KNDX
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| KNDX / KXND | |
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| KNDX: Bismarck, North Dakota KXND: Minot, North Dakota |
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| Branding | Fox 26 Fox 24 |
| Channels | Digital: KNDX: 26 (UHF) Virtual: 26 (PSIP) Digital: KXND: 24 (UHF) Virtual: 24 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 26.1 / 24.1 Fox |
| Translators | K38HA Dickinson (relays KNDX) K38HS Williston (relays KXND) |
| Affiliations | Fox |
| Owner | Prime Cities Broadcasting, Inc. |
| First air date | KNDX: November 7, 1999 KXND: November 15, 1999 |
| Call letters’ meaning | KNDX: North Dakota FoX KXND: FoX North Dakota |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: KNDX: 26 (1999-2009) KXND: 24 (1999-2009) |
| Former affiliations | Secondary: UPN (1999-2006) |
| Transmitter Power | KNDX: 50 kW KXND: 50 kW |
| Height | KNDX: 300 m KXND: 238.9 m |
| Facility ID | KNDX: 82611 KXND: 82615 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | KNDX: 46°35′23″N 100°47′39″W / 46.58972°N 100.79417°W KXND: 48°3′14″N 101°26′3″W / 48.05389°N 101.43417°W |
| Website | KNDX KXND |
KNDX channel 26 and KXND channel 24 are television stations in western North Dakota, owned by Prime Cities Broadcasting, and are affiliated with Fox. Bismarck (KNDX) and Minot (KXND) are served with full-power stations while Dickinson and Williston are served by translators (low-powered rebroadcasters).
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[edit] Programming
The stations programming is mainly simulcasted from KNDX in Bismarck; KXND in Minot inserts commercials targeted for the Minot and Williston areas.
[edit] History
The stations signed on in 1999 bringing Fox network programming to Western North Dakota for the firs time. Prior to KNDX/KXND's inception, cable television subscribers in Bismarck and Minot received now-defunct Foxnet on cable for Fox programming. Prior to K38HA's inception, cable television subscribers in the Williston area received Denver's KDVR on cable for Fox programming. Dickinson also received KDVR, especially as they were in Mountain Time Zone, until K38HS signed on.
The stations also carried UPN programming during late nights. When UPN was discontinued on in 2006, and replaced with The CW, West Dakota Fox was offered both as a secondary affiliation; however station management has not made any lasting decision to date.
Until 2007, KNDX and KXND were known collectively as West Dakota Fox. That year, the stations changed their monikers in favor of the station identities for their area.
[edit] LMA with KBMY/KMCY
From 2002 until 2008, KNDX/KXND was in a Local Marketing Agreement, or LMA, with KBMY & KMCY, both stations being ABC affiliates of Bismarck and Minot respectively. The LMA between both stations allowed KBMY/KMCY to share the facilities, staff, and some equipment of KNDX/KXND.
The LMA ended in 2008, with Forum Communications Company, the owners of KBMY/KMCY, instead deciding to originate programming for KBMY/KMCY remotely from their television facilities of WDAY, Forum's ABC station in their homebase of Fargo. Forum still has some advertising sales & engineering staff for KBMY/KMCY in Bismarck, but now are located at the offices of Bismarck CBS affiliate KXMB, which Forum now is currently in partnership with for KBMY/KMCY's local operations.
KBMY & KMCY's programming is now originated from WDAY in Fargo and transported to Bismarck via leased microwave relay bandwidth furnished by Prairie Public Broadcasting's statewide digital terrestrial microwave network (the only permanent full-time video link from Fargo to Bismarck for TV broadcasting). The signal is then sent to KXMB, where it then is exported via a studio to transmitter link (STL) from KXMB's studios to KBMY & KMCY's transmitters.
[edit] Digital television
Because they were granted original construction permits after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997 [1], the stations did not receive companion channels for digital television stations. Instead, on or before June 12, 2009, which is the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KNDX and KXND were required to turn off their analog signals and turn on their digital signals (called a "flash-cut").
[edit] External links
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KNDX
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KXND
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KNDX-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KXND-TV
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