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| Channels | |
| Branding | KFXL, Fox Nebraska |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Hill Broadcasting Company, Inc. |
| Operator | Pappas Telecasting Companies (via LMA) |
| Nebraska Television Network, KFXL-TV | |
| History | |
First air date | April 2, 1993 |
Last air date | April 5, 2010 |
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Call sign meaning | "Television Grand Island" |
| Technical information | |
| Facility ID | 27220 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 186 m (610 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°43′44″N 98°34′13″W / 40.72889°N 98.57028°W |
KTVG-TV (channel 17) was a television station in Grand Island, Nebraska, United States, which broadcast from 1993 to 2010. It was affiliated for almost all of its history with Fox, broadcasting the network to the Tri-Cities area of the state. From 1996 to 2009, it was paired with KSNB-TV (channel 4) in Superior as "Fox 4 & 17".
KTVG-TV began broadcasting in 1993 as an independent station. The next year, operations were taken over by Fant Broadcasting, owner of the Nebraska Television Network (NTV), at which time KTVG joined Fox while the NTV network also broadcast Fox NFL football games. When NTV was sold to Pappas Telecasting in 1996, KSNB-TV was switched from ABC to Fox.
In 2009, Pappas converted KCWL-TV in Lincoln, an affiliate of The CW, to Fox as KFXL-TV "Fox Nebraska". The local marketing agreements that allowed Pappas to program KSNB-TV and KTVG-TV were allowed to lapse in November 2009 and April 2010, respectively. KTVG-TV shut down on April 5, 2010, and never returned to the air.