KVLY-TV

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KVLY-TV
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	October 1959
Call letters meaning	Red River VaLleY
Former callsigns	KXGO-TV (1959-62) KEND-TV (1962-63) KTHI-TV (1963-95)
Former affiliations	ABC (1959-83)
Transmitter Power	316 kW (analog) 365 kW (digital)
Height	610 m (analog) 576 m (digital)
Facility ID	61961
Website	http://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 3.5 Past Personalities 4 Translators 5 Previous logos 6 Trivia 7 See also 8 External links

KVLY channel 11 (44 digital/HD) is the NBC television affiliate based in Fargo, North Dakota that serves much of eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. In addition to its main studio in Fargo, it operates a satellite studio in Grand Forks. The station shares its Fargo studio with CBS affiliate KXJB-TV, which it operates under a local marketing agreement.

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. KVLY is owned by Hoak Media Corporation of Dallas, Texas.

[edit] History

The station signed on in 1959 as KXGO-TV (for FarGO), an ABC affiliate. From 1962 to 1963 it used the call letters KEND-TV.

In 1963, channel 11 moved to its current tower near Blanchard, North Dakota, and became known as KTHI-TV (which stands for Tower-HI). In 1983 KTHI became an NBC affiliate, swapping affiliations with longtime NBC affiliate WDAY-TV. The current call sign, adopted in 1995, 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 made its logo bolder to reflect the change to HDTV.

KVLY is currently the second most watched television station in tthe Red River Valley.

Meyer Broadcasting of Bismarck, North Dakota; owner of the NBC North Dakota network in western North Dakota, bought the station in 1995. It sold its television stations to Sunrise Television in 1997. In 2002, Sunrise sold its North Dakota stations to the Wicks Group of New York City. Hoak bought all of Wicks' television stations, including KVLY, in January 2007.

[edit] News

Longtime personalities at the station include Charley Johnson, who is now General Manager in addition to being the 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)
• 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, post-affiliation change from ABC to NBC)

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