| Sioux Falls, South Dakota | |
|---|---|
| Branding | KELOLAND Television MyUTV (DT2) KELOLAND Weathernow (DT3) |
| Slogan | Your Home (for News) |
| Channels | Digital: 11 (VHF) Virtual: 11 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | (see table) |
| Translators | (see table) |
| Affiliations | CBS |
| Owner | Young Broadcasting, Inc. (operated by Gray Television) (Young Broadcasting of Sioux Falls, Inc.) |
| First air date | May 19, 1953 |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 11 (VHF, 1953-2009) Digital: 32 (UHF, 2004-2009) |
| Former affiliations | Primary: NBC (1954-1960) Secondary: CBS (1954-1960) ABC (1954-1962) DuMont (1954-1955) DT2: UPN (2004-2006) |
| Transmitter power | 30 kW |
| Height | 610 m |
| Facility ID | 41983 |
| Website | www.keloland.com www.utv4u.com |
KELO is the CBS-affiliated television station in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, broadcasting on VHF digital channel 11. Branded as "KELOland" since 1954, many South Dakotans pronounce its call letters as a homonym of "hello". The station's studios are located on Phillips Avenue in downtown Sioux Falls, while its transmitter is located near Rowena, South Dakota.
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Digital channels
| Channel | Video | Aspect | Programming |
|---|---|---|---|
| .1 | 1080i | 16:9 | main KELO-TV programming / CBS (HD) |
| .2 | 480i | 4:3 | KELO/KDLO/KPLO: "MyUTV" (MyNetworkTV/KELOLAND Weather Now) KCLO: KELOLAND Weather Now |
KELO began broadcasting its digital signal on March 6, 2003, becoming the first full-powered digital signal in South Dakota.
On June 12, 2009 at 9:30 p.m. CT (8:30 p.m. MT), KELO-TV discontinued regular analog programming, and the station and its satellites KPLO, KDLO and KCLO all converted to a digital-only signal. KDLO was originally scheduled to shut down its analog signal and broadcast in digital only on February 17, 2009, while KELO, KPLO and KCLO's broadcasts would become digital-only effective June 12, 2009; however, the FCC rejected Young Broadcasting's petition for early termination of analog broadcasts on KDLO-TV.
MyUTV is carried on digital subchannels of KELO, KDLO, and KPLO (digital subchannels 13.2, 3.2 and 6.2, respectively). It is currently affiliated with the MyNetworkTV programming service, and also carries the regional weather channel "KELO Weather Now" (which is seen 24 hours a day on KCLO digital subchannel 15.2), primarily during the overnight hours; it is carried on cable channel 10 in most areas. It was formerly a UPN affiliate, branded simply as "UTV", when it launched in 2004 until it affiliated with MyNetworkTV in September of 2006.
MyUTV is not seen in the Rapid City market on KCLO. The UPN affiliate there was KCPL-LP (channel 52), and the MyNetworkTV affiliate for Rapid City is KNBN (channel 21.3; formerly KKRA-LP, channel 24); as a result, MyUTV still can not be carried on KCLO by FCC market rules. The CW's programming in South Dakota is represented by stations unrelated to KELO -- KWSD (channel 36) in Sioux Falls and KWBH-LP (channel 27) in Rapid City.
KELO signed on air on May 19, 1953 as South Dakota's first television station. It was owned by Midcontinent Media, a theater and broadcasting conglomerate, along with KELO radio (AM 1320 and 92.5 FM). It was a primary NBC affiliate, but it also carried programs from ABC, CBS and DuMont.
Within a few years of its sign-on, KELO launched additional satellite stations to cover eastern South Dakota, western Minnesota and northwest Iowa: KDLO in Florence was the first of the satellite stations to go on the air on September 27, 1955, followed by KPLO, covering South Dakota's state capitol of Pierre on July 15, 1957; KCLO, which serves the Rapid City area, would not sign on until 31 years later on November 28, 1988. After KSOO-TV (now KSFY-TV) signed on in 1960, KELO switched its primary affiliation to CBS and has remained with that network ever since. On September 23, 1968, KELO became South Dakota's first television station to broadcast its programming in color.
KELO was home to Captain 11, a popular children's show in the area, from 1955 until 1996. Captain 11 was Dave Dedrick, the station's longtime weatherman. He had been a popular radio personality before KELO went on air.
Channel 11 originally broadcast from a 575-foot (175 m) tower near Shindler, South Dakota. In 1956, the station erected a 1,032-foot (315 m) tower on the same site, expanding its coverage area to most of eastern South Dakota. In 1967, KELO-TV moved to a new 2,032-foot (619 m) tower near Rowena, shared with KSFY. The Shindler tower is still used as a backup.
Since 1986, the station's logo has consisted of "Kelo" written in cursive font, over a line, with "KELOLAND TELEVISION" underneath. It is one of the few stations whose logo's last three call letters are in lower-case (KBYU-TV channel 11 in Provo, Utah also has used a similar logo). On November 25, 1986, KELO began broadcasting its programming in stereo. In 1995, Midcontinent Media sold KELO-TV to Young Broadcasting; the sale was approved by the Federal Communications Commission on May 31, 1996. The station celebrated its 50th anniversary on May 19, 2003.
KELO serves the largest viewing area of any station in the United States. It calls this vast area - which consists all of South Dakota as well as large parts of North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa - the "KELOLAND Television Network", and covers it with a network of rebroadcasters:
| Station | City of license | Channels | First air date | ERP | HAAT | Facility ID | Transmitter Coordinates |
| KDLO-TV | Florence (Watertown/Aberdeen) |
Digital: 3 (VHF) Virtual: 3 (PSIP) |
September 24, 1955 | 3.7 kW | 240.6 m | 41975 | |
| KPLO-TV | Reliance (Pierre) |
Digital: 13 (VHF) Virtual: 6 (PSIP) |
July 15, 1957 | 40 kW | 317.8 m | 41964 | |
| KCLO-TV1 | Rapid City | Digital: 16 (UHF) Virtual: 15 (PSIP) |
November 28, 1988 | 150 kW | 154 m | 41969 |
Notes:
The programming of KELO-TV is also rebroadcast on the following translator stations:
A unique feature of KELO's coverage area is that it covers two time zones -- Central and Mountain. This means that viewers of Rapid City's KCLO watch CBS's prime-time schedule from 6 to 9 p.m. (instead of 7 to 10 p.m.), with The Late Show with David Letterman at 9:35 p.m. MT. KCLO, because it is in a separate market, also gets certain shows fed to it specifically. KELO cannot air myUTV or other products aired by Rapid City stations on KCLO. All four KELO stations do get separate advertising as needed.
A late ice storm on April 6, 1997 caused the KXJB-TV mast to collapse. As a result, several cable systems in eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota were unable to receive CBS programming. Some cable systems temporarily or permanently replaced KXJB with KDLO.
Currently, KELO-TV broadcasts a total of 26½ hours of local newscasts each week (with 4½ hours on weekdays and two hours each on Saturdays and Sundays), carrying the most hours of local news out of any station in South Dakota; the station is presently the only station in South Dakota carrying newscasts on weekend mornings. KELO's newscasts have used Gari Communications' The CBS Enforcer Music Collection as its news music package since 1997. Throughout its history, KELO-TV has won ten Regional Emmy Awards; among them are a 1999 win for public service announcement for the Tradition of Caring, and two 2008 wins for "Best Mid-Size Market Newscast" for the station's weekday morning newscast KELOLAND This Morning and a feature story titled "Dominic's Wish".
On July 11, 1988, KELO began using a satellite uplink truck to allow live remotes of news stories. Four years later on January 21, 1991, KELO began closed captioning its local newscasts for the first time. On October 18, 2011 beginning with its 5 p.m. newscast, KELO-TV became the second television station in South Dakota to broadcast its local newscasts in high definition (ABC affiliate KSFY-TV began producing its newscasts in HD in August of that year), all in-studio and field segments are broadcast in the 1080i HD picture format[1]; the station introduced a new set for its newscasts, updated its editing and control room equipment, and anchors began using iPads instead of paper scripts.[2]
KELO currently features four on-camera meteorologists on its staff, of which two (including chief meteorologist Dr. Jay Trobec) have earned the Certified Broadcast Meteorologist designation from the American Meteorological Society. KELO operates a network of automatic observation sites operated with the WeatherBug software (and known as WeatherNet on air) which are updated every three seconds. On November 24, 1992, the station began using SkyCam systems primarily for use in weather situations.
KELO operates a network of four doppler radars across South Dakota, and covering parts of North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa; the KELOLAND Television Network is the only station in each of the markets it served to operate such a large radar network. On September 8, 1997, KELO installed two live doppler weather radar units in Huron and Beresford, becoming the first station in the country to operate two doppler radars simultaneously; a third radar, located in Wall, was installed in 2001. In 2007, KELO upgraded the Huron radar to use dual polarization technology and quadrupled its power to 1 million watts, it also upgraded the computer systems at the Beresford and Wall radar sytems. In addition, KELO rebranded its radar network as "KELOLAND Live Doppler HD".
Anchors
KELOLAND Live Doppler HD Storm Center
Sports team
Reporters
CSI cable in Jamestown, North Dakota removed KELO effective December 31, 2009 due to duplication of Fargo, North Dakota station KXJB-TV, and stalled retransmission consent negotiations.
The station transmits from the KELO TV Tower, a 605 meter (1905 ft) high guyed radio mast at Rowena, South Dakota, at. The tower was built in 1975 to replace a 609.6-meter-tall KELO TV Tower that collapsed in 1968 after a North Central Airlines airliner clipped a guy wire. The plane was able to land safely with no injuries, but the tower was destroyed. KELO was back on the air three days later using the old 305 metre tall tower near Shindler. In 1975 KELO TV tower collapsed again during a fierce winter storm. KELO was on the same day back on the air again, after some switching operations to the backup tower at Shindler were done.
Due to South Dakota's volatile weather, KELO-TV has had to deal with numerous tower collapses. In 1968, its new tower was destroyed when a North Central Airlines plane clipped a guy wire. In 1975, the tower was brought down again by an intense winter storm. In both cases, the station's engineers were able to restore operations from the old site near Shindler fairly quickly. Even earlier, in September 1955, the station's original tower was brought down by a freak tornado. The station's numerous tower collapses have led television insiders to call channel 11's Rowena tower "the Bermuda Triangle."
KPLO-TV's tower, shared with former sister station KPLO-FM, collapsed during an ice storm on January 22, 2010. As a result, KPLO-TV was then silent.[4] Programming remained available on cable and satellite at the time.[5] KPLO is now back on the air, as of March 19, 2010.
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