KNBN

KNBN
Rapid City, South Dakota
United States
Branding NewsCenter1
Slogan Your 1 News Source
Channels Digital: 21 (UHF)
Virtual: 21 (PSIP)
Subchannels 21.1 NBC
21.2 The CW
21.3 MNT (cable-only)12
Translators KKRA-LP 24 Rapid City
KWBH-LP 27 (simulcasts CW on 21.2)
K40GS-D Rapid City/Black Hills
Affiliations NBC
Owner Jim Simpson
(Rapid Broadcasting Company)
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
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, channel 21, is the NBC affiliate in Rapid City, South Dakota. 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 and K40GS-D on UHF channel 40; both stations are licensed in Rapid City, though K40GS-D mainly serves Lead and 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 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. Before KNBN signed on, NBC was provided via cable from KUSA in Denver- before that, KEVN served as the primary NBC station in the area.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[1]
21.1 1080i 16:9 KNBN-NBC Main KNBN programming / NBC
21.2 720p KNBN-CW Simulcast of KWBH-LP
21.3 480i 4:3 KNBN-MYNET MyNetworkTV (cable-only)12

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 UHF channel 21 to televise Super Bowl XLIII in high-definition.[2][3] Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 27, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station.

See also

References

  1. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KNBN
  2. ↑ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  3. ↑ FCC 387 DTV transition status report 2008/05/08

External links

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