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KVRR, virtual channel 19 (UHF digital channel 15), is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Fargo, North Dakota, United States. The station is owned by Red River Broadcasting. KVRR maintains studio facilities located at the intersection of South 40th Street and South 9th Avenue in Fargo, and its transmitter is located near Rollag, Minnesota. KVRR also handles master control and some internal operations for sister station and fellow Fox affiliate KQDS-TV in Duluth, Minnesota. On cable, the station is also available in most of the market on channel 10 high definition, and on Midcontinent Communications digital channel 610 and Cable One digital channel 1010 in high definition. The station's programming is simulcast on three full-power satellite stations: KJRR (VHF channel 7) in Jamestown, North Dakota, KBRR (VHF channel 10) in Thief River Falls, Minnesota (serving Grand Forks) and KNRR (VHF channel 12) in Pembina, North Dakota (also covers parts of southern Manitoba including Winnipeg.) ==History== The station first signed on the air on February 14, 1983, under the callsign KVNJ-TV. It was the first independent station in the Dakotas, as well as the first new standalone full-power commercial station to sign on in the Fargo/Grand Forks market in 29 years. WDAZ-TV (channel 8) in Grand Forks had signed on in 1967, but is co-owned with Fargo's WDAY-TV (channel 6). The station changed its call letters to KVRR in 1985; that year, KBRR signed on from Thief River Falls, Minnesota as a satellite station serving Grand Forks. Satellite station KNRR signed on from Pembina in 1986, with intentions to target Winnipeg and southern Manitoba. Shortly afterward, on October 6, 1986, the three-station network became a charter affiliate of the upstart Fox network. KJRR in Jamestown joined KVRR's regional network in 1988. In December 1988, KVRR partnered with three other independent stations in Minnesota – KTMA (now CW affiliate WUCW) in Minneapolis, KXLI (now Ion Television owned-and-operated station KPXM) in St. Cloud and KXLT-TV (now a Fox affiliate) in Rochester – to create a new regional television network called the ''Minnesota Independent Network'' (MIN). Despite good intentions, the network never got off the ground. The stations also carried programming from the United Paramount Network (UPN) on a tape delay from the network's debut on January 16, 1995 until its programming was dropped in 1998, due to the presence of Minneapolis UPN affiliate KMSP-TV on cable providers in most of KVRR's viewing area (when KMSP became a Fox owned-and-operated station in September 2002, KCPM in Grand Forks signed on as a full-time UPN station in 2003). From the mid-1990s until March 2015, KVRR did not include any regional, channel, or call letter branding on-air outside of FCC-required station identifications, a rarity among American television stations. The four stations were collectively branded as "Your Fox Station" or officially, "Fox." The newscasts were branded as "Fox News." The station began phasing out the "Fox" branding in favor of simply branding by the KVRR call letters in March 2015. Station management stated that the rebrand was done in order to bring its branding in line with the Fargo market's other major network stations (NBC affiliate KVLY-TV (channel 11), ABC affiliate WDAY-TV (channel 6), Grand Forks's ABC affiliate WDAZ-TV (channel 8), and CBS affiliate KVLY-DT2 (which brands by its cable position as "KX4", formerly KXJB 4), which have long branded with their call letters) and to distinguish the station from Fox News Channel; KVRR was one of only a handful of Fox affiliates that omitted network references in their branding (alongside WDRB in Louisville, Kentucky - which branded as "Fox 41" from the 1990s until 2011, KHON-TV in Honolulu, Hawaii – which had branded as "Fox 2" when from 1996 to 2003, and WSVN in Miami; KTVU in San Francisco similarly omits Fox references in its news branding, but brands as "KTVU Fox 2" for all other purposes). KVRR launched a website on September 15, 2011. In the summer of 2015, Red River Broadcasting announced that Antenna TV will be carried on the digital subchannels of all of its owned TV stations and satellite stations on January 1, 2016, including KVRR (relayed on KBRR, KJRR, and KNRR), KQDS-TV in Duluth, and KDLT-TV in Sioux Falls (relayed on KDLV). 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「KVRR」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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