KVLY-TV

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KVLY-TV
Grand Forks, North Dakota
City of license	Fargo, North Dakota
Branding	KVLY TV 11 News 11
Slogan	The Valley's Choice for Local News
Channels	11 (VHF) analog, 44 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	NBC
Owner	Hoak Media Corporation
Founded	September 8, 1953 (Began on Channel 10 & Moved to Channel 11 in 1958)
Call letters meaning	Red River VaLleY
Former callsigns	KNOX-TV (1953), KXGO (1953-1958) & KTHI-TV (1958-2004)
Former affiliations	ABC (1953-1983) & DuMont (1953-1955)
Transmitter Power	316 kW (analog) 414 kW (digital)
Height	610 m (analog) 543 m (digital)
Facility ID	61961
Website	www.kvlytv11.com/

Contents 1 History 2 News 2.1 Newscasts 3 News team 3.1 Anchors 3.2 Meteorologists 3.3 Sports 3.4 Other 4 Past Personalities 5 Translators 6 Previous logos 7 Trivia 8 See also 9 External links

"KTHI-TV" redirects here. For radio station in Caldwell, Idaho, see KTHI.

KVLY channel 11 (44 digital/HD) is the NBC television affiliate based in Fargo, North Dakota, with a studio in Grand Forks, North Dakota also, that serves much of eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. The station is most notable for using the tallest above-ground structure in the world for broadcasting its signal. The KVLY-TV mast rises 2,063 feet (628.8 m) high, and set the standard for current height limitations in the United States. KXJB channel 4 operates the second-tallest tower in the world. KXJB and KVLY are housed in the same building. KVLY is owned by NBC North Dakota, a division of Hoak Media Corporation of Dallas, Texas.

[edit] History

The station's call sign was changed from KTHI (for "The HIgh tower") to KVLY in 1995. KNOX-TV 10 was a separately-owned ABC affiliate in Grand Forks. KVLY bought KNOX in 1953 and put it off the air so KTHI (then known as KXGO) could be the Red River Valley's only ABC station. The station had served as the longtime ABC affiliate in Fargo until May, 1983 when it went to the markets longtime NBC affiliates WDAY 6 in Fargo and WDAZ 8 in Grand Forks, thus moving NBC affiliation from WDAY 6 and WDAZ 8 to KVLY 11, and moving ABC affiliation from KVLY 11 to WDAY 6 and WDAZ 8. The current call sign represents the station's slogan, "The Valley's Choice for Local News," as it serves the communities along the Red River of the North and its tributaries.

In September 2005, KVLY became the first major network affiliate in Fargo to broadcast in high-definition. In May, 2006, KVLY 11 made their logo bolder in lieu of having the Hi-Def Newscast.

KVLY is currently the second most watched television station in the Fargo/Moorhead and Grand Forks markets in the Red River Valley.

Until November 2006, KVLY was owned and operated by North Dakota Television, LLC, which was a holding company of Wicks Television (part of The Wicks Group of Companies of New York City). Hoak bought KVLY and its LMA with KXJB-TV, as well as KFYR-TV of Bismarck and its satellite stations and KSFY of Sioux Falls, SD and its satellite stations. The sale was approved by the FCC on November 17, 2006.

[edit] News

Longtime personalities at the station include Charley Johnson, who is now General Manager in addition to being an evening news anchor, and Tom Szymanski "Too Tall Tom", KVLY's 6' 10" (208 cm) tall meteorologist who has won a regional Emmy. KVLY and the other NBC stations in North Dakota broadcast the North Dakota state high school football, hockey, and basketball tournaments annually.

[edit] Newscasts

KVLY's newscasts air at the following times (CST):

Weekdays

• The Valley Today - 5:30-7AM
• News 11 at 5 - 5-5:30PM
• News 11 at 6 - 6-6:30PM
• News 11 at 10 - 10-10:35PM

Saturday

• News 11 at 6 - 6-6:30PM
• News 11 at 10 - 10-10:30PM

Sunday

• News 11 at 10 - 10-10:35PM

[edit] News team

[edit] Anchors

• Charley Johnson (Weekday Co-Anchor of 6PM Newscasts / General Manager)
• Robin Huebner (Weekday Co-Anchor of 6PM & 10PM Newscasts / Assistant News Director)
• Daron Selvig (Weekday Anchor of 5PM & 10PM Newscasts)
• Andrea Larson (Weekday Co-Anchor of The Valley Today)
• Donn Robertson (Weekend Anchor / Reporter)

[edit] Meteorologists

• Tom Szymanski (Chief Meteorologist - evenings)
• Mick Kjar (Meteorolgist - Weekday mornings and midday for KVLY and KXJB / Weekday Co-Anchor of The Valley Today)
• Lisa Green (Meteorolgist - Weekends / Reporter)

[edit] Sports

• Scott Peters (Weekdays)
• Brian Shawn (Weekends)

[edit] Other

• Norm Bell (Photojournalist)
• Neil Carlson (Reporter)
• Nick Carlson (Videographer)
• Mike Cary (Reporter / Photographer)
• Dave Erickson (Chief Photojournalist)
• Dave Grant (Videographer)
• Julie Holgate (Assistant Manager)
• Wade Iverson (Photojournalist)
• Sarah McCurdy (News Desk Assistant)
• Frode Tilden (Photographer)
• Emily Welker (Reporter)
• Megan Skauge (Reporter)
• Cherlene Richards (Reporter)
• Lisa Budeau (Reporter)
• Tricia O'Conner (Reporter)

[edit] Past Personalities

• Steve Anderson, weather anchor (1978-1979)
• Tom Erickson, sports anchor
• Bob Kartheiser, reporter, talk show host
• Mary Ellen Miller, reporter (1978-1979)
• Larry Richards, reporter
• Bob Scott, news anchor
• Mary Kay Simon, reporter, talk show host

[edit] Translators

KVLY is also available on the following translators (low-powered rebroadcasters):

• K55BH Channel 55 Baudette, MN
• K05EL Channel 5 Devils Lake, ND
• K57BL Channel 57 Donnelly, MN
• K09JM Channel 9 Jamestown, ND
• K02GA Channel 2 Lisbon, ND
• K69BK Channel 69 Norris Camp, MN
• K52AM Channel 52 Roseau, MN
• K09MF Channel 9 Wahpeton, ND
• K63AS Channel 63 Williams, MN

Some of the translators are actually in the western part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN broadcast television market.

[edit] Previous logos

KTHI logo (1983)

KTHI logo (1979)

[edit] Trivia

The KTHI calls are now being used today for a radio station in Caldwell, Idaho.

[edit] See also

• KVLY-TV mast

[edit] External links

• KVLY website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KVLY