KOTA-TV
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KOTA-TV: Rapid City, South Dakota KHSD-TV: Lead, South Dakota United States |
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| Branding | KOTA Territory (general) KOTA Territory News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Coverage You Can Count On |
| Channels |
Digital: KOTA-TV: 7 (VHF) KHSD-TV: 5 (VHF) Virtual: KOTA-TV: 3 () KHSD-TV: 11 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | ABC (1976–1984, 2016–present) |
| Owner |
Gray Television (Gray Television Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date |
KOTA-TV: January 21, 1958 KHSD-TV: January 1960 (current licenses for both stations date from July 11, 1976) |
| Call letters' meaning | KOTA-TV: DaKOTA |
| Sister station(s) |
KEVN-LD KSFY-TV |
| Former callsigns |
KOTA-TV: KRSD-TV (1959–1976) KEVN-TV (1976–2016) KHSD: KDSJ-TV (1960–1976) KIVV-TV (1976–2016) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: KOTA-TV: 7 (VHF, 1959–2009) KHSD-TV: 5 (VHF, 1960–2009) Digital: KOTA-TV: 18 (UHF) KHSD-TV: 29 (UHF) |
| Former affiliations |
NBC (1959–1970, 1984–1996) CBS (1970–1976) Fox (1996–2016) |
| Transmitter power |
KOTA-TV: 43.5 kW KHSD-TV: 9.2 kW |
| Height |
KOTA-TV: 204 m KHSD-TV: 561 m |
| Facility ID |
KOTA-TV: 34347 KHSD-TV: 34348 |
| Transmitter coordinates |
KOTA-TV: 44°4′0″N 103°15′1″W / 44.06667°N 103.25028°W KHSD: 44°19′30″N 103°50′14″W / 44.32500°N 103.83722°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
/ KHSD-TV Profile / KHSD-TV CDBS |
| Website | www |
KOTA-TV, virtual channel 3 (VHF digital RF channel 7), is an ABC-affiliated television station affiliate based in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA. Owned by Gray Television, the station is sister to low-powered Fox affiliate KEVN-LD and the two outlets have a co-located studio/office and transmitter facility located on Skyline Drive in Rapid City.
KOTA-TV also operates a full-power satellite in Lead, South Dakota, KHSD-TV (virtual channel 11), which can also be seen over the air in Rapid City. KHSD's transmitter is located near Spearfish, South Dakota. KOTA serves a large area in western South Dakota, eastern Montana, eastern Wyoming and the Nebraska panhandle. It calls its vast coverage area "KOTA Territory."
Until 2016, the KOTA-TV call sign, along with the virtual channel 3 assignment and the ABC affiliation, were associated with the station now known as KHME (channel 23). KOTA-TV had gone on the air in 1955 as a CBS affiliate owned by Helen Duhamel along with KOTA radio (1380 AM). The station also had secondary affiliations with NBC (until 1958) and ABC; it took on a joint-primary affiliation with both CBS and ABC in 1965, dropped CBS for NBC in 1970, lost ABC in 1976, and carried a secondary CBS affiliation from 1976 until 1981. KOTA became an ABC affiliate in 1984, and also carried some Fox programming from 1994 to 1996. The KHSD-TV call letters and virtual channel 11 were previously associated with the station now known as KQME (channel 5), which had been a KOTA-TV satellite since 1966.
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