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KNOE-TV

KNOE-TV(channel 8) is atelevision stationlicensed toMonroe, Louisiana,United States, serving the Monroe, Louisiana–El Dorado, Arkansasmarket as an affiliate ofCBSandABC.It is owned byGray Mediaalongsidelow-powerGulf Coast Sports & Entertainment NetworkaffiliateKCWL-LD(channel 40, also licensed to Monroe). KNOE-TV's studios are located on Oliver Road north of Louisville Avenue in Monroe, and its transmitter is located north ofColumbiaoff Seay Road nearLA 847.

KNOE-TV
CityMonroe, Louisiana
Channels
Branding
  • KNOE 8
  • ABC KAQY (8.2)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KALB-TV
History
First air date
September 27, 1953(71 years ago)(1953-09-27)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:8 (VHF, 1953–2009)
  • Digital:7 (VHF, until 2009)
  • All secondary:
  • DuMont(1953–1955)
  • ABC (1953–1972)
  • NBC(1953–1974)
Call signmeaning
FounderJames A. Noe
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID48975
ERP22.3kW
HAAT576 m (1,890 ft)
Transmitter coordinates32°11′51″N92°4′14″W/ 32.19750°N 92.07056°W/32.19750; -92.07056
Translator(s)K20OC-D El Dorado, AR
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.knoe.com

The station also operates a low-poweredtranslator,K20OC-Din El Dorado, which rebroadcasts KNOE-TV's digital signal inhigh definition.Even though the translator broadcasts onUHFchannel 20, it remaps tovirtual channel8.

History

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KNOE-TV went on the air on September 27, 1953.[2][3]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 theAmerican South.[4]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 airin the summer of 1954.James A. Noe Sr.,formergovernor of Louisiana,owned the television station as well as KNOE radio (AM 540, nowKMLB,and FM 101.9, nowKMVX).

The station has been affiliated with all four television networks of the "golden age": CBS,NBC,ABC andDuMont.During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with theNTA Film Network.[5]In the 1960s, KNOE broadcast a mix of programs from ABC and CBS. In 1969, KNOE installed a translator station on channel 18, K18AB, atop the First National Bank Building inEl Doradoto better serve viewers in that area.[6]KNOE-TV continued to air ABC programming until 1972 whenKTVEbecame a primary ABC affiliate and NBC programming until 1974 when KLAA signed-on.[7]During its early years through the 1990s, KNOE, along withLafayettestationKLFY,served theAlexandriaand Central Louisiana market as the CBS affiliate on record, as cable outlets in the area largely carried both stations prior to current sister stationKALBlaunching 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 toDallas-basedHoak Media.[8][9][10][11]The sale closed on October 3 of that year. The family had already sold KNOE AM to Holladay Broadcasting in November 2006,[12]and would sell KNOE-FM to them the following year.[13][14]The sale of the stations followed Jimmie Noe's death from cancer in 2005,[15]in which it was decided by the family to leave the broadcasting business.[16]On August 25, 2010, KNOE-TV started broadcasting syndicated programming in high definition.

On November 20, 2013,Gray Televisionannounced 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 affiliateKAQY,which KNOE-TV had operated under alocal marketing agreementsince 2008.[17]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, displacingCW+to the third.[18][19]

Gray picked upMyNetworkTVin late 2017 for the KNOE-DT3 subchannel; the block airs from 1:30 to 3:30 a.m., replacing defaultpaid programmingaired as part of the national CW Plus schedule. It is the market's third station to carry MyNetworkTV programming sinceKEJBceased operations in 2010 andKMCTdropped the network in 2016 in order to carry only religious programming.

On December 30, 2023, KNOE-TV parent company Gray Television announced it had reached an agreement with theNew Orleans Pelicansto air 10 games on the station during the2023–24 season.[20]

On September 17, 2024, Gray and the Pelicans announced a broader deal to form the Gulf Coast Sports & Entertainment Network, which will broadcast nearly all 2024–25 Pelicans games on Gray's stations in theGulf South,including KNOE-TV.[21]

News operation

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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 2008Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awardfor 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 calledGood 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 asKNOE 8 Newsand 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 local newscasts and field reports in high definition, becoming the first station in the Ark-La-Miss region to do so.

Beginning in September 2016, KAQY 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 Nowfeatures short segments/news capsules in a rapid fire progression.

National prominence

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"Good Night and Good Duck", the second episode of Season 7 of theA&EseriesDuck 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.

Technical information

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Subchannels

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KNOE-TV's signal ismultiplexed:

Subchannels of KNOE-TV[22][23]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
8.1 1080i 16:9 KNOE-HD CBS
8.2 720p KAQY-HD ABC
8.3 480i GCSEN Gulf Coast SEN
8.4 THE 365 365BLK
8.5 Justice True Crime Network
8.6 Quest Quest
Subchannel of KCWL-LD[24]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
24.1 720p 16:9
  • Main KCWL-LD programming (HD simulcast of KNOE-DT3) / Gulf Coast SEN

Analog-to-digital conversion

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KNOE-TV shut down its analog signal, overVHFchannel 8, on February 17, 2009, the original target date on which full-power television stations in the United States were totransition from analog to digital broadcastsunder 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.[25]

Translators

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In addition to the main signal, KNOE-TV operates two translators. A simulcast of their main signal exists overK20OC-D(channel 20), formerlyK18AB-D(channel 18) in El Dorado. Another translator,KCWL-LD(channel 40, formerlyK40MB-D) in Monroe, is used to simulcast KNOE-DT3 into 720p high definition.[26][27]

City of license Callsign Channel ERP HAAT Facility ID Transmitter coordinates
El Dorado K20OC-D 20 9.2 kW 52 m (171 ft) 48977 33°12′42″N92°39′50.3″W/ 33.21167°N 92.663972°W/33.21167; -92.663972(K20OC-D)
Monroe KCWL-LD 24 15 kW 171 m (561 ft) 184070 32°31′40″N92°06′08.7″W/ 32.52778°N 92.102417°W/32.52778; -92.102417(KCWL-LD)

References

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  1. ^"Facility Technical Data for KNOE-TV".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^"History Cards for KNOE-TV".Federal Communications Commission.(Guide to reading History Cards)
  3. ^"KNOE Goes on Air: First North Louisiana Television Permit",Minden Herald,Minden, Louisiana,May 1, 1953, p. 1
  4. ^"KNOE-TV Station to Open on August 2",Minden Press,June 26, 1953, p. 1
  5. ^"Require Prime Evening Time for NTA Films".Boxoffice:13. November 10, 1956. Archived fromthe originalon June 14, 2009.
  6. ^"KNOE-TV Installs Translator Station Atop Local Building, The El Dorado Times, October 9, 1969, Page 16
  7. ^Broadcasting Yearbooks, 1972 and 1973
  8. ^KNOE to be Sold to Hoak Media CorporationArchivedSeptember 29, 2007, at theWayback Machine(June - 13 - 2007)
  9. ^NOE CORP ANNOUNCES SALE OF KNOE-TVArchivedSeptember 29, 2007, at theWayback MachineJune 12, 2007
  10. ^Noe family selling KNOETV to Hoak MediaJune 13, 2007, Associated Press
  11. ^KNOE-TV sold to Hoak Media[permanent dead link‍]Associated Press - June 13, 2007
  12. ^"KMLB Facility Record".United StatesFederal Communications Commission,audio division.
  13. ^"Deals 2007-10-20".Broadcasting & Cable.October 20, 2007.
  14. ^"Application Search Details (BALH-20071005ABA)".FCC Media Bureau. May 13, 2008.
  15. ^"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.
  16. ^"Louisiana: Monroe's KNOE-TV sold".ABC Money.June 14, 2007.
  17. ^"Gray Buying Hoak, Prime Stations For $342.5M".TVNewsCheck.RetrievedNovember 20,2013.
  18. ^"Gray Sets Buyers For Its Six SSA Stations".TVNewsCheck.August 27, 2014.RetrievedAugust 27,2014.
  19. ^Gray closes Hoak deal; completes refinancing.,rbr.com, Retrieved June 13, 2014.
  20. ^"WAFB will televise 10 of this season's Pelicans games"(Press release).WAFB.December 30, 2023.RetrievedDecember 30,2023.
  21. ^Clark, Christian (September 17, 2024)."The Pelicans officially have a new TV broadcast home. Here's how you can watch it".NOLA.com.RetrievedSeptember 17,2024.
  22. ^RabbitEars TV Query for KNOE
  23. ^RabbitEars TV Query for K20OC-D
  24. ^RabbitEars TV Query for KCWL-LD
  25. ^"DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on August 29, 2013.RetrievedMarch 24,2012.
  26. ^RabbitEars - Digital TV Market Listing for K20OC-D
  27. ^RabbitEars - Digital TV Market Listing for KCWL-LD
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