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KDLT-TV
File:KDLT Logo.png
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Channels
BrandingKDLT; Dakota News Now
Fox Sioux Falls (DT2)
Programming
Affiliations46.1: NBC (1960–1969, 1983–present)
46.2: Fox (2020–present)
46.3: Antenna TV
46.4: Cozi TV
46.5: Court TV
Ownership
Owner
KSFY/KPRY, KOTA/KHSD/KSGW, KEVN-LD, KVLY-TV, KXJB-LD, KEYC-TV, KMNF-LD
History
First air date
June 12, 1960 (64 years ago) (1960-06-12) [a]
Former call signs
KORN-TV (1960–1973)
KXON-TV (1973–1982)[1]
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
5 (VHF, 1960–1998)
46 (UHF, 1998–2009)
Digital:
47 (UHF, until 2018)
Analog/DT1:
ABC (1960–1983, secondary until 1969)
DT2:
Antenna TV (until 2020, now on DT3)
Call sign meaning
Dakotaland Television
(former owners)
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID55379
ERP589 kW
HAAT608 m (1,995 ft)
Transmitter coordinates43°30′18″N 96°33′23″W / 43.50500°N 96.55639°W / 43.50500; -96.55639
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.dakotanewsnow.com
Satellite station
KDLV-TV
Channels
Programming
Affiliations5.1: NBC (1998–present)
5.2: Fox (2020–present)
13.1: ABC
Ownership
Owner
  • Gray Television
  • (Gray Television Licensee, LLC)
KSFY-TV
History
FoundedApril 1, 1997
First air date
September 8, 1998 (25 years ago) (1998-09-08)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
5 (VHF, 1998–2009)
13.2:
CW+ (until 2020)
13.3:
MeTV (until 2020)
Call sign meaning
Daklotaland V (Roman numeral 5)
Technical information
Facility ID55375
ERP1,000 kW
HAAT315 m (1,033 ft)
Transmitter coordinates43°45′33″N 98°24′44″W / 43.75917°N 98.41222°W / 43.75917; -98.41222 (KDLV-TV)
Links
Public license information

KDLT-TV (channel 46) is a television station in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States, affiliated with NBC and Fox. It is owned by Gray Television alongside dual ABC/CW+ affiliate KSFY-TV (channel 13). Both stations share studios in Courthouse Square on 1st Avenue South in Sioux Falls, while KDLT-TV's transmitter is located southeast of the city near Rowena.

KDLV-TV (channel 5) in Mitchell operates as a full-time satellite of KDLT; this station's transmitter is located near Plankinton, South Dakota. KDLV covers areas of south-central and southeastern South Dakota that receive a marginal to non-existent over-the-air signal from KDLT, although there is significant overlap between the two stations' contours otherwise. KDLV is a straight simulcast of KDLT; on-air references to KDLV are limited to Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-mandated hourly station identifications during newscasts and other programming. Aside from the transmitter, KDLV does not maintain any physical presence locally in Mitchell.

History

The Mitchell years

Mitchell Broadcasting Association, owner of radio station KORN, applied on July 30, 1957, to build a new television station on channel 5 in Mitchell, to be located southeast of the city.[1] The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the application on November 13 of that year, but it was more than two years before KORN-TV was built and activated on June 12, 1960. It was a primary affiliate of NBC.[2] The next month, in Sioux Falls, KSOO-TV, forerunner of future sister station KSFY-TV, signed on; the two stations, both NBC affiliates, each served half of the market.

Coinciding with the construction of a new 1,569-foot (478 m) tower in Salem, midway between Mitchell and Sioux Falls, KORN-TV switched to ABC on May 12, 1969, giving the network its first primary affiliate in South Dakota. The signal traveled in a 92-mile (148 km) radius from the transmitter site, providing city-grade coverage to 23 counties in eastern South Dakota and giving Sioux Falls full service from all three major networks.[3][4]

Mitchell Broadcasting sold the station to Buford Television of Tyler, Texas, in 1972 for $775,000.[5] The new owners changed the call sign the next year to KXON-TV, as Mitchell Broadcasting retained the KORN radio stations.[6] Additionally, Buford opened a sales office in downtown Sioux Falls, the station's first physical presence in the city.[7] Buford saw the station through a lengthy reconstruction after the Salem tower was felled in an ice storm on March 27, 1975; ice built up on the tower and, aided by gusting winds, led to its collapse.[8] The station reverted to its original tower in Mitchell before a replacement 1,563-foot (476 m) tower was activated at Salem in mid-1976.[9]

After a proposed purchase of the station by a consortium of investors known as Group Five Television was abandoned in March 1977,[10][11] Buford put KXON-TV on the market because it had committed to the construction or purchase of four television stations in other parts of the United States.[12][13]

In October 1977, Buford accepted an offer from George N. Gillett Jr. of Wausau, Wisconsin, to purchase KXON-TV. It was the first holding of his Gillett Broadcasting. Gillett noted that he selected KXON-TV to purchase in part because there were so few TV stations on the market; it was affiliated with ABC, then the top network; and it was a low-band VHF TV station.[14] Gillett made improvements to the presentation of the station's two daily newscasts, then branded Metro News, which had perennially been in third place in the market behind KELO-TV and KSFY. Despite this, channel 5 remained hamstrung in its ability to capture ratings, especially for local news, in Sioux Falls. While KELO-TV and KSFY both had at least three full-power transmitters, KXON only had one. Its news department was small even for a market of Sioux Falls' size at the time; it had only nine reporters, half the size of KSFY and a tenth the size of KELO-TV. It had less equipment than its competitors, and faced the stigma of being considered a "Mitchell station".[15] It did not help matters that KCAU-TV in Sioux City, Iowa put a strong signal to much of the market; for most of the time from the late 1960s to the 1980s, it claimed Sioux Falls as part of its primary coverage area.[16][17]

Gillett sold KXON-TV in 1982 to Dakotaland Broadcasting, owners of KEVN and KIVV in the Rapid City market. The call letters were changed to KDLT in October 1982 to reflect the new owners and also to "project a new image".[18] The station lost its ABC affiliation the next year after ABC approached KSFY-TV, with its larger network of repeaters and higher ratings, to become its new affiliate in eastern South Dakota.[19] Consequently, KDLT took over KSFY's former NBC affiliation.[20]

Heritage and Red River ownership

Dakotaland's owners decided to exit the business, selling their broadcast holdings to Heritage Communications in 1985.[21] It was the first acquisition of broadcast stations by the group, which became Heritage Media in 1987 when the broadcast stations were spun out from the firm's cable TV systems.[22] That same year, rule changes allowed KDLT to move most of its operations to a studio on South Westport Avenue in Sioux Falls; previously, the station staff was split between the two cities.[23] The new owners focused KDLT's low-rated newscasts, now called Sioux First News, on Sioux Falls events. This was out of necessity; it could not hope to adequately cover the entire 80-county market with just a single transmitter.[24]

Heritage Media sold KDLT to Red River Broadcasting, owner of KVRR in Fargo, North Dakota, in 1994.[25] Red River embarked on a two-pronged campaign to expand KDLT's coverage area. In 1995, it set up low-power translators in Aberdeen, Milbank, Pierre, South Dakota, and Watertown, adding over 84,000 potential viewers to its coverage area. Viewers in these areas had long been served over the air by KELO-TV and KSFY.[26]

The second phase, however, was even more crucial. FCC rules for the forthcoming introduction of digital television required a station's digital signal to cover at least 80 percent of its analog footprint. KDLT's transmitter was too far away from Sioux Falls to provide that city with an acceptable digital signal; it was located over 41 miles (66 km) from Sioux Falls. In 1989, KDLT had purchased K46CB, a low-powered station in Sioux Falls, to improve its reception in the city.[27] On September 8, 1998, this was replaced with a new full-power facility in Sioux Falls which retained the KDLT call letters. It operated from a new tower in Rowena, where most of the other Sioux Falls stations have their towers. Red River would have preferred to move the channel 5 tower closer to Sioux Falls, but was rebuffed by the FCC. The Salem location was as close as the channel 5 tower could legally get to Sioux Falls while still providing a city-grade signal to its city of license, Mitchell. As a compromise, the station was allowed to operate on channel 46, the lowest channel that was available at the time. As a result, Red River changed channel 5's call letters to KDLV, which was repurposed as a full-time satellite of KDLT for areas west of the city. In December, KDLV moved to a new tower in Plankinton, closer to Mitchell.[28] The changes cost $8 million.[29]

Due to the way in which the changeover was structured legally, the FCC reckons KDLT's current facility in Sioux Falls as a new license dating from 1998, while KDLV in Mitchell operates under KDLT's former license and facility on channel 5. Red River received a construction permit for channel 42 under the KDLV calls on April 1, 1997; it switched callsigns with channel 5 on September 8, 1998.[30][31]

Consolidation with KSFY-TV

On May 1, 2018, Gray Television announced its purchase of KDLT-TV for $32.5 million. The deal would create a duopoly with KSFY-TV.[32] The combined operation would be based at KSFY's studios on Courthouse Square in Sioux Falls; in its announcement of the KDLT purchase, Gray noted that the KSFY studio has enough space to house a second station's news and sales department.[33] Gray needed to obtain a waiver in order to complete the deal, since the FCC normally does not allow one entity to own two of the four highest-rated stations in a market. However, in its filing requesting such a waiver, Gray argued that KDLT would be in a stronger position to compete in the market if its resources were combined with those of KSFY. Gray contended that a KSFY/KDLT duopoly would fulfill "a dire need for an effective competitor" in the Sioux Falls market, where CBS affiliate KELO-TV has been the far-and-away leader for as long as records have been kept with a local news share of 70 percent and an advertising market share of 55 percent, and said that the market was a "unicorn".[34] The sale was approved by the FCC on September 24, 2019,[35] and was completed the following day.[36][37] On January 13, 2020, KDLT moved its operations to KSFY's studios on Courthouse Square.

On November 2, 2020, Gray purchased the non-license assets of KTTW (channel 7) from Independent Communications, Inc.; Fox programming moved to KDLT on digital subchannel 46.2. Cozi TV, which was also carried on KTTW, moved to subchannel 46.4.[38][39] This resulted in all of the network affiliations in eastern South Dakota being controlled by just two companies, Gray and KELO-TV owner Nexstar Media Group.

Programming

KDLT-TV clears the entire NBC network schedule. It airs an alternate live feed of NBC Nightly News at 6 p.m. due to the station's 5:30 p.m. newscast. Syndicated programming currently broadcast on KDLT-TV includes Jeopardy!, Rachael Ray, Hot Bench and Judge Judy.

News operation

KDLT presently broadcasts 19½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 3½ hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). With the purchase of this station, KDLT and KSFY merged their news operations on January 13, 2020, rebranding as Dakota News Now.

Technical information

The stations' digital signals are multiplexed:

Subchannels of KDLT-TV[40]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
46.1 1080i 16:9 KDLT-TV Main KDLT-TV programming / NBC
46.2 720p FOX Fox
46.3 480i 4:3[41] Antenna Antenna TV[42]
46.4 16:9 Cozi Cozi TV
46.5 Court Court TV
Subchannels of KDLV-TV[43]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
5.1 720p 16:9 KDLV-TV Main KDLV-TV programming / NBC
5.2 FOX Fox
13.1 KSFY-TV ABC (KSFY-TV)
  Simulcast of subchannels of another station

Analog-to-digital conversion

Both stations shut down their analog signals respectively on February 1, 2009:[44]

  • KDLT-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 46; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 47. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 46.
  • KDLV-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 5; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 26. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 5.

Translators

KDLV is rebroadcast on the following translator stations:

City of license Callsign Channel ERP HAAT Facility ID Transmitter coordinates Owner
Aberdeen K33MI-D 33 15 kW 90 m (295 ft) 182700 45°28′29.0″N 98°31′38.0″W / 45.474722°N 98.527222°W / 45.474722; -98.527222 (K33MI-D) Gray Television
Badger K35GR-D 35 6.76 kW 110 m (361 ft) 128436 44°29′15.0″N 97°14′21.0″W / 44.487500°N 97.239167°W / 44.487500; -97.239167 (K35GR-D)
Brookings K17NF-D 17 4.27 kW 88 m (289 ft) 68032 44°20′22″N 96°46′08.0″W / 44.33944°N 96.768889°W / 44.33944; -96.768889 (K17NF-D)
Jackson K27NF-D 17 3.1 kW 90.8 m (298 ft) 21287 43°36′2″N 94°59′34.0″W / 43.60056°N 94.992778°W / 43.60056; -94.992778 (K27NF-D) Federated Rural Electric Association
Pierre K27HJ-D 27 11.6 kW 118 m (387 ft) 128428 44°18′42.0″N 100°21′10.0″W / 44.311667°N 100.352778°W / 44.311667; -100.352778 (K27HJ-D) Gray Television
Springfield K33GX-D 33 7.014 kW 117 m (384 ft) 128440 42°48′26.0″N 97°58′46.0″W / 42.807222°N 97.979444°W / 42.807222; -97.979444 (K33GX-D)
Watertown K28OE-D 28 4.92 kW 103 m (338 ft) 129133 44°52′16.0″N 97°06′35.0″W / 44.871111°N 97.109722°W / 44.871111; -97.109722 (K28OE-D)

Transmitter antenna beacon bulb replacement

The station's television transmitter antenna beacon bulb replacement on the KDLT tower was featured on the National Geographic Channel television show World's Toughest Fixes.[45]

Note

  1. ^ Current license came into use on September 8, 1998

References

  1. ^ a b FCC History Cards for KDLV (as KDLT in Mitchell)
  2. ^ "Newest Mitchell Industry Begins Operations With Telecasts Sunday Eve". The Daily Republic. Mitchell, South Dakota. June 15, 1960. p. 18. Archived from the original on May 14, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "KORN-TV To Switch To ABC". Argus Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. December 5, 1968. p. 21. Archived from the original on May 14, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "KORN-TV Goes ABC Monday". The Daily Republic. Mitchell, South Dakota. May 9, 1969. p. 3. Archived from the original on May 14, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Texans To Pay $775,000 For KORN-TV". The Daily Republic. Mitchell, South Dakota. June 23, 1972. p. 3. Archived from the original on May 14, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "KORN-TV To Be KXON-TV". The Daily Republic. Mitchell, South Dakota. September 8, 1973. p. 3. Archived from the original on March 30, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Accent On Business". Argus Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. July 6, 1973. p. 7. Archived from the original on May 14, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Ice, Winds Topple 1,565-Foot KXON Tower Near Salem; Madison Tower May Collapse". Argus Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Associated Press. March 28, 1975. p. 1. Archived from the original on May 14, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "New KXON tower ready by June". The Daily Republic. Mitchell, South Dakota. April 27, 1976. p. 2. Archived from the original on May 14, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
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  11. ^ Burke, Judy (March 4, 1977). "Plans to buy KXON-TV abandoned". The Daily Republic. Mitchell, South Dakota. p. 3. Archived from the original on May 14, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "KXON for sale". The Daily Republic. Mitchell, South Dakota. March 17, 1977. p. 3. Archived from the original on May 14, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Wisconsin man to buy KXON". The Daily Republic. Mitchell, South Dakota. October 24, 1977. p. 3. Archived from the original on May 14, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "KXON's new owner says station changes coming". Argus Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. March 3, 1978. p. 2C. Archived from the original on May 14, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
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  17. ^ "Television is in the spotlight: Turner resigns". Sioux City Journal. Sioux City, Iowa. September 21, 1985. p. A1, A26. Archived from the original on May 28, 2022. Retrieved May 28, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "KXON-TV changes call letters to KDLT". Argus Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. September 29, 1982. p. 4C. Archived from the original on May 14, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ "KDLT may affiliate with NBC after KSFY switches to ABC". Argus Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. February 24, 1983. p. 1B. Archived from the original on May 14, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "Mitchell's KDLT switches from ABC to NBC". Argus Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. August 5, 1983. p. 3C. Archived from the original on May 14, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ Ames, J.D. (March 1, 1985). "Firm buys KEVN, other TV stations". Rapid City Journal. Rapid City, South Dakota. p. 1, 2. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. ^ Kasler, Dale (May 31, 1987). "Texas may land Heritage TV, radio company". The Des Moines Register. Des Moines, Iowa. p. 1F, 3F. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
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  24. ^ Grauvogl, Ann (August 24, 1987). "New look signals KDLT-TV's move to city". Argus-Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. p. 5A. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  25. ^ Wade Schmidt, Brenda (July 1, 1994). "N.D. firm to acquire KDLT-TV". Argus Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. p. 1B. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ^ Wade Schmidt, Brenda (July 21, 1995). "New owners to expand KDLT's reception area: Plans will bring more parity with KSFY, KELO". Argus Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. p. 5D. Retrieved May 14, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  27. ^ "Newspaper Notice". Argus Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. November 11, 1989. p. 5C. Archived from the original on March 30, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  28. ^ "FCC didn't allow tower move". Argus Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. November 27, 1998. p. 1D. Retrieved March 29, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  29. ^ Keyes, Bob (December 12, 1998). "Radio stations to ask listeners to vote on web site". Argus Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. p. 1B. Retrieved March 29, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  30. ^ Call sign changes for KDLT-TV
  31. ^ Call sign changes for KDLV-TV
  32. ^ Miller, Mark K. "Gray Buying KDLT Sioux Falls For $32.5M". TVNewsCheck. Archived from the original on May 2, 2018. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
  33. ^ "Gray Agrees to Acquire KDLT-TV in Sioux Falls, South Dakota" (PDF) (Press release). Gray Television. May 1, 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 17, 2018. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
  34. ^ "December 2018 Amendment to Assignment Application". Federal Communications Commission. December 2018. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
  35. ^ "Memorandum Opinion and Order" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission. September 24, 2019. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 25, 2019. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  36. ^ "Gray Television completes purchase of KDLT-TV". KSFY.com. Gray Television. September 25, 2019. Archived from the original on September 25, 2019. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
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  38. ^ "Facebook". Fox 7 Sioux Falls. September 25, 2019. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
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  44. ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
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