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KFXL-TV is the Fox affiliate for Lincoln, Nebraska, broadcasting on digital channel 15. It is owned by Pappas Telecasting Companies, which also owns KHGI-TV, the ABC affiliate for the western portion of the Lincoln/Hastings/Kearney market. It is operated out of KHGI's studio in Axtell (though the address says Kearney). The KFXL signal is also rebroadcast on the digital subchannels of most of the KHGI/NTV network stations, bringing KFXL programming to the western half of the Lincoln/Hastings/Kearney market and parts of the North Platte market. ==History== KFXL signed on June 26, 2006 as KOWH, an affiliate of The WB Television Network. The station was originally owned by the ''Omaha World-Herald'', from which KOWH derived its call sign, though Pappas provided marketing, sales and programming services to the station.〔 Before KOWH signed on, The WB was seen either via another Pappas-operated station, KXVO in Omaha,〔 or a cable-only WB 100+ station, KWBL; KOWH took KWBL's place on cable systems in central Nebraska, including Charter Communications in Hastings, Grand Island, and Kearney. Like KWBL, KOWH was a straight simulcast of The WB 100+, with no live programming. Five months before KOWH's sign-on, The WB and UPN announced that they would close and form The CW Television Network. Pappas had obtained the affiliation for KOWH by the time it signed on,〔 and to reflect this affiliation, the station changed its callsign to KCWL-TV on August 2, 2006. KCWL operated as a member of The CW Plus, successor of The WB 100+. On September 1, 2006, KCWL was added to the primary cable system in Lincoln, Time Warner Cable, on channel 18 in their low basic cable tier.〔 Because it was granted an original construction permit after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion digital channel. It was thus required to flash-cut to a digital signal when analog broadcasting formally ended on June 12, 2009. However, on June 3, 2009, Pappas Telecasting announced that KCWL would cease to be a CW affiliate upon the shutdown of the analog transmitter, leaving the Lincoln-Kearney-Hastings market without an over-the-air CW station. The station turned off its analog signal on June 9. When it returned as a digital-only station on June 12, it did so as Fox affiliate KFXL-TV, airing the same programming as KTVG-TV (channel 17) and KSNB-TV (channel 4).〔 Lincoln had been served by two analog translators of KTVG as well as Omaha Fox affiliate KPTM, which previously included Lincoln in its station ID. Steve Harry, general manager of NTV/KFXL, stated that the move was made to increase viewership of his station due to most viewers in Lincoln choosing KXVO, which Time Warner had continued to carry, for CW programming.〔 Harry stated that as a Fox affiliate, KFXL would be in a better position to increase viewership in Lincoln due to the stronger signal, boosting its status as the city's default Fox station rather than KPTM. For approximately two months, KFXL operated as a full-power repeater of KTVG under the moniker Fox 4 and 17 (in reference to the channel numbers for KSNB and KTVG); later in summer 2009, the network was rebranded as KFXL, Fox Nebraska, with KTVG and KSNB rebranded as satellites of KFXL. The time brokerage agreement between Pappas Telecasting and Colins Broadcasting Corporation (the licensee of KSNB) expired without renewal on November 30, 2009. As a result, KSNB was removed from Fox Nebraska and shut down on December 1, 2009. As of April 2010, KTVG-TV was no longer listed on KFXL ID screens.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=KFXL Station ID )〕 It was stated on a message board that parent station KHGI-TV announced during a newscast that KTVG-TV shut down on April 5, 2010;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AVS Forum Omaha/Lincoln )〕 this was confirmed by a comment in the station's July DTV education quarterly activity report filed with the FCC.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=DTV Quarterly Activity Station Report )〕 Until KTVG shut down in April 2010, that station fed programming to KFXL and the network's low-power analog repeaters even though KFXL was billed as the main station. The digital subchannels of the NTV stations carrying KFXL received a direct feed from the studios in Axtell, as did KTVG.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=KFXL/KTVG coverage map )〕 On June 9, 2010, KFXL-TV was purchased from the ''Omaha World-Herald'' by T. Stanley Trapp of Visalia, California in a $300,000 deal first reached in December 2006 but not approved until March 30, 2010. Trapp, in turn, agreed to sell the station to Pappas outright for $300,000 on October 30, 2014; in the filing with the FCC, Pappas stated that KFXL's signal does not significantly overlap the signal of KHGI-TV. The sale was completed on January 23, 2015.〔(Consummation Notice ), ''CDBS Public Access'', Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved 26 January, 2015.〕 In August 2015, the liquidating trust for Pappas announced that it was soliciting bids for a bankruptcy auction of the company's Nebraska stations, which took place October 27, 2015. Of the four companies that participated in the auction, Sinclair Broadcast Group emerged as the winning bidder; on November 4, 2015, the company announced that it had agreed to acquire KFXL-TV, KHGI-TV, and KWNB-TV for $31.25 million. 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「KFXL-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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