KEVN-LD
| 200px | |
| Rapid City, South Dakota United States |
|
|---|---|
| Branding | Black Hills Fox (general) Black Hills Fox News (news) |
| Slogan | Real People. Real News. |
| Channels | Digital: 23 (UHF) Virtual: 7 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 7.1 Fox |
| Translators | KHSD-TV 11.2 (Lead) |
| Affiliations | Fox |
| Owner | Gray Television (Gray Television Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | February 24, 2016 |
| Call letters' meaning | SEVeN |
| Sister station(s) | KOTA-TV KSFY-TV |
| Transmitter power | 15 kW |
| Height | 184 m |
| Facility ID | 182523 |
| Transmitter coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: | Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.blackhillsfox.com |
KEVN-LD, virtual channel 7, is a Fox-affiliated television station affiliate based in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States. Owned by Gray Television, the station is a sister to ABC affiliate KOTA-TV, and the two stations have a co-located studio/office and transmitter facility located on Skyline Drive in Rapid City.
KEVN is also carried on virtual channel 11.2 on KOTA's full-power satellite in Lead, South Dakota, KHSD-TV, which can also be seen over the air in Rapid City. KHSD's transmitter is located near Spearfish, South Dakota.
Contents
History
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
KEVN intellectual unit
<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Until 2016, the KEVN call sign, Fox affiliation, and virtual channel 7 assignment were used on the broadcast license presently associated with KOTA-TV. KEVN-TV had launched in 1976 as an ABC affiliate, replacing KRSD-TV, which had signed on in 1958 as an NBC affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation, switched to CBS in 1970, and was denied license renewal in 1971; KRSD shut down several months before KEVN began operations. KEVN switched to NBC in 1984 and Fox in 1996. The original KEVN was also seen on a satellite station in Lead, KIVV-TV (channel 5), which operated on the license now used by KHSD-TV; virtual channel 5 is presently used by KQME, a satellite of MeTV affiliate KHME (channel 23).
Current license
On September 14, 2015, Gray bought the non-license assets of the market's ABC affiliate KOTA-TV as part of its acquisition of Schurz Communications' television stations. Due to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ownership restrictions, Gray established this new low-powered station to move the Fox affiliation, KEVN's call sign, virtual channel, and programming. KOTA's ABC affiliation and program streams including its existing PSIP channel 3 numbering was then moved to the old full-powered KEVN, transmitting on RF channel 7. The original KOTA-TV license was then sold to Legacy Broadcasting and became KHME.
Digital television
Digital channel
| Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming[1] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KEVN-DT | Main KEVN-LD programming / Fox |
News operation
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. KEVN-LD broadcasts 9½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 1½ hours on weekdays and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). The station carries a 6:00 p.m. newscast, but does not produce any newscasts during morning or midday timeslots. It rebroadcasts its hour-long 9:00 p.m. news program at 6:00 a.m. on weekday mornings.
Early in KEVN's Fox affiliation (on what is now KOTA-TV), the station produced an hour-long morning newscast at 7 a.m. and half-hour newscasts at noon, 5:30 p.m., and 10 p.m.; on weekends, KEVN aired only its late newscast.[2] In 1998, the station moved the late newscast to 9 p.m., making it the first Rapid City station to produce a primetime newscast;[3] Around the same time, the morning and midday newscasts were discontinued.[4] By 2001, KEVN expanded the weeknight 9 p.m. news to an hour;[5][6] the weekend edition of the newscast was expanded to an hour on November 2, 2013.[7][8] The station moved the early evening newscast to 6 p.m. on March 31, 2008 and relaunched it as The Six.[3]
References
- ↑ RabbitEars TV Query for KEVN
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Rapid City FOX Affiliate Expands Weekend Newscast TVSpy, November 4, 2013.
- ↑ KEVN Expands It's Weekend News To One Hour TVNewsCheck, November 4, 2013.
