Callsign: | KIIT-CD |
Branding: | Fox 11 |
Digital: | 11 (VHF) |
Virtual: | 11 |
Translators: | KNOP-DT 2.2 (VHF) North Platte |
Country: | United States |
Image Upright: | .5 |
Location: | North Platte, Nebraska |
Callsign Meaning: | derived from former K11TW call sign |
Owner: | Gray Television |
Licensee: | Gray Television Licensee, LLC |
Sister Stations: | KNOP-TV, KNPL-LD |
Former Affiliations: | UPN (1995–2001) |
Erp: | 220 watts |
Haat: | 147.90NaN0 |
Class: | CD |
Facility Id: | 49285 |
Licensing Authority: | FCC |
Website: | KNOP-TV 2 Online |
KIIT-CD (channel 11) is a low-power, Class A television station in North Platte, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Gray Television alongside NBC affiliate KNOP-TV (channel 2) and low-power CBS affiliate KNPL-LD (channel 10). The three stations share studios on South Dewey Street in downtown North Platte; KIIT-CD's transmitter is located on US 83 in the northern part of the city; master control and some internal operations are based at the studios of co-owned KOLN in Lincoln.
Although KIIT broadcasts a digital signal, it is limited to the immediate North Platte area.[1] It is therefore simulcast in high definition on KNOP's second digital subchannel.[2] Fox programming also airs in the area on Lincoln's KFXL-TV, which is carried on KWNB's subchannel.
From the grant of its original construction permit on December 12, 1994, through June 26, 2014, the station was assigned the translator-style call sign of K11TW,[3] and retained it even after obtaining Class A status in 2001. However, outside of Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-required station identification, the station has always called itself "KIIT" on the air. It signed on the air on August 28, 1995,[4] as a UPN affiliate;[5] it switched to Fox on January 22, 2001.[6] Prior to K11TW's switch to Fox, KHGI-TV served as a secondary affiliate of the network for the purposes of carrying its sports programming.
K11TW was originally owned by North Platte Television, longtime owner of KNOP-TV; the company was reorganized as Greater Nebraska Television after the 1997 purchase of KHAS-TV in Hastings.[4] Greater Nebraska Television sold its stations, including K11TW and KNOP, to Hoak Media in December 2005; the sale followed the death of majority shareholder Richard Shively.[7] [8] On November 20, 2013, Hoak Media announced the sale of most of its stations, including K11TW and KNOP-TV, to Gray Television, making them sister stations to KNPL;[9] the sale was completed on June 13, 2014.[8]
The station's signal is multiplexed:
Channel | Video | Aspect | Short name | Programming[10] | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
11.1 | KIIT-HD | Main KIIT-CD programming / Fox | |||
TBA (480i or 720p) | TBA (or 16:9) | TBA | Simulcast of KCWH-LD / The CW Nebraska |