Sioux Falls, South Dakota | |
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Branding | KSFY News |
Channels | Digital: 13 (VHF) Virtual: 13 (PSIP) |
Subchannels | 13.1 ABC |
Affiliations | ABC |
Owner | Hoak Media Corporation (Hoak Media of Dakota License, LLC) |
First air date | July 31, 1960 |
Call letters' meaning | Sioux Falls |
Former callsigns | KSOO-TV (1960-1975) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 13 (VHF, 1960-2009) Digital: 29 (UHF) |
Former affiliations | NBC (1960-1982) |
Transmitter power | 22.7 kW |
Height | 610 m |
Facility ID | 48658 |
Website | www.ksfy.com |
KSFY-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It is currently owned by Hoak Media Corporation of Dallas, Texas. The station broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 13, and its transmitter is located near Rowena, South Dakota.
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Digital channels
Channel | Video | Aspect | Programming |
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13.1 | 720p | 16:9 | main KSFY programming / ABC (HD) |
On February 17, 2009, KSFY and its satellite stations ceased their analog signals, flash-cutting their signals to digital.
he station debuted on July 31, 1960 as KSOO-TV, the third station in Sioux Falls. It was owned by the South Dakota Broadcasting Company along with KSOO radio, and took the NBC affiliation from KORN-TV in Mitchell (channel 5, now KDLT-TV on channel 42).
In 1970, it bought KXAB-TV in Aberdeen to boost its coverage in northeastern South Dakota. As part of the sale, KXAB's calls changed to KCOO-TV. The two stations were bought by Forum Publishing Company of Fargo, North Dakota in 1975, and switched their call letters to the current KSFY and KABY. KPRY-TV in Pierre was added a year later. In 1982, KSFY swapped affiliations with channel 5, then known as KXON-TV and became an ABC affiliate. ABC was the top-rated network at the time, and wanted to be on a stronger station. Additionally, KSFY had three full-power transmitters to KXON's one.
Forum sold the KSFY stations to Aflac in 1985. Aflac sold its broadcasting division to Retirement Systems of Alabama in 1996, who merged it with Ellis Communications to form Raycom Media. In 2004, Raycom sold the KSFY stations to The Wicks Group of Companies.
Hoak bought KSFY and its satellite stations in July 2006, as well as KVLY-TV and KXJB-TV (LMA with Catamount Broadcasting) of Fargo and KFYR-TV of Bismarck, North Dakota and its satellite stations. The sale was approved by the FCC on November 17, 2006.
KSFY is rebroadcast on the following television stations for these satellites.
Station | City of license | Channels | First air date | ERP | HAAT | Facility ID | Transmitter Coordinates |
KABY-TV1 | Aberdeen (Aberdeen/Watertown) |
Digital: 9 (UHF) Virtual: 9 (PSIP) |
November 19582 | 19.4 kW | 427 m | 48659 | |
KPRY-TV | Pierre | Digital: 19 (UHF) Virtual: 4 (PSIP) |
January 30, 1976 | 311 kW | 347 m | 48660 |
Notes:
Programming from KSFY is also rebroadcast on translator K07QL in Mitchell.
KSFY-TV clears the entire ABC network schedule, including the network's Saturday morning block Litton's Weekend Adventure. Syndicated programming currently broadcast on KSFY-TV includes: The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Jeopardy!, Live! with Kelly, Inside Edition, Extra, Wheel of Fortune and Criminal Minds. KSFY is one of the few television stations in the United States that continues to sign off the air during the overnight hours, going off the air on Saturday nights between 2:05 and 5 a.m.
Currently, KSFY broadcasts a total of 19½ hours of local newscasts each week, with 3½ hours on weekdays and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays. KSFY has been nominated for numerous Midwest Emmy Awards.
On August 1, 2011, KSFY became the first television station in the Sioux Falls market and in the state of South Dakota to begin producing its local newscasts in high definition; the station also unveiled a new HD-ready set, and dropped Action News from its newscast and station branding, and renaming its newscasts as KSFY News (which the station used from 2004 to 2008).
Anchors
KSFY Weather
Sports team
Reporters
Some cable systems like CSI Cable in Jamestown discontinued carrying the service after January 1 2009, due to duplication of networks already carried while others do to the demands for retransmition rights. And in some cases both reasons.
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