| KOLN: Lincoln, Nebraska KGIN: Grand Island/Hastings/Kearney, Nebraska |
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| Branding | 10/11 |
| Slogan | Anytime. Anywhere. Every Day. (primary) Only 10/11, Only CBS (secondary) |
| Channels | Digital: KOLN: 10 (VHF) KGIN: 11 (VHF) |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Translators | (see article) |
| Affiliations | CBS MyNetworkTV (DT2) |
| Owner | Gray Television, Inc. (Gray Television Licensee, Inc.) |
| First air date | KOLN: February 18, 1953 KGIN: October 1, 1961 |
| Call letters' meaning | KOLN: LinK(C)OLN KGIN: Grand Island Nebraska |
| Former callsigns | KOLN: KOLN-TV (1953-1986) KGIN: KGIN-TV (1961-1986) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: KOLN: 12 (VHF, 1953-1954) 10 (VHF, 1954-2009) KGIN: 11 (VHF, 1961-2009) Digital: KOLN: 25 (UHF) KGIN: 32 (UHF) |
| Former affiliations | ABC (1953-1957, secondary from 1954) DuMont (secondary, 1953-1955) |
| Transmitter power | KOLN: 28 kW KGIN: 25 kW |
| Height | KOLN: 453.9 m KGIN: 314.6 m |
| Facility ID | KOLN: 7890 KGIN: 7894 |
| Transmitter coordinates | KOLN: KGIN: |
| Website | www.1011now.com |
KOLN, digital channel 10, is the CBS affiliate in Lincoln, Nebraska. It operates a satellite station, KGIN, on digital channel 11 in Grand Island. KGIN repeats all KOLN programming, but airs separate commercials. The station also serves as the default CBS affiliate for North Platte; it airs its programming on two translators in that city.
Combined, the two stations serve one of the largest coverage areas in the nation, stretching across 42 counties in southern and central Nebraska—almost two-thirds of the state's land mass—and an additional four counties in Kansas. The stations, branded together on-air as 10/11 (pronounced ten-eleven), are owned by Gray Television.
The station is officially part of the Lincoln/Hastings/Kearney television market, but this market has little basis in television reality and is only fully realized on the local satellite feeds. KOLN/KGIN and Fox affiliate KFXL-TV are the only full-power stations shared by the entire market. Via broadcast and cable, Lincoln and the eastern portions of the market receive NBC from WOWT-TV in Omaha, ABC from KLKN in Lincoln (as well as KETV in Omaha) and The CW from KXVO in Omaha. The rest of the market receives ABC from KHGI-TV in Kearney and NBC from KHAS-TV in Hastings. Four counties in north central Kansas which border Nebraska (Jewell, Phillips, Republic and Smith) are also part of the Lincoln/Hastings/Kearney market and receive programming from the Hastings/Kearney side of the market as well as satellites of Wichita stations.
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KOLN-DT broadcasts on digital channel 10; KGIN-DT broadcasts on digital channel 11.
KOLN/KGIN also operates as the area's MyNetworkTV affiliate on both stations' second digital subchannels.
This station's digital signal is multiplexed:
| KOLN-DT | KGIN-DT | Name | Video | Aspect | Programming |
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| 10.1 | 11.1 | KOLN-DT/ KGIN-DT |
1080i | 16:9 | Main KOLN/KGIN programming / CBS HD |
| 10.2 | 11.2 | MyTV | 480i | 4:3 | MyNetworkTV and syndicated programming |
UPN was broadcast on a DT2 subchannel of KOLN and KGIN under the banner UPN Nebraska; the service switched to MyNetworkTV in September 2006 and is locally branded as "MyTV". It not only airs syndicated programs and the entire network schedule, it offers rebroadcasts of KOLN/KGIN newscasts and The Oprah Winfrey Show in primetime.
KOLN/KGIN also produces a nightly newscast called Nebraska Central News at 9, targeting Grand Island and Central Nebraska, which airs at 9 p.m. on MyTV. It is produced in high definition, but aired in letterboxed standard definition. MyTV also airs weather programming during the overnight hours.
KOLN/KGIN broadcasts have been digital-only since midnight February 16, 2009; both stations returned to their analog channels for their digital broadcasts.[1][2]
KOLN signed on for the first time on February 18, 1953 as Nebraska's third television station and the first outside Omaha. It was owned by broadcasting pioneer John Fetzer along with KOLN-AM 1400 (now KLIN). Originally broadcasting on channel 12, it moved to channel 10 in 1954 after donating the channel 12 facilities to the University of Nebraska for its educational station, KUON-TV.
The station was originally the DuMont Television Network affiliate for the Omaha/Lincoln market. Later in 1953, it became a primary ABC affiliate. However, after a year on the air, Fetzer persuaded the Federal Communications Commission to merge Lincoln with the Hastings/Kearney market in central Nebraska. Lincoln has long been the cultural center for central Nebraska, and Fetzer felt that Lincoln had more in common with this area than Omaha. He also wanted an affiliation with a stronger network. Although Fetzer had a very good relationship with CBS, there was little prospect of taking the affiliation from Omaha's KMTV. During the 1960s, KOLN/KGIN frequently broadcast games of the Detroit Tigers, the baseball franchise that John Fetzer owned.
Soon after the FCC made Lincoln the center of the new Lincoln/Hastings/Kearney market, KOLN became a primary CBS affiliate. Omaha wouldn't have a primary ABC affiliate again until KETV signed on in 1957. DuMont shut down in 1956, and KOLN dropped the remaining ABC shows from the schedule in 1957. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.[3] Over the next few years, KOLN signed on translator after translator across its vast and mostly rural coverage area, cementing a dominance that continues to this day.
KGIN debuted on October 1, 1961 as a satellite of KOLN; since then, the two stations have been known on-air as "10/11." Fetzer began selling off his stations in the 1980s. KOLN/KGIN was among the last to be sold, going to Gillett Communications in 1984. Gillett sold the pair to Busse Broadcasting in 1987 to make room for Gillett's acquisition of the Storer Broadcasting stations. Busse merged with current owner Gray Communications, now Gray Television, in 1998.
Until KLKN signed on in 1996, KOLN was the only commercial station in Lincoln, making it one of the largest cities in the country with only one full-power commercial station. However, KOLN had no need to air other networks' programming. Most of the Omaha stations provide at least secondary coverage of Lincoln, and all of them are available on cable.
Well into the 1980s, when nearly every other local television news broadcast began with the latest news, KOLN began its newscasts with the weather report as a service to its mostly rural audience. A. James Ebel, KOLN's general manager from 1954 to 1985, began this practice not long after he arrived, saying years later, "The first thing I learned when I arrived here in 1954 is that the weather is the No. 1 story in Nebraska." [4] Mel Mains served as KOLN's main news anchor for 34 years, from 1961 to 1995.[5]
For a time in January 2009, the KOLN/KGIN website included a section about a Fox affiliate on its second digital subchannel (currently used for MyNetworkTV, which was to have moved to the DT3 subcarrier). However, station officials later said there were no immediate plans to launch such a station, describing the page as part of an experimental project not meant for public consumption. [6] Although the station refused to rule out launching a digital Fox station in the future, this was mooted when then-CW affiliate KCWL relaunched as Fox affiliate KFXL.
KOLN/KGIN is one of the only television stations in the United States with a husband/wife anchor team, Jon Vanderford and Taryn Vanderford serve as anchors for the station's 4 p.m. newscast. On September 15, 2007, KOLN/KGIN started airing weekend morning newscasts from 7-8 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. It now competes with weekend morning newscasts on WOWT and KETV out of Omaha.
On June 15, 2009, KOLN/KGIN became the first commercial station in Nebraska to broadcast local news in a widescreen format. Then on August 10, 2009, KOLN/KGIN took it one step further to become the first station in Nebraska to launch local news in high definition. With the change came new graphics and a new website www.1011now.com [7]. On September 13, 2010, KOLN/KGIN debuted the market's first 4 p.m. newscast with 10/11 First at Four, the newscast air on Time Warner Cable channels 11 and 111 in Lincoln, and is streamed live on www.1011now.com, and now on 10/11.
Anchors
10/11 Pinpoint Weather
Sports team
Reporters
Note: Anchor Bridget Fargen and meteorologist Tony DeGrand are engaged to each other.
KOLN/KGIN serves its large coverage area with 13 translators. Repeaters in bold are owned by Gray Television; all others are owned by local municipalities or organizations. All owned-and-operated repeaters broadcast a multiplexed digital signal including high-definition programming. The remainder broadcast an analog signal.
Six of the translators directly repeat the KOLN signal, while seven directly repeat the KGIN signal.
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