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KNOE-TV, channel 8, is the CBS-affiliated television station for Monroe, Louisiana. The station is owned by Gray Television. KNOE's studios are located on Oliver Road north of Louisville Avenue in Monroe, while its transmitter is located south of Monroe in Columbia, Louisiana. The station also operates a low-powered translator, K18AB-D in El Dorado, Arkansas, which rebroadcasts KNOE's digital signal in high definition. Even though the translator is broadcast on channel 18, it remaps to channel 8 via PSIP. ==History== KNOE-TV went on the air on September 27, 1953.〔"KNOE Goes on Air: First North Louisiana Television Permit", ''Minden Herald'', Minden, Louisiana, May 1, 1953, p. 1〕 Initially, the station had a 774-foot tower, weighing 4 tons and costing $65,000. At the time, it was the most powerful tower in the American South.〔"KNOE-TV Station to Open on August 2", ''Minden Press'', June 26, 1953, p. 1〕 KNOE is the oldest surviving station in the northern part of Louisiana. Its sign-on forced its only competitor, KFAZ (channel 43), off the air in the summer of 1954. James A. Noe, Sr., former governor of Louisiana, owned the television station as well as KNOE radio (AM 540, now KMLB, and FM 101.9, now KMVX). The station affiliated with all four television networks of the "golden age": CBS, NBC, ABC and DuMont. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.〔 〕 Even when rival station KTVE became a primary ABC affiliate, KNOE continued to air ABC programming until 1972, and it also aired NBC programming on a secondary basis until KLAA (now KARD) signed on in 1974.〔Broadcasting Yearbooks, 1972 and 1973〕 Noe died in 1976, and passed the station to his son, James "Jimmie" Noe, Jr. The Noes continued to own the station until 2007, when it was sold to Dallas-based Hoak Media.〔(KNOE to be Sold to Hoak Media Corporation ) (June - 13 - 2007)〕〔(NOE CORP ANNOUNCES SALE OF KNOE-TV ) June 12, 2007〕〔(Noe family selling KNOETV to Hoak Media ) Jun 13 2007 Associated Press〕〔(KNOE-TV sold to Hoak Media ) Associated Press - June 13, 2007〕 The sale closed on October 3 of that year. The family had already sold KNOE AM to Holladay Broadcasting in November 2006,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=KMLB Facility Record )〕 and would sell KNOE-FM to them the following year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Application Search Details (BALH-20071005ABA) )〕 The sale of the stations followed Jimmie Noe's death from cancer in 2005, in which it was decided by the family to leave the broadcasting business. On August 25, 2010, KNOE started broadcasting syndicated programing in high definition. On November 20, 2013, Gray Television announced it would purchase Hoak Media in a $335 million deal. The deal also included the acquisition of Parker Broadcasting, owner of ABC affiliate KAQY, which KNOE had operated under a local marketing agreement since 2008.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/72138/gray-buying-hoak-prime-stations-for-3425m )〕 However, due to recent scrutiny by the FCC regarding LMAs (KAQY was originally to be sold to the shell company Excalibur Broadcasting, and would have maintained its LMA with Gray), KAQY was sold to a minority-owned company, and KNOE will forgo any operational agreements with the new owner. In September 2014, KAQY signed off, and it programming was moved to KNOE's second digital subchannel, displacing The CW to the third.〔(Gray closes Hoak deal; completes refinancing. ), rbr.com, Retrieved 13 June, 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KNOE-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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