KSNB-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KSNB-TV / KTVG
city =
station_
station_slogan = we're your station!
station_branding = Nebraska Fox 4 & 17
analog =
KSNB: 4 (VHF)
KTVG: 17 (UHF)
digital =
KSNB: 34 (UHF)
KTVG: 19 (UHF)
other_chs = (see article)
affiliations = Fox
ION Television (secondary)
network =
founded =
airdate = KSNB: October 1, 1965
KTVG: 1993
location = KSNB: Superior, Nebraska
KTVG: Grand Island, Nebraska
callsign_meaning = KSNB:
Superior, NeBraska
KTVG:
TeleVision Grand Island
former_callsigns = KSNB:
KHTL-TV (1965–1973)
KTVG: none
former_channel_numbers =
owner = KSNB: Colins Broadcasting Corporation
KTVG: Hill Broadcasting Company, Inc.
(both operated by Pappas Telecasting Companies under LMAs)
licensee =
sister_stations = KHGI-TV
former_affiliations = KSNB:
ABC (1965-199?, as satellite of KHGI)
UPN (?-2006)
KTVG:
UPN (secondary, ?-2006)
effective_radiated_power = KSNB:
100 kW (analog)
1000 kW (digital)
KTVG:
3890 kW (analog)
1000 kW (digital)
HAAT = KSNB:
338 m (analog)
315 m (digital)
KTVG:
186 m (both)
class =
facility_id = KSNB: 21161
KTVG: 27220
coordinates = KSNB:
coord|40|5|13.2|N|97|55|13.8|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
KTVG:
coord|40|43|44.4|N|98|34|13.9|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KTVG
homepage = [http://www.fox417.tv/ www.fox417.tv]

KSNB-TV/KTVG is the Fox affiliate for most of central Nebraska. The station also carries a secondary affiliation with ION Television. KTVG is licensed to Grand Island, Nebraska and broadcasts on channel 17. Its programming is repeated on KSNB, channel 4 in Superior. The two stations identify on-air as Nebraska Fox 4 & 17, and operate out of a studio in Lincoln.

KSNB is owned by Colins Broadcasting Company, Inc., and KTVG is owned by Hill Broadcasting Company, Inc. Both stations are operated by Pappas Telecasting Companies under Local Marketing Agreements. Through this LMA, they are sister stations to KPTM, the Omaha Fox affiliate, the Nebraska Television Network, comprised of ABC affiliates KHGI-TV in Kearney and KWNB-TV in Hayes Center. Pappas also operates CW affiliate KCWL-TV under an LMA.

Repeaters

KSNB and KTVG can also be seen over four low-power repeaters -- all of which are located on the UHF dial.

On Cable and Satellite

KSNB-TV

KSNB is on Time Warner Cable channel 4 in Lincoln and channel 7 in Superior. It is also carried on numerous smaller cable systems across southeast Nebraska.

KTVG

KTVG can be found on Charter Communications in Kearney and Grand Island. Galaxy Cablevision customers in Grand Island and Hall County also have access to the station. KTVG is also the choice station for Antilles Wireless customers in Kenesaw. All of these carry the station on channel 4. KTVG can also be found on Charter channel 3 in Hastings and Glenwood Communications channel 17 in Blue Hill. Lastly, Great Plains Cable Television customers in Hayes Center can find the station on channel 29. It is also carried on numerous smaller cable systems across central Nebraska. Its signal is also available as the Fox station on the Lincoln DirecTV and Dish Network local feeds. DirecTV carries the station on channel 17 while Dish Network carries the station on channels 17 and 7553.

History

KSNB-TV

The station signed on in 1965 as KHTL, part of the Nebraska Television Network or NTN alongside KHGI-TV (then as KHOL-TV), KWNB-TV (then as KHPL-TV) and KHQL in Albion. During the 1980s the chain was rebranded as NTV. It was also around this time that the station adopted its current call letters, KSNB-TV. During the 1980s, the station would remain an ABC affiliate but its was then that KBGT (the former KHQL/KCNA) would be spun off and become KCAN. That station now operates as Lincoln-based KLKN, owned and operated by Citadel Communications (not related to the larger Citadel Broadcasting. During the mid 1990s, KSNB would make the switch from ABC over to Fox.

KTVG

A construction permit was granted on April 10, 1986 for the station. However, the station did not take to the air until 1993. It has served as a Fox network affiliate since its sign-on. It was the market's only Fox station before KSNB made the switch from ABC to Fox in the 1990s.

Both Stations

Aside from serving the area as Fox affiliates, during the early 2000s they would pick up the secondary PAX affiliation. That network began as PAX, then became i: Independent Television on July 1, 2005 and then became ION Television on January 29, 2007. It was also during this time that the station carried programs from UPN -- that was until that network came together with The WB to form the The CW Television Network, which launched on September 18, 2006. The CW can be seen on KCWL channel 51.

External links

* [http://www.fox417.tv/ Nebraska Fox 4 & 17] - The Stations' Website
*TVQ|KSNB-TV
*TVQ|KTVG
*TVQ|K17CI
*TVQ|K18CD
*TVQ|WCWH-LP
*TVQ|KOAZ-LP
*BIA|KSNB|TV|TV
*BIA|KTVG|TV|TV
*TitanTV|KSNB
*TitanTV|KTVG
* [http://www.pappastv.com/profile.php?id=23 Pappas Profile on KTVG]
* [http://www.pappastv.com/profile.php?id=24 Pappas Profile on KSNB]
* [http://www.northpine.com/broadcast/captures/ne/ksnbktvg.html Screen captures at Northpine.com]