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KNPN-LD, virtual channel and UHF digital channel 26, is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Saint Joseph, Missouri, United States. As the television flagship of the News-Press & Gazette Company, KNPN is a sister station to CW affiliate KBJO-LD (channel 21), Telemundo affiliate KNPG-LD (channel 30) and local news and weather channel News-Press 3 NOW; this arrangement also places the four outlets under the same ownership as the ''St. Joseph News-Press'' newspaper. All five media properties are based out of NPG's corporate offices on Edmond Street/I-29 in downtown Saint Joseph; KNPN maintains transmitter facilities located between South 16th and 17th Streets (adjacent to U.S. 36), near downtown Saint Joseph.〔(Fox Station Coming to St. Joseph, Mo. ), ''Broadcasting & Cable'', March 20, 2012.〕 There is no separate website for the station, instead it is integrated with that of the co-owned ''St. Joseph News-Press''. ==History== On March 14, 2012, News-Press & Gazette acquired two low-power digital television licenses in Saint Joseph, K16KF-D and K26LV-D from Sunrise, Florida-based DTV America 1, LLC for $72,000;〔(Weekly Station Trading Roundup: New York LPTV Goes For $2 Million ), ''TVNewsCheck'', February 14, 2012.〕 two weeks earlier on February 29, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted the company's construction permit application to relocate the two stations' transmitter facilities from a tower near Mound City to the Saint Joseph transmitter and upgrade the effective radiated power for both stations (the channel 16 license would not be activated until March 7, 2013 when it signed on as CW affiliate KBJO-LD).〔(FCC document for transfer of K16KF-D and K26LV-D ), March 14, 2012.〕〔(FCC Construction Permit information for K16KF-D ), February 29, 2012.〕〔(FCC Construction Permit information for K26LV-D ), February 29, 2012.〕〔(Resumption of Operations for KBJO-LD )〕 K26LV-D was assigned the call letters KNPN-LD on April 5, 2012, before reverting to the original K26LV-D callsign on May 8, 2012; the callsign reversion was deleted from FCC authorization records two weeks later on May 23, 2012, reverting to the KNPN-LD callsign. The station officially signed on the air at 6:00 a.m. on June 2, 2012,〔(Fox station to debut on June 2 ), ''St. Joseph News-Press'', May 17, 2012.〕 becoming the first broadcast television station to have been built and signed on by News-Press & Gazette Company and the third station in Saint Joseph, after ABC affiliate KQTV (channel 2) – which signed on in September 1953 as primary CBS affiliate KFEQ-TV, and TBN owned-and-operated station KTAJ-TV (channel 16) – which launched in October 1986 and also serves the adjacent Kansas City market. KNPN-LD displaced Kansas City's WDAF-TV (channel 4) – which is among the seven full-power Kansas City stations that provide city-grade signal coverage in Saint Joseph proper – as the area's default Fox station on Suddenlink Communications, DirecTV and Dish Network; however some providers continued to supply CW programming through out-of-market stations (Kansas City affiliate KCWE on some rural cable systems and Omaha affiliate KXVO – which provides rimshot signal coverage in the far northwestern tip of Missouri – on DirecTV; and WPIX/New York City, KTLA/Los Angeles and KWGN-TV/Denver on Dish Network through its superstation package) instead of KNPN's CW-affiliated third digital subchannel (News-Press & Gazette assumed promotional and advertising control of cable-only CW Plus station "WBJO" from Suddenlink with the sign-on of the subchannel); KNPN's Telemundo-affiliated fourth subchannel, meanwhile, only replaced the network's national feed on local cable providers, as Telemundo did not have an existing affiliate in Missouri.〔(NPG bringing FOX station to St. Joe ), ''St. Joseph News-Press'', March 19, 2012.〕〔(Fox 26 KNPN Coverage Area )〕 KNPN's launch marked News-Press & Gazette's return to a television presence in Saint Joseph as the company had formerly owned NPG Cablevision (which included Saint Joseph as one of its service areas) until it sold its cable television holdings, including ownership of News-Press 3 NOW (which News-Press & Gazette would re-acquire in May 2012), to Suddenlink for $350 million in November 2010;〔(Suddenlink to buy NPG Cable for $350M ), ''St. Louis Business Journal'', November 29, 2010.〕 News-Press & Gazette's ownership of KNPN and the ''St. Joseph News-Press'' does not violate FCC regulations preventing cross-ownership of a television station and a newspaper in the same market as FCC rules allow such joint ownership of a station is licensed as a low-power outlet.〔 On October 9, 2013, KNPN was pulled from DirecTV due to a retransmission consent dispute involving News-Press & Gazette Company (that resulted in the removal of the company's 12 other stations throughout the country) and the satellite provider over carriage fees.〔(Contract dispute leaves KNPN unavailable on DIRECTV ), ''St. Joseph News-Press'', October 9, 2013.〕 KNPN and the other NPG stations were restored through an interim agreement reached on October 25, 2013.〔(News-Press & Gazette Lifts DirecTV Blackout for First Game of World Series ), ''TVSpy'', October 24, 2013.〕〔(KNPN, DirecTV reach agreement ), ''St. Joseph News-Press'', October 25, 2013.〕 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「KNPN-LD」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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