KNOE-TV

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KNOE-TV
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Monroe, Louisiana/El Dorado, Arkansas
United States
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 (PSIP)
Subchannels 8.1 CBS
8.2 ABC
8.3 The CW
Translators K18AB-D El Dorado AR
Affiliations CBS (Secondary through 1974)
Owner Gray Television
(Gray Television Licensee, LLC)
First air date September 27, 1953 (1953-09-27)
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 (1953-1955, 1966-1974)
ABC (1953-1972)
Transmitter power 17 kW
Height 518 m
Facility ID 48975
Transmitter coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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.

History

KNOE-TV went on the air on September 27, 1953.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3] Even when rival station KTVE became a primary ABC affiliate, KNOE continued to air ABC programming until 1972, and it also aired NBC programming on a secondary basis until KLAA (now KARD) signed on in 1974.[4]

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.[5][6][7][8] The sale closed on October 3 of that year. The family had already sold KNOE AM to Holladay Broadcasting in November 2006,[9] and would sell KNOE-FM to them the following year.[10][11] The sale of the stations followed Jimmie Noe's death from cancer in 2005,[12] in which it was decided by the family to leave the broadcasting business.[13] On August 25, 2010, KNOE started broadcasting syndicated programing in high definition.

On November 20, 2013, Gray Television announced it would purchase Hoak Media in a $335 million deal. The deal also included the acquisition of Parker Broadcasting, owner of ABC affiliate KAQY, which KNOE had operated under a local marketing agreement since 2008.[14] However, due to recent scrutiny by the FCC regarding LMAs (KAQY was originally to be sold to the shell company Excalibur Broadcasting, and would have maintained its LMA with Gray), KAQY was sold to a minority-owned company, and KNOE would forgo any operational agreements with the new owner. In September 2014, KAQY signed off, and it programming was moved to KNOE's second digital subchannel, displacing The CW to the third.[15][16]

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[17]
8.1 1080i 16:917 KNOE-HD Main KNOE-TV programming / CBS
8.2 720p KAQY ABC KAQY
8.3 480i KNOE-CW Monroe/El Dorado CW

Analog-to-digital conversion

KNOE-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 8, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition VHF channel 7 to channel 8.[18]

News operation

KNOE-TV has been the dominant news station in the Ark-La-Miss for more than a quarter-century. It has won numerous state, regional and national journalism awards, including the 2008 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for News Director Taylor Henry's investigative series on rogue members of the Louisiana National Guard who looted stores they were deployed to protect during Katrina.

On November 1, 2010, KNOE debuted a new news set, fit for high definition broadcast. On January 17, 2011 KNOE began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition, becoming the first station in the Ark-La-Miss region to do so; in-studio as well as in the field.

National Prominence

Good Night And Good Duck, the second episode of Season 7 of the A&E series Duck Dynasty, was shot mostly at KNOE studios, and aired nationally November 26, 2014.

This episode, framed around KNOE's "Good Morning ArkLaMiss" morning show, featured a slightly modified "KNOE News" logo (minus the CBS logo) but retaining the slogan "Your Breaking News And Weather Authority" throughout.

Notable former on-air staff

  • Art Angelo - news anchor in the 1970s; current information unknown
  • Keith Babb (born 1944) - co-host with Jack McCall of Good Morning Ark-La-Miss, prior to 1972; later auctioneer of American Quarter Horses[19]
  • Domonique Benn - Emmy Award-nominated anchor, subsequently at KSLA in Shreveport
  • Ken Booth (born c. 1944) - news director, anchor, and investigative reporter, said to have been fearless in the pursuit of truth; formerly with KEEL (AM) in Shreveport; retired to Yuma, Arizona[20]
  • Ken Case (1925-2006) - news reporter, metereologist, host of Southern Angler sports program[21]
  • Earl Ellis Casey (born 1947) - former KNOE news director, later vice president and managing editor with CNN in Atlanta, Georgia
  • Jennifer Sneed Heebe (born 1966) - former television personality; subsequently member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Jefferson Parish, 1999-2004; member of the Jefferson Parish Council, 2004-2008[22]
  • Lanny Ray James (born April 24, 1940) - former sports director, resides in Union Parish[23]
  • Macie McInnis Jepson - news anchor, subsequently in Dallas and Cleveland, Ohio[24]
  • Jack E. McCall (1926-1994)[25] - reporter and host with Keith Babb and June Taylor of local programs, such as Good Morning Ark-La-Miss; formerly the character "Cactus Jack" at KALB-TV in Alexandria
  • Earnie Miles (born c. 1926) - first African-American on local Monroe television; gospel music icon and star of The Earnie Miles Show (premiered 1979); weekend news anchor and director of public relations at Grambling State University until 1992[26]

References

  1. ↑ "KNOE Goes on Air: First North Louisiana Television Permit", Minden Herald, Minden, Louisiana, May 1, 1953, p. 1
  2. ↑ "KNOE-TV Station to Open on August 2", Minden Press, June 26, 1953, p. 1
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[dead link]
  4. ↑ Broadcasting Yearbooks, 1972 and 1973
  5. ↑ KNOE to be Sold to Hoak Media Corporation (June - 13 - 2007)
  6. ↑ NOE CORP ANNOUNCES SALE OF KNOE-TV June 12, 2007
  7. ↑ Noe family selling KNOETV to Hoak Media Jun 13 2007 Associated Press
  8. ↑ KNOE-TV sold to Hoak Media Associated Press - June 13, 2007
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  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ Gray closes Hoak deal; completes refinancing., rbr.com, Retrieved 13 June, 2014.
  17. ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KNOE
  18. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  19. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  20. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  21. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  22. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  23. ↑ The Moon Griffon Show, April 24, 2014
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  26. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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