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| Branding | Channel 8 KLKN-TV; Channel 8 News |
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First air date | December 3, 1964[a] |
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Call sign meaning | Lincoln |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 11264 |
| ERP | 53 kW |
| HAAT | 437 m (1,434 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°52′59″N 97°18′20″W / 40.88306°N 97.30556°W |
| Translator(s) | 35 (UHF) Lincoln |
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| Website | www |
KLKN (channel 8) is a television station in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with ABC. Owned by Standard Media, the station maintains studios on 10th Street south of downtown Lincoln and broadcasts from a transmitter located near Utica, Nebraska.
Channel 8 in central Nebraska was originally allocated to Albion and signed on in December 1964 as KHQL-TV, part of the ABC-affiliated Nebraska Television Network (NTV); the call letters changed to KCNA-TV in 1974. NTV's owners, the Amaturo Group, upgraded the KCNA-TV transmitter facility and split it from the network in 1984 as KBGT-TV "Big 8", the first independent station in the state of Nebraska. This lasted two years before Citadel Communications acquired the station and converted it at the end of 1986 into KCAN, which rebroadcast ABC affiliate KCAU-TV in Sioux City, Iowa.
Beginning in 1991, Citadel campaigned to move KCAN from Albion to Lincoln, where it would give the capital city two commercial television stations for the first time since the 1950s. The move began on April 1, 1996, when KLKN began broadcasting from Lincoln. The station also began producing its own local newscasts covering the Lincoln area. Even though Lincoln, Kearney, and Hastings are defined as one media market, KLKN and NTV generally focus on separate areas, serving Lincoln and the Tri-Cities, respectively. Satellite television providers Dish Network and DirecTV provide both stations across the entire market.[2][3]
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- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KLKN". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Korbelik, Jeff (June 14, 2004). "KFOR hires on-air personality Greg Jackson away from KLIN". Lincoln Journal Star. p. 5D. Archived from the original on January 10, 2023. Retrieved December 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "KLKN-TV missing from DirecTV lineup". Lincoln Journal Star. October 19, 2013. p. A4. Archived from the original on December 26, 2022. Retrieved December 26, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.