KNHL
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Hastings-Kearney-Grand Island-Lincoln, Nebraska United States |
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| Channels |
Digital: 5 (VHF) Virtual: 5 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | SonLife (2015–present) |
| Owner | Legacy Broadcasting |
| First air date | January 1, 1956 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Nebraska Hastings Lincoln (no relation to the National Hockey League) |
| Former callsigns | KHAS-TV (1956–2014) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 5 (VHF, 1956–2009) Digital: 21 (UHF, 2005–2008) |
| Former affiliations |
DT1: NBC (1956–2014) DT2: NBC WX+ (2005–2008) This TV (2010–2013) Cozi TV (2013–2014) |
| Transmitter power | 45 kW |
| Height | 217 m (712 ft) |
| Facility ID | 48003 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°39′6″N 98°23′4″W / 40.65167°N 98.38444°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
KNHL, virtual and VHF digital channel 5, is a television station in Hastings, Nebraska, United States affiliated with the SonLife Broadcasting Network. As KHAS-TV, it formerly served as the NBC affiliate for the western side of the Lincoln–Hastings–Kearney market. The station is owned by Legacy Broadcasting. The station was rebroadcast on translator K02HJ in Ord on channel 2 and K35AL in Lexington on channel 35. Both translators broadcast an analog signal.
In 2014, Gray Television, owners of KOLN/KGIN and KSNB-TV, acquired Hoak Media; as it already owned the three aforementioned stations in the same market, it planned to sell KHAS to the shell company Excalibur Broadcasting and operate KHAS under a shared services agreement. As a result of growing FCC scrutiny towards "virtual duopolies", Gray instead let KHAS fall silent on June 13, 2014 and its programming and news operation were relocated to KSNB-TV, pending a sale of KHAS-TV to a minority owned broadcaster.
KNHL was founded in 1956 as KHAS-TV by a group of local investors headed by Fred A. Seaton, publisher of the Hastings Tribune newspaper and Secretary of the Interior during the Eisenhower Administration. It took its calls from KHAS radio, which Seaton had founded in 1940. In 1967, it was one of the first stations in the area to acquire color broadcasting equipment.
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