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former_affiliations = '''KHGI''': [[CBS]] (1953-61)<br>'''KWNB''': [[CBS]] (1956-61)| |
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former_callsigns = '''KHGI''': KHOL-TV (1953-1970s)<br>'''KWNB''': KHPL-TV (1956-1970s)| |
former_callsigns = '''KHGI''': KHOL-TV (1953-1970s)<br>'''KWNB''': KHPL-TV (1956-1970s)| |
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Revision as of 06:07, 2 December 2007
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KHGI-TV, channel 13 is ABC affiliate for most of central and western Nebraska. The station is licensed to the town of Kearney.
KHGI is owned and operated by Pappas Telecasting Companies. Its programming is also aired on KWNB-TV, channel 6 in Hayes Center, which repeats the KHGI signal except for separate commercials. The two stations are known as the Nebraska Television Network, or NTV for short.
Under the Pappas ownership, they are also sister stations of Fox network affiliate KTVG in Grand Island and its satellite, KSNB in Superior. Pappas operates the Fox stations under local marketing agreements.
The station is officially part of the Lincoln/Hastings/Kearney market, but this market has no basis in television reality. The market only shares two television stations, CBS affiliate KOLN in Lincoln (which operates a satellite, KGIN, in Grand Island) and CW affiliate KCWL. Grand Island, Hastings and Kearney receive NBC from KHAS-TV in Hastings, while Lincoln receives it from WOWT-TV in Omaha (which is owned by KOLN/KGIN's owner, Gray Television). Lincoln receives ABC from KLKN and Fox from KPTM in Omaha (in addition to a KTVG repeater in Lincoln).
Recently, KHGI has made moves toward gaining cable coverage on the Lincoln side of the market. Both KHGI and KLKN are carried on the local DirecTV and Dish Network feeds.
History
KHGI signed on in 1953 as KHOL-TV, a CBS affiliate licensed to Holdrege. Three years later, KHOL signed on a satellite in Hayes Center, KHPL-TV. After KGIN signed on from Grand Island as a satellite of Lincoln's KOLN in 1961, KHOL and KHPL became full ABC affiliates.
In 1964, another satellite joined the network, KHQL in Albion. KHTL in Superior followed in 1965.
In the mid-1970s, the call letters of all the stations were changed: KHOL became KHGI, KHPL became KWNB, KHQL became KCNA, and KHTL became KSNB. KCNA was spun off from NTV in the early 1980s and became an independent station under the call letters KBGT; it was sold in the late 1980s to Citadel Communications and became a satellite of Sioux City, Iowa station KCAU-TV. Citadel later moved the station to Lincoln, Nebraska as a stand-alone station, KLKN. KSNB became a Fox network affiliate in the late 1990s as a satellite of Grand Island's KTVG.
WSWS-CA signed on in the mid-1990s as a low-powered relay of KTVG. It switched from Fox to ABC in 2006.
The on-air name changed from NTN to NTV in the early 1980s.
In May 2006, NTV became one of the first television stations in the country to generate a community based news site. Community Correspondent allows registered users to post stories, photos, and videos to the site. Many of the postings are used on air in different stories.
Former On- and Off-Air Personalities
- Bob Geiger, weather (deceased); Marg Helgenberger (Catherine Willows on CSI), weather, 1980-81; Ralph Wall, weather. To Nebraska Game & Parks; Bob Booe, anchor (retired); Pam Stark, anchor; Sheila Hyland, anchor; John Mason, anchor; Megan Dardanell, news anchor (communications, Allegheny County, Pa.); Carmen Dexter, anchor-reporter; Tracy Madden, news anchor (WOWT/Omaha); Amanda Mueller, news anchor KPTM/Omaha); Doug Ohlemeier, reporter 1985-86; Chris Galen, reporter, 1986-87; Kate Delaney, reporter (1985-86); Kevin Weigert, producer; Linda Vester; Stephanie Riggs, anchor/reporter, 1987-1988; Pam Wiese, news director (Neb. Humane Society/Omaha);Sean McMahon, sports director (formerly KETV in Omaha); Matt Schick, sports anchor KETV/OmahaJosh Fosbrink, Meteorologist 2001-2003 Now at WBOY-Clarksburg, WV ; Brian Busenbark, News and Sports Reporter/Anchor 1995-1997; Megan McDonnell, News Reporter 1994-97; Stacey Skrysak Morning/Noon anchor 2004-2006.
Logos
Translators
KHGI/NTV repeats its programming on five translators. Two of them (in bold) are owned by Pappas, two are government-owned and another is owned by a local Jaycees chapter.
- McCook: KBVZ-LP, channel 42
- North Platte: WSWS-CA, channel 13
- Broken Bow: K06EY, channel 6 (owned by the Broken Bow Jaycees)
- Lewellen: K11KC, channel 11 (owned by municipal government)
- Stapleton: K11KW, channel 11 (owned by municipal government)
Except for WSWS-CA, all translators directly repeat KWNB.
WSWS-CA is unique as it is a station with a "W" callsign prefix that is west of the Mississippi River. This was allowed due to the fact that "WSWS" was the former callsign of current Pappas station WLGA, and the calls were grandfathered to K13VO, which is now WSWS-CA.
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