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'''KNOP-TV''', [[Virtual channel|virtual]] and [[Very high frequency|VHF]] [[Digital terrestrial television|digital]] channel 2, is an [[NBC]]-[[Network affiliate|affiliated]] [[television station]] [[city of license|licensed]] to [[North Platte, Nebraska|North Platte]], [[Nebraska]], [[United States]]. Owned by [[Gray Television]], it is [[sister station|sister]] to two [[low-power broadcasting#Television|low-powered]] stations: [[CBS]] affiliate [[KNPL-LD]] (channel 10) and [[Class A television service|Class A]] [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] affiliate [[KIIT-CD]] (channel 11). The three stations share studios on South Dewey Street in downtown North Platte; KNOP's transmitter is located on [[U.S. Route 83#Nebraska|U.S. Route 83]] in the northern part of the city. However, [[master control]] and |
'''KNOP-TV''', [[Virtual channel|virtual]] and [[Very high frequency|VHF]] [[Digital terrestrial television|digital]] channel 2, is an [[NBC]]-[[Network affiliate|affiliated]] [[television station]] [[city of license|licensed]] to [[North Platte, Nebraska|North Platte]], [[Nebraska]], [[United States]]. Owned by [[Gray Television]], it is [[sister station|sister]] to two [[low-power broadcasting#Television|low-powered]] stations: [[CBS]] affiliate [[KNPL-LD]] (channel 10) and [[Class A television service|Class A]] [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] affiliate [[KIIT-CD]] (channel 11). The three stations share studios on South Dewey Street in downtown North Platte; KNOP's transmitter is located on [[U.S. Route 83#Nebraska|U.S. Route 83]] in the northern part of the city. However, [[master control]] and some internal operations are based at the studios of CBS-affiliated sister station [[KOLN]] on North 40th Street in [[Lincoln, Nebraska|Lincoln]]. |
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KNOP-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 2, is an NBC-affiliated television station licensedtoNorth Platte, Nebraska, United States. Owned by Gray Television, it is sister to two low-powered 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; KNOP's transmitter is located on U.S. Route 83 in the northern part of the city. However, master control and some internal operations are based at the studios of CBS-affiliated sister station KOLN on North 40th Street in Lincoln.
KNOP-TV was founded by local investors headed by attorney Rush Clarke and went on-air December 15, 1958.[1]
In 1968, it was purchased by Richard F. Shively, Harold O. Shively and Ulysses Carlini Sr.[2] Richard died on December 4, 2003.[3] In 1997, Shively and Carlini bought KHAS-TVinHastings, and formed Greater Nebraska Television as a holding company for their television interests.
In 2005, Greater Nebraska Television sold its stations (including KNOP-TV) to Hoak Media.[4]
KNOP started rebroadcasting NBC programming in high definition, and carrying K11TW's Fox programming on its second digital subchannel, in March 2011.[5]
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.[6][7]
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.[8] 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.[9] The whole sale was completed on June 13.[10] (KHAS was ultimately sold to Legacy Broadcasting,[11] the call letters were changed to KNHL,[12] and it returned to the air in June 2015 as a SonLife Broadcasting Network affiliate.[13]
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.[14][15][16] Gray planned to convert KDUH into a semi-satellite of KNOP-TV,[17][18] 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).[19][20][21] The sale approved by the FCC on February 12, 2016,[22] and was completed on February 16.[23] The FCC approved the change of station's city of license on May 16.[24] 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.[25] However, the station is still airing KOTA-TV programming on its DT1 channel.[26]
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming[27] |
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2.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KNOP | Main KNOP-TV programming / NBC |
2.2 | 720p | KIIT | Simulcast of KIIT-CD / Fox | |
2.3 | 480i | 4:3 | ION TV | Ion Television |
KNOP-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 2, on February 10, 2009.[28][29] The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 22 to VHF channel 2 for post-transition operations.[30]
KNOP-TV presently broadcasts 17 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with three hours each weekday and one 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.
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