Gray Television Buys KSNB Lincoln, Neb.

Joanne McDonald says:

February 25, 2013 at 6:40 pm

Maybe Journal, LIN TV, or Belo ought to be allowed to acquired NTV’s KHGI and KWNB ABC channels and KFXL FOX Nebraska plus the idea of putting KSNB back on the air with FOX Nebraska in HDTV, CW Plus programming, also maybe with RTV or the new The Nashville Network to fill the stations digital space. Gray Television with 10/11 and Harry Pappas and his Pappas Telecasting with trustee Lee Shubert with NTV 6 and 13 ought to be better off giving the KFXL channel 51 license to 10/11 which planned on moving to 15 and KSNB channel 4 to NTV and aired FOX Nebraska programming on 4 with 51 being fully shut down while 15 is a candidate to get reassigned to a Omaha station in the future with very likely the spectrum auction may happen at all. Gray ought to be allowed to use UHF channel 16 from defunct KTVG 17 to boost power and give it a larger coverage than VHF channel 4. Journal could also buy Milwaukee’s WIWN to create a duopoly with WTMJ plus swaps RF frequency with the FamilyNet station over there in Milwaukee and WIWN would change from airing WeatherNation programming to Univision and Telefutura programming on different subchannels plus change calls completely. Journal would not have the difficulties and problems with buying the stations at all and must be sold due to Harry Pappas and Pappas Telecasting bankruptcy and financial mess and turmoil since May 2008. Hearst could buy KCWI to create duopoly with KCCI and Sinclair buys KDMI programming assets with MYNET and ThisTV progamming to get aired on KDSM DT2 channel with KDMI RF channel getting reassigned to another station in another market in the future as well.

I’m 100% sure about NTV’s present owner and parent Harry Pappas and his Pappas Telecasting past and present dealing these days.

I do know NTV and KFXL license is scheduled to expired on Sunday June 1, 2014 next year. It’s low powered channel are included in the deal and agreement as well.

https://stations.fcc.gov/station-profile/khgi-tv

https://stations.fcc.gov/station-profile/kwnb-tv

https://stations.fcc.gov/station-profile/kfxl-tv

KSNB license also is scheduled to expired on the same day as well

https://stations.fcc.gov/station-profile/ksnb-tv

For everyone is wondering about NTV/KHGI who operated KSNB till 2009 I got the facts right here.

NTV had attempts to move to inside Kearney. The story is found at:

http://www.kearneyhub.com/news/local/ntv-wants-to-sell-its-property-not-its-station-and/article_8fc0b1f4-a478-11e0-9777-001cc4c002e0.html

My own intake on NTV story of moving to inside Kearney:

NTV would’ve consider moving it’s operations from Axtell to Kearney, but I think it likely didn’t panned out at all because of the bankruptcy and financial mess and turmoil within the Pappas organization despite being able to move the Grand Island new bureau into the popular Conestoga Mall. I heard an TV ad meaning NTV wants to move into it’s start of the art facilities in Kearney. I feel the ad did made me fearful about NTV’s future and it’s very likely confusing to NTV viewers on TV. I feel NTV plans to move into it’s new studios inside Kearney is likely permanently cancelled and called off due to the difficulties in finding the best location for the facilities and finding a buyer for NTV’s current facilities near Axtell.

In December 2011, Pappas planned to having his assets with NTV KHGI and KFXL going into a liquidating trust fund under Harry Pappas:

http://houstondtv.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/kvvv-heads-to-liquidation-trust/

Unfortunately, Harry Pappas and his Pappas Telecasting failed to make the payment and to reinvest the assets within Harry Pappas under his liquidating trust fund and it does meant that NTV and KFXL is actually under the receivership of trustee Lee Shubert.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/lee-shubert/3/9b2/625

http://www.modestoradiomuseum.org/kmph%20lost%20to%20recieivers.html

Pappas just sell off a low power station in Houston, Texas lately:

http://houstondtv.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/kvvv-ld-sold-to-thomas-abraham/

http://houstondtv.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/kvvv-goes-multicast/

Harry Pappas and his Pappas Telecasting had all these years to give NTV and KSNB/KTVG the chance to be very competitive but no because the Pappas let those stations run with real thin resources at the same time being very too busy with the Azteca America venture that truly crashed and burned while 10/11 had all the resources to improve their own station and didn’t need to buy KSNB 4 to help nurse the station back to health.

Happy Pappas and his Pappas Telecasting may end up bawling and crying anytime for wanting KSNB 4 back very badly to run FOX Nebraska on that channel if KFXL 51 is too expensive to upgrade and handle.

Conclusion: I don’t think NTV and KFXL will be able to do all local productions in HDTV due to the stations limited ability at their facilities in Axtell, Nebraska and NTV could never be able to compete with 10/11 in the Tri-Cities when it comes to having better news sets. I have to agree that NTV’s news set since 2000 is getting tiring. I”ll find that NTV/KHGI and KFXL FOX Nebraska is at risk of going off the air, going out of business and being force to suspend all total operations if the economy falters and even 5 years.

NTV and KFXL could be no more on Sunday June 1, 2014 next year if no one is willing to want to buy NTV and the LMA for KFXL all because of Harry Pappas and his Pappas Telecasting being way too strict at which broadcaster will be willing to give NTV and KFXL a chance to stay on the air beyond the scheduled date of expiration.

Dale Godfrey says:

February 26, 2013 at 7:47 pm

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