell-produced Super Bowl commercial for Old Milwaukee beer.
On November 20, 2013, Hoak announced the sale of most of its stations, including KNOP-TV and K11TW, to Gray Television. The sale made them sister stations to North Platte CBS affiliate KNPL-LD, a semi-satellite of Gray's KOLN/KGIN; it would have also partially separated KNOP from KHAS-TV, which was planned to be sold to Excalibur Broadcasting but be operated by Gray's KOLN/KGIN and KSNB-TV through a shared services agreement. However, in the wake of heightened FCC scrutiny about local marketing agreements, on June 11, 2014, KHAS-TV announced it would leave the air at midnight on June 13 and NBC programming would be moved to KSNB-TV and the digital subcarrier of KOLN/KGIN. The whole sale was completed on June 13. (KHAS was ultimately sold to Legacy Broadcasting, the call letters were changed to KNHL, and it returned to the air in June 2015 as a SonLife Broadcasting Network affiliate.
On September 14, 2015, Gray announced that it would purchase the television and radio stations owned by Schurz Communications, including Scottsbluff, Nebraska based KDUH-TV (a satellite of Rapid City's ABC-affiliated KOTA-TV) for $442.5 million. Gray planned to convert KDUH into a satellite of KNOP-TV, change the station's call letters to KNEP, and also change KDUH/KNEP's city of license to Sidney, Nebraska (which will move it from the Cheyenne-Scottsbluff market to the Denver market, eliminating an ownership conflict with KSTF, a Gray-owned, Scottsbluff-based semi-satellite of Cheyenne, Wyoming-based CBS affiliate KGWN-TV). The sale approved by the FCC on February 12, 2016, and was completed on February 16. The FCC approved the change of station's city of license on May 16. KNEP's NBC feed for the Nebraska Panhandle (which is branded as "NBC Nebraska Scottsbluff" and produces its own newscasts) signed on May 5, 2016. However, the station is still airing KOTA-TV programming on its DT1 channel.
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Digital television
Digital channels
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
KNOP-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 2, on February 10, 2009. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 22 to VHF channel 2.
Newscasts
KNOP-TV presently broadcasts 17 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 3 hours on weekdays and 1 hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). The station also produces 2½ hours of weekly news programming each for CBS and Fox affiliated sister stations KIIT-CD and KNPL-LD. Between the three stations, the news operation produces about 22 hours of news programming each week.
References
External links
- Official website
- KNEP - NBC Nebraska Scottsbluff
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KNOP
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KAQY-LP
- Query the FCC's TV station database for K18DH
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KNOP-TV
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