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63-518: KVLY-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Fargo, North Dakota , United States, affiliated with NBC . It is owned by Gray Television alongside KXJB-LD (channel 30), a low-power CBS and CW affiliate. The two stations share studios on 21st Avenue South in Fargo; KVLY-TV's transmitter is located near Blanchard . In addition to its main studio in Fargo, KVLY-TV operates a news bureau and sales office in

126-512: A barter in some cases. KXMB-TV KXMB-TV (channel 12) is a television station in Bismarck, North Dakota , United States, serving as an affiliate of CBS and an owned-and-operated station of The CW Plus . The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group , and maintains studios on North 15th Street in Bismarck; its transmitter is located near St. Anthony, North Dakota . KXMB-TV serves as

189-494: A 113-foot (34 m) antenna for channel 11 was affixed to the top of the 1,950-foot (590 m) mast. When the tower was due to be activated on February 1, 1964, KEND-TV changed its call sign again to KTHI-TV (for "Tower High"); technical questions pushed back the site switch to February 8. Coinciding with the change, the station moved into new studios south of Fargo. KNOX-TV was shut down, and its studio and office in Grand Forks

252-414: A co-anchor format as well as Grand Forks stories introduced live by an anchor in Grand Forks were later discontinued to simplify the newscast. The station returned to a co-anchor format in 1987 and later that year introduced its first morning newscast. In 1989, KTHI hired Charley Johnson, the 14-year news director and anchor at KXJB, to anchor its newscasts, including a 6 p.m. edition to go head-to-head with

315-543: A curt, 90-second phone call from ABC; most station employees learned their station was losing its network by way of an announcement on WDAY-TV's newscast. Until 1986, channel 11 was carried by cable systems across Manitoba , including the Winnipeg area. It and KXJB-TV were removed when Canadian cable companies were granted permission to replace most of the North Dakota stations with network affiliates from Detroit provided via

378-419: A digital ABC television signal to Bismarck. In October 2007, KXNet.com along with Midkota Solutions launched DakotaPolitics.com, a web site focusing on North Dakota political news coverage. DakotaPolitics featured profile information, voting records and some analysis. DakotaPolitics also launched weekly tracking polls for the 2008 elections. In 2008, KXNet.com became the first web site in North Dakota to deliver

441-617: A full-time semi-satellite of KXMB and changed the call letters to KXMA (It would have been KXME, but Prairie Public Television objected.) Before being sister stations, KNDX/KDIX would often pick up CBS programming from KXMB since 1970, when KHSD-TV ( KOTA-TV Rapid City, South Dakota satellite) dropped CBS programming. After an ice storm on April 6, 1997, caused the KXJB-TV mast to collapse, some cable systems replaced KXJB with KXMB, either temporarily or permanently, to maintain CBS service. In 2006,

504-582: A live news broadcast over the Internet when they streamed a 1-hour special coverage of the 2008 Presidential Caucuses from Bismarck. Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced its $ 44 million purchase of the Reiten Television stations, including KXMB-TV, on September 17, 2015. The deal gave the Reitens a handsome return on Chester Reiten's investment of 57 years earlier. The sale was completed on February 2, 2016. As

567-415: A much shorter wavelength, and thus requires a shorter antenna, but also higher power. North American stations can go up to 5000 kW ERP for video and 500 kW audio, or 1000 kW digital. Low channels travel further than high ones at the same power, but UHF does not suffer from as much electromagnetic interference and background "noise" as VHF, making it much more desirable for TV. Despite this, in

630-557: A new, tall tower near Hillsboro, North Dakota and moving channel 10 completely from Grand Forks to Thief River Falls, Minnesota . The station set up new local offices in the Manchester Building in Fargo and began planning the construction of a new, 2,000 feet (610 m) television tower. At the time, the tallest tower—located in Columbus, Georgia —was 1,749 feet (533 m) high. On May 15, 1963, to dissociate itself from KXGO radio,

693-591: A primary affiliation with CBS, but carried other networks as well. During the late 1950s, the station was briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network . In 1958, it moved to its current location. In 1961, Boler sold a part-interest in the North Dakota Broadcasting Company to Chester Reiten of Minot. The two men teamed up to buy that city's CBS station, KCJB-TV, and changed the calls to KXMC-TV. The two stations merged their operations, with KXMC as

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756-526: A promotion for his film Anchorman 2 , co-anchored the station's evening news as his character Ron Burgundy . The station's signal is multiplexed : KXMB-TV was the first commercial digital television station in North Dakota as when it went on the air in 2002. The station shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 12, at 10 a.m. on May 28, 2009. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 23 to VHF channel 12 for post-transition operations. To reach viewers throughout

819-447: A quarter that of WDAY–WDAZ. The morning newscast, 15 minutes in length since its 1987 debut, was lengthened to a full half-hour in 1993. Upon the Meyer acquisition of KTHI, the company dismissed lead news anchor Doug Hamilton. By 1996, the station was narrowly behind KXJB at 6 p.m. and ahead of it at 10 p.m., and it was ahead of KXJB in both time periods by 2000. KXJB's condition worsened over

882-748: A result of the acquisition, Nexstar decided to terminate the Joint Sales Agreement with KBMY. The KX network carries the CBS Overnight News (though with public service announcements instead of local commercials), while weekends simulcast the local weather conditions of North Dakota. All four stations provide a formal sign-off , including " The Star-Spangled Banner ", at 1:05 a.m. CT/12:05 a.m. MT Tuesday through Saturday mornings and at 1:35 a.m. CT/12:35 a.m. MT on Sunday and Monday mornings. The North Dakota State Fair parade in Minot

945-547: A single unit for ratings purposes. KXMC is the oldest station of the KX group, and was the flagship station originating programming until master control and internal operations were moved to KXMB in the 2000s. Dish Network only provides KXMC, while DirecTV only provides KXMB, as central and western North Dakota's CBS affiliate. KXMB first went on the air on November 19, 1955, as KBMB-TV, owned by Fargo businessman John Boler and his North Dakota Broadcasting Company. The station had

1008-463: A subsidiary of the Morgan Murphy Stations group. The FCC waived a rule requiring new owners to hold stations at least three years except in cases of financial difficulty, noting that Pembina had not been able to find a buyer in 1966 even though the sale of KTHI-TV was provided for in the merger agreement. After the sale, the station remained unprofitable for at least its first four years. Into

1071-675: A tall tower near Blanchard . The tower—erected in 1963 by the Kline Iron and Steel Company of Columbia, South Carolina —made the former KNOX-TV in Grand Forks redundant and vastly increased the station's coverage area. It was the tallest man-made structure at its completion, surpassed by the Warsaw radio mast in Poland from 1974 to its 1991 collapse and then again by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2008. In 2019,

1134-425: A variety of ways to generate revenue from television commercials . They may be an independent station or part of a broadcasting network , or some other structure. They can produce some or all of their programs or buy some broadcast syndication programming for or all of it from other stations or independent production companies. Many stations have some sort of television studio , which on major-network stations

1197-460: A whole, KX Television has long trailed NBC North Dakota in the ratings by a significant margin; the main stations and their satellites are counted as one station for ratings and regulatory purposes. However, Good Day Dakota has recently surged well ahead of NBC North Dakota's Country Morning Today —the only time in recent memory that NBC North Dakota has lost consecutive ratings periods in any time slot. On November 30, 2013, actor Will Ferrell , as

1260-496: Is non-commercial educational (NCE) and considered public broadcasting . To avoid concentration of media ownership of television stations, government regulations in most countries generally limit the ownership of television stations by television networks or other media operators, but these regulations vary considerably. Some countries have set up nationwide television networks, in which individual television stations act as mere repeaters of nationwide programs . In those countries,

1323-508: Is aired live across the KX network every July as well as a July 4th Parade in Mandan . KXMB produces daily local newscasts at 6 a.m., noon, 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. on weekdays, 6 and 10 p.m. on Saturdays, and 10 p.m. on Sundays. KXMC long aired separate newscasts in these timeslots as well. However, since the Nexstar purchase, its separate newscasts have been replaced with weather and sports inserts during

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1386-470: Is broadcast via terrestrial radio waves. A group of television stations with common ownership or affiliation are known as a TV network and an individual station within the network is referred to as O&O or affiliate , respectively. Because television station signals use the electromagnetic spectrum, which in the past has been a common, scarce resource, governments often claim authority to regulate them. Broadcast television systems standards vary around

1449-792: Is often used for newscasts or other local programming . There is usually a news department , where journalists gather information. There is also a section where electronic news-gathering (ENG) operations are based, receiving remote broadcasts via remote pickup unit or satellite TV . Outside broadcasting vans, production trucks , or SUVs with electronic field production (EFP) equipment are sent out with reporters , who may also bring back news stories on video tape rather than sending them back live . To keep pace with technology United States television stations have been replacing operators with broadcast automation systems to increase profits in recent years. Some stations (known as repeaters or translators ) only simulcast another, usually

1512-713: The CANCOM service, which were believed to have better picture quality. Meyer Broadcasting of Bismarck, North Dakota , owner of KFYR-TV in Bismarck and its network of satellites in western North Dakota, bought the station in a deal announced in November 1994 and completed in March 1995. On June 5, the station changed its call sign to KVLY-TV, reflecting the Red River Valley region; recently relaxed FCC rules allowed an FM station in Texas to share

1575-661: The Star Stations radio group, channel 11 was never sold and remained in the Natco fold post-merger. Natco's primary owner, J. B. Fuqua , renamed the firm Fuqua Industries in February 1967. During this time, in 1967, KTHI-TV moved its Grand Forks studio to larger quarters on 9th Avenue North. This came after the company considered originating half of KTHI's broadcast day from Grand Forks and the other half from Fargo. In 1969, Fuqua Industries sold KTHI-TV for $ 1.491 million to Spokane Television,

1638-596: The US Bank building in downtown Grand Forks . Channel 11 began broadcasting on October 11, 1959. It was built by John Boler, the owner of KXJB-TV , and served as little more than a passthrough for ABC programming in the immediate Fargo– Moorhead area. After being sold to the Polaris Corporation in 1962, the station was overhauled and turned into a full-service station with local programming. In February 1964, it began broadcasting from its current tower—which at one time

1701-405: The broadcast range , or geographic area, that the station is limited to, allocates the broadcast frequency of the radio spectrum for that station's transmissions, sets limits on what types of television programs can be programmed for broadcast and requires a station to broadcast a minimum amount of certain programs types, such as public affairs messages . Another form of television station

1764-534: The electricity bill and emergency backup generators . In North America , full-power stations on band I (channels 2 to 6) are generally limited to 100 kW analog video ( VSB ) and 10 kW analog audio ( FM ), or 45 kW digital ( 8VSB ) ERP. Stations on band III (channels 7 to 13) can go up by 5 dB to 316 kW video, 31.6 kW audio, or 160 kW digital. Low-VHF stations are often subject to long-distance reception just as with FM. There are no stations on Channel 1 . UHF , by comparison, has

1827-869: The flagship station of KX Television , a regional network of four stations relaying CBS network and other programming provided by KXMB across central and western North Dakota, as well as bordering counties in Montana and South Dakota . The three satellite stations clear all network and syndicated programming as provided through KXMB but air separate legal identifications and commercial inserts. KXMC-TV (channel 13) in Minot also produces local weather and sports inserts, KXMD-TV (channel 11) in Williston simulcasts KXMC's programming, and KXMA-DT2 in Dickinson (channel 2.2) simulcasts KXMB's programming. The four stations are counted as

1890-570: The 2007 Teddy Award for Best Website and the 2007 Eric Sevareid Award for best website small market television in a six state region. In July 2008, Reiten Television began a joint agreement to sell television commercial slots on both KXMB and KBMY , Bismarck's ABC affiliate owned by Forum Communications Company . KXMB houses sales and engineering personnel solely for KBMY's operations. A consequence of this agreement has enabled KBMY-DT to begin broadcasting in July 2008 directly from KXMB's station, bringing

1953-501: The 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. weekday newscasts. KXMC co-produces a morning show, Good Day Dakota (formerly KX News Morning ) and a 5 p.m. newscast with KXMB, broadcast on all four stations. All of the local newscasts are broadcast in high definition. For many years, KXMA placed inserts into KXMB's newscasts. However, recent cutbacks have resulted in KXMA's operations being largely merged with those of KXMB, and local inserts have been eliminated. As

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2016-472: The KXJB facility and made plans to move KXJB's CBS programming to a subchannel of KVLY-TV. This took place on November 12, 2014, as KXJB was sold to Major Market Broadcasting. The KXJB facility was turned off on December 1, 2014. To supplement the main transmitter for CBS service, Gray acquired three low-power stations, at Horace , Argusville , and Grand Forks, in 2015. The Horace transmitter became KXJB-LD , bringing

2079-627: The U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking another large portion of this band (channels 52 to 69) away, in contrast to the rest of the world, which has been taking VHF instead. This means that some stations left on VHF are harder to receive after the analog shutdown . Since at least 1974, there are no stations on channel 37 in North America for radio astronomy purposes. Most television stations are commercial broadcasting enterprises which are structured in

2142-556: The VHF antenna at the top of the mast was removed, reducing its height to 1,987 feet (606 m). KVLY-TV serves portions of its large coverage area with three translators . All are in Minnesota and owned by local municipalities. Television station The Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow ( TV Station Paul Nipkow ) in Berlin , Germany , was the first regular television service in the world. It

2205-670: The agreement to operate KXJB-TV, resulting in the CBS affiliation moving to a subchannel of KVLY and, eventually, new low-power stations. Channel 13, not 11, was originally assigned to Fargo. This changed in December 1953 after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) received a petition from a civic group in Bemidji, Minnesota , seeking the assignment of channel 13 there. This prompted a consortium of two local radio stations, KFGO in Fargo and KVOX in Moorhead, Minnesota , to abandon their plans for

2268-505: The call sign back to use after Gray temporarily parked it on a facility in Wyoming. The original KXGO-TV had no local programming or studios, relying nearly exclusively on network material from ABC. This changed in February 1964, when the station became KTHI-TV and began airing local newscasts. One of the first on-air personalities was former professional football player Steve Myhra as a sportscaster. When Morgan Murphy bought channel 11 in 1969,

2331-438: The call sign. In 1998, Meyer opted to exit the television business. It sold all its TV stations—KVLY-TV and KFYR-TV and satellites—to Sunrise Television, a division of the private equity firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst , for $ 63.75 million. In 2002, North Dakota Television LLC—a consortium of private equity firms The Wicks Group of Companies, JP Morgan Partners , and Halyard Capital—acquired KVLY-TV and KFYR-TV. The next year,

2394-448: The combination of WDAY and WDAZ remained number-one in the full designated market area . As of September 2024, Valley News Live produced a combined 39 hours a week of local news programming across the NBC and CBS subchannels. KVLY has at times been home to North Dakota State Bison football games. The station broadcast regular-season games and produced a pregame show. In the 2019–2020 season,

2457-419: The ensuing years. When KVLY took over most of KXJB's operations in 2003, the latter station's early evening newscast times and format were changed to not conflict with KVLY. Except for a noon newscast, which KVLY did not offer, there was initially little overlap in on-air presenters. That changed in November 2007, when the stations' previously separate weeknight 10 p.m. newscasts and news brands were combined under

2520-625: The flagship station. That same year, KBMB changed its calls to the current KXMB. They would put KXMD-TV in Williston on in 1969. KXJB-TV in Fargo was co-owned with the KX stations (though programmed separately) until Boler sold his interest in the partnership to Reiten in 1971. Reiten retained the western North Dakota stations. The KX stations formerly had a secondary affiliation with ABC shared with KFYR-TV before full-time ABC affiliate KBMY signed on. Reiten Broadcasting purchased KNDX (previously KDIX-TV) in Dickinson in 1985 and converted it into

2583-420: The highest point available in the transmission area, such as on a summit , the top of a high skyscraper , or on a tall radio tower . To get a signal from the master control room to the transmitter, a studio/transmitter link (STL) is used. The link can be either by radio or T1 / E1 . A transmitter/studio link (TSL) may also send telemetry back to the station, but this may be embedded in subcarriers of

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2646-519: The late 1970s, most of the station's local morning programming continued to originate from Grand Forks. On August 22, 1983, KTHI became an NBC affiliate, swapping affiliations with WDAY-TV and its satellite for the Devils Lake and Grand Forks area, WDAZ-TV (channel 8). The switch was initiated by ABC, which at the time was number-one in the ratings seeking affiliation upgrades nationally and had courted WDAY for several years. KTHI management found out in

2709-400: The local television station has no station identification and, from a consumer's point of view, there is no practical distinction between a network and a station, with only small regional changes in programming, such as local television news . To broadcast its programs, a television station requires operators to operate equipment, a transmitter or radio antenna , which is often located at

2772-406: The loss of some network programs to the new station and believed that channels 4 and 11 would constitute a then-illegal duopoly , an FCC hearing examiner approved the North Dakota Broadcasting Company application on May 27, 1958; the commission approved the station in 1959. NDBC announced that, though the studios would be shared with KXJB-TV's Fargo site and the recently purchased KFGO (renamed KXGO),

2835-419: The main broadcast. Stations which retransmit or simulcast another may simply pick-up that station over-the-air , or via STL or satellite. The license usually specifies which other station it is allowed to carry. VHF stations often have very tall antennas due to their long wavelength , but require much less effective radiated power (ERP), and therefore use much less transmitter power output , also saving on

2898-481: The name Valley News Live . The stations had already been airing a combined weekend newscast. Over the course of the 2010s, Valley News Live became increasingly competitive with WDAY. In May 2013, while WDAY maintained a lead on total households, Valley News Live accounted for more viewership in key demographics favored by advertisers. In 2014, KVLY surpassed WDAY as the ratings leader in Fargo–Moorhead proper, though

2961-459: The new KXGO-TV and Boler's Bismarck station, KBMB-TV . However, some viewers lost ABC programming because the NBC affiliates reached more viewers than channel 11. In 1962, Ferris Traylor of Evansville, Indiana , acquired KXGO-TV as well as KNOX-TV in Grand Forks and KCND-TV (channel 12) in Pembina . The new ownership announced major plans to shuffle the first two stations by relocating channel 11 to

3024-496: The new station would transmit from Sabin, Minnesota , and be KXGO-TV. KXGO-TV began broadcasting on October 11, 1959. Its arrival triggered a minor realignment of network programming in North Dakota as its first exclusive ABC affiliate. Previously, North Dakota's three NBC affiliates—WDAY-TV, KFYR-TV in Bismarck , and KNOX-TV in Grand Forks —had aired some ABC shows. With the advent of channel 11, ABC shows were now seen from

3087-443: The news department was reorganized with the main early evening newscast at 5 p.m. After canceling it, the station reinstated an early newscast at 5:30 in 1977, which moved back to 5 p.m. by 1981. While KTHI attracted a reasonable audience uncontested at 5 p.m., when fewer households watched TV, its 10 p.m. news—head-to-head with WDAY–WDAZ and KXJB—was a distant third at that time, watched by just 7 percent of viewers. Such advancements as

3150-652: The other local stations. The new newscast was added in part, per general manager John Hrubesky, to beat a misconception national advertisers had about the Midwest, that few people were watching TV at 5 p.m. because they were on the farm. It was the first time a local station had produced three full evening newscasts; in 1979, KXJB had briefly shared a 5 p.m. newscast with the KX Network stations in western North Dakota. The ratings did not immediately improve; at 10 p.m., KTHI had an audience share of 7 percent, roughly half that of KXJB and

3213-576: The pregame show featured former NFL player and Bison alum Kyle Emanuel as one of the hosts. NDSU games moved to WDAY-TV in 2021 after Forum Communications won the rights. The station's signal is multiplexed : KVLY-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 11, on February 16, 2009, the day prior to the original digital television transition date. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 44 where it remained until being repacked to channel 36 on May 28, 2019. Since February 8, 1964, channel 11 has been broadcast from

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3276-476: The programmes seen on its owner's flagship station, and have no television studio or production facilities of their own. This is common in developing countries . Low-power stations typically also fall into this category worldwide. Most stations which are not simulcast produce their own station identifications . TV stations may also advertise on or provide weather (or news) services to local radio stations , particularly co-owned sister stations . This may be

3339-471: The sale of most of its stations, including KVLY-TV, to Gray Television . Simultaneously, KXJB-TV was to be sold by Parker Broadcasting to Excalibur Broadcasting and would have continued to be operated by KVLY under an LMA. The sale was completed on June 13, but upon the closing of the sale, and in the wake of the new FCC rules restricting LMAs, Excalibur abandoned its plans to acquire the station. Instead, Gray began seeking an independent, minority-owned buyer for

3402-483: The same umbrella as KFYR-TV in Bismarck . The station changed its call sign to KVLY-TV. Under Meyer and a procession of owners in the 1990s and early 2000s, KVLY moved from third to second place in local news. In 2003, most operations of KXJB-TV were consolidated with KVLY-TV under a local marketing agreement , culminating in the 2007 establishment of full simulcast news under the name Valley News Live . When Gray Television acquired KVLY-TV in 2014, it could not inherit

3465-517: The station acquired the non-license assets of KXJB from Catamount Broadcasting. Under a local marketing agreement (LMA), KVLY began to provide most operating functions beyond programming for KXJB. The KVLY studios on 21st Avenue South were expanded to house an additional studio for KXJB. Hoak Media of Dallas acquired KVLY-TV and KFYR-TV, as well as KSFY-TV in Sioux Falls, South Dakota , and its satellites in 2006. On November 20, 2013, Hoak announced

3528-425: The station changed its call sign to KEND-TV (for "Eastern North Dakota"); that month, the new tall tower received FCC approval. This tower would make KNOX-TV redundant by encapsulating Grand Forks in the enlarged channel 11 service area. Though delayed by the discovery that Bethlehem Steel had produced defective steel for the tower and two others across the country, the structure was completed on November 8, 1963, when

3591-701: The station. Interest was rekindled in January 1957 when the Fargo Telecasting Company, controlled by Marvin Kratter of New York, applied for channel 11. That application was followed five months later by one from the North Dakota Broadcasting Company (NDBC), controlled by John Boler. Among Boler's holdings was KXJB-TV (channel 4) in Valley City . Kratter dropped out in January 1958. Turning down an intervention from Fargo TV station WDAY-TV (channel 6), which feared

3654-414: The stations began a web portal -like website called KX Net, with each station's website displaying a localized front page. The stations continue to be branded as "KX Television" and as "KX News" on the air, but also use the "KX Net" moniker on the air also. KXNet.com combined the previous domains kxma.com, kxmb.com, kxmc.com and kxmd.com under one umbrella. The original domains are still active. KXNet.com won

3717-590: The vast Minot/Bismarck/Dickinson/Williston television market , KXMB extends its over-the-air coverage area through a network of three full-power stations encompassing much of the western and central two-thirds of North Dakota and parts of eastern Montana and northwestern South Dakota, branded as KX Television . These stations mostly rebroadcast KXMB, although they rebroadcast KXMC before the 2000s. However, their full-power licenses allow them to broadcast separate station identifications and local commercial inserts, as well as different programming if desired. KXMC maintains

3780-455: The world. Television stations broadcasting over an analog system were typically limited to one television channel , but digital television enables broadcasting via subchannels as well. Television stations usually require a broadcast license from a government agency which sets the requirements and limitations on the station. In the United States, for example, a television license defines

3843-473: Was absorbed into the enlarged KTHI operation. Traylor's broadcasting interests were undergoing ownership changes even as channel 11 was acquired, as Milwaukee -based Polaris Industries acquired half of Traylor-owned Producers, Inc. in 1962 and the remainder in 1963. In 1966, Polaris merged with the Natco Corporation. It put KTHI-TV and KCND-TV on the market; despite an offer for the former by Don Burden of

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3906-614: Was on the air from 22 March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow , the inventor of the Nipkow disk . Most often the term "television station" refers to a station which broadcasts structured content to an audience or it refers to the organization that operates the station. A terrestrial television transmission can occur via analog television signals or, more recently, via digital television signals. Television stations are differentiated from cable television or other video providers as their content

3969-448: Was the tallest structure in the world—and changed its call sign to KTHI-TV. The expanded-coverage station subsumed the co-owned KNOX-TV in Grand Forks, but it was a distant third-place in local news ratings under Morgan Murphy Stations , which owned KTHI-TV from 1969 to 1995. In 1983, KTHI-TV became an NBC affiliate after ABC moved to the market-leading WDAY-TV and WDAZ-TV . In 1995, Meyer Television acquired KTHI-TV, bringing it under

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