KXJB-TV
Encyclopedia
KXJB-TV is a CBS
affiliated television station
in Fargo, North Dakota
, USA, serving Eastern North Dakota
and Northwestern Minnesota
. It broadcasts on ATSC
channel
38, which redirects to former NTSC
channel 4 via PSIP
. It is licensed
to nearby Valley City
. It is owned by Parker Broadcasting, but is operated by Hoak Media Corporation
of Dallas, Texas
through a local marketing agreement
with Fargo's NBC
affiliate, KVLY-TV
. KXJB shares a studio in Fargo with KVLY. It broadcasts over a large area of eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota
. KXJB is offered on cable channel 4 in most areas of the market.
.
across neighboring Manitoba
and Ontario
. This included Winnipeg
, which is several times larger than the station's entire American coverage area. These arrangements ended in 1986, when the Canadian cable companies were granted permission to replace most of the North Dakota stations with network affiliates from Detroit due to complaints about poor reception.
After an ice storm on April 6, 1997 caused the KXJB-TV mast
to collapse, some cable systems replaced KXJB with KXMB, KXMC, KDLO, KCNC, KCCO, and KDLH either temporarily or permanently, to maintain CBS service.
cable TV lineups), a semi-satellite in Grand Forks It was intended to create competition for ABC
affiliate WDAZ-TV
8, which is the only TV station based in Grand Forks producing local newscasts. Most KXJC programs were simulcast
ed from KXJB with local commercial inserts, though it aired its own local newscasts, The Jerry Springer Show
, and Jenny Jones
. KXJC also had a FCC
construction permit
to increase power so its over-the-air signal could reach farther (covering cities such as Grafton
and Thief River Falls, MN
) KXJC signed off the air in 2003 due to low ratings on its local newscasts and also because Wicks Television (owner of KVLY-TV
of Fargo) took over the operations of both KXJB and KXJC.
) to broadcast in high-definition
.
KXJB and KVLY will broadcast in digital format only, effective February 16, 2009.
affiliate KVRR
aired The Late Show until KXJB began airing it in 1994. Sioux City, Iowa
affiliate KMEG
also declined to alter its syndicated lineup. This led Sioux City to become known as the "home office" on The Late Show. KMEG began airing the show in 1994.
to Hoak Media
. The LMA with KVLY (Hoak Media) will continue. Hoak's acquisition of KVLY was approved by the FCC
on November 17, 2006. The sale of KXJB was approved in January 2007.
As part of the agreement, KXJB televised the North Dakota state high school hockey tournaments in 2006 since KVLY, the normal broadcaster, was carrying Olympic coverage.
to cease carrying its programming starting at 5pm on January 8, 2009. This left approximately 25,000 DirecTV subscribers in the Fargo-Moorhead area without a CBS affiliate. An agreement was finally reached March 19, 2009 to allow broadcasting to begin 8am March 20, 2009- just in time to air NDSU's first ever trip to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship.
, located near Galesburg, North Dakota
, was the second tallest man-made structure on Earth; at the time, only the KVLY-TV mast
in Blanchard was taller. KVLY is located just 6 miles from the KXJB tower.
. KXJB does not have a 5:00pm newscast unlike its competitors, and Jeopardy!
has aired for many decades at 5:00, but it is the only station with a newscast at noon. Since KVLY began operating KXJB in August 2003, the evening newscast was moved from 6:00pm to 5:30pm (Central Time) and The CBS Evening News
moved from 5:30pm to 6:00pm to help make KXJB more competitive. It's very rare for a network television station in the Central Time Zone to have a newscast at 5:30pm (6:30pm Eastern Time) instead of 6:00pm (7:00pm Eastern Time). The station had called itself "CBS 4" for many years, but in 2007 began calling itself "KX4," which had been its nickname for a time in the 1970s and 1980s.
In April 2007, KVLY-TV and KXJB-TV began simulcast
ing weekend newscasts, and in November
, the stations began simulcasting news during weekdays along with rebranding as Valley News Live
. KXJB uses its "4" bug
, while KVLY uses the "11" bug during newscasts.
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CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
affiliated television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
in Fargo, North Dakota
Fargo, North Dakota
Fargo is the largest city in the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Cass County. In 2010, its population was 105,549, and it had an estimated metropolitan population of 208,777...
, USA, serving Eastern North Dakota
North Dakota
North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, along the Canadian border. The state is bordered by Canada to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south and Montana to the west. North Dakota is the 19th-largest state by area in the U.S....
and Northwestern Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
. It broadcasts on ATSC
ATSC
ATSC standards are a set of standards developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee for digital television transmission over terrestrial, cable, and satellite networks....
channel
North American broadcast television frequencies
The North American broadcast television frequencies are on designated television channels numbered 2 through 69, approximately between 54 and 806 MHz. Traditionally, the frequencies are divided into two sections, the very high frequency band and the ultra high frequency band. The VHF band is...
38, which redirects to former NTSC
NTSC
NTSC, named for the National Television System Committee, is the analog television system that is used in most of North America, most of South America , Burma, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, and some Pacific island nations and territories .Most countries using the NTSC standard, as...
channel 4 via PSIP
Program and System Information Protocol
The Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch...
. It is licensed
City of license
A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting, is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator....
to nearby Valley City
Valley City, North Dakota
As of the census of 2000, there were 6,826 people, 2,996 households, and 1,668 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,062.5 per square mile . There were 3,250 housing units at an average density of 982.0 per square mile...
. It is owned by Parker Broadcasting, but is operated by Hoak Media Corporation
Hoak Media Corporation
Hoak Media Corporation is a United States broadcasting media company based in Dallas, Texas. Hoak owns eighteen television stations , all in medium and small-markets, mostly in the Great Plains states and Colorado....
of Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
through a local marketing agreement
Local marketing agreement
In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting, a local marketing agreement is an agreement in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another licensee...
with Fargo's NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
affiliate, KVLY-TV
KVLY-TV
KVLY-TV, is an NBC affiliated television station in Fargo, North Dakota, USA, serving Eastern North Dakota and Northwestern Minnesota. It broadcasts on ATSC channel 44, which redirects to former NTSC channel 11 via PSIP. In addition to its main studio in Fargo, it operates a satellite studio in...
. KXJB shares a studio in Fargo with KVLY. It broadcasts over a large area of eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
. KXJB is offered on cable channel 4 in most areas of the market.
History
KXJB signed on July 1, 1954, owned by John Boler. It was co-owned with the KX Television network in western North Dakota until 1971. The station has always been a CBS affiliate, and is the only major station in Fargo that has never changed its affiliation. It was also an affiliate of the NTA Film NetworkNTA Film Network
The NTA Film Network was an early American television network founded by Ely Landau in 1956. The network was not a full-time television network like CBS, NBC, or ABC. Rather, it operated on a part-time basis, broadcasting films and several first-run television programs from major Hollywood studios...
.
Cable TV Systems
From 1968 until the mid 1980s, KXJB was carried by cable systemsCable television
Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...
across neighboring Manitoba
Manitoba
Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...
and Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
. This included Winnipeg
Winnipeg
Winnipeg is the capital and largest city of Manitoba, Canada, and is the primary municipality of the Winnipeg Capital Region, with more than half of Manitoba's population. It is located near the longitudinal centre of North America, at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers .The name...
, which is several times larger than the station's entire American coverage area. These arrangements ended in 1986, when the Canadian cable companies were granted permission to replace most of the North Dakota stations with network affiliates from Detroit due to complaints about poor reception.
After an ice storm on April 6, 1997 caused the KXJB-TV mast
KXJB-TV mast
The KXJB-TV mast is a television transmitting tower in Traill County, North Dakota, United States. At 2060 ft , it is the fourth-tallest artificial structure in the world, shorter by 3 ft than the KVLY-TV mast which stands a few miles away.Located 3.5 miles northeast of Galesburg,...
to collapse, some cable systems replaced KXJB with KXMB, KXMC, KDLO, KCNC, KCCO, and KDLH either temporarily or permanently, to maintain CBS service.
KXJC 35 Grand Forks
In 2001, KXJB signed on KXJC-LP 35 (known on-air as "CBS 35" and was carried on channel 21 on Midcontinent CommunicationsMidcontinent Communications
Midcontinent Communications is a regional cable provider, providing a triple play service of cable television, cable modem Internet service, and cable telephone service for both North Dakota and South Dakota, along with several communities in western Minnesota...
cable TV lineups), a semi-satellite in Grand Forks It was intended to create competition for ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
affiliate WDAZ-TV
WDAZ-TV
WDAZ-TV, channel 8, is an ABC affiliate located in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The station serves the northern half of the Fargo-Grand Forks television market. The station also has significant viewership in southern Manitoba, Canada including Winnipeg and Steinbach as it is carried on cable. WDAZ is...
8, which is the only TV station based in Grand Forks producing local newscasts. Most KXJC programs were simulcast
Simulcast
Simulcast, shorthand for "simultaneous broadcast", refers to programs or events broadcast across more than one medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at the same time. For example, Absolute Radio is simulcast on both AM and on satellite radio, and the BBC's Prom concerts are often...
ed from KXJB with local commercial inserts, though it aired its own local newscasts, The Jerry Springer Show
The Jerry Springer Show
The Jerry Springer Show is a syndicated television tabloid talk show hosted by Jerry Springer, a former politician, broadcast in the United States and other countries...
, and Jenny Jones
The Jenny Jones Show
The Jenny Jones Show is an American syndicated daytime tabloid talk show that was hosted by comedian/actress/singer Jenny Jones. It was produced by Telepictures and was distributed by Warner Bros. Television Distribution...
. KXJC also had a FCC
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
construction permit
Construction permit
A construction permit or building permit is a permit required in most jurisdictions for new construction, or adding on to pre-existing structures, and in some cases for major renovations. Generally, the new construction must be inspected during construction and after completion to ensure compliance...
to increase power so its over-the-air signal could reach farther (covering cities such as Grafton
Grafton, North Dakota
-Education:The city of Grafton is served by the Grafton Public Schools system. The system includes Century Elementary School , Central Middle School , and Grafton High School .-Library:...
and Thief River Falls, MN
Thief River Falls, Minnesota
As of the census of 2000, there were 8,410 people, 3,619 households, and 2,091 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,760.0 people per square mile . There were 3,931 housing units at an average density of 822.7 per square mile...
) KXJC signed off the air in 2003 due to low ratings on its local newscasts and also because Wicks Television (owner of KVLY-TV
KVLY-TV
KVLY-TV, is an NBC affiliated television station in Fargo, North Dakota, USA, serving Eastern North Dakota and Northwestern Minnesota. It broadcasts on ATSC channel 44, which redirects to former NTSC channel 11 via PSIP. In addition to its main studio in Fargo, it operates a satellite studio in...
of Fargo) took over the operations of both KXJB and KXJC.
High Definition
In November 2005, KXJB became the second major network affiliate in Fargo (after KVLY-TVKVLY-TV
KVLY-TV, is an NBC affiliated television station in Fargo, North Dakota, USA, serving Eastern North Dakota and Northwestern Minnesota. It broadcasts on ATSC channel 44, which redirects to former NTSC channel 11 via PSIP. In addition to its main studio in Fargo, it operates a satellite studio in...
) to broadcast in high-definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
.
KXJB and KVLY will broadcast in digital format only, effective February 16, 2009.
The Late Show with David Letterman
KXJB was one of only two CBS stations not to air The Late Show with David Letterman when it premiered, though FoxFox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
affiliate KVRR
KVRR
KVRR, is a Fox affiliated television station in Fargo, North Dakota, USA, serving Eastern North Dakota, Northwestern Minnesota, and a portion of Southern Manitoba. It broadcasts on ATSC channel 19, which redirects to former NTSC channel 15 via PSIP...
aired The Late Show until KXJB began airing it in 1994. Sioux City, Iowa
Sioux City, Iowa
Sioux City is a city in Plymouth and Woodbury counties in the western part of the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 82,684 in the 2010 census, a decline from 85,013 in the 2000 census, which makes it currently the fourth largest city in the state....
affiliate KMEG
KMEG
KMEG is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Southern Siouxland licensed to Sioux City, Iowa. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 39 from a transmitter in unincorporated Plymouth County, Iowa east of James and US 75 along the Woodbury county line...
also declined to alter its syndicated lineup. This led Sioux City to become known as the "home office" on The Late Show. KMEG began airing the show in 1994.
Ownership change
In 2006, KXJB and KVLY were each sold to different owners: KXJB to Parker Broadcasting and KVLY-TVKVLY-TV
KVLY-TV, is an NBC affiliated television station in Fargo, North Dakota, USA, serving Eastern North Dakota and Northwestern Minnesota. It broadcasts on ATSC channel 44, which redirects to former NTSC channel 11 via PSIP. In addition to its main studio in Fargo, it operates a satellite studio in...
to Hoak Media
Hoak Media Corporation
Hoak Media Corporation is a United States broadcasting media company based in Dallas, Texas. Hoak owns eighteen television stations , all in medium and small-markets, mostly in the Great Plains states and Colorado....
. The LMA with KVLY (Hoak Media) will continue. Hoak's acquisition of KVLY was approved by the FCC
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
on November 17, 2006. The sale of KXJB was approved in January 2007.
As part of the agreement, KXJB televised the North Dakota state high school hockey tournaments in 2006 since KVLY, the normal broadcaster, was carrying Olympic coverage.
Feud with Cable One
On January 4, 2008 the HD (digital) signals of KXJB and KVLY were pulled from Cable One. The dispute over retransmission payments lasted until November 21, 2008. KVLY and KXJB HD signals were restored on Cable One on November 21, 2008. The analog versions of the two stations remained on Cable One throughout the dispute.Feud with DirecTV
In January 2009, negotiations between KXJB and DirecTV for a retransmission agreement broke down and KXJB asked DirecTVDirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
to cease carrying its programming starting at 5pm on January 8, 2009. This left approximately 25,000 DirecTV subscribers in the Fargo-Moorhead area without a CBS affiliate. An agreement was finally reached March 19, 2009 to allow broadcasting to begin 8am March 20, 2009- just in time to air NDSU's first ever trip to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship.
Sign-Off
KXJB has operated 24-hours a day, six days a week, since November 2007. The station signs off at 2:05 a.m. on Sundays. The station does not show a test pattern; instead, a skycam of downtown Fargo is seen along with the broadcast of NOAA Weather Radio's Fargo Office.Tower Information
The KXJB-TV mastKXJB-TV mast
The KXJB-TV mast is a television transmitting tower in Traill County, North Dakota, United States. At 2060 ft , it is the fourth-tallest artificial structure in the world, shorter by 3 ft than the KVLY-TV mast which stands a few miles away.Located 3.5 miles northeast of Galesburg,...
, located near Galesburg, North Dakota
Galesburg, North Dakota
As of the census of 2000, there were 157 people, 66 households, and 44 families residing in the city. The population density was 937.8 people per square mile . There were 76 housing units at an average density of 454.0 per square mile...
, was the second tallest man-made structure on Earth; at the time, only the KVLY-TV mast
KVLY-TV mast
The KVLY-TV mast is a tall television-transmitting mast in Blanchard, Traill County, North Dakota, United States, used by Fargo station KVLY-TV channel 11...
in Blanchard was taller. KVLY is located just 6 miles from the KXJB tower.
Translators
KXJB is available on the following rebroadcasting translators:- K50AM Channel 50 Roseau, MNRoseau, MinnesotaAs of the census of 2000, there were 2,756 people, 1,157 households, and 713 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,153.6 people per square mile . There were 1,229 housing units at an average density of 514.4 per square mile...
- K53BL Channel 53 Baudette, MNBaudette, Minnesota-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 1,104 people, 490 households, and 271 families residing in the city. The population density was 334.1 people per square mile . There were 540 housing units at an average density of 163.4 per square mile...
- W59AX Channel 59 Williams, MNWilliams, MinnesotaWilliams is a city in Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 191 at the 2010 census.Williams was burned in the Baudette Fire of 1910.-Geography:...
Newscasts
KXJB has struggled in newscast ratings in the past several years. It usually was third or fourth after KVLY, WDAY, and sometimes KVRRKVRR
KVRR, is a Fox affiliated television station in Fargo, North Dakota, USA, serving Eastern North Dakota, Northwestern Minnesota, and a portion of Southern Manitoba. It broadcasts on ATSC channel 19, which redirects to former NTSC channel 15 via PSIP...
. KXJB does not have a 5:00pm newscast unlike its competitors, and Jeopardy!
Jeopardy!
Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...
has aired for many decades at 5:00, but it is the only station with a newscast at noon. Since KVLY began operating KXJB in August 2003, the evening newscast was moved from 6:00pm to 5:30pm (Central Time) and The CBS Evening News
CBS Evening News
CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963....
moved from 5:30pm to 6:00pm to help make KXJB more competitive. It's very rare for a network television station in the Central Time Zone to have a newscast at 5:30pm (6:30pm Eastern Time) instead of 6:00pm (7:00pm Eastern Time). The station had called itself "CBS 4" for many years, but in 2007 began calling itself "KX4," which had been its nickname for a time in the 1970s and 1980s.
In April 2007, KVLY-TV and KXJB-TV began simulcast
Simulcast
Simulcast, shorthand for "simultaneous broadcast", refers to programs or events broadcast across more than one medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at the same time. For example, Absolute Radio is simulcast on both AM and on satellite radio, and the BBC's Prom concerts are often...
ing weekend newscasts, and in November
November 2007
November 2007 is the eleventh month of that year. It began on a Thursday and 30 days later, ended on a Friday.- International holidays :*November 1 – All Saints Day.*November 1 – World Vegan Day.*November 2 – Day of the Dead...
, the stations began simulcasting news during weekdays along with rebranding as Valley News Live
Valley News Live
Valley News Live is the name of the news department shared by KVLY-TV and KXJB-TV in Fargo, North Dakota. Hoak Media owns and operates KVLY and shares studios with KXJB through a local marketing agreement....
. KXJB uses its "4" bug
Digital on-screen graphic
A digital on-screen graphic is a watermark-like station logo that many television broadcasters overlay over a portion of the screen-area of their programs to identify the channel...
, while KVLY uses the "11" bug during newscasts.
Newscast titles
- KX-4 Eyewitness NewsEyewitness NewsEyewitness News is a style of news broadcasting used by local television stations in different markets across the United States. It refers to a particular style of television newscast with an emphasis on visual elements and action video...
(1980s) - KX-4 News
- News 4 (1990s)
- KX-4, Your NewsChannel
- KX-4 News (1990's-2000 and 2004–2007)
- CBS 4 News (2000–2004)
- Valley News Live (2007–present)
Station slogans
- Your News Channel (1997–2002)
- Connected to Your World (2007–present)
- People You Know, News You Trust (2011–present)
External links
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