| Sioux City, Iowa | |
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| Branding | Channel 9 KCAU-TV (general) Channel 9 Eyewitness News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Channel 9, Start Here |
| Channels | Digital: 9 (VHF) |
| Subchannels | 9.1 ABC-HD 9.2 AccuWeather |
| Translators | 30 (UHF) Sioux City |
| Affiliations | American Broadcasting Company |
| Owner | Citadel Communications (Citadel Communications Company, Ltd.) |
| First air date | March 9, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | Cares About U |
| Former callsigns | KVTV (1953-1965) |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 9 (1953-2009) Digital: 30 |
| Former affiliations | Primary: CBS (1953-1965) Secondary: NBC (1953-1954) ABC (1953-1965) DuMont (1953-1955) CBS (1965-1967) |
| Transmitter power | 29.5 kW |
| Height | 616 m |
| Facility ID | 11265 |
| Website | www.kcautv.com |
KCAU-TV is a television station in Sioux City, Iowa, broadcasting digitally on VHF channel 9 as an affiliate of the American Broadcasting Company.
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KCAU signed on air as KVTV on March 9, 1953. It is western Iowa's oldest television station. KCAU was primarily affiliated with the CBS network, but it also carried programs from ABC, NBC and DuMont. It lost NBC in 1954 when KTIV signed on. KVTV was sold to Forward Broadcasting in 1965, who, effective November 1 of that year, changed the call letters to KCAU-TV and the primary network affiliation to ABC. This was very unusual for a two-station market, especially one of Sioux City's size. The station continued to share CBS programming with KTIV until October 1, 1967, when KMEG-TV signed on and took the CBS affiliation.
Citadel Communications (not to be confused with the larger Citadel Broadcasting, the former owner of numerous radio stations across the U.S.) bought the station in 1985, also purchasing Albion, Nebraska, station KBGT-TV (channel 8) a year later; that station was converted into KCAN, a satellite of KCAU. (Citadel moved KCAN's license to Lincoln, Nebraska and converted the station into KLKN, a standalone ABC affiliate, in 1996.)
From 1953 to 1985 KCAU was home to Canyon Kid's Corner, a popular children's show in the area, and it was hosted by longtime KCAU announcer Jim Henry during the entire run of the program.
In December 2006, KCAU received new graphics and Frank Gari's Eyewitness News (ABC O&O News Collection) music package, but did not drop Eyewitness News branding, like sister stations WOI-TV and WHBF-TV did. Since noon February 17, 2009, KCAU's broadcasts have been digital-only.[1]
The 'KCAU TV Tower is a guyed mast for TV transmission in Sioux City at . The tower was built in 1965 and is 609.9 meters (2000 feet) high. It is tied for the tallest structure of the state and is one of the tallest structures in America.
Until 2011, KCAU did not carry ABC World News Now Instead, the station joined its fellow Citadel stations in signing off every night at 1:05 a.m., one of the few stations in the United States to do so. World News Now's current run on KCAU is its second; the station had aired the program during the early 2000s.
KCAU began broadcasting local news in high-definition on November 23, 2010, the first station in the Sioux City market to do so. (KMEG/KPTH began broadcasting 16x9 widescreen news earlier, but not HD.)
In 2009, KCAU added The Local AccuWeather Channel as a digital subchannel. KCAU is the only station owned by Citadel Communications to carry AccuWeather programming on a digital subchannel; sister stations KLKN, WOI-DT, and WHBF-TV instead carry RTV on their DT2 subchannels, while WLNE-TV does not offer a DT2 subchannel. KCAU-DT2 originally identified as "KCAU WeatherNow" but by 2010 was instead branded as "Accuweather 9".
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