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| City | Monroe, Louisiana |
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First air date | September 27, 1953 (1953-09-27) |
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Call sign meaning | FounderJames A. Noe |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 48975 |
| ERP | 22.3kW |
| HAAT | 576 m (1,890 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 32°11′51″N92°4′14″W / 32.19750°N 92.07056°W /32.19750; -92.07056 |
| Translator(s) | K20OC-D El Dorado, AR |
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| Website | www |
KNOE-TV (channel 8) is atelevision station licensed toMonroe, Louisiana, United States, serving the Monroe, Louisiana–El Dorado, Arkansas market as an affiliate ofCBS andABC. It is owned byGray Media alongsidelow-power stationKCWL-LD (channel 40, also licensed to Monroe). KNOE-TV's studios are located on Oliver Road north of Louisville Avenue in Monroe, and its transmitter is located north ofColumbia off Seay Road nearLA 847.
The station also operates a low-powertranslator,K20OC-D in El Dorado, which rebroadcasts KNOE-TV's digital signal inhigh definition. Even though the translator broadcasts onUHF channel 20, it remaps tovirtual channel 8.
KNOE-TV went on the air on September 27, 1953.[2][3] Initially, the station had a 774-foot (236 m) tower, weighing 4 tons and costing $65,000. At the time, it was the most powerful tower in theAmerican South.[4] KNOE-TV is the oldest surviving station in the northern part of Louisiana. Its sign-on forced its only competitor,KFAZ (channel 43),off the air in the summer of 1954.James A. Noe Sr., formergovernor of Louisiana, owned the television station as well as KNOE radio (AM 540, nowKMLB, and FM 101.9, nowKMVX).
The station has been affiliated with all four television networks of the "golden age": CBS,NBC, ABC andDuMont. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with theNTA Film Network.[5] In the 1960s, KNOE broadcast a mix of programs from ABC and CBS. In 1969, KNOE installed a translator station on channel 18, K18AB, atop the First National Bank Building inEl Dorado to better serve viewers in that area.[6] KNOE-TV continued to air ABC programming until 1972 whenKTVE became a primary ABC affiliate and NBC programming until 1974 when KLAA signed-on.[7] During its early years through the 1990s, KNOE, along withLafayette stationKLFY, served theAlexandria and Central Louisiana market as the CBS affiliate on record, as cable outlets in the area largely carried both stations prior to current sister stationKALB launching a CBS subchannel in 2007.
Noe died in 1976, and passed the station to his son, James "Jimmie" Noe Jr. The Noes continued to own the station until 2007, when it was sold toDallas-basedHoak Media.[8][9][10][11] The sale closed on October 3 of that year. The family had already sold KNOE AM to Holladay Broadcasting in November 2006,[12] and would sell KNOE-FM to them the following year.[13][14] The sale of the stations followed Jimmie Noe's death from cancer in 2005,[15] in which it was decided by the family to leave the broadcasting business.[16] On August 25, 2010, KNOE-TV started broadcasting syndicated programming in high definition.
On November 20, 2013,Gray Television announced it would purchase Hoak Media in a $335 million deal. This deal brought Gray back into the Monroe–El Dorado market as Gray had owned KTVE from 1967 until 1996. The deal also included the acquisition of Parker Broadcasting, owner of ABC affiliateKAQY, which KNOE-TV had operated under alocal marketing agreement since 2008.[17] However, due to recent scrutiny by the FCC regarding LMAs (KAQY was originally to be sold to the shell company Excalibur Broadcasting, and would have maintained its LMA with Gray), KAQY was sold to a minority-owned company, and KNOE-TV would forgo any operational agreements with the new owner. In September 2014, KAQY signed off, and its programming was moved to KNOE-TV's second digital subchannel, displacingCW+ to the third.[18][19]
Gray picked upMyNetworkTV in late 2017 for the KNOE-DT3 subchannel; the block airs from 1:30 to 3:30 a.m., replacing defaultpaid programming aired as part of the national CW Plus schedule. It is the market's third station to carry MyNetworkTV programming sinceKEJB ceased operations in 2010 andKMCT dropped the network in 2016 in order to carry only religious programming. Despite the CW affiliation moving to a subchannel of KARD, the MyNetworkTV feed continues to air on KNOE/KCWL.
On December 30, 2023, KNOE-TV parent company Gray Television announced it had reached an agreement with theNew Orleans Pelicans to air 10 games on the station during the2023–24 season.[20]
On September 17, 2024, Gray and the Pelicans announced a broader deal to form the Gulf Coast Sports & Entertainment Network, which will broadcast nearly all 2024–25 Pelicans games on Gray's stations in theGulf South, including KNOE-TV.[21]
KNOE-TV has been the dominant news station in the Ark-La-Miss for more than a quarter-century. It has won numerous state, regional and national journalism awards, including the 2008Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for News Director Taylor Henry's investigative series on rogue members of the Louisiana National Guard who looted stores they were deployed to protect during Katrina.
On weekdays, KNOE-TV airs a two-hour morning newscast calledGood Morning Ark-La-Miss (the last half hour is simulcast on KNOE-DT2), as well as half-hour newscasts at noon, 5 p.m., 6 p.m., and 10 p.m. On weekends, the station airs two half-hour newscasts at 6 p.m. on Saturdays and 5:30 p.m. on Sundays and 10 p.m. both days. Newscasts are typically branded asKNOE 8 News and have been since 2008.
On November 1, 2010, KNOE-TV debuted a new news set, fit for high definition broadcast. On January 17, 2011, KNOE-TV began broadcasting local newscasts and field reports in high definition, becoming the first station in the Ark-La-Miss region to do so.
Beginning in September 2016, KAQY began broadcasting two unique newscasts using staff from KNOE-TV. Airing weeknights at 5:30 and 10 p.m. (the latter against KNOE-TV),KAQY News Now features short segments/news capsules in a rapid fire progression.
"Good Night and Good Duck", the second episode of Season 7 of theA&E seriesDuck Dynasty, was shot mostly at the KNOE-TV studios, and aired nationally November 26, 2014. The episode had all mention of KNOE-TV's CBS and ABC affiliations obscured on-set for copyright reasons, through virtual or physical means.
KNOE-TV's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 8.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KNOE-HD | CBS |
| 8.2 | 720p | KAQY-HD | ABC | |
| 8.3 | 480i | GCSEN | Gulf Coast SEN (primary) / MyNetworkTV (secondary) | |
| 8.4 | THE 365 | 365BLK | ||
| 8.5 | Justice | True Crime Network | ||
| 8.6 | Quest | Quest | ||
| 8.7 | Bounce | Bounce TV |
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| 40.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KCWL-LD | Gulf Coast SEN (primary) / MyNetworkTV (secondary) |
KNOE-TV shut down its analog signal, overVHF channel 8, on February 17, 2009, the original target date on which full-power television stations in the United States were totransition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition VHF channel 7 to channel 8.[25]
In addition to the main signal, KNOE-TV operates two translators. A simulcast of their main signal exists overK20OC-D (channel 20), formerlyK18AB-D (channel 18) in El Dorado. Another translator,KCWL-LD (channel 40, formerlyK40MB-D) in Monroe, is used to simulcast KNOE-DT3 into 720p high definition.[26][27]
| City of license | Callsign | Channel | ERP | HAAT | Facility ID | Transmitter coordinates |
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| El Dorado | K20OC-D | 20 | 9.2 kW | 52 m (171 ft) | 48977 | 33°12′42″N92°39′50.3″W / 33.21167°N 92.663972°W /33.21167; -92.663972 (K20OC-D) |
| Monroe | KCWL-LD | 24 | 15 kW | 171 m (561 ft) | 184070 | 32°31′40″N92°06′08.7″W / 32.52778°N 92.102417°W /32.52778; -92.102417 (KCWL-LD) |
Jimmie Noe, as he was known, spent nearly four decades running the stations founded by his father, former Louisiana Gov. James A. Noe.
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