KHGI-TV

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KHGI-TV / KWNB-TV
KHGI: Kearney/Hastings/Grand Island, Nebraska
KWNB: Hayes Center, Nebraska
Branding NTV
Slogan Where your news comes first
Channels Analog:
KHGI: 13 (VHF)
KWNB: 6 (VHF)

Digital:
KHGI: 36 (UHF)
KWNB: 18 (UHF)
Affiliations ABC
Owner Pappas Telecasting Companies
(Pappas Telecasting of Central Nebraska, LP (A Delaware Limited Partnership))
First air date KHGI: December 24, 1953
KWNB: February 9, 1956
Call letters’ meaning KHGI:
Kearney
Hastings
Grand Island
KWNB:
Western NeBraska
Former callsigns KHGI:
KHOL-TV (1953-1973)
KWNB:
KHPL-TV (1956-1973)
Former affiliations CBS (1953-1961)
Transmitter Power KHGI:
316 kW (analog)
865 kW (digital)
KWNB:
100 kW (analog)
1000 kW (digital)
Height KHGI:
338 m (analog)
314 m (digital)
KWNB:
221 m (analog)
198 m (digital)
Facility ID KHGI: 21160
KWNB: 21162
Transmitter Coordinates KHGI:
40°39′27.8″N, 98°52′5″W
KWNB:
40°37′33″N, 101°1′47.8″W
Website www.nebraska.tv

KHGI-TV channel 13 is the ABC affiliate for most of central and western Nebraska. The station is licensed to the town of Kearney.

KHGI is owned and operated by Pappas Telecasting Companies. Its programming is also aired on KWNB-TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, which repeats the KHGI signal except for separate commercials. The two stations are known as the Nebraska Television Network, or NTV for short.

Under the Pappas ownership, they are also sister stations of Fox network affiliate KTVG in Grand Island and its satellite, KSNB in Superior. Pappas operates the Fox stations under local marketing agreements.

The station is officially part of the Lincoln/Hastings/Kearney market, but this market has no basis in television reality. The market only shares two television stations, CBS affiliate KOLN in Lincoln (which operates a satellite, KGIN, in Grand Island) and CW affiliate KCWL. Grand Island, Hastings and Kearney receive NBC from KHAS-TV in Hastings, while Lincoln receives it from WOWT-TV in Omaha (which is owned by KOLN/KGIN's owner, Gray Television). Lincoln receives ABC from KLKN and Fox from KPTM in Omaha (in addition to a KTVG repeater in Lincoln).

Recently, KHGI has made moves toward gaining cable coverage on the Lincoln side of the market. Both KHGI and KLKN are carried on the local DirecTV and Dish Network feeds.

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[edit] History

KHGI signed on December 24, 1953 as KHOL-TV, a CBS affiliate based in Holdrege. A little more than two years later, KHOL signed on a satellite in Hayes Center, KHPL-TV on February 9, 1956. After KGIN signed on from Grand Island as a satellite of Lincoln's KOLN in 1961, KHOL and KHPL became full ABC affiliates.

In 1964, another satellite joined the network, KHQL in Albion. KHTL in Superior followed in 1965.

In 1973, the call letters of all the stations were changed: KHOL became KHGI, KHPL became KWNB, KHQL became KCNA and KHTL became KSNB. KCNA was spun off from NTV in the early 1980s and became an independent station under the call letters KBGT; it was sold in the late 1980s to Citadel Communications and became a satellite of Sioux City, Iowa station KCAU-TV. Citadel later moved the station to Lincoln, Nebraska as a stand-alone station, KLKN. KSNB became a Fox network affiliate in the late 1990s as a satellite of Grand Island's KTVG.

WSWS-CA signed on in the mid-1990s as a low-powered relay of KTVG. It switched from Fox to ABC in 2006.

The on-air name changed from NTN to NTV in the early 1980s.

In May 2006, NTV became one of the first television stations in the country to generate a community based news site.Community Correspondent allows registered users to post stories, photos, and videos to the site. Many of the postings are used on air in different stories.

[edit] Current On-Air Personalities

Seth Denney, Weeknight Anchor
Profile on Nebraska.tv
Colleen Williams, Weeknight Anchor
Profile on Nebraska.tv
Kent Boughton, First Alert Chief Forecaster
Profile on Nebraska.tv
Josh Jelden, Sports Anchor/Reporter
Profile on Nebraska.tv

[edit] Former On- and Off-Air Personalities

[edit] Logos

NTV News in the 1980s.

NTV for ABC's "America's Watching" campaign in 1991.

NTV website header

[edit] Translators

KHGI/NTV repeats its programming on five translators. Two of them (in bold) are owned by Pappas, two are government-owned and another is owned by a local Jaycees chapter.

  • McCook: KBVZ-LP, channel 42
  • North Platte: WSWS-CA, channel 13
  • Broken Bow: K06EY, channel 6 (owned by the Broken Bow Jaycees)
  • Lewellen: K11KC, channel 11 (owned by municipal government)
  • Stapleton: K11KW, channel 11 (owned by municipal government)

Except for WSWS-CA, all translators directly repeat KWNB.

WSWS-CA is unique as it is a station with a "W" callsign prefix that is west of the Mississippi River. This was allowed due to the fact that "WSWS" was the former callsign of current Pappas station WLGA, and the calls were grandfathered to K13VO, which is now WSWS-CA.

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Broadcast television in the Lincoln / Hastings / Kearney market  (Nielsen DMA #104)

Lincoln:
KLKN 8 (ABC) - KOLN 10 (CBS) (MNTV on DT2) - KUON 12 (PBS / NET) - K18CD 18 (Fox / ION) - K27GX 27 (3ABN) - K29GL 29 (TBN) - KCWL 51 (The CW) - KWAZ-LP 56 (TuV)
Hastings / Kearney / Grand Island:
KLNE 3 / KHNE 29 (PBS / NET) - KSNB 4 / KTVG 17 (Fox / ION) - KHAS 5 (NBC) - KGIN 11 (CBS) (MNTV on DT2) - KHGI 13 / KWNB 6 (ABC)
McCook:
KSNK 8 (NBC) - WCWH-LP 40 (Fox / ION) - KBVZ-LP 42 (ABC) - K44FN 44 (PBS / NET)
Other outlying areas:
KMNE 7 (PBS / NET) - KCAZ-LP 57 / KHJP-LP 29 (TuV)

Significantly Viewed Out-of-Market Broadcast Stations
Reception may vary by geographical location
Omaha:
KMTV 3 (CBS) - WOWT 6 (NBC) - KETV 7 (ABC) - KXVO 15 (The CW) - KPTM 42 (FOX)
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Broadcast television in the North Platte market  (Nielsen DMA #209)

KNOP 2 / K35AL 35 (NBC) - K04ED 4 / K57CZ 57 (CBS) - KWNB 6 (ABC) - KPNE 9 / KRNE 12 (PBS / NET) - K11TW 11 (Fox) - WSWS-CA 13 (ABC)
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ABC Network Affiliates in the state of Nebraska

KDUH 4 (Scottsbluff) - KETV 7 (Omaha) - KLKN 8 (Lincoln) - KHGI 13 / KWNB 6 / WSWS-CA 13 (Kearney / Hayes Center / North Platte)
See also: CBS, CW, Fox, NBC, PBS and Other Stations in Nebraska
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Pappas Telecasting Companies
Corporate Leadership
Henry J. Pappas (Chairman & CEO) · Dennis J. Davis · LeBon G. Abercrombie · Howard H. Shrier · Peter C. Pappas · Richard L. Elmendorf · Debbie L. Sweeney · Gerald Linehan · Steven E. Alfieris · Dale Scherbring · Michael Angelos · Rosemary Danon · Desiree Hill · Gary E. Cripe · Rueben Cuadros · Apostolos Sigouras
Radio Stations
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Annual Revenue: Unknown at this time. · Employees: Unknown at this time. · Stock Symbol: None, privately held. · Website: www.pappastv.com