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First air date | June 12, 1960[a] |
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Call sign meaning | Dakotaland Television, former owners |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 55379 |
| ERP | 589 kW |
| HAAT | 608 m (1,995 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°30′18″N 96°33′23″W / 43.50500°N 96.55639°W |
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| Website | www |
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Former channel number(s) | Analog: 5 (VHF, 1998–2009) |
Call sign meaning | Dakotaland V (Roman numeral 5) |
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| Facility ID | 55375 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 315 m (1,033 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°45′33″N 98°24′44″W / 43.75917°N 98.41222°W |
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KDLT-TV (channel 46) is a television station in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States, affiliated with NBC and Fox. It is owned by Gray Television alongside ABC affiliate KSFY-TV (channel 13). The two stations share studios in Courthouse Square on 1st Avenue South in Sioux Falls; KDLT-TV's transmitter is located southeast of the city near Rowena.
The station operates a full-time satellite, KDLV-TV (channel 5) in Mitchell, whose tower is located in Plankinton. KDLV is a straight simulcast of KDLT; its existence is only acknowledged in station identifications. Aside from the transmitter, KDLV has no physical presence in Mitchell. Both of KDLT's subchannels also air on KPRY-TV in Pierre, a semi-satellite of sister station KSFY-TV.
KDLT-TV got its start as KORN-TV, an NBC affiliate on channel 5 in Mitchell, in 1960. It did not begin broadcasting to the Sioux Falls area until 1969, when it switched to ABC. The station changed its call letters to KXON-TV in 1973 when channel 5 was split from KORN radio. The station was sold again in 1982 to become KDLT-TV; it lost its ABC affiliation when the network opted to move to KSFY-TV the next year, picking up NBC instead. For the better part of its history, it suffered from low ratings and the perception that it was a Mitchell station rather than a Sioux Falls station. In 1987, most operations, including news production, moved to Sioux Falls. In 1998, as part of an effort to improve the station's coverage, a new transmitter on channel 46 in Sioux Falls became the main station, while channel 5 was repurposed as a full-time satellite for the market's western portion. Even after these changes, the station has spent the better part of its history as the lowest-rated Big Three station in the market.
In 2019, Gray Television, owner of KSFY, sought and was granted Federal Communications Commission approval to buy KDLT in hopes of creating a stronger challenge to long-dominant KELO-TV. This brought KDLT and KSFY under one roof, with a merged news operation known as Dakota News Now. Gray then bought the market's Fox affiliation, resulting in the migration of Fox from KTTW to a subchannel of KDLT-TV and the two stations' satellites.
- ^ "KDLT-TV". Television Factbook (PDF). 2001. p. A-1133. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 31, 2023. Retrieved April 3, 2023 – via World Radio History.
- ^ "FCC History Cards for KDLV-TV". Federal Communications Commission. (as KDLT in Mitchell)
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KDLT-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KDLV-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
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