KETV-TV
 
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Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa United States |
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| City | Omaha, Nebraska |
| Branding |
KETV Channel 7 (general) KETV NewsWatch 7 (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
Omaha's News Leader (primary) More Complete Coverage (secondary) |
| Channels |
Digital: 20 (UHF) Virtual: 7 () |
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| Owner |
Hearst Television (Hearst Properties Inc.) |
| First air date | September 17, 1957 |
| Sister station(s) |
Des Moines: KCCI Kansas City: KMBC-TV, KCWE |
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| Transmitter power | 700 kW |
| Height | 396 m (1,299 ft) |
| Facility ID | 53903 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°18′32″N 96°1′34.2″W / 41.30889°N 96.026167°WCoordinates: 41°18′32″N 96°1′34.2″W / 41.30889°N 96.026167°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | ketv.com |
KETV, virtual channel 7 (UHF digital channel 20), is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Omaha, Nebraska, United States and also serving Council Bluffs, Iowa. The station is owned by the Hearst Television subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation and its studios are located on 10th Street in the historic Burlington Station; the building carries the address of 7 Burlington Station. The transmitter is located on a "tower farm" near North 72nd Street and Crown Point Avenue in north-central Omaha.
On cable, the station is available on Cox Communications channel 9 in both standard and high definition. It can also be seen on CenturyLink Prism channels 7 (SD) and 1007 (HD).
KETV first signed on the air 60 years ago on September 17, 1957; it was Omaha's third television station (behind WOW-TV, channel 6, now WOWT and KMTV, channel 3). The station has been an ABC affiliate from its debut (and the only one in Omaha that has never changed its affiliation); KETV is the second full-time ABC affiliate in the Omaha market; KOLN-TV in Lincoln previously served as Omaha's ABC affiliate for much of 1953 and 1954 until the Federal Communications Commission split off Lincoln into its own separate market from Omaha. Incidentally, until KLKN-TV signed on from Lincoln in 1996 (by then, KOLN had switched to CBS), KETV served as the default ABC affiliate for Nebraska's state capital; to this day, KETV still retains significant viewership in Lincoln, and the station operates a news bureau in the city. Channel 7 was originally owned by the World Publishing Company, publisher of the Omaha World-Herald. It associated itself with the newspaper early on, branding itself as "Omaha World-Herald Television."
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