KNDO

KNDO
Yakima, Washington
United States
Branding NBC Right Now
Slogan NBC Right Now (primary)
We are where you are (secondary)
Channels Digital: 16 (UHF)
Virtual: 23 (PSIP)
Subchannels 23.1 NBC
23.3 SWX Right Now
Owner Cowles Company
(KHQ, Inc.)
First air date October 15, 1959
Call letters' meaning Sounds like "Can-Do"
Sister station(s) KNDU
Former channel number(s) 23 (UHF analog, 1959–2009)
Former affiliations ABC (1959–1970, secondary from 1965)
CBS (secondary, 1959–1965)
Transmitter power 150 kW
Height 266 m
Facility ID 12395
Transmitter coordinates 46°31′58.4″N 120°30′30.2″W / 46.532889°N 120.508389°W / 46.532889; -120.508389
Website www.kndo.com

KNDO, virtual channel 23, is the NBC-affiliated television station serving the Yakima, Washington area. It is owned by the Cowles Company of Spokane as part of The KHQ Television Group. It is sister station to KNDU in the Tri-Cities, which is considered a semi-satellite of KNDO, even though newscasts for KNDO come from the studios of KNDU.

KNDO is rebroadcast on K32IG-D (channel 32), a low-powered digital translator in Ellensburg, Washington, owned and operated by the Kittitas County TV Improvement District. [1] On satellite, KNDO is only available on DirecTV, while Dish Network carries KNDU instead.

Digital channels

Channel Video Aspect PSIP short name Programming [2]
23.1 1080i 16:9 KNDO-HD Main KNDO programming / NBC
23.3 480i 4:3 KNDO-SW SWX Right Now - Sports and Weather

KNDO and KNDU have been digital-only since February 17, 2009. [3] [4] NBC Weather+ had been carried on digital subchannel 23.3; the originating national network ceased operation on December 1, 2008. On September 1, 2010, KNDO dropped Universal Sports (channel 23.2) from their subchannel line-up.

History

KNDO debuted on the air on October 15, 1959 as an ABC (primary) affiliate. It was owned by Hugh Davis and his Columbia Empire Broadcasting Corporation. During this time it also showed occasional programs from NBC, as well as a few CBS programs turned down by KIMA-TV, including The Andy Griffith Show. In 1965 KNDO became a primary NBC affiliate but showed some ABC programming until KAPP debuted in 1970 to take the ABC affiliation; since then, the station has been an exclusive NBC affiliate.

Davis sold the two stations to Farragut Communications in 1988. Federal Enterprises acquired KNDO and KNDU in 1995. Federal was bought out by Raycom Media in 1997. Current owner Cowles Company purchased the two stations from Raycom in July 1999.

On October 15, 2009, KNDO celebrated 50 years of broadcasting to the Yakima Valley. Leading up to that date, KNDO aired stories of local businesses and organizations that have also been around for 50 years or longer.

In late 2012, master control for Cowles' Washington stations, including KNDO, was centralized at sister station KHQ.[5][6]

Programming

The entire NBC network line-up is currently cleared by KNDU, supplemented by syndicated programming, the current syndicated programming offerings include Hot Bench, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Jeopardy!, and Wheel of Fortune, among others. In the past, as in many stations not owned and operated by the network, it preempted selected NBC shows. For example, the station did not carry the program Friday Night Videos from the show's premiere in 1983 on the Friday night 12:30 a.m. slot which is also occupied by Late Night with David Letterman on Mondays to Thursdays until they moved to the 1:30 a.m. slot in the Summer of 1987 and until the show's ending in the spring of 2002 (by that time, the program had undergone two name and format changes, and was finally called Late Friday) The station had also pre-empted the entire Bob Costas' incarnation and the pre-1996 broadcasts of Greg Kinnear's incarnation of Later from the show's premiere in 1988 until they picked up the show in 1996 after the station began started 24-hour broadcasting schedule in 1995. From 1991 to 1995, the station pre-empted NBC Nightside due to the station signing off for the night as a result; Nightside was cleared on the station starting in 1995 until the show's end in 1998, when the station cleared the NBC All Night block that succeeded the program. NBC was far less tolerant of program preemptions during the entire timeframe where the station pre-empted programming from that network.

Notable former on-air staff

References

  1. ↑ http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?mktid=286
  2. ↑ http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KNDO#station
  3. ↑ FCC list of full-service US TV stations, February 16, 2009
  4. ↑ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29022694/
  5. ↑ "KHQ Launches Centralcasting With ABS". TVNewsCheck. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
  6. ↑ "Retrans Deal Drives Cowles Centralcasting". TVNewsCheck. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
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