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| Network | KELOLAND Media Group |
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| Founded | September 26, 1981 (as translator K15AC) |
First air date | November 28, 1988 |
Former call signs | KBLO-TV (1987–1988) |
Former channel number(s) | Analog: 15 (UHF, 1987–2009) |
Call sign meaning | disambiguation of KELO |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 41969 |
| ERP | 150 kW |
| HAAT | 154 m (505 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°4′13″N 103°15′3″W / 44.07028°N 103.25083°W |
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KCLO-TV (channel 15) is a television station in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States, affiliated with CBS and The CW Plus. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains a news bureau and advertising sales office on Canyon Lake Drive in Rapid City, and its transmitter is located on Skyline Drive near downtown.
Although identifying as a separate station in its own right, KCLO-TV is considered a semi-satellite of sister station KELO-TV (channel 11) in Sioux Falls, which operates two other semi-satellites: KDLO-TV (channel 3) in Florence and KPLO-TV (channel 6) in Reliance. KCLO-TV's master control, as well as most internal operations, are housed at KELO-TV's studios on Phillips Avenue in downtown Sioux Falls. KCLO-TV clears all network programming as provided through its parent, time-shifted for the Mountain Time Zone. It also simulcasts KELO-TV's newscasts (with local weather inserts), but airs a separate offering of syndicated programming; there are also separate commercial inserts and legal station identifications.
KCLO-TV's prime time schedule starts at 6 p.m. rather than the usual 7 p.m. start for the rest of the Mountain Time Zone, or in the Central Time Zone, where the rest of the KELOLAND stations are located. While KCLO-TV initially carried network programs on an hour delay from KELO-TV when it became a full-power station,[2] it began airing them—and KELO's Sioux Falls-based news—live in January 1991 during the Gulf War and announced it would do so permanently.[3]
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KCLO-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "KELO switches to stronger station Monday". Rapid City Journal. November 23, 1988. p. C6. Retrieved March 17, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Brown, Ron (January 23, 1991). "KCLO shifts programming schedule ahead one hour". Rapid City Journal. p. C5. Retrieved March 17, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.