KNEP
NBC/ABC television affiliate in Sidney, Nebraska, United States
KNEP (channel 4) is a television station in Sidney, Nebraska, United States, serving the Nebraska Panhandle as an affiliate of NBC. It is owned by Marquee Broadcasting alongside Cheyenne, Wyoming–licensed dual CBS/CW+ affiliate KGWN-TV (channel 5). KNEP's studios are located on 1st Avenue in Scottsbluff, and its transmitter is located in Angora, Nebraska.
History
The station signed on for the first time on March 5, 1958, as KDUH-TV, with studios in Hay Springs, Nebraska. The station was owned by Helen Duhamel, whose last name formed the basis of the callsign. It was a semi-satellite of the original KOTA-TV in Rapid City (license now held by KHME). Like its parent, it carried programming from all four major networks, but was a primary CBS affiliate.
In 1965, in tandem with its parent, KDUH took on an unusual joint primary affiliation with CBS and ABC, slightly favoring CBS. This caused a good deal of confusion for viewers in the Nebraska Panhandle, since future sister station KSTF, which had signed on from Scottsbluff three years earlier in 1955, also held a joint primary affiliation with CBS and ABC, slightly favoring ABC. It was not unheard of for both stations to air the same program at the same time. However, in 1970, KOTA-TV and its repeaters exchanged CBS programming for NBC, replacing KRSD-TV (channel 7) as the NBC affiliate for Rapid City.
In 1969, KDUH-TV won approval to replace its original facility in Hay Springs with a new, 2,000-foot (610 m) tower near Hemingford, in Box Butte County. The new tower added Scottsbluff to its coverage area, giving that city a second television station alongside KSTF. The mast was erected in mid-1970, rising to its full steel height in September.
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