KNOE-TV
  
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Monroe, Louisiana/El Dorado, Arkansas United States |
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| Branding | KNOE 8 (general) KNOE 8 News (newscasts) KAQY ABC (DT2) Monroe/El Dorado CW (DT3) |
| Slogan |
Your Breaking News and Weather Authority (newscasts) Always On (general) ABC for the Arklamiss(KAQY DT-2) |
| Channels |
Digital: 8 (VHF) Virtual: 8 () |
| Subchannels | 8.1 CBS 8.2 ABC 8.3 The CW/ASN |
| Translators | K18AB-D El Dorado AR |
| Owner |
Gray Television (Gray Television Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | September 27, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | Founder James A. Noe |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 8 (VHF, 1953–2009) Digital: 7 (VHF, until 2009) |
| Former affiliations |
All secondary: DuMont (1953–1955) NBC (1953–1974) ABC (1953–1972) |
| Transmitter power | 17 kW |
| Height | 518 m |
| Facility ID | 48975 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°11′50.5″N 92°4′14″W / 32.197361°N 92.07056°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.knoe.com |
KNOE-TV, channel 8, is the CBS-affiliated television station for Monroe, Louisiana. The station is owned by Gray Television.
KNOE's studios are located on Oliver Road north of Louisville Avenue in Monroe, while its transmitter is located south of Monroe in Columbia, Louisiana. The station also operates a low-powered translator, K18AB-D in El Dorado, Arkansas, which rebroadcasts KNOE's digital signal in high definition. Even though the translator is broadcast on channel 18, it remaps to channel 8 via PSIP.
KNOE-TV went on the air on September 27, 1953. Initially, the station had a 774-foot tower, weighing 4 tons and costing $65,000. At the time, it was the most powerful tower in the American South. KNOE is the oldest surviving station in the northern part of Louisiana. Its sign-on forced its only competitor, KFAZ (channel 43), off the air in the summer of 1954. James A. Noe, Sr., former governor of Louisiana, owned the television station as well as KNOE radio (AM 540, now KMLB, and FM 101.9, now KMVX).
The station affiliated with all four television networks of the "golden age": CBS, NBC, ABC and DuMont. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. KNOE continued to air ABC programming until 1972 when KTVE became a primary ABC affiliate and NBC programming until 1974 when KLAA signed-on.
Noe died in 1976, and passed the station to his son, James "Jimmie" Noe, Jr. The Noes continued to own the station until 2007, when it was sold to Dallas-based Hoak Media. The sale closed on October 3 of that year. The family had already sold KNOE AM to Holladay Broadcasting in November 2006, and would sell KNOE-FM to them the following year. The sale of the stations followed Jimmie Noe's death from cancer in 2005, in which it was decided by the family to leave the broadcasting business. On August 25, 2010, KNOE started broadcasting syndicated programing in high definition.
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