| Hastings/Kearney/Grand Island, Nebraska | |
|---|---|
| Branding | News 5 |
| Slogan | Coverage You Can Count On |
| Channels | Digital: 5 (VHF) |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Affiliations | NBC This TV (DT2) |
| Owner | Hoak Media Corporation (Hoak Media of Nebraska License, LLC) |
| First air date | January 1, 1956 |
| Call letters' meaning | HAStings |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 5 (VHF, 1956-2009) |
| Transmitter power | 45 kW |
| Height | 217 m |
| Facility ID | 48003 |
| Website | www.khastv.com |
KHAS-TV 5 is the NBC television 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 is rebroadcast on translator K02HJ in Ord on channel 2.
Recently, KHAS-TV has promoted 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 over 700,000 people across Nebraska and Kansas.
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KHAS-DT broadcasts on digital channel 5.
This station's digital signal is multiplexed:
| Channel | Name | Video | Aspect | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.1 | KHAS-DT | 1080i | 16:9 | Main KHAS-TV programming / NBC HD |
| 5.2 | KHAS-DT2 | 480i | 4:3 | "This Nebraska"; movies, classic television series, and children's programming |
In September 2010, KHAS-TV digital subchannel 5.2 switched from a standard definition simulcast to This TV. It identifies locally as "This Nebraska".
On December 1, 2008, the station ended analog transmission and became exclusively digital.[1] Due to Nebraska's cold winter weather, the station elected to make the transition early rather than on the national February 17, 2009 analog shutoff date.[2] The digital signal on channel 5 is one of only 48 US full-power stations to broadcast digitally using a low-VHF/Band I channel.[3]
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.[4] 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.[5]
The station's studio is located north of Hastings on U.S. 281. The transmitter tower is located next to the studio. KHAS-TV was formerly rebroadcast on translator station K14IY in Holdrege; this translator went dark in 2009. NBC programming is carried in high definition, but KHAS produces all local content in standard definition.
KHAS-TV produces newscasts weekday mornings at 6 and 11:30 a.m., weeknights at 5, 6 and 10 p.m., and a weekend newscast at 10 p.m.
(Year person joined KHAS in parentheses)
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