KNOE-TV

KNOE-TV




Monroe, Louisiana/El Dorado, Arkansas
United States
Branding KNOE 8 (general)
KNOE 8 News (newscasts)
KAQY ABC (DT2)
Monroe/El Dorado CW (DT3)
Slogan Your Breaking News and Weather Authority (newscasts)
Always On (general)
Channels Digital: 8 (VHF)
Virtual: 8 (PSIP)
Subchannels 8.1 CBS
8.2 ABC
8.3 The CW
Translators K18AB-D El Dorado AR
Affiliations CBS (primary until 1974; exclusive 1974-present)
ABC (DT2; 2014-present)
Owner Gray Television
(Gray Television Licensee, LLC)
First air date September 27, 1953
Call letters' meaning Founder James A. Noe
Former channel number(s) Analog:
8 (VHF, 1953-2009)
Digital: 7 (VHF)
Former affiliations All secondary:
DuMont (1953-1955)
NBC (1953-1955, 1966-1974)
ABC (1953-1972)
Transmitter power 17 kW
Height 518 m
Facility ID 48975
Transmitter coordinates 32°11′50.5″N 92°4′14″W / 32.197361°N 92.07056°W
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.knoe.com

KNOE-TV, channel 8, is the CBS-affiliated television station for Monroe, Louisiana. The station is owned by Gray Television.

KNOE's studios are located on Oliver Road north of Louisville Avenue in Monroe, while its transmitter is located south of Monroe in Columbia, Louisiana. The station also operates a low-powered translator, K18AB-D in El Dorado, Arkansas, which rebroadcasts KNOE's digital signal in high definition. Even though the translator is broadcast on channel 18, it remaps to channel 8 via PSIP.

History

KNOE-TV went on the air on September 27, 1953.[1] Initially, the station had a 774-foot tower, weighing 4 tons and costing $65,000. At the time, it was the most powerful tower in the American South.[2] KNOE is the oldest surviving station in the northern part of Louisiana. Its sign-on forced its only competitor, KFAZ (channel 43), off the air in the summer of 1954. James A. Noe, Sr., former governor of Louisiana, owned the television station as well as KNOE radio (AM 540, now KMLB, and FM 101.9, now KMVX).

The station affiliated with all four television networks of the "golden age": CBS, NBC, ABC and DuMont. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.[3] Even when rival station KTVE became a primary ABC affiliate, KNOE continued to air ABC programming until 1972, and it also aired NBC programming on a secondary basis until KLAA (now KARD) signed on in 1974.[4]

Noe died in 1976, and passed the station to his son, James "Jimmie" Noe, Jr. The Noes continued to own the station until 2007, when it was sold to Dallas-based Hoak Media.[5][6][7][8] The sale closed on October 3 of that year. The family had already sold KNOE AM to Holladay Broadcasting in November 2006,[9] and would sell KNOE-FM to them the following year.[10][11] The sale of the stations followed Jimmie Noe's death from cancer in 2005,[12] in which it was decided by the family to leave the broadcasting business.[13] On August 25, 2010, KNOE started broadcasting syndicated programing in high definition.

On November 20, 2013, Gray Television announced it would purchase Hoak Media in a $335 million deal. The deal also included the acquisition of Parker Broadcasting, owner of ABC affiliate KAQY, which KNOE had operated under a local marketing agreement since 2008.[14] However, due to recent scrutiny by the FCC regarding LMAs (KAQY was originally to be sold to the shell company Excalibur Broadcasting, and would have maintained its LMA with Gray), KAQY was sold to a minority-owned company, and KNOE will forgo any operational agreements with the new owner. In September 2014, KAQY signed off, and it programming was moved to KNOE's second digital subchannel, displacing The CW to the third.[15][16]

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[17]
8.1 1080i 16:9 KNOE-HD Main KNOE-TV programming / CBS
8.2 720p KAQY ABC
8.3 480i 4:3 KNOE-CW Monroe/El Dorado CW

Analog-to-digital conversion

KNOE-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 8, on February 17, 2009, the original date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition VHF channel 7 to former VHF analog channel 8.[18]

News operation

KNOE-TV has been the dominant news station in the Ark-La-Miss for more than a quarter-century. It has won numerous state, regional and national journalism awards, including the 2008 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for News Director Taylor Henry's investigative series on rogue members of the Louisiana National Guard who looted stores they were deployed to protect during Katrina.

On November 1, 2010, KNOE debuted a new news set, fit for high definition broadcast. On January 17, 2011 KNOE began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition, becoming the first station in the Ark-La-Miss region to do so; in-studio as well as in the field.

National Prominence

"Good Night And Good Duck", the second episode of Season 7 of the A&E series Duck Dynasty, was shot mostly at KNOE studios, and aired nationally November 26, 2014.

This episode, framed around KNOE's "Good Morning ArkLaMiss" morning show, featured a slightly modified "KNOE News" logo (minus the CBS logo) but retaining the slogan "Your Breaking News And Weather Authority" throughout.

Notable former on-air staff

References

  1. ↑ "KNOE Goes on Air: First North Louisiana Television Permit", Minden Herald, Minden, Louisiana, May 1, 1953, p. 1
  2. ↑ "KNOE-TV Station to Open on August 2", Minden Press, June 26, 1953, p. 1
  3. ↑ "Require Prime Evening Time for NTA Films". Boxoffice: 13. November 10, 1956.
  4. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbooks, 1972 and 1973
  5. ↑ KNOE to be Sold to Hoak Media Corporation (June - 13 - 2007)
  6. ↑ NOE CORP ANNOUNCES SALE OF KNOE-TV June 12, 2007
  7. ↑ Noe family selling KNOETV to Hoak Media Jun 13 2007 Associated Press
  8. ↑ KNOE-TV sold to Hoak Media Associated Press - June 13, 2007
  9. ↑ "KMLB Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  10. ↑ "Deals 2007-10-20". Broadcasting & Cable. October 20, 2007.
  11. ↑ "Application Search Details (BALH-20071005ABA)". FCC Media Bureau. May 13, 2008.
  12. ↑ "Monroe TV, radio stations owner James Noe, 77, dies". The Baton Rouge Advocate. July 12, 2005. Jimmie Noe, as he was known, spent nearly four decades running the stations founded by his father, former Louisiana Gov. James A. Noe.
  13. ↑ "Louisiana: Monroe's KNOE-TV sold". ABC Money. June 14, 2007.
  14. ↑ "Gray Buying Hoak, Prime Stations For $342.5M". TVNewsCheck. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  15. ↑ "Gray Sets Buyers For Its Six SSA Stations". TVNewsCheck. 27 August 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  16. ↑ Gray closes Hoak deal; completes refinancing., rbr.com, Retrieved 13 June, 2014.
  17. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KNOE
  18. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  19. ↑ Greg Hilburn (October 2013). "Hall of Fame auctioneer gets record price for quarter horse". Delta Business. Retrieved February 3, 2015.
  20. ↑ "Ken Booth Recovering from Heart Attack, Bypass, June 25, 2010". Lincoln Parish News. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
  21. ↑ "Former newsman dies in fatal wreck, May 11, 2007". Monroe News-Star. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
  22. ↑ The Moon Griffon Show, April 24, 2014
  23. ↑ "Mark Dawidziak, Macie McInnis Jepson named anchor of Channel 5's 'Good Morning Cleveland', October 25, 2011". Cleveland Plain Dealer. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
  24. ↑ "Jack E. McCall". findagrave.com. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
  25. ↑ "Vickie G. Jackson, Earnie Miles Show celebrates 28 years, June 14, 2007". thegramblinite.com. Retrieved April 24, 2014.

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