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KELO is the CBS affiliate in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, broadcasting on NTSC Channel 11 (analog) and ATSC Channel 32 (digital). South Dakotans pronounce the station as "Kelo," as if it rhymes with "hello." It broadcasts from a 2000 foot tower located near Rowena, South Dakota.

Station history

KELO signed on air on May 19, 1953 as South Dakota's first television station. It was owned by Midcontinent Media, a theater and broadcasting conglomerate, along with KELO radio (AM 1320 and 92.5 FM). It was a primary NBC affiliate, but it also carried programs from ABC, CBS and DuMont.

After KSOO-TV (now KSFY-TV) signed on in 1960, KELO switched its primary affiliation to CBS and has remained with that network ever since. Midcontinent sold KELO-TV to Young Broadcasting in 1995.

KELO was home to Captain 11, a popular children's show in the area, from 1955 until 1996.

Since the mid-1980s, its logo consists of "Kelo", written in cursive font, over a line, with "KELOLAND TELEVISION" underneath. It is one of the few stations whose logo's last three call letters are in lower-case (another station known to use this type of logo is another channel 11-- PBS affiliate KBYU-TV in Provo, Utah).

KELOLAND News has used The CBS Enforcer Music Collection as its news music package since 1997.

Timeline


Coverage area / rebroadcasters

KELO serves the largest viewing area of any station in the United States. It calls this vast area —which consists all of South Dakota as well as large parts of North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa—"KELOLAND", and covers it with a network of rebroadcasters:

Station City of license Channels
(Analog/
Digital)
First air date ERP
(Analog/
Digital)
HAAT
(Analog/
Digital)
Facility ID Transmitter Coordinates
KDLO-TV Florence 3 (VHF)
2 (VHF)
September 24, 1955 100 kW
3.7 kW
512 m
240.6 m
41975 44°57′56.2″N 97°35′23.3″W / 44.965611°N 97.589806°W / 44.965611; -97.589806 (KDLO-TV) (analog)
44°57′53.2″N 97°34′51.1″W / 44.964778°N 97.580861°W / 44.964778; -97.580861 (KDLO-TV) (digital)
KPLO-TV Reliance 6 (VHF)
13 (VHF)
July 15, 1957 100 kW
40 kW
338 m
317.8 m
41964 43°57′56.7″N 99°36′12″W / 43.965750°N 99.60333°W / 43.965750; -99.60333 (KPLO-TV)
KCLO-TV1 Rapid City 15 (UHF)
16 (UHF)
November 28, 1988 692 kW
150 kW
154 m
154 m
41969 44°4′13.3″N 103°15′2.6″W / 44.070361°N 103.250722°W / 44.070361; -103.250722 (KCLO-TV)

Notes:

  • 1. KCLO-TV does not offer MyUTV on digital.

The programming of KELO-TV is also rebroadcast on the following translator stations:

A unique feature of KELO's coverage area is that it includes two time zones -- Central and Mountain. This means that viewers of Rapid City's KCLO watch CBS's prime-time schedule from 6PM to 9PM (instead of 7PM to 10PM), with The Late Show with David Letterman at 9:35PM MT.

KCLO, because it is in a separate market, also gets certain shows fed to it specifically. KELO by contrast can not feed things like my UTV, or any other programming that may already be shown in the market, to Rapid City. All 4 KELO stations do get separate advertising as needed.

MyUTV

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KELO DT2 former UPN logo.

MyUTV is carried on a digital subchannel of KELO (channel 11.2 or 32.2) and rebroadcasted on digital subchannels of KDLO (channel 3.2 or 2.2) and KPLO (channel 6.2 or 14.2), though not KCLO due to FCC market rules. It's currently affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It was formerly a UPN affiliate branded simply as "UTV". UTV is generally carried on cable channel 10.

MyUTV is not seen in the in Rapid City market -- the UPN affiliate there was KCPL-LP 52, and the MyNetworkTV affiliate for Rapid City is KKRA-LP 24; as a result, UTV still can not be carried on KCLO by FCC market rules.

The CW in South Dakota is represented by stations unrelated to KELO -- KWSD 36 in Sioux Falls and KWBH-LP 27 in Rapid City.

Weather coverage

  • In 1997, the station group installed two live doppler weather radars in Huron and Beresford.
  • In 2001, they installed another doppler weather radar in Wall. KELOLAND is the only station in South Dakota to own and operate a network of live doppler weather radars.
  • The station group also has a network of Weather Net sites which are updated every three seconds.
  • In 2007 they upgraded their Huron radar to use dual polarization technology, and upgraded its power from 250,000 watts to 1,000,000 watts. They also upgraded their computer systems at their Beresford and Wall radars.
  • The name of the doppler network changed in 2007 to KELOLAND LIVE DOPPLER HD.
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Huron, +44° 23' 05.64" N -98° 13' 07.13" W row 1, cell 2 row 1, cell 3
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Personalities past and present

ANCHORS

  • Katie Janssen, KLTM & Reporter
  • Jon Wilson, KLTM, Midday
  • Angela Kennecke, 5PM, 6PM, 10PM
  • Don Jorgensen, 5PM, 6PM, 10PM
  • Kelli Grant, Weekend Morning Anchor & Reporter
  • Perry Groten, Weekend Morning Anchor & Reporter
  • Lou Raguse, Weekend Evening Anchor & Reporter

METEORLOGISTS

  • Jay Trobec, 5PM, 6PM, 10PM - Chief Meteorologist
  • Brian Karstens, KLTM
  • Scot Mundt, Midday, 5PM
  • Tony Barlow, Weekends

SPORTS

  • Jay Elsen, Tuesday-Fridays
  • Tony Burns, Saturday-Mondays

REPORTERS

  • Jaine Andrews, HealthBeat
  • Ben Dunsmoor, NightBeat
  • Shawn Neisteadt, Evenings
  • Eric Schaffhauser, Aberdeen
  • Erica Johnson, Mornings
  • Karla Ramaekers, Rapid City

PAST REPORTERS/ANCHORS

KELO TV Tower

The station tramsnits from the KELO TV Tower, a 605 metre (1905 ft) high guyed radio mast at Rowena, South Dakota, at 43°31′7″N 96°32′5.7″W / 43.51861°N 96.534917°W / 43.51861; -96.534917. The tower was built in 1975 to replace a 609.6 meter tall KELO TV Tower collapsed in 1968 after a North Central airliner clipped a guy wire. The plane was able to land safely with no injuries, but the tower was destroyed. KELO was back on the air three days later using the old 305 metre tall tower near Shindler. In 1975 KELO TV tower collapsed again during a fierce winter storm. KELO-TV was on the same day back on the air again, after some switching operations to the backup tower at Shindler were done.

  • KELOLAND.com
  • KELOLAND Live Doppler HD
  • UTV website
  • "Listing 1035413". Antenna Structure Registration database. U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
  • KELO TV Tower at Structurae
  • Skyscraperpage.com entry
  • Emmy Winners for PSA
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