KCPO-LP

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KCPO-LP KCPL-LP
KCPO: Sioux Falls, South Dakota KCPL: Rapid City, South Dakota
Branding	KCPO 26
Channels	KCPO 26 (UHF) KCPL 52 (UHF) analog
Affiliations	Independent
Owner	Central Plains Media (G.I.G, Inc.)
Founded	KCPO: 1999 KCPL: 2004
Call letters meaning	K Central Plains Media O K Central PLains Media
Former affiliations	KCPO: UPN (1999-2004), Bloomberg (1999-2002) KCPL: UPN (2004-2006)
Website	www.kcpo.tv

KCPO-LP, Channel 26 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and KCPL-LP, Channel 52 in Rapid City, South Dakota are a pair of simulcasting independent television stations that are operated by Central Plains Media that were formerly UPN affiliates. KCPO is available on cable channel 21 or 3 in the eastern half of South Dakota and many cable systems reaching viewers in Southwestern Minnesota, while KCPL is seen on cable channel 13 or 12 in the western half of the state.

A third station, MyNetworkTV affiliate KCPM, channel 27 in Grand Forks, North Dakota and simulcats KCPO, though KCPM airs different programming at times and local commercial inserts. KCPM appears on cable channel 9 on most cable systems in which it is carried.

[edit] History

KCPO signed on the air for the first time in 1999 as a UPN and Bloomberg affiliate for Sioux Falls, South Dakota. KCPO launched a semi-satellite of KCPO, with the call sign KCPL-LP in Rapid City in 2004.

KCPO also airs two locally-produced programs, a country music video program called The Country Video Show and a racing program called Talkin' Dirt. Both of these programs can also be seen on KCPL and KCPM.

In 2004, a digital-subchannel of KELO-TV, called "UTV", started broadcasting UPN to viewers in South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota, and KCPO became an independent station. KCPL still aired UPN programming during primetime hours, and rebroadcasted KCPO with local inserts at all other times, until UPN's closure in September 2006 to form The CW, in which KCPL became a full-time simulcaster of KCPO.

Central Plains Media stations are owned and operated by "G.I.G, Inc", which stand for Guaranteed Impressions Group.

[edit] External links

• KCPO's website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KCPO-LP
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KCPL-LP