KNBN

KNBN
Rapid City, South Dakota
United States
City Rapid City, South Dakota
Branding NewsCenter1
Slogan Your 1 News Source
Channels Digital: 21 (UHF)
Virtual: 21 (PSIP)
Subchannels 21.1 NBC
21.2 MNTV[1][2][3]
Translators KKRA-LP 24 Rapid City
KWBH-LP 27 (simulcasts MNTV on 21.2)
K35MW-D Lead
Affiliations NBC
Owner Jim Simpson
(Rapid Broadcasting Company)
Founded May 2, 2000
First air date May 14, 2000 (2000-05-14)
Sister station(s) KWBH-LP, KWSD
Former channel number(s) Analog:
21 (UHF, 2000–2009)
Transmitter power 500 kW
Height 211 m (692 ft)
Facility ID 81464
Transmitter coordinates 44°5′32″N 103°14′53″W / 44.09222°N 103.24806°W / 44.09222; -103.24806
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.newscenter1.tv

KNBN, virtual and UHF digital channel 21, is the NBC-affiliated television station in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States. It is owned by Jim Simpson's Rapid Broadcasting, and is also the sister station to KWBH-LP. KNBN's transmitter is located in Rapid City.

KNBN can also be seen on translators KKRA-LP on UHF channel 24 in Rapid City and K35MW-D on UHF channel 35 in Lead (also serving the Black Hills region).

History

The station signed on the air on May 14, 2000. Despite transmitting its signal on UHF channel 21, KNBN identifies as NewsCenter1 on-air, an artifact of when the main cable systems in the market carried the station on Channel 1, which today is usually used solely to provide a slot for video on demand services, barker channels or electronic program guide services. Currently, KNBN is carried on local cable systems on channel 10, though it retains the NewsCenter1 branding. KEVN was the first primary NBC station in the area, which switched to Fox in 1996 (it has since become an ABC station). After the switch (and before KNBN signed on), NBC was provided via cable from KUSA in Denver.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming12
21.11080i16:9KNBNNBCMain KNBN programming / NBC
21.2720pKNBN MYSimulcast of KWBH-LP / MyNetworkTV

Analog-to-digital conversion

KNBN shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 21, on February 1, 2009, and "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation on channel 21.[4][5] The "flash-cut" was necessary as the station had its original construction permit granted after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 27, 1997; as a result, the station did not have a companion channel for a digital signal.

News operation

KNBN presently broadcasts 13.5 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 2.5 hours on weekdays and a half-hour each on Saturdays and Sundays).

See also

References

  1. ↑ My Network TV KWBH-LP 27 Rapid City,SD July 24,2017 - YouTube
  2. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KNBN
  3. ↑ TitanTV Query for KNBN
  4. ↑ "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.
  5. ↑ FCC 387 DTV transition status report 2008/05/08
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