KNOE-TV

KNOE-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 8, is a dual CBS/ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Monroe, Louisiana, United States. Owned by Gray Television, it is sister to low-powered CW+ affiliate KCWL-LD, formerly K40MB-D (channel 40, also licensed to Monroe), which KNOE-TV simulcasts on its third digital subchannel. KNOE-TV's studios are located on Oliver Road north of Louisville Avenue in Monroe, and its transmitter is located north of Columbia, Louisiana.

KNOE-TV

Monroe, Louisiana–El Dorado, Arkansas
United States
CityMonroe, Louisiana
ChannelsDigital: 8 (VHF)
Virtual: 8 (PSIP)
BrandingKNOE 8 (general)
KNOE 8 News (newscasts)
ABC KAQY (on DT2)
Monroe/El Dorado CW (on DT3/KCWL-LD)
SloganYour Breaking News and Weather Authority (newscasts)
Always On (general)
ABC for the Arklamiss (on DT2)
Dare to Defy (on DT3/KCWL-LD)
Programming
Affiliations8.1: CBS
8.2: ABC
8.3: CW+ (primary) /
MyNetworkTV (secondary)[1]
Ownership
OwnerGray Television
(Gray Television Licensee, LLC)
Sister stationsKALB-TV
History
First air dateSeptember 27, 1953 (1953-09-27)
Former channel number(s)Analog:
8 (VHF, 1953–2009)
Digital:
7 (VHF, until 2009)
Former affiliationsAll secondary:
DuMont (1953–1955)
NBC (1953–1974)
ABC (1953–1972)
NTA (1956–1961)
Call sign meaningFounder James A. Noe
Technical information
Licensing authorityFCC
Facility ID48975
ERP22.3 kW
HAAT576 m (1,890 ft)
Transmitter coordinates32°11′51″N 92°4′14″W
Translator(s)K20OC-D 20 (UHF) El Dorado, Arkansas
Links
Public license informationProfile
LMS
Websitewww.knoe.com

The station also operates a low-powered translator, K20OC-D in El Dorado, Arkansas, which rebroadcasts KNOE-TV's digital signal in high definition. Even though the translator broadcasts on UHF channel 20, it remaps to virtual channel 8 via PSIP.

History

KNOE-TV went on the air on September 27, 1953.[2] Initially, the station had a 774-foot (236 m) tower, weighing 4 tons and costing $65,000. At the time, it was the most powerful tower in the American South.[3] KNOE-TV 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. Mr. 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.[4] KNOE-TV continued to air ABC programming until 1972 when KTVE became a primary ABC affiliate and NBC programming until 1974 when KLAA signed-on.[5] During its early years through the 1990s, KNOE, along with Lafayette station KLFY, served the Alexandria and Central Louisiana market as the CBS affiliate on record, as cable outlets in the area largely carried both stations prior to current sister station KALB launching a CBS subchannel in 2007.

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.[6][7][8][9] The sale closed on October 3 of that year. The family had already sold KNOE AM to Holladay Broadcasting in November 2006,[10] and would sell KNOE-FM to them the following year.[11][12] The sale of the stations followed Jimmie Noe's death from cancer in 2005,[13] in which it was decided by the family to leave the broadcasting business.[14] On August 25, 2010, KNOE-TV started broadcasting syndicated programming in high definition.

On November 20, 2013, Gray Television announced it would purchase Hoak Media in a $335 million deal. This deal brought Gray back into the Monroe–El Dorado market as Gray had owned KTVE from 1967 until 1996. The deal also included the acquisition of Parker Broadcasting, owner of ABC affiliate KAQY, which KNOE-TV had operated under a local marketing agreement since 2008.[15] 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-TV would forgo any operational agreements with the new owner. In September 2014, KAQY signed off, and its programming was moved to KNOE-TV's second digital subchannel, displacing CW+ to the third.[16][17]

Gray picked up MyNetworkTV in late 2017 for the KNOE-DT3 subchannel; the block airs from 1:30 to 3:30 a.m., replacing default paid programming aired as part of the national CW Plus schedule. It is the market's third station to carry MyNetworkTV programming since KEJB ceased operations in 2010 and KMCT dropped the network in 2017 in order to carry only religious programming.

Digital television

KNOE-TV digital channels

KNOE-TV's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[18][19]
8.11080i16:9KNOE-HDMain KNOE-TV programming / CBS
8.2720pKAQY-HDABC KAQY
8.3480iKNOE-CWMonroe/El Dorado CW (primary) / MyNetworkTV (secondary)

KCWL-LD digital channel
Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[20]
40.1720p16:9KNOE-CWMain KCWL-LD programming (HD simulcast of KNOE-DT3) /
Monroe/El Dorado CW (primary) / MyNetworkTV (secondary)

Analog-to-digital conversion

KNOE-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 8, on February 17, 2009, the original target 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 channel 8.[21]

Translators

In addition to the main signal, KNOE-TV operates two translators. A simulcast of their main signal exists over K20OC-D (channel 20), formerly K18AB-D (channel 18) in El Dorado. Another translator, KCWL-LD (channel 40, formerly K40MB-D) in Monroe, is used to simulcast KNOE-DT3 into 720p high definition.[22][23]

Call letters Channel City of license Licensee Transmitter location
K20OC-D20El DoradoGray Television Licensee, LLCin downtown El Dorado
KCWL-LD40Monroeat the KNOE-TV studios

Programming

Syndicated programming currently broadcast on KNOE-TV includes Live with Kelly and Ryan, Dr. Phil, Extra, Wheel of Fortune, Madam Secretary, Judge Judy, Major Crimes, Leverage and Jeopardy!.

Due to the 5:30 p.m. newscast, its second digital subchannel airs ABC World News Tonight at 6 p.m. Syndicated programs broadcast on KNOE-DT2 includes The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Castle, The Wendy Williams Show, Pawn Stars, Murdoch Mysteries, Wipeout, 25 Words or Less, Inside Edition, The Kelly Clarkson Show and Maury.

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 weekdays, KNOE-TV airs a two-hour morning newscast called Good Morning Ark-La-Miss (the last half hour is simulcast on KNOE-DT2), as well as half-hour newscasts at noon, 5 p.m., 6 p.m., and 10 p.m. On weekends, the station airs two half-hour newscasts at 6 p.m. on Saturdays and 5:30 p.m. on Sundays and 10 p.m. both days. Newscasts are typically branded as KNOE 8 News and have been since 2008.

On November 1, 2010, KNOE-TV debuted a new news set, fit for high definition broadcast. On January 17, 2011, KNOE-TV 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.

Beginning in September 2016, the station began broadcasting two unique newscasts using staff from KNOE-TV. Airing weeknights at 5:30 and 10 p.m. (the latter against KNOE-TV), KAQY News Now features short segments/news capsules in a rapid fire progression.

National prominence

"Good Night and Good Duck", the second episode of Season 7 of the A&E series Duck Dynasty, was shot mostly at the KNOE-TV studios, and aired nationally November 26, 2014. The episode had all mention of KNOE-TV's CBS and ABC affiliations obscured on-set for copyright reasons, through virtual or physical means.

Notable former on-air staff
gollark: You should purchase a "buzzer", not "speaker".
gollark: Some of this has been incorporated into the highly advanced "robotics project", which is a raspberry pi connected to some L293D motor drivers, 9V batteries, accursed jumper cables, and also motors.
gollark: Also electronics.
gollark: We have a nonzero quantity of electrons at school.
gollark: Passive means it just has resistance/capacitance/inductance, I think.

References
  1. TitanTV Query for KNOE
  2. "KNOE Goes on Air: First North Louisiana Television Permit", Minden Herald, Minden, Louisiana, May 1, 1953, p. 1
  3. "KNOE-TV Station to Open on August 2", Minden Press, June 26, 1953, p. 1
  4. "Require Prime Evening Time for NTA Films". Boxoffice: 13. November 10, 1956. Archived from the original on June 14, 2009.
  5. Broadcasting Yearbooks, 1972 and 1973
  6. KNOE to be Sold to Hoak Media Corporation Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine (June - 13 - 2007)
  7. NOE CORP ANNOUNCES SALE OF KNOE-TV Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine June 12, 2007
  8. Noe family selling KNOETV to Hoak Media Jun 13 2007 Associated Press
  9. KNOE-TV sold to Hoak Media Associated Press - June 13, 2007
  10. "KMLB Facility Record". United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division.
  11. "Deals 2007-10-20". Broadcasting & Cable. October 20, 2007.
  12. "Application Search Details (BALH-20071005ABA)". FCC Media Bureau. May 13, 2008.
  13. "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.
  14. "Louisiana: Monroe's KNOE-TV sold". ABC Money. June 14, 2007.
  15. "Gray Buying Hoak, Prime Stations For $342.5M". TVNewsCheck. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  16. "Gray Sets Buyers For Its Six SSA Stations". TVNewsCheck. 27 August 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
  17. Gray closes Hoak deal; completes refinancing., rbr.com, Retrieved 13 June 2014.
  18. RabbitEars TV Query for KNOE
  19. RabbitEars TV Query for K20OC-D
  20. RabbitEars TV Query for KCWL-LD
  21. "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-08-29. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  22. RabbitEars - Digital TV Market Listing for K20OC-D
  23. RabbitEars - Digital TV Market Listing for KCWL-LD
  24. Greg Hilburn (October 2013). "Hall of Fame auctioneer gets record price for quarter horse". Delta Business. Archived from the original on September 25, 2014. Retrieved February 3, 2015.
  25. Richard Rainey (August 19, 2008). "Jennifer Sneed resigns Jefferson Parish Council". The New Orleans Times-Picayune. Retrieved May 21, 2015.
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