KIIT-CD (channel 11) is a low-power,

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, United States, affiliated with the

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network. It is owned by

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alongside

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affiliate

KNOP-TV KNOP-TV (channel 2) is a television station in North Platte, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Gray Television alongside two low-power broadcasting#Television, low-power stations: CBS affiliate KNPL-LD (channel 10) and ...

(channel 2) and low-power

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affiliate

KNPL-LD KNPL-LD (channel 10) is a low-power television station in North Platte, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Gray Television alongside NBC affiliate KNOP-TV (channel 2) and Class A Fox affiliate KIIT-CD (channel 11). T ...

(channel 10). The three stations share studios on South Dewey Street in downtown North Platte; KIIT-CD's transmitter is located on

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in the northern part of the city;

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and some internal operations are based at the studios of co-owned

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. Although KIIT broadcasts a digital signal, it is limited to the immediate North Platte area. It is therefore simulcast in high definition on KNOP's second

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. Fox programming also airs in the area on Lincoln's

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, which is carried on KWNB's subchannel. On

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, KIIT is carried as channel 5 on the North Platte

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and Allo Communications systems.

History

From the grant of its original

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on December 12, 1994, through June 26, 2014, the station was assigned the

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-style call sign of K11TW, and retained it even after obtaining Class A status in 2001. However, outside of

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(FCC)-required

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, the station has always called itself "KIIT" on the air. It signed on the air on August 28, 1995 as a

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affiliate; it switched to Fox on January 22, 2001. Prior to K11TW's switch to Fox,

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served as a secondary affiliate of the network for the purposes of carrying its sports programming. K11TW was originally owned by North Platte Television, longtime owner of KNOP-TV; the company was reorganized as Greater Nebraska Television after the 1997 purchase of KHAS-TV in

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. Greater Nebraska Television sold its stations, including K11TW and KNOP, to

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in December 2005; the sale followed the death of majority shareholder Richard Shively. On November 20, 2013, Hoak Media announced the sale of most of its stations, including K11TW and KNOP-TV, to

, making them sister stations to KNPL; the sale was completed on June 13, 2014.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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References

External links

* {{Gray TV Gray Television Television channels and stations established in 1996 1996 establishments in Nebraska Fox network affiliates IIT-CD Low-power television stations in the United States