KHAS-TV
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| Hastings/Kearney/Grand Island, Nebraska | |
| Branding | News 5 |
| Slogan | Coverage you can count on |
| Channels | Analog: 5 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | NBC NBC Weather Plus (DT2) |
| Owner | Hoak Media Corporation (Hoak Media of Nebraska License, LLC) |
| First air date | January 1, 1956 |
| Call letters’ meaning | HAStings |
| Transmitter Power | 100 kW (analog) 1000 kW (digital) |
| Height | 223 m (analog) 218 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 48003 |
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| Website | www.khastv.com |
KHAS-TV 5 is the NBC station in Hastings, Nebraska. It serves as the NBC affiliate for the western side of the Lincoln/Hastings/Kearney market. The station is owned by Hoak Media Corporation, which also owns and operates sister station KNOP-TV in North Platte. The station also has two rebroadcast translators: K02HJ in Ord on channel 2 and K14IY in Holdrege on channel 14.
Recently, KHAS-TV has begun promoting itself as a full-market NBC station, challenging the long-standing status of Omaha's WOWT-TV as the default NBC affiliate in the capital. It has begun identifying as "Hastings/Kearney/Grand Island/Lincoln" on-air and on its Website. It is also available on the Lincoln DirecTV and Dish Network feeds as the local NBC station, boosting its potential audience to 277,000 people across Nebraska and Kansas.
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[edit] History
KHAS was founded by a group of local investors headed by Fred A. Seaton, publisher of the Hastings Tribune newspaper and Secretary of the Interior during the Eisenhower Administration.[1] It took its calls from KHAS (AM), which Seaton had founded in 1940. In 1967, it was one of the first stations in the area to acquire color broadcasting equipment.
The Seaton family owned KHAS-TV until 1997, when it was sold to Dick Shively and Ulysses Carlini Sr., owners of North Platte TV stations KNOP-TV and K11TW, operating the three stations under the name Greater Nebraska Television. In 2005, Greater Nebraska Television sold the stations to Hoak Media.[2]
The station's studio is located north of Hastings on U.S. 281. The transmitter tower is located next to the studio.
[edit] Personalities/Programming
[edit] Morning Show/Midday Anchors
- Katie Ferrell (News)
- Greg Tatro (Weather)
[edit] 6 & 10 Anchors
- James Wilcox (Anchor)
- Corinne Hautala (Anchor)
- John Walsh (Weather)
- Ed Littler (Sports)
[edit] Weekend Anchors
- Robert Price (Anchor)
- David Ernst (Weather)
- Colin Murphy (Sports)
[edit] Reporters
- Ginger ten Bensel
- Robert Price
- Jeniffer Berry
- Denise Booker
[edit] Past Anchors & Reporters
- Joe Martin, anchor/ news director
- Dyanna DeCola, now at Ag Day TV
- Carla Thomas, weekend anchor
- Scott Dobroski, weekend anchor
- Rob Osman, anchor
- Ed Jarmer, anchor
- Ann Meyer, anchor
- Adam Freeman, weekend anchor
[edit] News/Station Presentation
[edit] Newscast Titles
- The Sixth Hour Report/The Eleventh Hour Report (1968-1975)
- NewsCenter 5 (1975-1985)
- Channel 5 News (1985-1994)
- News 5 (1994-present)
[edit] Station Slogans
- Coverage You Can Count On (1997-present)
[edit] References
- ^ KHAS-TV : A History. khastv.com. Retrieved on 2008-02-08.
- ^ Fowler, Gretchen (2005-08-31). Hoak Media reaches deal to purchase KHAS-TV. The Grand Island Independent. Retrieved on 2008-02-08.
[edit] External links
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KHAS-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KHAS-TV
- Hoak Media (parent of KHAS-TV)
- Nebraska Broadcasting Association profile of Fred A. Seaton
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