NBC/CW/Telemundo affiliate in St. Joseph, Missouri
This article is about the television station currently known as KNPG-LD. For the station originally known as KNPG-LD until November 1, 2016, see
KCJO-LD
.
KNPG-LD
(channel 21) is a
low-power television station
in
St. Joseph, Missouri
, United States, affiliated with
NBC
,
The CW Plus
and
Telemundo
. It is owned by the locally based
News-Press & Gazette Company
(NPG) alongside fellow
flagship
properties,
Fox
affiliate
KNPN-LD
(channel 26) and
CBS
affiliate
KCJO-LD
(channel 30). The three stations share studios at News-Press & Gazette's corporate headquarters (which also house operations for the
St. Joseph News-Press
and local
news and weather channel
News-Press NOW
) on Edmond Street in downtown St. Joseph;
[1]
KNPG-LD's transmitter is located on South 16th Street (adjacent to
US 36
), just southeast of downtown.
There are no separate websites for the three stations, instead they are integrated with that of the co-owned
St. Joseph News-Press
.
History
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Early history
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The station's history traces back to the September 21, 1998 launch of a cable-only affiliate of
The WB
that was originally managed and promoted by St. Joseph Cablevision (a cable television provider that was owned by the News-Press & Gazette Company), alongside the launch of
The WB 100+ Station Group
, a service similar to The CW Plus that was created to expand national coverage of The WB via primarily local origination channels managed by cable providers in markets ranked above #100 by
Nielsen Media Research
. Since it was a cable-exclusive outlet that was not licensed by the
Federal Communications Commission
, the channel used the callsign
"WBJO"
in a fictional manner. Before the sign-on of the cable-only WBJO, viewers in the St. Joseph, Missouri area received their WB network programs, via
Superstation WGN
, and in September 1996,
KCWB
when the station began broadcasting, then from
KSMO-TV
when that station dropped UPN and picked up the WB from KCWB, in which it changed the call letters to KCWE two years later.
On January 24, 2006,
Time Warner
and
CBS Corporation
announced that the two companies would shut down their respective networks, The WB and
UPN
, to create
The CW Television Network
, which would feature programs from its two predecessors as well as new series that were specifically produced for The CW.
[2]
The CW Plus was created by the network as a replacement for The WB 100+ Station Group to allow the existing cable outlets as well as low-power analog stations and digital subchannels of major network affiliates in smaller markets that had joined The WB 100+ in the years following its launch to maintain a network affiliation; "WBJO" affiliated with The CW Plus on September 18, 2006 upon the launch of the CW network.
Prior to the launch of KNPN-LD, residents in the St. Joseph market who received programming over-the-air or subscribed to other television providers besides Suddenlink viewed CW programming through out-of-market stations: some rural cable systems carried KCWE from the nearby
Kansas City
market (which provides at least
grade B signal coverage
to much of the St. Joseph market); the default CW outlet for local
DirecTV
subscribers was
Omaha
's
KXVO
, while
Dish Network
carried
New York City
affiliate
WPIX
,
Los Angeles
affiliate
KTLA
and
Denver
affiliate
KWGN-TV
as default affiliates through their carriage on its
superstation
package in lieu of regional affiliates located within proximity to St. Joseph. Upon the sale of News-Press & Gazette Company's cable television operations (which served St. Joseph, and parts of
Arizona
and
California
) to Suddenlink Communications in 2011 for $350 million,
[3]
Suddenlink also acquired ownership of "WBJO" and sister cable outlet
News-Press 3 NOW
.
On March 19, 2012, News-Press & Gazette Company announced that it would launch a Fox-affiliated television station in St. Joseph to serve as the flagship of its television station group, which would also carry affiliations with The CW and
Spanish-language
network
Telemundo
on digital subchannels;
[4]
the station was created using the license of
K26LV-D
(now KNPN-LD).
[5]
[6]
On June 1, 2012, News-Press & Gazette Company confirmed that The CW Plus would be carried on its third digital subchannel, retaining the "
St. Joseph’s CW 6
" branding; although the satellite providers carry KNPN's main signal, DirecTV and Dish Network did not sign carriage agreements to offer KNPN-LD3 (and subsequently KBJO-LD), CW programming continued to be offered through out-of-market stations as a result.
[7]
The subchannel officially debuted at 6:00 a.m. on June 2, 2012, with News-Press & Gazette assuming promotional and advertising control of "WBJO" from Suddenlink Communications with the subsequent sign-on of KNPN-LD digital subchannel 26.3. It remained available on Suddenlink cable channel 6 (a
high definition
feed of the channel was also provided to Suddenlink subscribers on
digital cable
channel 606).
[8]
KNPG-LD history
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As KBJO-LD
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On March 14, 2012, concurrent with its acquisition of K26LV-D, News-Press & Gazette also purchased the low-power digital license of
K16KF-D
from
DTV America 1, LLC
of
Sunrise, Florida
; the purchase price for both stations was $72,000.
[5]
Two weeks earlier on February 29, the FCC granted the company's construction permit application to relocate the two stations' transmitter facilities from a tower near
Mound City
to the St. Joseph transmitter and upgrade the
effective radiated power
of both stations.
[6]
[9]
[10]
Channel 16 first signed on the air on March 7, 2013, concurrent with the change of K16KF-D's callsign to
KBJO-LD
(adapted from the predecessor cable channel's branding).
[11]
[12]
Concurrent with KBJO's sign-on, KNPN-LD dropped CW programming from its second subchannel.
[13]
Low-powered television stations
are exempt from the
must-carry
and
retransmission consent
regulations that full-powered stations enjoy, meaning that its carriage on other area cable systems besides Suddenlink, and satellite providers is not guaranteed.
Switch to NBC affiliation as KNPG-LD
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On August 18, 2016, the News-Press & Gazette Company announced that it had reached an affiliation agreement with
NBC
, under which channel 21 would become the network's affiliate for the St. Joseph market, giving the market its first locally based NBC affiliate. Concurrent with the change, the station's call letters would be changed from KBJO-LD to
KNPG-LD
, which had been assigned to its Telemundo-affiliated sister station on channel 30. On November 1 of that year, when the callsign and network affiliation change took effect,
[14]
the CW Plus affiliation moved to a newly created subchannel on virtual channel 21.2; the KBJO-LD callsign was transferred to its sister station on channel 30.
[15]
KNPG-LD displaced
KSHB-TV
(channel 41) ? which is among the seven full-power Kansas City stations that provide city-grade signal coverage in St. Joseph proper ? as the area's default NBC station on Suddenlink Communications, DirecTV and Dish Network. However, KSHB ? which has served as the network's default affiliate for St. Joseph since it assumed the NBC affiliation from
WDAF-TV
(channel 4) in September 1994 ? continues to act as an alternate NBC affiliate for the market as its transmitter produces a city-grade signal that reaches St. Joseph proper; however, the switch resulted in NBC programs carried on KSHB being
blacked out
to comply with programming duplication regulations imposed by the FCC.
[14]
The move left
MyNetworkTV
as the outlier among the six major broadcast networks without a local affiliate in St. Joseph.
Subsequently, on June 1, 2017, KNPG took over the local affiliation rights to Telemundo, which had been carried on its sister station on channel 30 (as KBJO-LD) until it converted into a CBS affiliate as KCJO-LD on that date, through the activation of a new third subchannel.
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News operation
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KNPG-LD presently broadcasts 17 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with three hours on weekdays and one hour on Saturdays and Sundays). The news department shared by KNPG, KNPN-LD and KCJO-LD also utilizes reporting and coverage resources from the
St. Joseph News-Press
, and also shares content with co-owned local news channel News-Press NOW, with all news programming carried by the properties produced in-house at the station's Edmond Street studios.
As KBJO-LD, the station did not broadcast any newscasts from parent station KNPN-LD (being a CW affiliate at the time, channel 21 would have been precluded from airing much news programming in any event, since Fox affiliate KNPN already produced morning and prime time newscasts that air in time periods where stations affiliated with Fox and The CW typically carry local news as neither network has a morning news-talk program or a third hour of prime time network programming on weekdays).
However, after News-Press and Gazette relaunched channel 21 as NBC affiliate KNPG-LD on November 1, 2016, KNPN began providing simulcasts of local news programs originating on that station as well as additional newscasts produced exclusively for KNPG, using the former's existing news department staff. On that date, it began simulcasting the first 90 minutes of KNPN's weekday morning newscast (which runs on that station for 2½ hours, with the remaining hour airing exclusively on channel 26 as KNPG airs
Today
during the 7:00 a.m. hour of the broadcast) and its half-hour 5:00 p.m. newscast (the weekend editions of which moved to KNPG following the switch, due partly to frequent pre-emptions on channel 26 caused by predetermined or gameplay-caused overruns by
Fox Sports
event broadcasts). In addition, KNPG-LD also began producing exclusive half-hour newscasts at 6:00 p.m. weeknights and at 10:00 p.m. seven nights a week. CBS affiliate KCJO-LD subsequently began simulcasting all of the news programs carried by KNPG, when the former Telemundo affiliate was relaunched as a CBS station on June 1, 2017.
Technical information
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Subchannels
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The station's digital signal is
multiplexed
:
As
TBN
owned-and-operated station
KTAJ-TV
's
virtual digital channel
is mapped as "16" (its former analog channel assignment) through
PSIP
, KNPG-LD (as KBJO-LD) signed on as PSIP channel 21.1 (which is also KTAJ's physical digital channel) to avoid PSIP channel mapping redundancies with KTAJ.
See also
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References
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- ^
Fox Station Coming to St. Joseph, Mo.
,
Broadcasting & Cable
, March 20, 2012.
- ^
'Gilmore Girls' meet 'Smackdown'; CW Network to combine WB, UPN in CBS-Warner venture beginning in September
,
CNNMoney.com
, January 24, 2006.
- ^
Suddenlink to buy NPG Cable for $350M
,
St. Louis Business Journal
, November 29, 2010.
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NPG bringing FOX station to St. Joe
,
St. Joseph News-Press
, March 19, 2012.
- ^
a
b
Weekly Station Trading Roundup: New York LPTV Goes For $2 Million
,
TVNewsCheck
, February 14, 2012.
- ^
a
b
FCC document for transfer of K16KF-D and K26LV-D
, March 14, 2012.
- ^
Fox 26 KNPN Coverage Area
Archived
2015-11-05 at the
Wayback Machine
- ^
Fox station to debut on June 2
Archived
2012-05-19 at the
Wayback Machine
,
St. Joseph News-Press
, May 17, 2012.
- ^
FCC Construction Permit information for K16KF-D
, February 29, 2012.
- ^
FCC Construction Permit information for K26LV-D
, February 29, 2012.
- ^
"Call Sign History"
.
CDBS Public Access
.
Federal Communications Commission
. Retrieved
March 8,
2013
.
- ^
Resumption of Operations for KBJO-LD
- ^
KNPN to upgrade transmission to all HD
,
St. Joseph News-Press
, March 5, 2013.
- ^
a
b
"NBC affiliate coming to St. Joe"
.
St. Joseph News-Press
.
News-Press & Gazette Company
. August 18, 2016.
- ^
Kansas City Radio & TV blog
- ^
"NPG to add local CBS affiliate in June"
.
St. Joseph News-Press
.
News-Press & Gazette Company
. February 24, 2017.
- ^
"Cronkite Memorial to participate in KCJO launch"
.
St. Joseph News-Press
.
News-Press & Gazette Company
. May 31, 2017.
- ^
RabbitEars.info Query for KNPG-LD
External links
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Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with
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Local stations
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- KQTV
(2.1
ABC
, 2.2
ANT
, 2.3
Ion
)
- KTAJ-TV
(16.1
TBN
, 16.2
Merit
, 16.3
Inspire
, 16.4
Smile
, 16.5
Positiv
)
- KNPG-LD
(21.1
NBC
, 21.2
CW+
, 21.3
TMD
, 21.4
Bounce
, 21.5
Grit
)
- KNPN-LD
(26.1
Fox
,
26.2
CBS
,
26.3
NP3 NOW
, 26.4
Mystery
, 26.5
Laff
)
- KCJO-LD
(30.1
CBS
, 30.2
Dabl
,
30.3
TMD
)
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ATSC 3.0
(
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,
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(
TBN
,
Kansas City
/
St. Joseph
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(
CTN
,
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(
TMD
,
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(
UNI
,
Kansas City
)
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(
TMD
,
St. Joseph
)
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(
Rel.
Ind.
,
Memphis, TN
)
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(
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,
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)
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(
CTN
,
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(
TCT
,
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)
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(.2
TBD
, .3
Charge!
, .4
Nest
,
St. Louis
)
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(
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,
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(
Ind.
,
Branson
)
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ATSC 3.0
(
Ind.
,
Lawrence, KS
)
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(
TMD
,
Lawrence, KS
)
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Television stations
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- 1
This station was built and signed on by NPG.
- 2
This station is owned by VistaWest Media, LLC, but is operated by NPG under an
SSA
.
- 3
This station is owned by
Imagicomm Communications
, but is operated by NPG under an SSA.
- 4
This station carries a secondary MyNetworkTV affiliation on its primary channel.
- 5
This station carries a secondary
Retro Television Network
affiliation on its second digital subchannel.
- 6
This station is owned by
Hubbard Broadcasting
, but is operated by NPG.
- 7
Originally operating as a cable-only channel, News-Press 3 NOW is also relayed on a third digital subchannel of KNPN-LD.
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