KNWA-TV
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Rogers/Fort Smith/Fayetteville, Arkansas United States |
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| City | Rogers |
| Branding | KNWA (general) Northwest Arkansas News (newscasts) Fox 24 (on DT2) |
| Slogan | Your Northwest Arkansas News Team. Always. |
| Channels |
Digital: 50 (UHF) & KFTA-DT 27.2 (UHF) Virtual: 51 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 51.1 NBC 51.2 Fox 51.3 Grit 51.4 Laff |
| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| First air date | October 1, 1989 (as satellite of KPOM-TV) |
| Call letters' meaning | NorthWest Arkansas |
| Sister station(s) | KFTA-TV |
| Former callsigns | KFAA-TV (1989–2004) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 51 (UHF, 1989–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW 600 kW (KFTA-DT2) |
| Height | 267 m 300 m (KFTA-DT2) |
| Facility ID | 29557 29560 (KFTA-DT2) |
| Transmitter coordinates |
36°24′47.8″N 93°57′16.8″W / 36.413278°N 93.954667°W 35°42′36″N 94°8′15″W / 35.71000°N 94.13750°W (KFTA-DT2) |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.nwahomepage.com |
KNWA-TV, virtual channel 51 (UHF digital channel 50), is the NBC-affiliated television station for Northwest Arkansas that is licensed to Rogers. Owned by the Nexstar Media Group, the station is sister to the Fort Smith-based Fox affiliate KFTA-TV (channel 24). KNWA maintains transmitter facilities located southeast of Garfield. The two stations share studios on Dickson Street in Downtown Fayetteville. They also operates a satellite studio in Rogers, KNWA's city of license, as well as on Kelley Highway in Fort Smith.
The station began on October 1, 1989 as KFAA-TV as a satellite of KPOM-TV in Fort Smith. Both stations were owned by the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma-based Griffin Television. Its sign-on marked the first time that NBC had been seen over-the-air in much of the northern part of the market since KFSM-TV lost the area's NBC affiliation to KPOM in 1983. KPOM only provided Grade B coverage of Fayetteville and could not be seen at all in Rogers and points north. In 2004, Griffin Television sold KPOM-TV and KFAA-TV to Nexstar, and the stations changed their calls to KNWA-TV and KFTA-TV respectively on August 13, 2004 and KNWA became the main station. At the same time, the two stations' operations both were merged in a new studio located in the historic Campbell-Bell building on South Block Avenue in Downtown Fayetteville. KFTA's original studio on Kelley Highway in Fort Smith remained in use as KNWA's Arkansas River Valley bureau.
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