KEVN-LD
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| Channels | |
| Branding | Black Hills Fox |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | Fox |
| Ownership | |
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| KOTA/KHSD/KSGW, KNEP, KHME | |
| History | |
| Founded | February 25, 2010 |
First air date | February 1, 2016 |
Former call signs |
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Call sign meaning | Seven |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 182523 |
| ERP | 15 kW |
| HAAT | 174.6 m (573 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°4′0″N 103°15′3″W / 44.06667°N 103.25083°W |
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Public license information | LMS |
| Website | www |
KEVN-LD (channel 7) is a low-power television station in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Gray Television alongside ABC affiliate KOTA-TV (channel 3) and MeTV affiliate KHME (channel 23). The stations share studios on Skyline Drive in Rapid City, where KEVN-LD's transmitter is also located.
KEVN is also carried on KOTA's full-power satellites. KHSD-TV (channel 11.2) in Lead, South Dakota serves the Black Hills proper; it can also be seen over the air in Rapid City. KSGW-TV (channel 12.2) in Sheridan, Wyoming serves northern and northeast Wyoming. KHSD's transmitter is located on Terry Peak near Spearfish, South Dakota, while KSGW's transmitter is on Bosin Rock.
History[edit]
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KEVN intellectual unit[edit]
Until 2016, the KEVN call sign, Fox affiliation, and virtual channel 7 assignment were used on the broadcast license presently associated with KOTA-TV. KEVN-TV had launched in 1976 as an ABC affiliate, replacing KRSD-TV, which had signed on in 1958 as an NBC affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation, switched to CBS in 1970, and was denied license renewal in 1971; KRSD shut down several months before KEVN began operations. KEVN switched to NBC in 1984 and Fox in 1996. The original KEVN was also seen on a satellite station in Lead, KIVV-TV (channel 5), which operated on the license now used by KHSD-TV; virtual channel 5 is presently used by KQME, a satellite of MeTV affiliate KHME (channel 23).
Current license[edit]
On September 14, 2015, Gray bought the non-license assets of the market's ABC affiliate KOTA-TV as part of its acquisition of Schurz Communications' television stations. Due to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ownership restrictions, Gray established this new low-powered station to move the Fox affiliation, KEVN's call sign, virtual channel, and programming. KOTA's ABC affiliation and program streams including its existing PSIP channel 3 numbering was then moved to the old full-powered KEVN, transmitting on RF channel 7. The original KOTA-TV license was then sold to Legacy Broadcasting and became KHME.
Subchannels[edit]
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 7.1 | 720p | 16:9 | FOX-HD | Fox |
| 3.1 | ABC-HD | ABC (KOTA-TV) |
News operation[edit]
![[icon]](/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg){kind=small} | This section needs expansion with: information on KEVN's news operation prior to and since the affiliation switch to Fox. You can help by adding to it. (August 2010) |
KEVN-LD broadcasts 9+1⁄2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 1+1⁄2 hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). The station carries a 6:00 p.m. newscast, but does not produce any newscasts during morning or midday timeslots. It rebroadcasts its hour-long 9:00 p.m. news program at 6:00 a.m. on weekday mornings.
Early in KEVN's Fox affiliation (on what is now KOTA-TV), the station produced an hour-long morning newscast at 7 a.m. and half-hour newscasts at noon, 5:30 p.m., and 10 p.m.; on weekends, KEVN aired only its late newscast.[3] In 1998, the station moved the late newscast to 9 p.m., making it the first Rapid City station to produce a primetime newscast;[4] Around the same time, the morning and midday newscasts were discontinued.[5] By 2001, KEVN expanded the weeknight 9 p.m. news to an hour;[6][7] the weekend edition of the newscast was expanded to an hour on November 2, 2013.[8][9] The station moved the early evening newscast to 6 p.m. on March 31, 2008 and relaunched it as The Six.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KEVN-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "RabbitEars TV Query for KEVN". www.rabbitears.info. Retrieved November 9, 2023.
- ^ "KEVN FOX7 Program Schedule for the week of May 19, 1997". KEVN FOX7 OnLine. Archived from the original on May 29, 1997. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
- ^ a b "Fox to move local newscast to 6 p.m." Rapid City Journal. March 25, 2008. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
- ^ "KEVN FOX7 Program Schedule for the week of January 25, 1999". KEVN FOX7 OnLine. Archived from the original on January 28, 1999. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
- ^ "KEVN FOX7 Program Schedule for the week of October 16, 2000". KEVN FOX7 OnLine. Archived from the original on October 17, 2000. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
- ^ "KEVN FOX7 Program Schedule for the week of April 16, 2001". KEVN FOX7 OnLine. Archived from the original on April 18, 2001. Retrieved February 18, 2015.
- ^ Rapid City FOX Affiliate Expands Weekend Newscast TVSpy, November 4, 2013.
- ^ KEVN Expands It's Weekend News To One Hour TVNewsCheck, November 4, 2013.