ABC affiliate in Sioux Falls, South Dakota
KSFY-TV
(channel 13) is a
television station
in
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
, United States, affiliated with
ABC
. It is owned by
Gray Television
alongside dual
NBC
and
Fox
affiliate
KDLT-TV
(channel 46). The two stations share studios in Courthouse Square on 1st Avenue South in Sioux Falls;
[2]
KSFY-TV's transmitter is located near
Rowena, South Dakota
.
History
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The station debuted on July 31, 1960, as KSOO-TV, the second station in Sioux Falls. It was owned by the South Dakota Broadcasting Company along with
KSOO
radio and was an
NBC
affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation. From 1960 to 1969, it operated as the flagship of a regional network with separately-owned KORN-TV in
Mitchell
(channel 5, now
KDLT-TV
on channel 46). KSOO-TV served the eastern portion of the market, while KORN-TV served the western portion. In 1969, the
Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) forced the breakup of this network, and KSOO-TV became the sole NBC affiliate. In 1970, it bought KXAB-TV in
Aberdeen
to boost its coverage in northeastern South Dakota. As part of the sale, KXAB's calls changed to KCOO-TV.
South Dakota Broadcasting was liquidated in 1973; the television stations had not shown a profit since 1968.
[3]
The television stations were bought by
Forum Publishing Company
of
Fargo, North Dakota
in 1974 and switched their call letters respectively to the current KSFY and KABY. KPRY-TV in
Pierre
was added a year later in 1976. In September 1983, KSFY swapped affiliations with channel 5, then recently renamed KDLT and became an ABC affiliate. ABC was the top-rated network at the time and wanted to be on a stronger station. Additionally, KSFY had three full-power transmitters to KDLT's one, and Forum's flagship stations
WDAY
and
WDAZ
in the eastern part of North Dakota were also converting to ABC affiliations at the same time.
Forum sold the KSFY stations to
AFLAC
in 1985. In 1996, AFLAC sold its broadcasting division to Retirement Systems of Alabama, who merged it with Ellis Communications to form
Raycom Media
. In 2004, Raycom sold the KSFY stations to The Wicks Group of Companies.
Hoak Media
bought KSFY and its satellite stations in July 2006, as well as
KVLY-TV
and
KXJB-TV
(
LMA
with Catamount Broadcasting) of Fargo and
KFYR-TV
of
Bismarck, North Dakota
and its satellite stations. The sale was approved by the FCC on November 17, 2006. On November 20, 2013, Hoak announced the sale of most of its stations, including KSFY and its satellites to
Gray Television
.
[4]
The sale was completed on June 13, 2014.
[5]
On May 1, 2018; Gray announced it had agreed to buy KDLT from owner
Red River Broadcasting
for $32.5 million. The combined operation would be based at KSFY's studios; in its announcement of the KDLT purchase, Gray noted that the KSFY studio has enough space to house a second station's news and sales department.
[6]
Gray needed to obtain a waiver in order to complete the deal, since the FCC normally does not allow one person to own two of the four highest-rated stations in a market. However, in its filing requesting such a waiver, Gray argued that KDLT would be in a stronger position to compete in the market if its resources were combined with those of KSFY. Gray contended that a KSFY/KDLT duopoly would fulfill "a dire need for an effective competitor" in the Sioux Falls market, where
KELO-TV
has been the far-and-away leader for as long as records have been kept.
[7]
The sale was approved by the FCC on September 24, 2019,
[8]
and was completed the following day.
[9]
[10]
Soon afterward, on January 13, 2020, KDLT moved its studios from South Westport Avenue to KSFY's studios on Courthouse Square.
In 2020, Gray acquired the non-license assets of area Fox affiliate
KTTW
and placed Fox programming on KDLT's second subchannel. This resulted in all of the network affiliations in eastern South Dakota being controlled by just two companies, Gray and KELO-TV owner
Nexstar Media Group
.
News operation
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KSFY logo, used from 2008 to 2011.
News logo used until Fox affiliation with
KDLT-TV
started in 2020.
Currently, KSFY broadcasts a total of
19
+
1
⁄
2
hours of local newscasts each week with
3
+
1
⁄
2
hours on weekdays and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays. KSFY has been nominated for numerous Midwest
Emmy Awards
.
On August 1, 2011, KSFY became the first television station in the Sioux Falls market and in the state of South Dakota to begin producing its local newscasts in high definition from their studio only and not from the field; the station unveiled a new HD-ready set, dropped
Action News
from its newscast and station branding, and renamed its newscasts as
KSFY News
(which the station used from 2004 to 2008).
With the purchase of KDLT, KSFY and KDLT merged their news operations on January 13, 2020, rebranding as
Dakota News Now
.
[11]
Technical information
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Subchannels
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The station's signal is
multiplexed
:
On September 10, 2012, KSFY-TV added programming from The CW on a new second digital subchannel.
[13]
It is part of The CW Plus,
[14]
and replaced
KWSD
as Sioux Falls' CW affiliate. As of September 2015, MeTV moved to 13.3, which also moved from KWSD.
Analog-to-digital conversion
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KSFY-TV shut down its analog signal over
VHF
channel 13 on February 17, 2009, the original target date on 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
UHF
channel 29 to VHF channel 13 for post-transition operations.
[15]
Translators
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Satellite stations
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KSFY is rebroadcast on a
satellite station
in central South Dakota:
KSFY was previously rebroadcast on a satellite station in northeastern South Dakota:
Notes:
- 1
KABY-TV used the callsign KXAB-TV from its 1958 sign-on to 1970 and then KCOO-TV from 1970 to 1975. The station went silent on January 5, 2016, when its tower was taken down after failing an inspection, and again on January 12, 2017, after briefly broadcasting from a low-power facility.
[17]
KABY's license was returned to the
FCC
for cancellation on April 6, 2018;
[16]
its
call sign
was transferred to a Gray-owned
low-power
station in Sioux Falls.
Translators
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KSFY is rebroadcast on the following
translator stations
:
Until 2013, programming from KSFY was also rebroadcast on translator
K07QL
in Mitchell.
Out-of-market cable coverage
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Some cable systems like CSI Cable in
Jamestown, North Dakota
discontinued carrying the service after January 1, 2009, due to duplication of networks already carried.
References
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- ^
"Facility Technical Data for KSFY-TV"
.
Licensing and Management System
.
Federal Communications Commission
.
- ^
KSFY's new building construction begins.
Archived
April 22, 2016, at the
Wayback Machine
, ksfy.com.
- ^
"TV License OK'd For Fargo Company"
.
Bismarck Tribune
. Associated Press. November 27, 1973. p. 11
. Retrieved
July 5,
2020
.
- ^
"Gray Buying Hoak, Prime Stations For $342.5M"
.
TVNewsCheck
. November 20, 2013
. Retrieved
November 20,
2013
.
- ^
Gray closes Hoak deal; completes refinancing.
, rbr.com, Retrieved June 13, 2014.
- ^
"Press release announcing Gray's purchase of KDLT"
(PDF)
.
- ^
Request for FCC waiver
- ^
"Memorandum Opinion and Order"
,
Federal Communications Commission
, September 24, 2019, Retrieved September 25, 2019.
- ^
"Gray Television completes purchase of KDLT-TV"
.
KSFY.com
.
Gray Television
. September 25, 2019
. Retrieved
September 25,
2019
.
- ^
"Owner of KSFY-TV finalizes purchase of KDLT-TV"
,
Argus Leader
, September 25, 2019, Retrieved September 25, 2019.
- ^
Anderson, Patrick.
"KSFY, KDLT to become Dakota News Now"
.
Argus Leader
. Retrieved
January 13,
2020
.
- ^
"RabbitEars TV Query for KSFY"
.
rabbitears.info
.
- ^
KSFY Sioux Falls Adding CW On Subchannel
,
TVNewsCheck
, June 4, 2012.
- ^
"RabbitEars.Info"
.
- ^
"DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds"
(PDF)
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on August 29, 2013
. Retrieved
March 24,
2012
.
- ^
a
b
"Licensing and Management System"
.
enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov
.
- ^
"Broadcasting News-January 2017"
.
www.northpine.com
.
External links
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Sioux Falls
|
- KUSD-TV / KCSD-TV
(2/23.1
PBS
, 2/23.2
World
, 2/23.3
Create
, 2/23.4
PBS Kids
, 2/23.5 SDPB Public Radio audio, 2/23.6 SDPB HD2 Classical audio)
- KTTW
(7.1
TCT
, 7.2
This
, 7.3
SBN
, 7.4
Laff
, 7.5
Bounce
, 7.6
Grit
, 7.7
Defy
, 7.10
Quest
)
- KELO-TV
(11.1
CBS
, 11.2
MNTV
, 11.3
Ion
, 11.4
CW+
, 11.5
REW
)
- KSFY-TV
(13.1
ABC
, 13.2
Outlaw
, 13.3
MeTV
, 13.4
Crime
, 13.5
Start
)
- KAUN-LD 25
(
Retro
)
- KCPO-LD
26 (
Ind.
)
- KSFL-TV
36 (
YTA
)
- KDLT-TV
(46.1
NBC
, 46.2
Fox
, 46.3
The365
, 46.4
Cozi
, 46.5
Court
)
- KSXF-LD 56
(
silent
)
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Aberdeen
/
Watertown
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Pierre
|
- KPRY-TV
(4.1
ABC
, 46.1
KDLT
?NBC, 46.2 KDLT?Fox)
- KPLO-TV
(6.1
CBS
, 6.2
MNTV
, 6.3
Ion
, 6.4
CW+
, 6.5
REW
)
- KTSD-TV / KQSD-TV
(10.1/11.1
PBS
, 10.2/11.2
World
, 10.3/11.3
Create
, 10.4/11.4
PBS Kids
, 10.5/11.5 SDPB Public Radio audio, 10.6/11.6 SDPB HD2 Classical audio)
- K32FW 32
(
3ABN
)
|
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Other areas
|
- KDLV-TV
(5.1
NBC
, 5.2
Fox
,
13.1
ABC
?
Mitchell
)
- KTTM
(7.1
TCT
, 7.2
This
, 7.3
SBN
, 7.4
Laff
, 7.5
Bounce
, 7.6
Grit
, 7.7
Defy
, 7.10
Quest
?
Huron
)
- KRNE-TV
(12.1
PBS
, 12.2 NET2, 12.3
Create
, 12.4
PBS Kids
?
Merriman, NE
)
- KSMN
(20.1
PBS
, 20.2
Create
, 20.3
MN Ch.
, 20.4
World
, 20.5
PBS Kids
?
Worthington, MN
)
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Cable
channels
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Defunct stations
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ABC
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CBS
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Fox
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NBC
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The CW
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MyNetworkTV
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Ion Television
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PBS
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Other
|
- KRDK-TV 4
(
Cozi
,
Valley City, ND
)
- KSTC-TV 5.2
(
Ind.
,
Minneapolis
)
- WDAY-DT 6.3
/
WDAZ-DT 8.3
(
Ind.
,
Fargo/Devils Lake
)
- KTTW 7
(
TCT
,
Sioux Falls, SD
)
- WCMN-LD
ATSC 3.0
(13.1
Rel.
Ind.
,
St. Cloud?Sartell
)
- K31KV 16 (CTV,
Mankato
)
- WUMN-LD 17
(
UNI
,
Minneapolis
)
- KJNK-LD 25
(
TMD
,
Minneapolis
)
- KCWV 27
(
TCT
,
Duluth
)
- KNGF 27
(
Ind.
/Sports,
Grand Forks, ND
)
- KSFL-TV 36
(
Retro
,
Sioux Falls, SD
)
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Defunct
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ABC
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CBS
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Fox
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NBC
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The CW
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MyNetworkTV
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Ion Television
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Iowa PBS
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Other
|
- KTTW 7
(
TCT
,
Sioux Falls, SD
)
- KMEG 14
(
Dabl
,
Sioux City
)
- KXVO 15
(
TBD
,
Omaha, NE
)
- KDMI 19
(
TCT
,
Des Moines
)
- KWKB 20
(
TCT
,
Iowa City
)
- KFXA 28
(
Dabl
,
Cedar Rapids
)
- KSFL-TV 36
(
YTA
,
Sioux Falls, SD
)
- KFXB-TV 40
(
CTN
,
Dubuque
)
- WMWC-TV 53
(
TBN
,
Galesburg, IL
)
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Defunct
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