KVRR

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KVRR
Fargo, North Dakota
Branding	Fox Your Fox station
Slogan	First on Fox
Channels	15 (UHF) analog, 19 (UHF) digital
Translators	KJRR 7 Jamestown, ND KBRR 10 Thief River Falls, MN KNRR 12 Pembina, ND
Affiliations	Fox
Owner	Red River Broadcasting
Founded	1983
Call letters meaning	Red River Valley (coverage area) Red River Broadcasting (owner)
Former callsigns	KVNJ (now KVRR) KCND (now KNRR)
Transmitter Power	4,170 kW (analog) 1,000 kW (digital)
Height	379 m (analog & digital)
Facility ID	55372

KVRR is a Fox affiliate based in Fargo, North Dakota broadcasting on channel 15 (digital channel 19). The station also simulcasts from the Fargo Studio on the following stations:

Call sign	Analog Channel	Digital Channel	Location	Also serves
KVRR	15	19	Fargo, ND
KJRR	7	181	Jamestown, ND
KBRR	10	321	Thief River Falls, MN	Grand Forks, ND
KNRR	12	15	Pembina, ND	southern Manitoba

^{1: KJRR and KBRR's digital channels are not on the air, but have been assigned by the FCC}

Contents 1 News 2 Translators 3 On Air Personalities 3.1 Anchors 3.2 Storm Team 3.3 Sports 3.4 Reporters 4 Photographers 5 History 5.1 KNRR and the old KCND 6 References 7 External links

[edit] News

As with most programming, KVRR produces and simulcasts the newscasts on KNRR, KBRR, and KJRR. Regional Commercials are inserted in the microwave feed the other stations at the Fargo Studio. The newscasts have won local broadcaster awards, and have been competitive in viewership ratings. These stations produce three newscasts during all 7 days of the week:

Weekdays

• Fox News at 5 - 5-5:30PM
• Fox News at 6 - 6-6:30PM
• Fox News at 9 - 9-9:35PM
• Fox News at 9 rebroadcast (marketed as Fox News at 11) - 11:05-11:40PM

Weekends

• Fox News at 9 - 9-9:35PM

[edit] Translators

Translators (low powered rebroadcasters) are:

• K34AF in Alexandria, Minnesota (Channel 34)
• K54AT in Brainerd, Minnesota (Channel 54)
• K33HB in Devils Lake, North Dakota (Channel 33)
• K61BJ in Donnelly, Minnesota (Channel 61)
• K05IV in Park Rapids, Minnesota (Channel 5)
• K61CM in Red Lake, Minnesota (Channel 61)
• K46BV in Roseau, Minnesota (Channel 46)

K54AT, K33HB and K05IV are owned by Red River; all others are owned by local governments or TV associations. Note that many of these repeaters are actually in the northwestern part of the Minneapolis/St. Paul market.

KVRR originally had translators in Bemidji, MN, Grand Rapids, MN, and in Walker, MN, but they now carry programming from sister station KQDS, a Duluth Fox affiliate owned by Red River Broadcasting whose signal originates from Fargo.

[edit] On Air Personalities

[edit] Anchors

• Austen Schauer-"Fox News at 6 & 9"
• Nicole Phillips-"Fox News at 6 & 9"
• Jeanine Noce-"Fox News at 5"
• Travis Skonseng-"Fox News at 9 (Weekend)"
• Jim Shaw-"News Director - Political Guy"

[edit] Storm Team

• Kip Hines-"Fox News at 5" & "Fox News at 6 & 9"
• Aaron Swanson-"Fox News at 9 (Weekend)"

[edit] Sports

• Scott Heinle-Sports Director "Fox News at 6 & 9"
• Scott Swanson-"Fox News at 9 (Weekend)"
• Zach Borg-Reporter/Photographer

[edit] Reporters

• Jim Shaw-News Director
• Lauren Heflin
• Holly Samuels
• Candace Thornberg
• Travis Skonseng

[edit] Photographers

• Cody Harmon
• Adam Stevens
• Zach Borg

[edit] History

KVRR signed on in 1983 as an independent station (with the call letters KVNJ-TV). Its satellite stations signed on a few years later. When the Fox network first signed on in 1986, KVRR, KBRR, and KNRR all became three of the original Fox affiliates. The stations also carried UPN programming at a recorded delay when UPN signed on in 1995 until 1998, since Minneapolis UPN station KMSP was available on cable television in most of the KVRR viewing area. (When KMSP switched to Fox in 2002, KCPM in Grand Forks signed on as a full-time UPN station in 2003.)

KVRR also became the first commercial station (Prairie Public was the first station) in eastern North Dakota to being broadcasting in digital. Currently, Both KVRR and KNRR broadcast in digital although only KVRR is in high-definition, but the FCC shows that KBRR and KJRR have construction permits for digital transmitters.

[edit] KNRR and the old KCND

Main article: KCND-TV

KNRR operates on a channel formerly occupied by KCND-TV, a station formerly owned by Gordon McLendon. In September 1975, Izzy Asper acquired the station and relocated it to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where it relaunched as CKND channel 9, a Global O&O today.

Ten years later, in 1986, channel 12 returned to the air, as KVRR satellite, KNRR.

While KNRR's coverage area includes Winnipeg, it is not carried on Shaw or MTS TV, who opted for Rochester's WUHF instead due to CRTC concerns that Winnipeg advertisers would purchase time from KNRR rather than Winnipeg television stations.

According to news reports at the time, KNRR was not easily available in Winnipeg (River Heights and Winnipeg's North End), due to the grade B contour of the signal (more than 100 kilometres and interference from hydro and telephone relay stations).^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ Prokosh, Kevin. "KNRR reception depends on where viewers live", Winnipeg Free Press, January 10, 1986.

1. ^ Prokosh, Kevin. "KNRR reception depends on where viewers live", Winnipeg Free Press, January 10, 1986.

[edit] External links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for KVRR
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KJRR
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KBRR
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KNRR
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K34AF
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K33HB
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K54AT
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K61BJ
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K05IV
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K61CM
• Query the FCC's TV station database for K46BV
• northpine.com Screengrabs of the KVRR family