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KNHL channel 5 is a television station in Hastings, Nebraska affiliated with the SonLife Broadcasting Network. As KHAS-TV, it formerly served as the NBC affiliate for the western side of the Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney market. The station is owned by Legacy Broadcasting. The station was rebroadcast on translator K02HJ in Ord on channel 2 and K35AL in Lexington on channel 35. Both translators broadcast an analog signal. In its later years as KHAS-TV, the station promoted itself as a full-market NBC station, challenging the long-standing status of Omaha's WOWT as the default NBC affiliate in the capital. It identified as "Hastings/Kearney/Grand Island/Lincoln" on-air and on its Website. It was also available on the Lincoln DirecTV and Dish Network feeds as the local NBC station, boosting its potential audience to over 700,000 people across Nebraska and Kansas. In 2014, Gray Television, owners of KOLN-KGIN and KSNB-TV, acquired Hoak Media; as it already owned the three aforementioned stations in the same market, it planned to sell KHAS to the shell company Excalibur Broadcasting and operate KHAS under a shared services agreement. As a result of growing FCC scrutiny towards "virtual duopolies", Gray instead let KHAS fall silent on June 13, 2014 and its programming and news operation were re-located to KSNB-TV, pending a sale of KHAS-TV to a minority owned broadcaster. ==History== KNHL was founded in 1956 as KHAS-TV by a group of local investors headed by Fred A. Seaton, publisher of the ''Hastings Tribune'' newspaper and Secretary of the Interior during the Eisenhower Administration. It took its calls from KHAS radio, which Seaton had founded in 1940. In 1967, it was one of the first stations in the area to acquire color broadcasting equipment. The Seaton family owned KHAS-TV until 1997, when it was sold to Dick Shively and Ulysses Carlini Sr., owners of North Platte TV stations KNOP-TV and K11TW, operating the three stations under the name Greater Nebraska Television. In 2005, Greater Nebraska Television sold the stations to Hoak Media.〔 〕 The station's studio is located north of Hastings on U.S. 281. The transmitter tower is located next to the studio. KHAS-TV was formerly rebroadcast on translator station K14IY in Holdrege; this translator went dark in 2009. KHAS-TV is now also carried on K35AL analog channel 35 in Lexington, Nebraska.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=News 5 Severe Weather Safety (refer to coverage map on last page) )〕 K35AL formerly carried programming from sister station KNOP-TV but Lexington is in the Lincoln/Hastings/Kearney market while North Platte is a separate market. Both local and national programming on KHAS is carried in high definition. In June 2012, KHAS and other Hoak-owned stations were pulled from Dish Network after they failed to renew a carriage agreement. The refusal to renew reportedly surrounds Dish Network's "Hopper" digital video recorder and its controversial commercial-skipping feature ''AutoHop''which has also led to complaints from the major U.S. television networks.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://journalstar.com/business/local/because-of-dispute-dish-custmers-lose-hastings-khas/article_364e9e83-3b1a-5b98-8d85-b41f03d363fa.html )〕 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「KNHL」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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