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{{About||the radio station in Edinburg, Texas|KVLY (FM)}}
{{Short description|TV station in Fargo, North Dakota}}
{{original research|date=October 2015}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2024}}
{{Infobox television station
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2014}}
| callsign = KVLY-TV
{{refimprove section|date=September 2007}}
| city = Fargo, North Dakota
{{Infobox broadcast
| call_letters = KVLY-TV
| logo = KVLY11Logo.svg
| logo_alt = Bold letters K, L and Y in black. The V is instead a large red checkmark. To the right is a bold white 11 in a red box, and beneath all of this is a black box with the words "Valley News Live" in thinner sans-serif text.
| station_logo = [[File:KVLY11.png|Current KVLY logo bug]]<br>[[File:MeTVFargo.png|150px|Current KVLY-DT3 (Me-TV) logo.]]
| station_slogan = ''People You Know, News You Trust''
| logo_size = 220px
| station_branding = KVLY TV 11 {{small|(general)}}<br>Valley News Live {{small|(newscasts)}}<br/>KX4 {{small|(on DT2, simulcast of [[KXJB-LD]])}}<br/>MeTV Fargo {{small|(on DT3)}}
| branding = {{ubl|KVLY TV 11; ''Valley News Live''|[[KXJB-LD|KX4]] (11.2)}}
| digital = 44 ([[ultra high frequency|UHF]])<br>[[virtual channel|Virtual]]: 11 ([[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]])
| digital = 36 ([[UHF]])
| virtual = 11
| other_chs = {{small|34.1 K14PH-D [[Baudette, Minnesota|Baudette, MN]]}}<br>{{small|34.1 K34MC-D [[Williams, Minnesota|Williams, MN]]}}<br>{{small|11.1 K38OC-D [[Roseau, Minnesota|Roseau, MN]]}}
| translators = ''see {{section link||Translators}}''
| subchannels = 11.1 [[NBC]]<br/>[[KXJB-LD|11.2]] [[CBS]]<br/>11.3 [[MeTV]]<br/>[[KXJB-LD|11.4]] [[Heroes & Icons]]
| affiliations = NBC (since 1983)
| subchannels =
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''11.1:''' [[NBC]]|'''[[KXJB-LD|11.2]]:''' [[CBS]]|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| network =
| country = [[United States]]
| network =
| founded =
| country = United States
| airdate = {{start date and age |1959|10|11}}
| founded =
| enddate =
| airdate = {{start date and age|1959|10|11|p=y}}
| location = [[Fargo, North Dakota]]
| last_airdate =
| location = {{ubl|[[Fargo, North Dakota|Fargo]]–[[Grand Forks, North Dakota]]|[[Moorhead, Minnesota]]}}
| callsign_meaning = [[Red River Valley|Red River '''V'''a'''L'''le'''Y''']]
| callsign_meaning = [[Red River Valley]]
| former_callsigns = KXGO-TV (1959–1963)<br/>KEND-TV (1963–1964)<br/>KTHI-TV (1964–1995)
| former_callsigns = {{ubl|KXGO-TV (1959–1963)|KEND-TV (1963–1964)|KTHI-TV (1964–1995)}}
| former_channel_numbers = '''Analog''':<br/>11 ([[Very high frequency|VHF]], 1959–2009)
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 11 ([[VHF]], 1959–2009)|'''Digital:''' 44 (UHF, until 2019)}}
| owner = [[Gray Television]]
| licensee = Gray Television Licensee, LLC
| owner = [[Gray Television]]
| sister_stations = [[KXJB-LD]], [[KFYR-TV]], [[KMOT]], [[KQCD-TV]] & [[KUMV-TV]]
| licensee = Gray Television Licensee, [[LLC]]
| sister_stations = [[KXJB-LD]]
| former_affiliations = '''DT1:'''<br>[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] (1959–1983)<br/>'''DT2''':<br/>[[This TV]] (2010–2012)
| former_affiliations = [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] (1959–1983)
| effective_radiated_power = 356 kW
| HAAT = 2063 ft
| erp = 330 [[kW]]
| facility_id = 61961
| haat = {{convert|593.9|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id = 61961
| coordinates = {{Coord|47|20|32|N|97|17|20|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| coordinates = {{Coord|47|20|32|N|97|17|21|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority = [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
| homepage = {{URL|valleynewslive.com/}}
| website = {{URL|https://www.valleynewslive.com/}}
}}
}}


'''KVLY-TV''' channel 11 is the [[NBC]] affiliate for [[Fargo, North Dakota]], serving eastern North Dakota and northwestern [[Minnesota]]. It broadcasts a [[high-definition television|high definition]] [[digital television|digital]] signal on [[UHF]] channel 44 (or [[virtual channel]] 11.1 via [[PSIP]]) from a [[KVLY-TV mast|transmitter tower]] near [[Blanchard, North Dakota|Blanchard]]. The station can also be seen on [[cable television|cable]] channel 11 in most areas of the market. There is a high definition signal offered on [[Midcontinent Communications|Midco]] digital channel 611 and [[Cable One]] digital channel 1011.
'''KVLY-TV''' (channel 11) is a [[television station]] in [[Fargo, North Dakota]], United States, affiliated with [[NBC]]. It is owned by [[Gray Television]] alongside [[KXJB-LD]] (channel 30), a low-power [[CBS]] and [[The CW|CW]] affiliate. The two stations share studios on 21st Avenue South in Fargo; [[KVLY-TV mast|KVLY-TV's transmitter]] is located near [[Blanchard, North Dakota|Blanchard]]. In addition to its main studio in Fargo, KVLY-TV operates a news bureau and sales office in the [[US Bank]] building in downtown [[Grand Forks]].


Channel 11 began broadcasting on October 11, 1959. It was built by John Boler, the owner of [[KRDK-TV|KXJB-TV]], and served as little more than a passthrough for [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] programming in the immediate Fargo–[[Moorhead, Minnesota|Moorhead]] area. After being sold to the Polaris Corporation in 1962, the station was overhauled and turned into a full-service station with local programming. In February 1964, it began broadcasting from its current tower—which at one time was the tallest structure in the world—and changed its call sign to KTHI-TV. The expanded-coverage station subsumed the co-owned [[KNOX-TV]] in Grand Forks, but it was a distant third-place in local news ratings under [[Morgan Murphy Stations]], which owned KTHI-TV from 1969 to 1995. In 1983, KTHI-TV became an NBC affiliate after ABC moved to the market-leading [[WDAY-TV]] and [[WDAZ-TV]].
Owned by [[Gray Television]], the station is sister to [[low-power broadcasting|low-powered]] [[CBS]] affiliate [[KXJB-LD]] and the two outlets share studios on 21st Avenue South in Fargo. In addition to its main studio in Fargo, KVLY operates a news bureau and sales office in the [[US Bank]] building in downtown [[Grand Forks, North Dakota|Grand Forks]]. KVLY is considered a part of the '''''[[NBC North Dakota]]''''' [[state network]] of NBC affiliates, although it originates separate programming and newscasts from [[flagship (broadcasting)|flagship]] and sister station [[KFYR-TV]] in [[Bismarck, North Dakota|Bismarck]].


In 1995, Meyer Television acquired KTHI-TV, bringing it under the same umbrella as [[KFYR-TV]] in [[Bismarck, North Dakota|Bismarck]]. The station changed its call sign to KVLY-TV. Under Meyer and a procession of owners in the 1990s and early 2000s, KVLY moved from third to second place in local news. In 2003, most operations of KXJB-TV were consolidated with KVLY-TV under a [[local marketing agreement]], culminating in the 2007 establishment of full simulcast news under the name ''Valley News Live''. When [[Gray Television]] acquired KVLY-TV in 2014, it could not inherit the agreement to operate KXJB-TV, resulting in the CBS affiliation moving to a subchannel of KVLY and, eventually, new low-power stations.
The station is most notable for using the third tallest above-ground structure in the world for broadcasting its signal, rising {{convert|2063|ft|m|adj=on}} high. KVLY is owned by [[Gray Television]]. The KVLY tower was at one time the tallest structure in the world and it is currently the tallest structure in The Western Hemisphere. The [[KXJB-TV mast|KRDK-TV tower]] is located just 6 miles from the KVLY tower.


==History==
==History==
===Early years (1959–1968)===
The station signed on in 1959 as '''KXGO-TV''' (for Far'''GO'''), an [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] affiliate. From 1962 to 1963 it used the call letters '''KEND-TV'''. In 1963, channel 11 moved to its current tower near Blanchard and became known as '''KTHI-TV''' (which stands for Tower-HI).
Channel 13, not 11, was originally assigned to Fargo. This changed in December 1953 after the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) received a petition from a civic group in [[Bemidji, Minnesota]], seeking the assignment of channel 13 there.<ref name="Foru531104">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-bemidji-asks-tv-channel-switch/159510905/|date=November 4, 1953|page=10|agency=United Press|title=Bemidji Asks TV Channel Switch|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Wed --><ref name="Farg531202">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fargo-forum-daily-republican-and-m/159510923/|date=December 2, 1953|page=6|title=TV Channel Allotted To Fargo Shifted|newspaper=The Fargo Forum, Daily Republican, and Moorhead Daily News|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Wed --> This prompted a consortium of two local radio stations, [[KFGO (AM)|KFGO]] in Fargo and [[KVXR|KVOX]] in [[Moorhead, Minnesota]], to abandon their plans for the station.<ref name="Farg531230">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fargo-forum-daily-republican-and-m/159510966/|date=December 30, 1953|page=10|title=Withdraw Application For Channel 13 Permit|newspaper=The Fargo Forum, Daily Republican, and Moorhead Daily News|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Wed -->


Interest was rekindled in January 1957 when the Fargo Telecasting Company, controlled by [[Marvin Kratter]] of New York, applied for channel 11.<ref name="Farg570105">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fargo-forum-daily-republican-and-m/159511237/|date=January 5, 1957|page=2|agency=United Press|title=N.Y. Man Seeking TV Channel Here|newspaper=The Fargo Forum, Daily Republican, and Moorhead Daily News|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sat --> That application was followed five months later by one from the North Dakota Broadcasting Company (NDBC), controlled by John Boler.<ref name="Gran570623">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/grand-forks-herald-new-broadcasting-perm/159511272/|date=June 23, 1957|agency=Associated Press|page=23|title=New Broadcasting Permit Registered|newspaper=Grand Forks Herald|location=Grand Forks, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun --> Among Boler's holdings was [[KXJB-TV]] (channel 4) in [[Valley City, North Dakota|Valley City]].<ref name="Farg580108">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fargo-forum-daily-republican-and-m/159428986/|date=January 8, 1958|page=16|title=Hearing Set On New Fargo TV Channel|newspaper=The Fargo Forum, Daily Republican, and Moorhead Daily News|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Wed --> Kratter dropped out in January 1958. Turning down an intervention from Fargo TV station [[WDAY-TV]] (channel 6), which feared the loss of some network programs to the new station{{r|Farg580108}} and believed that channels 4 and 11 would constitute a then-illegal [[duopoly (broadcasting)|duopoly]],<ref name="Farg580128">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fargo-forum-daily-republican-and-m/159429140/|date=January 28, 1958|page=2|first=Richard P.|last=Powers|agency=Associated Press|title=Hearing Held On Permit For Channel 11|newspaper=The Fargo Forum, Daily Republican, and Moorhead Daily News|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Tue --> an FCC hearing examiner approved the North Dakota Broadcasting Company application on May 27, 1958;<ref name="Farg580527">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fargo-forum-daily-republican-and-m/159429156/|date=May 27, 1958|page=1|title=Channel 11 Permit Recommended|newspaper=The Fargo Forum, Daily Republican, and Moorhead Daily News|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Tue --> the commission approved the station in 1959. NDBC announced that, though the studios would be shared with KXJB-TV's Fargo site and the recently purchased KFGO (renamed KXGO), the new station would transmit from [[Sabin, Minnesota]], and be KXGO-TV.<ref name="Farg590109">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fargo-forum-daily-republican-and-m/159429188/|date=January 9, 1959|page=9|title=TV Channel 11 Approved For Fargo|newspaper=The Fargo Forum, Daily Republican, and Moorhead Daily News|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Fri --><ref name="Foru590730">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-grant-issued-for-channel-11-in/159429211/|date=July 30, 1959|page=1|title=Grant Issued For Channel 11 In Fargo|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Thu -->
On August 22, 1983, KTHI became an NBC affiliate, swapping affiliations with longtime NBC affiliate [[WDAY-TV]]. The current call sign, adopted on May 2, 1995, represents the station's slogan, "The Valley's Choice for Local News," as it serves the communities along the [[Red River of the North]] and its tributaries.


KXGO-TV began broadcasting on October 11, 1959.<ref name="Foru591010">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-channel-11-to-begin-broadcasts/159429300/|date=October 10, 1959|page=11|title=Channel 11 To Begin Broadcasts|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sat --> Its arrival triggered a minor realignment of network programming in North Dakota as its first exclusive [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] affiliate. Previously, North Dakota's three [[NBC]] affiliates—WDAY-TV, [[KFYR-TV]] in [[Bismarck, North Dakota|Bismarck]], and [[KNOX-TV]] in [[Grand Forks, North Dakota|Grand Forks]]—had aired some ABC shows. With the advent of channel 11, ABC shows were now seen from the new KXGO-TV and Boler's Bismarck station, [[KXMB-TV|KBMB-TV]]. However, some viewers lost ABC programming because the NBC affiliates reached more viewers than channel 11.<ref name="Foru590918">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-new-f-m-area-tv-station-readyi/159428921/|date=September 18, 1959|page=T-6|title=New F-M Area TV Station Readying Programming For Oct. 1 Kickoff|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Fri -->
From 1968 until the mid-1980s, channel 11 was carried by [[cable television|cable systems]] across [[Manitoba]] and northwestern [[Ontario]], including the [[Winnipeg]] area. When KTHI switched affiliation to NBC, it was replaced by ABC affiliate [[WDAZ-TV]] in [[Grand Forks, North Dakota|Grand Forks]], until Canadian cable companies were granted permission to replace most of the North Dakota stations with network affiliates from [[Detroit, Michigan]].


In 1962, Ferris Traylor of [[Evansville, Indiana]], acquired KXGO-TV as well as KNOX-TV in Grand Forks and [[KCND-TV]] (channel 12) in [[Pembina, North Dakota|Pembina]]. The new ownership announced major plans to shuffle the first two stations by relocating channel 11 to a new, tall tower near [[Hillsboro, North Dakota]] and moving channel 10 completely from Grand Forks to [[Thief River Falls, Minnesota]].<ref name="Farg620510">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fargo-forum-daily-republican-and-m/159429355/|date=May 10, 1962|page=26|title=KXGO-TV, 2 Other N.D. Stations Sold|newspaper=The Fargo Forum, Daily Republican, and Moorhead Daily News|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Thu --> The station set up new local offices in the Manchester Building in Fargo<ref name="Farg620818">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fargo-forum-daily-republican-and-m/159429429/|date=August 18, 1962|page=3|title=KXGO-TV To Move Offices|newspaper=The Fargo Forum, Daily Republican, and Moorhead Daily News|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sat --> and began planning the construction of a new, {{convert|2000|ft|m}} television tower. At the time, the tallest tower—located in [[Columbus, Georgia]]—was {{convert|1749|ft|m}} high. On May 15, 1963, to dissociate itself from KXGO radio, the station changed its call sign to KEND-TV (for "Eastern North Dakota"{{r|Foru630516}}); that month, the new tall tower received FCC approval.<ref name="Farg630509">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fargo-forum-daily-republican-and-m/159429479/|date=May 9, 1963|page=22|title=2,000-Foot TV Tower Planned|newspaper=The Fargo Forum, Daily Republican, and Moorhead Daily News|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Thu --> This tower would make KNOX-TV redundant by encapsulating Grand Forks in the enlarged channel 11 service area.<ref name="Foru630516">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-channel-11-has-new-call-letter/159429499/|date=May 16, 1963|page=11|title=Channel 11 Has New Call Letters|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Thu --> Though delayed by the discovery that [[Bethlehem Steel]] had produced defective steel for the tower and two others across the country,<ref name="BC631007">{{cite news|page=70|date=October 7, 1963|title=Defective towers will be replaced|work=Broadcasting|id={{pq|1014465677}} }}</ref> the structure was completed on November 8, 1963, when a {{convert|113|ft|m|adj=on}} antenna for channel 11 was affixed to the top of the {{convert|1950|ft|m|adj=on}} mast.<ref name="Foru631109">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-antenna-put-on-tallest-tower-i/159559630/|date=November 9, 1963|page=1|title=Antenna Put on Tallest Tower in 18 Minutes|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sat -->
In September 2005, ten years after changing its call sign from KTHI, KVLY became the first major network affiliate in Fargo to broadcast in [[high-definition television|high-definition]]. In May 2006, KVLY made its logo bolder to reflect the change to HDTV. KVLY is the second most watched television station in the Red River Valley behind [[WDAY-TV]] (Fargo)/[[WDAZ-TV]] (Grand Forks), which are owned by Forum Communications Company.
[[File:KVLYFromBase.jpeg|thumb|upright=0.75|right|Built in 1964, the [[KVLY-TV mast]] was the world's tallest structure at completion.|alt=A very tall, thin guyed tower]]
When the tower was due to be activated on February 1, 1964, KEND-TV changed its call sign again to KTHI-TV (for "Tower High");<ref name="Farg631213">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fargo-forum-daily-republican-and-m/159428850/|date=December 13, 1963|page=T-6|first=Jerry|last=Ruff|title=Exciting Changes Due on KEND-TV|newspaper=The Fargo Forum, Daily Republican, and Moorhead Daily News|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Fri --> technical questions pushed back the site switch to February 8.<ref name="Foru640201">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-kthi-tv-start-awaits-delivery/159429998/|date=February 1, 1964|page=7|title=KTHI-TV Start Awaits Delivery Of Transformer|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sat --><ref name="Foru640209">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-kthi-tv-using-new-tower/159429614/|date=February 9, 1964|page=11|title=KTHI-TV Using New Tower|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun --> Coinciding with the change, the station moved into new studios south of Fargo.{{r|Farg631213}} KNOX-TV was shut down, and its studio and office in Grand Forks was absorbed into the enlarged KTHI operation.<ref name="Gran640126">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/grand-forks-herald-kthi-tv-replaces-knox/159525930/|date=January 26, 1964|page=40|title=KTHI-TV Replaces KNOX-TV|newspaper=Grand Forks Herald|location=Grand Forks, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun --><ref name="Farg640131">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fargo-forum-daily-republican-and-m/159429910/|date=January 31, 1964|page=T-7|first=Jerry|last=Ruff|title=KTHI-TV Due on Air Next Week|newspaper=The Fargo Forum, Daily Republican, and Moorhead Daily News|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Fri -->


Traylor's broadcasting interests were undergoing ownership changes even as channel 11 was acquired, as [[Milwaukee]]-based Polaris Industries acquired half of Traylor-owned Producers, Inc. in 1962<ref name="Evan620724">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evansville-courier-and-press-producers-s/159526431/|date=July 24, 1962|page=16|title=Producers Seeks To Buy TV Stations In North Dakota|newspaper=The Evansville Courier|location=Evansville, Indiana|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Tue --> and the remainder in 1963.<ref name="Evan630325">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evansville-press-polaris-takes-over-tray/159526562/|date=March 25, 1963|page=13|first=Ed|last=Klingler|title=Polaris Takes Over Traylor Firms Here|newspaper=Evansville Press|location=Evansville, Indiana|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Mon --> In 1966, Polaris merged with the Natco Corporation. It put KTHI-TV and KCND-TV on the market; despite an offer for the former by Don Burden of the [[Star Stations]] radio group,<ref name="Farg660301">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-fargo-forum-daily-republican-and-m/159504625/|date=March 1, 1966|page=18|title=Polaris Says It Is Considering Offer for KTHI|newspaper=The Fargo Forum, Daily Republican, and Moorhead Daily News|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Tue --> channel 11 was never sold and remained in the Natco fold post-merger.<ref name="Atla660922">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-atlanta-constitution-broadcast-firm/159526332/|date=September 22, 1966|page=61|title=Broadcast Firm Going To NATCO|newspaper=The Atlanta Constitution|location=Atlanta, Georgia|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Thu --><ref name="Gran661004">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/grand-forks-herald-license-transfer-appr/159512491/|date=October 4, 1966|page=5|title=License Transfer Approved By FCC|newspaper=Grand Forks Herald|location=Grand Forks, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Tue --> Natco's primary owner, [[J. B. Fuqua]], renamed the firm Fuqua Industries in February 1967.<ref name="Trib670204">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-tribune-natco-corp-to-change-name-t/159526653/|date=February 4, 1967|first=William D.|last=Laffler|agency=UPI|page=6|title=Natco Corp. To Change Name To Fuqua Feb. 13|newspaper=The Coshocton Tribune|location=Coshocton, Ohio|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sat --> During this time, in 1967, KTHI-TV moved its Grand Forks studio to larger quarters on 9th Avenue North.<ref name="Gran681006">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/grand-forks-herald-kthi-tv-started-in-19/159466755/|date=October 6, 1968|page=30|title=KTHI-TV Started In 1964|newspaper=Grand Forks Herald|location=Grand Forks, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun --> This came after the company considered originating half of KTHI's broadcast day from Grand Forks and the other half from Fargo.<ref name="Gran660803">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/grand-forks-herald-plans-are-announced-f/159504699/|date=August 3, 1966|page=21|title=Plans Are Announced For KTHI Expansion|newspaper=Grand Forks Herald|location=Grand Forks, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Wed -->
Meyer Broadcasting of [[Bismarck, North Dakota]], owner of [[KFYR-TV]] in [[Bismarck, North Dakota|Bismarck]] and its network of satellites in western North Dakota, bought the station in 1995. It sold its television stations to [[Smith Media|Sunrise Television]] in 1997. In 2002, Sunrise sold its North Dakota stations to the Wicks Group of New York City. [[Hoak Media]] bought all of Wicks' television stations, including KVLY, in January 2007.
[[File:KVLY2006.png|thumb|left|Previous KVLY logo used from 2006 until 2014, still used as secondary]]
In 2003, KVLY began operating [[CBS]] affiliate [[KRDK-TV|KXJB-TV]] under a [[local marketing agreement]], and the two stations began sharing facilities. In April 2007, KVLY-TV and KXJB-TV began [[simulcast]]ing weekend newscasts, and in November 2007, the stations began simulcasting news during weekdays along with rebranding as [[Valley News Live]].<ref>[http://reverbpress.com/news/us/north-dakota-tv-station-stokes-hate-and-fear-in-outrageous-report-on-refugees TV station stokes hate and fear in outrageous report on refugees - Reverb Press]</ref> KXJB uses its "4" [[digital on-screen graphic|bug]], while KVLY uses the "11" bug during newscasts.


===Morgan Murphy ownership (1969–1995)===
On January 2010, KVLY added classic movie network [[This TV]] to [[digital subchannel|subchannel]] 11.2. Classic TV show network [[MeTV]] replaced This TV on channel 11.2 on January 1, 2013.
In 1969, Fuqua Industries sold KTHI-TV for $1.491 million to Spokane Television, a subsidiary of the [[Morgan Murphy Stations]] group.<ref name="Gran690126">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/grand-forks-herald-sale-of-kthi-tv-appro/159430478/|date=January 26, 1969|page=11|title=Sale Of KTHI-TV Approved|newspaper=Grand Forks Herald|location=Grand Forks, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun --> The FCC waived a rule requiring new owners to hold stations at least three years except in cases of financial difficulty, noting that Pembina had not been able to find a buyer in 1966 even though the sale of KTHI-TV was provided for in the merger agreement.<ref>{{cite news|work=Variety|title=3-Year Rule Waived on Sale of KTHI-TV|id={{pq|962938130}}|page=46|date=January 29, 1969}}</ref> After the sale, the station remained unprofitable for at least its first four years.<ref>{{cite news|id={{pq|1014524281}}|page=31|title=Dakota sale prompts media-control charge|date=February 19, 1973|work=Broadcasting}}</ref> Into the late 1970s, most of the station's local morning programming continued to originate from Grand Forks.<ref name="Foru781114">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-3-commercial-stations-serve-f/159505229/|date=November 14, 1978|page=Centennial 18|title=3 commercial stations serve F-M area|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Tue -->


On August 22, 1983, KTHI became an NBC affiliate, swapping affiliations with WDAY-TV and its satellite for the [[Devils Lake, North Dakota|Devils Lake]] and Grand Forks area, [[WDAZ-TV]] (channel 8). The switch was initiated by ABC, which at the time was number-one in the ratings seeking affiliation upgrades nationally and had courted WDAY for several years. KTHI management found out in a curt, 90-second phone call from ABC; most station employees learned their station was losing its network by way of an announcement on WDAY-TV's newscast.<ref name="Foru830821">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-deciphering-the-dial-network/159550618/|date=August 21, 1983|pages=F-1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-television/159550648/ F-2]|first=Janna Q.|last=Anderson|title=Deciphering the dial: Network switching will change channels on our favorite shows|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun --><ref name="Gran830804">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/grand-forks-herald-playing-musical-chann/159451072/|date=August 4, 1983|pages=1A, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/grand-forks-herald-networks/159451094/ 13A]|first=Joyce|last=Terhaar|title=Playing musical channels: Some fans can't switch with networks|newspaper=Grand Forks Herald|location=Grand Forks, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Thu -->
On November 20, 2013, Hoak announced the sale of most of its stations, including KVLY-TV, to [[Gray Television]]. Concurrently with the deal, sister station KXJB-TV was to be sold by Parker Broadcasting to Excalibur Broadcasting and would have continued to be operated by KVLY.<ref name=tvnc-saletogray>{{cite news|title=Gray Buying Hoak, Prime Stations For $342.5M|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/72138/gray-buying-hoak-prime-stations-for-3425m|accessdate=November 20, 2013|newspaper=TVNewsCheck|date=November 20, 2013}}</ref> The sale was completed on June 13. KXJB was to be acquired by Excalibur Broadcasting, at which it would have remained under an LMA with KVLY. But upon the closing of the sale, and in the wake of the new FCC rules restricting [[local marketing agreement]]s, Excalibur abandoned its plans to acquire the station.<ref>[http://rbr.com/gray-closes-hoak-deal-completes-refinancing/ Gray closes Hoak deal; completes refinancing.], rbr.com, Retrieved June 13, 2014.</ref>


Until 1986, channel 11 was carried by cable systems across [[Manitoba]], including the [[Winnipeg]] area. It and KXJB-TV were removed when Canadian cable companies were granted permission to replace most of the North Dakota stations with network affiliates from [[Detroit]] provided via the [[CANCOM]] service, which were believed to have better picture quality.<ref name="Winn860307">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-winnipeg-sun-no-more-snow/159465949/|date=March 7, 1986|page=10|title=No more snow|first=Donald|last=Benham|newspaper=The Winnipeg Sun|location=Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Fri -->
Gray would continue to provide certain services to KXJB in the interim, at which it would later move its CBS programming to a multicast subchannel of KVLY. If a buyer was not found for KXJB, the station would cease broadcasting in the interim. KXJB would then be spun off to minority interests, which under this arrangement would allow the station to continue operating on the conditions that it would continue to operate the station independently (under minority, female and/or non-profit ownership) and not make any partnerships or sharing arrangements with other broadcasters.<ref>[http://rbr.com/gray-retains-mmtc-as-broker-for-former-ssad-stations/ Gray retains MMTC as broker for former SSA’d stations], rbr.com, Retrieved June 13, 2014.</ref>


===Meyer and Sunrise ownership===
Starting on November 12, 2014, [[CBS]] affiliate [[KRDK-TV|KXJB-TV]]'s programming began being simulcast KVLY's second digital subchannel, displacing MeTV to the third subchannel, as KXJB was sold to Major Market Broadcasting.<ref>http://www.prairiebizmag.com/event/article/id/20672/</ref> KXJB signed off at midnight on December 1, 2014 as its programming moved to KVLY's subchannel.<ref>http://www.valleynewslive.com/home/headlines/284288191.html</ref> The main feed of KVLY-DT2 began simulcasting as a 1080i HD main channel of [[KXJB-LD]] 30.1 in September 2016, along with [[broadcast translators|translators]] K28MA-D 28.1 Argusville (covering north and west of Fargo) and K30LR-D 30.1 Grand Forks. KXJB-LD's signal is continued in 720p high-definition to KVLY-DT2 11.2 to provide full-market access to CBS in HD.
Meyer Broadcasting of [[Bismarck, North Dakota]], owner of KFYR-TV in Bismarck and its network of satellites in western North Dakota, bought the station in a deal announced in November 1994 and completed in March 1995.<ref name="Foru941110">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-meyer-group-buys-kthi/159505353/|date=November 10, 1994|page=A1|title=Meyer group buys KTHI|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Thu --><ref name="Foru950307">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-hamilton-joins-list-of-kthi-ca/159430783/|date=March 7, 1995|pages=A1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-kthi/159430828/ A12]|first=Betsy|last=Gerboth|title=Hamilton joins list of KTHI casualties|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Tue --> On June 5,<!--Approved by the FCC May 2, not used on air for another month--> the station changed its call sign to KVLY-TV, reflecting the [[Red River Valley]] region; recently relaxed FCC rules allowed [[KVLY (FM)|an FM station in Texas]] to share the call sign.<ref name="Foru950527">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-kthi-to-become-kvly-tv/159430904/|date=May 27, 1995|page=A1|first=Betsy|last=Gerboth|title=KTHI to become KVLY-TV|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sat --> In 1998, Meyer opted to exit the television business. It sold all its TV stations—KVLY-TV and KFYR-TV and satellites—to Sunrise Television, a division of the private equity firm [[HM Capital Partners|Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst]], for $63.75 million.<ref name="Foru980428">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-kvly-part-of-meyer-sale-bisma/159464967/|date=April 28, 1998|page=C1|agency=Associated Press|title=KVLY part of Meyer sale: Bismarck-based firm selling its 5 N.D. TV stations|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Tue --><ref name="Gran981125">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/grand-forks-herald-kvly-tv-11-bought-by/159464980/|date=November 25, 1998|page=7B|first=Julie|last=Copeland|title=KVLY-TV 11 bought by STC Broadcasting|newspaper=Grand Forks Herald|location=Grand Forks, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Wed -->


===Consolidation with KXJB===
==Digital television==
In 2002, North Dakota Television LLC—a consortium of private equity firms The Wicks Group of Companies, [[JP Morgan Partners]], and Halyard Capital—acquired KVLY-TV and KFYR-TV.<ref name="Bism020831">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113092234/new-owners-at-five-nd-tv-stations/|date=August 31, 2002|page=4C|title=New owners at five N.D. TV stations|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=The Bismarck Tribune|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 15, 2022|archive-date=November 15, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221115045557/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113092234/new-owners-at-five-nd-tv-stations/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Sat --> The next year, the station acquired the non-license assets of KXJB from Catamount Broadcasting. Under a [[local marketing agreement]] (LMA), KVLY began to provide most operating functions beyond programming for KXJB. The KVLY studios on 21st Avenue South were expanded to house an additional studio for KXJB.{{r|Foru040327}} [[Hoak Media]] of Dallas acquired KVLY-TV and KFYR-TV, as well as [[KSFY-TV]] in [[Sioux Falls, South Dakota]], and its satellites in 2006.<ref name="Rapi060719">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113092316/hoak-media-buys-dakotas-stations/|date=July 19, 2006|page=A15|title=Hoak Media buys Dakotas stations|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=Rapid City Journal|location=|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 15, 2022}}</ref><!-- Wed -->
[[File:KVLYFromBase.jpeg|thumb|165px|right|The [[KVLY-TV mast]] seen close up]]


On November 20, 2013, Hoak announced the sale of most of its stations, including KVLY-TV, to [[Gray Television]]. Simultaneously, KXJB-TV was to be sold by Parker Broadcasting to Excalibur Broadcasting and would have continued to be operated by KVLY under an LMA.<ref name=tvnc-saletogray>{{cite news|title=Gray Buying Hoak, Prime Stations For $342.5M|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/72138/gray-buying-hoak-prime-stations-for-3425m|access-date=November 20, 2013|newspaper=TVNewsCheck|date=November 20, 2013|archive-date=December 2, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202221736/http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/72138/gray-buying-hoak-prime-stations-for-3425m|url-status=live}}</ref> The sale was completed on June 13, but upon the closing of the sale, and in the wake of the new FCC rules restricting LMAs, Excalibur abandoned its plans to acquire the station.<ref>{{Cite news|work=Radio and Television Business Report|url=http://rbr.com/gray-closes-hoak-deal-completes-refinancing/|title=Gray closes Hoak deal; completes refinancing|access-date=June 13, 2014|archive-date=July 29, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729012017/http://rbr.com/gray-closes-hoak-deal-completes-refinancing/|url-status=live}}</ref> Instead, Gray began seeking an independent, minority-owned buyer for the KXJB facility<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://rbr.com/gray-retains-mmtc-as-broker-for-former-ssad-stations/|title=Gray retains MMTC as broker for former SSA'd stations|work=Radio and Television Business Report|access-date=June 13, 2014|archive-date=June 15, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140615201741/http://rbr.com/gray-retains-mmtc-as-broker-for-former-ssad-stations/|url-status=live}}</ref> and made plans to move KXJB's CBS programming to a subchannel of KVLY-TV.<ref name="Foru140713">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-fcc-decision-has-cbs-moving-to/159465836/|date=July 13, 2014|pages=A1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-cbs/159465822/ A14]|first=Adrian|last=Glass-Moore|title=FCC decision has CBS moving to new subchannel: VNL official: Most viewers won't notice change|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun --> This took place on November 12, 2014, as KXJB was sold to Major Market Broadcasting.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.prairiebizmag.com/event/article/id/20672/ |title=KXJB sold: CBS programming will live on as KX4 |work=Prairie Business Magazine |first=Dave|last=Olson|agency=Forum News Service |access-date=November 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141206173128/http://www.prairiebizmag.com/event/article/id/20672 |archive-date=December 6, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The KXJB facility was turned off on December 1, 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.valleynewslive.com/home/headlines/284288191.html |title=A look back on the last 60 years of KXJB Television |website=www.valleynewslive.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141203195234/http://www.valleynewslive.com/home/headlines/284288191.html |archive-date=December 3, 2014}}</ref> To supplement the main transmitter for CBS service, Gray acquired three low-power stations, at [[Horace, North Dakota|Horace]], [[Argusville, North Dakota|Argusville]], and Grand Forks, in 2015.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.northpine.com/broadcast/archive/news1015.html|title=Broadcast News, October 2015|date=October 12, 2015|website=Northpine|first=Jon|last=Ellis|access-date=November 24, 2024|archive-date=May 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527204754/http://northpine.com/broadcast/archive/news1015.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The Horace transmitter became [[KXJB-LD]], bringing the call sign back to use after Gray temporarily parked it on a facility in Wyoming.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://northpine.com/broadcast/archive/news0216.html|date=February 14, 2016|title=Broadcast News, February 2016|website=Northpine|first=Jon|last=Ellis|access-date=November 24, 2024|archive-date=June 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170622190816/http://www.northpine.com/broadcast/archive/news0216.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
===Digital channels===
The station's digital signal is [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! [[Display resolution|Video]]
! [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! [[Program and System Information Protocol#What PSIP does|PSIP Short Name]]
! Programming<ref>[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KVLY#station RabbitEars TV Query for KVLY]</ref>
|-
| 11.1 || [[1080i]] || rowspan=2| [[16:9]] || KVLY-DT || Main KVLY-TV programming / [[NBC]]
|-
| [[KXJB-LD|11.2]] || [[720p]] || KXJB-DT || Simulcast of [[KXJB-LD]] / [[CBS]]
|-
| 11.3 || rowspan=2| [[480i]] || [[4:3]] || MeTV || [[MeTV]]
|-
| 11.4 || 16:9 || H&I TV || Simulcast of [[KXJB-LD|KXJB-LD3]] / [[Heroes & Icons]]
|}

In January 2010, KVLY-TV began broadcasting the [[This TV]] network on [[digital subchannel|subchannel]] 11.2. On January 1, 2013, This TV programming was replaced on digital channel 11.2 with its former sister network [[MeTV]] (both networks were owned at the time by [[Weigel Broadcasting]]; This TV has since been taken over by [[Tribune Broadcasting]]).<ref>[http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/63533/metv-adds-wptz-burlington-kvly-fargo Me-TV Adds WPTZ Burlington, KVLY Fargo], ''TVNewsCheck'', November 14, 2012.</ref> In addition to the main MeTV programming, KVLY uses the subchannel for live events (including [[NDSU Bison]] basketball), and to repeat its morning newscast, ''The Valley Today'', in the late morning. On November 12, 2014, [[CBS]] affiliate [[KRDK-TV|KXJB-TV]]'s programming was moved to KVLY's second digital subchannel (now also carried as [[KXJB-LD]]'s main channel), displacing MeTV to the third. [[Heroes & Icons]] was added during [[November 2016]] to KVLY's fourth subchannel, bringing a full-market coverage simulcast of [[KXJB-LD]]'s third subchannel.

===Analog-to-digital conversion===
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KVLY-TV shut down its analog signal, over [[Very high frequency|VHF]] channel 11, on February 16, 2009, the day prior to the original date in which full-power television stations in the United States were set to [[Digital television transition in the United States|transition from analog to digital broadcasts]] under federal mandate (which was later rescheduled for June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition [[Ultra high frequency|UHF]] channel 44.<ref>[http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/230023/ Congress delays digital TV conversion], The Forum, Fargo ND, February 5, 2009</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |format=PDF |date= |accessdate=2012-03-24}}</ref> Through the use of [[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]], digital television receivers display the station's [[virtual channel]] as its former VHF analog channel 11.

==Programming==
[[Broadcast syndication|Syndicated]] programming on KVLY includes ''[[Dr. Phil (TV series)|Dr. Phil]]'', ''[[The Ellen DeGeneres Show]]'', ''[[Live! with Kelly]]'', ''[[Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)|Wheel of Fortune]]'' among others.


==Valley News Live==
==Local programming==
===News operation===
[[File:ValleyNewsLive.png|thumb|left|Valley News Live logo]]
[[File:ValleyNewsLive.png|thumb|left|Valley News Live logo]]
The original KXGO-TV had no local programming or studios, relying nearly exclusively on network material from ABC.{{r|Foru630516}} This changed in February 1964, when the station became KTHI-TV and began airing local newscasts. One of the first on-air personalities was former professional football player [[Steve Myhra]] as a sportscaster.{{r|Farg631213}} When Morgan Murphy bought channel 11 in 1969, the news department was reorganized with the main early evening newscast at 5 p.m.<ref name="Gran690914">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/grand-forks-herald-all-family-programm/159466768/|date=September 14, 1969|page=35|title='All Family' Programming: KTHI-TV adds Live Studio Color Here|newspaper=Grand Forks Herald|location=Grand Forks, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 22, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun --> After canceling it,<ref name="Foru810816a">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-kthi-zimmermanhamilton/159430266/|date=August 16, 1981|pages=B-1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-kthi/159430375/ B-2]|first=Sylvia|last=Paine|title=(KTHI) Zimmerman/Hamilton|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun --> the station reinstated an early newscast at 5:30 in 1977,<ref name="Foru770813">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-kthi-adds-530-news/159451324/|date=August 13, 1977|page=22|title=KTHI adds 5:30 news|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sat --> which moved back to 5 p.m. by 1981. While KTHI attracted a reasonable audience uncontested at 5 p.m., when fewer households watched TV, its 10 p.m. news—head-to-head with WDAY–WDAZ and KXJB—was a distant third at that time, watched by just 7 percent of viewers.<ref name="Foru810816">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-local-tv-news-how-does-it-sta/159430189/|date=August 16, 1981|page=B-1|first=Sylvia|last=Paine|title=Local TV news: How does it stack up?|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun --> Such advancements as a co-anchor format as well as Grand Forks stories introduced live by an anchor in Grand Forks<ref name="Gran820912">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/grand-forks-herald-the-news-at-kthi-tv-i/159451255/|date=September 12, 1982|page=9|title=The news at KTHI-TV is the new look|newspaper=Grand Forks Herald|location=Grand Forks, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun --> were later discontinued to simplify the newscast. The station returned to a co-anchor format in 1987<ref name="Gran870712">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/grand-forks-herald-theyre-backreturn-t/159466001/|date=July 12, 1987|page=7D|first=Mike|last=Brue|title=They're back—return to the co-anchor format|newspaper=Grand Forks Herald|location=Grand Forks, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun --> and later that year introduced its first morning newscast.<ref name="Gran871108">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/grand-forks-herald-kthis-new-morning-ne/159466643/|date=November 8, 1987|page=8D|first=Mike|last=Brue|title=KTHI's new morning news is radio made for television|newspaper=Grand Forks Herald|location=Grand Forks, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun -->
KVLY broadcasts 17 hours of news per week, with 4 1/2 hours on weekdays and 1 1/2 on the weekends between the main NBC channel and the CBS-affiliated [[KXJB-LD]].


In 1989, KTHI hired Charley Johnson, the 14-year news director and anchor at KXJB, to anchor its newscasts, including a 6 p.m. edition to go head-to-head with the other local stations. The new newscast was added in part, per general manager John Hrubesky, to beat a misconception national advertisers had about the Midwest, that few people were watching TV at 5 p.m. because they were on the farm.<ref name="Foru890115">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-kthi-6-pm-news-will-be-added/159466598/|date=January 15, 1989|page=C4|first=Betsy|last=Gerboth|title=KTHI 6 p.m. news will be added soon|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun --> It was the first time a local station had produced three full evening newscasts; in 1979, KXJB had briefly shared a 5 p.m. newscast with the [[KXMB-TV|KX Network]] stations in western North Dakota.<ref name="Gran881207">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/grand-forks-herald-kthis-3-times-nightl/159467004/|date=December 7, 1988|pages=1B, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/grand-forks-herald-kthi/159466999/ 2B]|first=Mike|last=Brue|title=KTHI's 3-times nightly news a 1st|newspaper=Grand Forks Herald|location=Grand Forks, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Wed --> The ratings did not immediately improve; at 10 p.m., KTHI had an audience share of 7 percent, roughly half that of KXJB and a quarter that of WDAY–WDAZ.<ref name="Gran900506">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/grand-forks-herald-kxjb-news-goes-on-the/159466621/|date=May 6, 1990|page=7B|first=Mike|last=Brue|title=KXJB news goes on the road for a week in May|newspaper=Grand Forks Herald|location=Grand Forks, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun --> The morning newscast, 15 minutes in length since its 1987 debut, was lengthened to a full half-hour in 1993.<ref name="Agwe950904">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/agweek-keeping-farmers-up-to-date/159430923/|date=September 4, 1995|page=50|first=Mike|last=Brue|title=Keeping farmers up-to-date|newspaper=Agweek|location=Grand Forks, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Mon -->
Valley News Live is the name of the news department by KVLY and KXJB.


Upon the Meyer acquisition of KTHI, the company dismissed lead news anchor Doug Hamilton.{{r|Foru950307}} By 1996, the station was narrowly behind KXJB at 6 p.m. and ahead of it at 10 p.m.,<ref name="Foru960407">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-local-tv-news-numbers-make-eve/159465112/|date=April 7, 1996|page=C5|first=Ross|last=Raihala|title=Local TV news numbers make everyone happy|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun --> and it was ahead of KXJB in both time periods by 2000.<ref name="Foru000917">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-kvrr-ecstatic-about-channel/159465091/|date=September 17, 2000|page=A17|first=Tom|last=Pantera|title=KVRR 'ecstatic' about channel's 9 p.m. news ratings|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun --> KXJB's condition worsened over the ensuing years. When KVLY took over most of KXJB's operations in 2003, the latter station's early evening newscast times and format were changed to not conflict with KVLY. Except for a noon newscast, which KVLY did not offer, there was initially little overlap in on-air presenters.<ref name="Foru040327">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-a-tale-of-two-stations-kvly/159465055/|date=March 27, 2004|pages=E1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-merger-competition-fierce-for/159465033/ E8]|first=Gerry|last=Gilmour|title=A tale of two stations: KVLY, KXJB combine forces in F-M news delivery|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sat --> That changed in November 2007, when the stations' previously separate weeknight 10 p.m. newscasts and news brands were combined under the name ''Valley News Live''. The stations had already been airing a combined weekend newscast.<ref name="Foru071103">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-stations-to-share-news-shows/159465641/|date=November 3, 2007|pages=A1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-stations-c-johnson-to-go-off/159465659/ A12]|first=Dave|last=Roepke|title=Stations to share news shows: KVLY, KXJB to keep all staff|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sat --><ref name="Foru071112">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-viewer-reaction-to-simulcasts/159465618/|date=November 12, 2007|pages=A1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-reaction-consolidation-of-med/159465603/ A12]|first=Dave|last=Roepke|title=Viewer reaction to simulcasts mixed|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Mon -->
KVLY and KXJB started simulcasting weekend news in April 2007. The same news is broadcast on both channels. KXJB uses its "4" [[digital on-screen graphic|bug]], while KVLY uses the "11" bug during newscasts.{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}}


Over the course of the 2010s, Valley News Live became increasingly competitive with WDAY. In May 2013, while WDAY maintained a lead on total households, Valley News Live accounted for more viewership in key demographics favored by advertisers.<ref name="Foru130623">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-wday-reaches-more-viewers-in-m/159465866/|date=June 23, 2013|pages=C1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-ratings/159465875/ C3]|first=John|last=Lamb|title=WDAY reaches more viewers in May: Valley News Live heralds its wins in 'coveted' ratings demographics|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun --> In 2014, KVLY surpassed WDAY as the ratings leader in Fargo–Moorhead proper, though the combination of WDAY and WDAZ remained number-one in the full [[designated market area]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.prairiebizmag.com/event/article/id/20635/publisher_ID/46/ |title=KVLY takes lead in metro ratings; WDAY maintains lead in RRV |work= Prairie Business Magazine |first=John |last=Lamb |agency=Forum News Service |access-date=December 30, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141230232718/http://www.prairiebizmag.com/event/article/id/20635/publisher_ID/46/ |archive-date=December 30, 2014 }}</ref>
In November 2007, it was announced KVLY and KXJB would expand their simulcasting to the weekdays as well, and on November 5, 2007 that occurred. The new news branding is called "Valley News Live".


As of September 2024, Valley News Live produced a combined 39 hours a week of local news programming across the NBC and CBS subchannels.<ref>{{Unbulleted list citebundle|{{Cite web|url=https://publicfiles.fcc.gov/enwiki/api/manager/download/ba322281-c573-047b-1c17-0762bb445ba9/d79ba381-e6bc-4605-8beb-066f9fe76f09.pdf|title=Quarterly List of Programming Providing the Most Significant Treatment of Community Issues for the Quarter Beginning July 1st, 2024, KVLY 11.1 (NBC), Fargo, North Dakota|date=September 30, 2024|author=Gray Television|website=Public Inspection File|publisher=Federal Communications Commission}}|{{Cite web|url=https://publicfiles.fcc.gov/enwiki/api/manager/download/ba322281-c573-047b-1c17-0762bb445ba9/fab7df50-3c1f-4a22-ade8-04719b92c9d3.pdf|title=Quarterly List of Programming Providing the Most Significant Treatment of Community Issues for the Quarter Beginning July 1st, 2024, KVLY 11.2 (CBS), Fargo, North Dakota|date=September 30, 2024|author=Gray Television|website=Public Inspection File|publisher=Federal Communications Commission}}}}</ref>
Due to many of KVLY's newscasts being simulcast on KXJB, KVLY claims to be the ratings leader in the Fargo/Grand Forks market when KVLY and KXJB's ratings are combined. However, until recently, KVLY and KXJB were not counted as one station due to different network and syndicated programming. CBS and KXJB's programming moved to KVLY's second subchannel in December 2014 (and later KXJB-LD), therefore KVLY can now count all of its subchannels as one station for ratings purposes. WDAY and [[WDAZ]] have historically been the market's ratings leader, and continue to claim the top-rated spot when KVLY and KXJB's ratings are separated. WDAZ has traditionally dominated ratings in the [[Greater Grand Forks|Grand Forks metro area]] and northern portion of the market, with their competitive advantage of being the only station airing local news from Grand Forks. Despite separate Fargo and [[Grand Forks, North Dakota|Grand Forks]] newscasts on WDAY and WDAZ, respectively, the stations are counted as a single unit for ratings purposes because WDAZ is classified as a [[semi-satellite]] of WDAY, and the stations air identical programming outside of local newscasts, commercials and station identifications.


===Sports programming===
Recently, KVLY has been the ratings leader for the immediate [[Fargo-Moorhead]] metro area and the southern part of the market, however WDAZ's dominance in the [[Grand Forks, North Dakota|Grand Forks]] metro area and the northern part of the market make the WDAY/WDAZ combo the ratings leader for the entire Fargo/Grand Forks market as a whole.<ref>http://www.prairiebizmag.com/event/article/id/20635/publisher_ID/46/</ref>
KVLY has at times been home to [[North Dakota State Bison football]] games. The station broadcast regular-season games and produced a pregame show. In the 2019–2020 season, the pregame show featured former [[NFL]] player and Bison alum [[Kyle Emanuel]] as one of the hosts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.valleynewslive.com/content/sports/Kyle-Emanuel-to-join-the-TV-broadcast-crew-during-NDSU-Football-Pre-Game-Shows-511415332.html|title=Kyle Emanuel to join the TV broadcast crew during NDSU Football Pre-Game Shows|date=June 17, 2019|website=Valley News Live|access-date=January 26, 2020|archive-date=January 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126204216/https://www.valleynewslive.com/content/sports/Kyle-Emanuel-to-join-the-TV-broadcast-crew-during-NDSU-Football-Pre-Game-Shows-511415332.html|url-status=live}}</ref> NDSU games moved to WDAY-TV in 2021 after Forum Communications won the rights.<ref>{{Cite news|first=Jeff|last=Kolpack|agency=Forum News Service|title=WDAY-TV awarded rights to televise NDSU Bison athletics|date=May 14, 2021|work=Grand Forks Herald}}</ref>


===Former on-air staff===
==Former on-air staff==
* [[Dennis Bounds]] – news anchor, 1976–1978<ref name="Foru780401">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-kthi-newsman-takes-florida-job/159617044/|date=April 1, 1978|page=4|title=KTHI newsman takes Florida job|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sat -->
* [[Dennis Bounds]] - news anchor (later evening news anchor for [[KING-TV|KING 5]] in Seattle; retired in 2016)
* [[Robert Ivers|Bob Ivers]] – news anchor and talk-show host, 1970–1972<ref name="Ariz030218">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/arizona-republic-bob-ivers-television-n/89575136/|date=February 18, 2003|page=B7|title=Bob Ivers, television news reporter and former film actor|newspaper=Arizona Republic|location=Phoenix, Arizona|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Tue -->
* [[Robert Ivers]] – news anchor/talk show host
* [[Jim Lounsbury]] – news director and anchor, 1980<ref name="Foru800126">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-lounsbury-named-news-director/159466237/|date=January 26, 1980|page=4|title=Lounsbury named news director, anchor at KTHI|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sat -->
* [[Ed Schultz]] – sports anchor (1982; now Fargo-based syndicated radio host)
* [[Ed Schultz]] – sports director, 1980–1983<ref name="Foru800518">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-month-of-may-geared-for-auto-r/159621149/|date=May 18, 1980|page=E-5|first=Will|last=Gullickson|title=Month of May geared for auto racing despite 1980 drawbacks|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun --><ref name="Foru830426">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-forum-zimmerman-schultz-accept-posi/159466060/|date=April 26, 1983|page=1|first=Janna Q.|last=Anderson|title=Zimmerman, Schultz accept positions at WDAY|newspaper=The Forum|location=Fargo, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Tue -->


==Technical information==
==Translators==
[[File:Tallest Structures in the world.png|thumb|right|Comparison of the KVLY-TV mast to the tallest structures in the world]]
KVLY-TV serves its large coverage area with three [[broadcast translator|translators]]. All are owned by local municipalities.
===Subchannels===

The station's signal is [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
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! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"
! scope = "col" | Short name
! colspan="11" style="text-align:center;"| Active translators
! scope = "col" | Programming
|-
|-
! scope = "row" | 11.1
! style="text-align:left;"|City !! style="text-align:left;"|Callsign !! style="text-align:left;"|City !! style="text-align:left;"|Callsign !! style="text-align:left;"|City !! style="text-align:left;"|Callsign !! style="text-align:left;"|City !! style="text-align:left;"|Callsign
| [[1080i]] || rowspan=4| [[16:9]] || KVLYNBC || [[NBC]]
|-
|-
! scope = "row" | [[KXJB-LD|11.2]]
||[[Baudette, Minnesota|Baudette]]||style="width:200px"|[http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K14PH-D K14PH-D 34.1]
| [[720p]] || style="background-color: #E6FFF7;"|KXJBCBS || style="background-color: #E6FFF7;"|[[CBS]] ([[KXJB-LD]])
||[[Roseau, Minnesota|Roseau]]||style="width:200px"|[http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K38OC K38OC-D 11.x]
|-
|[[Williams, Minnesota|Williams]]||style="width:200px"|[http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/tvq?call=K34MC-D K34MC-D 34.1]
! scope = "row" | 11.3
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"
| rowspan=2| [[480i]] || MeTV || [[MeTV]]
! colspan="11" style="text-align:center;"| Defunct translators
|-
||[[Devils Lake, North Dakota|Devils Lake]]||style="width:200px"|K05EL
|[[Donnelly, Minnesota|Donnelly]] ([[Morris, Minnesota|Morris]])||style="width:200px"|K57BL
|[[Grygla, Minnesota|Grygla]]||style="width:200px"|K59AS
|[[Jamestown, North Dakota|Jamestown]]||style="width:200px"|K09JM
|-
|[[La Moure, North Dakota|La Moure]]||style="width:200px"|K02FR
|[[Lisbon, North Dakota|Lisbon]]||style="width:200px"|K02GA
|[[Norris Camp, Minnesota|Norris Camp]] ([[Roosevelt, Minnesota|Roosevelt]])||style="width:200px"|K69BK
|[[Red Lake, Minnesota|Red Lake]]||style="width:200px"|K69BT
|-
|-
! scope = "row" | 11.4
|[[Sisseton, South Dakota|Sisseton]]||style="width:200px"|K05FM
| The365 || [[The365]]
|[[Starbuck, Minnesota|Starbuck]] ([[Glenwood, Minnesota|Glenwood]])||style="width:200px"|K68BP
|[[Wahpeton, North Dakota|Wahpeton]]||style="width:150px"|K09MF
|}
|}
{{legend|#E6FFF7|Simulcast of subchannels of another station}}
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KVLY-TV shut down its analog signal, over [[VHF]] channel 11, on February 16, 2009, the day prior to the original [[Digital television transition in the United States|digital television]] transition date.<ref name="Gran090208">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/grand-forks-herald-local-area-tv-station/159628653/|date=February 8, 2009|pages=A1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/grand-forks-herald-switch/159628570/ A4]|first=Ryan|last=Johnson|title=Local area TV stations mull digital switchover|newspaper=Grand Forks Herald|location=Grand Forks, North Dakota|via=Newspapers.com|access-date=November 23, 2024}}</ref><!-- Sun --> The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition [[UHF]] channel 44<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |access-date=March 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 }}</ref> where it remained until being repacked to channel 36 on May 28, 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=TV Rescan Required: KVLY - KXJB - MeTV Viewer Notification |url=https://www.valleynewslive.com/content/misc/KVLY-Viewer-Notification-509263791.html |website=valleynewslive.com |access-date=May 28, 2019 |archive-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529004743/https://www.valleynewslive.com/content/misc/KVLY-Viewer-Notification-509263791.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
Some of the defunct translators were actually in the western part of the [[Template:MSP TV|Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN]] broadcast television market.

===Tower===
{{main|KVLY-TV mast}}

Since February 8, 1964,{{r|Foru640209}} channel 11 has been broadcast from a tall tower near [[Blanchard, North Dakota|Blanchard]]. The tower—erected in 1963{{r|Foru631109}} by the [[Kline Iron and Steel]] Company of [[Columbia, South Carolina]]{{r|BC631007}}—made the former [[KNOX-TV]] in Grand Forks redundant and vastly increased the station's coverage area.{{r|Foru630516}} It was the tallest man-made structure at its completion, surpassed by the [[Warsaw radio mast]] in Poland from 1974 to its 1991 collapse and then again by the [[Burj Khalifa]] in Dubai in 2008. In 2019, the VHF antenna at the top of the mast was removed, reducing its height to {{convert|1987|ft|m}}.<ref>{{cite news|work=The Forum|url=https://www.inforum.com/lifestyle/fargo-mans-climb-to-the-top-of-wday-tv-tower-in-1959-attracted-200k-viewers|first=Tracy|last=Briggs|date=February 28, 2024|title=Fargo man's climb to the top of WDAY TV tower in 1959 attracted 200K viewers}}</ref>

===Translators===
KVLY-TV serves portions of its large coverage area with three [[broadcast translator|translators]]. All are in Minnesota and owned by local municipalities.<ref>{{Cite web|date=July 23, 2021|title=List of TV Translator Input Channels|url=https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/tv-translator-input-channels-07232021.xlsx|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209195336/https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/tv-translator-input-channels-07232021.xlsx|archive-date=December 9, 2021|access-date=December 17, 2021|publisher=Federal Communications Commission}}</ref>

* [[Baudette, Minnesota|Baudette]]: K14PH-D
* [[Roseau, Minnesota|Roseau]]: K21NF-D
* [[Baudette, Minnesota|Baudette]]: K34MC-D


==See also==
==See also==
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==External links==
==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.valleynewslive.com/}}
* {{Official website|https://www.valleynewslive.com/}}
* {{Official website|http://www.metvfargo.com/}} – MeTV Fargo
* {{Official website|http://www.metvfargo.com/}} – MeTV Fargo
* {{TVQ|KVLY-TV}}
** {{TVQ|KXJB-LD}}
** {{TVQ|K28MA}}
** {{TVQ|K30LR}}
** {{TVQ|K55BH}}
** {{TVQ|K52AM}}
** {{TVQ|K63AS}}
* {{BIA|KVLY|TV|TV}}
* {{TitanTV|KVLY}}


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Latest revision as of 03:41, 24 November 2024

KVLY-TV
CityFargo, North Dakota
Channels
Branding
  • KVLY TV 11; Valley News Live
  • KX4 (11.2)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
KXJB-LD
History
First air date
October 11, 1959 (65 years ago) (1959-10-11)
Former call signs
  • KXGO-TV (1959–1963)
  • KEND-TV (1963–1964)
  • KTHI-TV (1964–1995)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 11 (VHF, 1959–2009)
  • Digital: 44 (UHF, until 2019)
ABC (1959–1983)
Call sign meaning
Red River Valley
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID61961
ERP330 kW
HAAT593.9 m (1,948 ft)
Transmitter coordinates47°20′32″N 97°17′21″W / 47.34222°N 97.28917°W / 47.34222; -97.28917
Translator(s)see § Translators
Links
Public license information
Websitewww.valleynewslive.com

KVLY-TV (channel 11) is a television station in Fargo, North Dakota, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Gray Television alongside KXJB-LD (channel 30), a low-power CBS and CW affiliate. The two stations share studios on 21st Avenue South in Fargo; KVLY-TV's transmitter is located near Blanchard. In addition to its main studio in Fargo, KVLY-TV operates a news bureau and sales office in the US Bank building in downtown Grand Forks.

Channel 11 began broadcasting on October 11, 1959. It was built by John Boler, the owner of KXJB-TV, and served as little more than a passthrough for ABC programming in the immediate Fargo–Moorhead area. After being sold to the Polaris Corporation in 1962, the station was overhauled and turned into a full-service station with local programming. In February 1964, it began broadcasting from its current tower—which at one time was the tallest structure in the world—and changed its call sign to KTHI-TV. The expanded-coverage station subsumed the co-owned KNOX-TV in Grand Forks, but it was a distant third-place in local news ratings under Morgan Murphy Stations, which owned KTHI-TV from 1969 to 1995. In 1983, KTHI-TV became an NBC affiliate after ABC moved to the market-leading WDAY-TV and WDAZ-TV.

In 1995, Meyer Television acquired KTHI-TV, bringing it under the same umbrella as KFYR-TV in Bismarck. The station changed its call sign to KVLY-TV. Under Meyer and a procession of owners in the 1990s and early 2000s, KVLY moved from third to second place in local news. In 2003, most operations of KXJB-TV were consolidated with KVLY-TV under a local marketing agreement, culminating in the 2007 establishment of full simulcast news under the name Valley News Live. When Gray Television acquired KVLY-TV in 2014, it could not inherit the agreement to operate KXJB-TV, resulting in the CBS affiliation moving to a subchannel of KVLY and, eventually, new low-power stations.

History

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Early years (1959–1968)

[edit]

Channel 13, not 11, was originally assigned to Fargo. This changed in December 1953 after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) received a petition from a civic group in Bemidji, Minnesota, seeking the assignment of channel 13 there.[2][3] This prompted a consortium of two local radio stations, KFGO in Fargo and KVOX in Moorhead, Minnesota, to abandon their plans for the station.[4]

Interest was rekindled in January 1957 when the Fargo Telecasting Company, controlled by Marvin Kratter of New York, applied for channel 11.[5] That application was followed five months later by one from the North Dakota Broadcasting Company (NDBC), controlled by John Boler.[6] Among Boler's holdings was KXJB-TV (channel 4) in Valley City.[7] Kratter dropped out in January 1958. Turning down an intervention from Fargo TV station WDAY-TV (channel 6), which feared the loss of some network programs to the new station[7] and believed that channels 4 and 11 would constitute a then-illegal duopoly,[8] an FCC hearing examiner approved the North Dakota Broadcasting Company application on May 27, 1958;[9] the commission approved the station in 1959. NDBC announced that, though the studios would be shared with KXJB-TV's Fargo site and the recently purchased KFGO (renamed KXGO), the new station would transmit from Sabin, Minnesota, and be KXGO-TV.[10][11]

KXGO-TV began broadcasting on October 11, 1959.[12] Its arrival triggered a minor realignment of network programming in North Dakota as its first exclusive ABC affiliate. Previously, North Dakota's three NBC affiliates—WDAY-TV, KFYR-TV in Bismarck, and KNOX-TV in Grand Forks—had aired some ABC shows. With the advent of channel 11, ABC shows were now seen from the new KXGO-TV and Boler's Bismarck station, KBMB-TV. However, some viewers lost ABC programming because the NBC affiliates reached more viewers than channel 11.[13]

In 1962, Ferris Traylor of Evansville, Indiana, acquired KXGO-TV as well as KNOX-TV in Grand Forks and KCND-TV (channel 12) in Pembina. The new ownership announced major plans to shuffle the first two stations by relocating channel 11 to a new, tall tower near Hillsboro, North Dakota and moving channel 10 completely from Grand Forks to Thief River Falls, Minnesota.[14] The station set up new local offices in the Manchester Building in Fargo[15] and began planning the construction of a new, 2,000 feet (610 m) television tower. At the time, the tallest tower—located in Columbus, Georgia—was 1,749 feet (533 m) high. On May 15, 1963, to dissociate itself from KXGO radio, the station changed its call sign to KEND-TV (for "Eastern North Dakota"[16]); that month, the new tall tower received FCC approval.[17] This tower would make KNOX-TV redundant by encapsulating Grand Forks in the enlarged channel 11 service area.[16] Though delayed by the discovery that Bethlehem Steel had produced defective steel for the tower and two others across the country,[18] the structure was completed on November 8, 1963, when a 113-foot (34 m) antenna for channel 11 was affixed to the top of the 1,950-foot (590 m) mast.[19]

A very tall, thin guyed tower
Built in 1964, the KVLY-TV mast was the world's tallest structure at completion.

When the tower was due to be activated on February 1, 1964, KEND-TV changed its call sign again to KTHI-TV (for "Tower High");[20] technical questions pushed back the site switch to February 8.[21][22] Coinciding with the change, the station moved into new studios south of Fargo.[20] KNOX-TV was shut down, and its studio and office in Grand Forks was absorbed into the enlarged KTHI operation.[23][24]

Traylor's broadcasting interests were undergoing ownership changes even as channel 11 was acquired, as Milwaukee-based Polaris Industries acquired half of Traylor-owned Producers, Inc. in 1962[25] and the remainder in 1963.[26] In 1966, Polaris merged with the Natco Corporation. It put KTHI-TV and KCND-TV on the market; despite an offer for the former by Don Burden of the Star Stations radio group,[27] channel 11 was never sold and remained in the Natco fold post-merger.[28][29] Natco's primary owner, J. B. Fuqua, renamed the firm Fuqua Industries in February 1967.[30] During this time, in 1967, KTHI-TV moved its Grand Forks studio to larger quarters on 9th Avenue North.[31] This came after the company considered originating half of KTHI's broadcast day from Grand Forks and the other half from Fargo.[32]

Morgan Murphy ownership (1969–1995)

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In 1969, Fuqua Industries sold KTHI-TV for $1.491 million to Spokane Television, a subsidiary of the Morgan Murphy Stations group.[33] The FCC waived a rule requiring new owners to hold stations at least three years except in cases of financial difficulty, noting that Pembina had not been able to find a buyer in 1966 even though the sale of KTHI-TV was provided for in the merger agreement.[34] After the sale, the station remained unprofitable for at least its first four years.[35] Into the late 1970s, most of the station's local morning programming continued to originate from Grand Forks.[36]

On August 22, 1983, KTHI became an NBC affiliate, swapping affiliations with WDAY-TV and its satellite for the Devils Lake and Grand Forks area, WDAZ-TV (channel 8). The switch was initiated by ABC, which at the time was number-one in the ratings seeking affiliation upgrades nationally and had courted WDAY for several years. KTHI management found out in a curt, 90-second phone call from ABC; most station employees learned their station was losing its network by way of an announcement on WDAY-TV's newscast.[37][38]

Until 1986, channel 11 was carried by cable systems across Manitoba, including the Winnipeg area. It and KXJB-TV were removed when Canadian cable companies were granted permission to replace most of the North Dakota stations with network affiliates from Detroit provided via the CANCOM service, which were believed to have better picture quality.[39]

Meyer and Sunrise ownership

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Meyer Broadcasting of Bismarck, North Dakota, owner of KFYR-TV in Bismarck and its network of satellites in western North Dakota, bought the station in a deal announced in November 1994 and completed in March 1995.[40][41] On June 5, the station changed its call sign to KVLY-TV, reflecting the Red River Valley region; recently relaxed FCC rules allowed an FM station in Texas to share the call sign.[42] In 1998, Meyer opted to exit the television business. It sold all its TV stations—KVLY-TV and KFYR-TV and satellites—to Sunrise Television, a division of the private equity firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, for $63.75 million.[43][44]

Consolidation with KXJB

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In 2002, North Dakota Television LLC—a consortium of private equity firms The Wicks Group of Companies, JP Morgan Partners, and Halyard Capital—acquired KVLY-TV and KFYR-TV.[45] The next year, the station acquired the non-license assets of KXJB from Catamount Broadcasting. Under a local marketing agreement (LMA), KVLY began to provide most operating functions beyond programming for KXJB. The KVLY studios on 21st Avenue South were expanded to house an additional studio for KXJB.[46] Hoak Media of Dallas acquired KVLY-TV and KFYR-TV, as well as KSFY-TV in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and its satellites in 2006.[47]

On November 20, 2013, Hoak announced the sale of most of its stations, including KVLY-TV, to Gray Television. Simultaneously, KXJB-TV was to be sold by Parker Broadcasting to Excalibur Broadcasting and would have continued to be operated by KVLY under an LMA.[48] The sale was completed on June 13, but upon the closing of the sale, and in the wake of the new FCC rules restricting LMAs, Excalibur abandoned its plans to acquire the station.[49] Instead, Gray began seeking an independent, minority-owned buyer for the KXJB facility[50] and made plans to move KXJB's CBS programming to a subchannel of KVLY-TV.[51] This took place on November 12, 2014, as KXJB was sold to Major Market Broadcasting.[52] The KXJB facility was turned off on December 1, 2014.[53] To supplement the main transmitter for CBS service, Gray acquired three low-power stations, at Horace, Argusville, and Grand Forks, in 2015.[54] The Horace transmitter became KXJB-LD, bringing the call sign back to use after Gray temporarily parked it on a facility in Wyoming.[55]

Local programming

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News operation

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Valley News Live logo

The original KXGO-TV had no local programming or studios, relying nearly exclusively on network material from ABC.[16] This changed in February 1964, when the station became KTHI-TV and began airing local newscasts. One of the first on-air personalities was former professional football player Steve Myhra as a sportscaster.[20] When Morgan Murphy bought channel 11 in 1969, the news department was reorganized with the main early evening newscast at 5 p.m.[56] After canceling it,[57] the station reinstated an early newscast at 5:30 in 1977,[58] which moved back to 5 p.m. by 1981. While KTHI attracted a reasonable audience uncontested at 5 p.m., when fewer households watched TV, its 10 p.m. news—head-to-head with WDAY–WDAZ and KXJB—was a distant third at that time, watched by just 7 percent of viewers.[59] Such advancements as a co-anchor format as well as Grand Forks stories introduced live by an anchor in Grand Forks[60] were later discontinued to simplify the newscast. The station returned to a co-anchor format in 1987[61] and later that year introduced its first morning newscast.[62]

In 1989, KTHI hired Charley Johnson, the 14-year news director and anchor at KXJB, to anchor its newscasts, including a 6 p.m. edition to go head-to-head with the other local stations. The new newscast was added in part, per general manager John Hrubesky, to beat a misconception national advertisers had about the Midwest, that few people were watching TV at 5 p.m. because they were on the farm.[63] It was the first time a local station had produced three full evening newscasts; in 1979, KXJB had briefly shared a 5 p.m. newscast with the KX Network stations in western North Dakota.[64] The ratings did not immediately improve; at 10 p.m., KTHI had an audience share of 7 percent, roughly half that of KXJB and a quarter that of WDAY–WDAZ.[65] The morning newscast, 15 minutes in length since its 1987 debut, was lengthened to a full half-hour in 1993.[66]

Upon the Meyer acquisition of KTHI, the company dismissed lead news anchor Doug Hamilton.[41] By 1996, the station was narrowly behind KXJB at 6 p.m. and ahead of it at 10 p.m.,[67] and it was ahead of KXJB in both time periods by 2000.[68] KXJB's condition worsened over the ensuing years. When KVLY took over most of KXJB's operations in 2003, the latter station's early evening newscast times and format were changed to not conflict with KVLY. Except for a noon newscast, which KVLY did not offer, there was initially little overlap in on-air presenters.[46] That changed in November 2007, when the stations' previously separate weeknight 10 p.m. newscasts and news brands were combined under the name Valley News Live. The stations had already been airing a combined weekend newscast.[69][70]

Over the course of the 2010s, Valley News Live became increasingly competitive with WDAY. In May 2013, while WDAY maintained a lead on total households, Valley News Live accounted for more viewership in key demographics favored by advertisers.[71] In 2014, KVLY surpassed WDAY as the ratings leader in Fargo–Moorhead proper, though the combination of WDAY and WDAZ remained number-one in the full designated market area.[72]

As of September 2024, Valley News Live produced a combined 39 hours a week of local news programming across the NBC and CBS subchannels.[73]

Sports programming

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KVLY has at times been home to North Dakota State Bison football games. The station broadcast regular-season games and produced a pregame show. In the 2019–2020 season, the pregame show featured former NFL player and Bison alum Kyle Emanuel as one of the hosts.[74] NDSU games moved to WDAY-TV in 2021 after Forum Communications won the rights.[75]

Former on-air staff

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Technical information

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Comparison of the KVLY-TV mast to the tallest structures in the world

Subchannels

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The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of KVLY-TV[81]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
11.1 1080i 16:9 KVLYNBC NBC
11.2 720p KXJBCBS CBS (KXJB-LD)
11.3 480i MeTV MeTV
11.4 The365 The365
  Simulcast of subchannels of another station

KVLY-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 11, on February 16, 2009, the day prior to the original digital television transition date.[82] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 44[83] where it remained until being repacked to channel 36 on May 28, 2019.[84]

Tower

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Main article: KVLY-TV mast

Since February 8, 1964,[22] channel 11 has been broadcast from a tall tower near Blanchard. The tower—erected in 1963[19] by the Kline Iron and Steel Company of Columbia, South Carolina[18]—made the former KNOX-TV in Grand Forks redundant and vastly increased the station's coverage area.[16] It was the tallest man-made structure at its completion, surpassed by the Warsaw radio mast in Poland from 1974 to its 1991 collapse and then again by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2008. In 2019, the VHF antenna at the top of the mast was removed, reducing its height to 1,987 feet (606 m).[85]

Translators

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KVLY-TV serves portions of its large coverage area with three translators. All are in Minnesota and owned by local municipalities.[86]

See also

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