KBEO was a full-power television station serving Jackson, Wyoming

Jackson, Wyoming

Jackson is a town located in the Jackson Hole valley of Teton County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 8,647 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Teton County....

. The station was owned by KM Communications Inc.

KM Communications Inc.

KM Communications, Inc. is the owner of several television and radio stations throughout the United States. The company, based in Skokie, Illinois, gets its name from the first names of its President, Myoung Hwa Bae and her husband, Kun Chae Bae...

 and broadcasted on VHF

Very high frequency

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 channel 11 in Wyoming's Jackson Hole

Jackson Hole

Jackson Hole, originally called Jackson's Hole, is a valley located in the U.S. state of Wyoming, near the western border with Idaho. The name "hole" derives from language used by early trappers or mountain men, who primarily entered the valley from the north and east and had to descend along...

 area.

History

KBEO signed on March 30, 2001. The station originally operated separately as an America One

America One

America One is an over-the-air television network in the United States. The network serves over 170 LPTV, Class A, Full Power, Cable and Satellite affiliate stations...

 affiliate, but became a satellite of Pocatello, Idaho

Pocatello, Idaho

Pocatello is the county seat and largest city of Bannock County, with a small portion on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in neighboring Power County, in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Idaho. It is the principal city of the Pocatello metropolitan area, which encompasses all of Bannock...

 station KPIF

KPIF

KPIF is a full-power television station serving Pocatello and Idaho Falls, Idaho, as an affiliate of the Retro Television Network. The station is owned by KM Communications Inc. and broadcasts on UHF channel 15 from a transmitter located on Howard Mountain in Pocatello. It has no separate digital...

, after that station opened in March 2004.

Because it was granted an original construction permit

Construction permit

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 after the Federal Communications Commission

Federal Communications Commission

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 (FCC) finalized the DTV

Digital television

Digital television is the transmission of audio and video by digital signals, in contrast to the analog signals used by analog TV...

 allotment plan on April 21, 1997, KBEO did not receive a companion channel for digital television station

Television station

A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...

s. Instead, on June 12, 2009, which was the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KBEO was to have turned off its analog signal

Analog signal

An analog or analogue signal is any continuous signal for which the time varying feature of the signal is a representation of some other time varying quantity, i.e., analogous to another time varying signal. It differs from a digital signal in terms of small fluctuations in the signal which are...

 and turned on its digital signal

Digital signal

A digital signal is a physical signal that is a representation of a sequence of discrete values , for example of an arbitrary bit stream, or of a digitized analog signal...

 (called a "flash-cut

Flash-cut

A flash-cut, also called flash-cutover, is an immediate change in a complex system, with no phase-in period.Some telephone area codes were split immediately, rather than being phased in with a permissive dialing period. An example is telephone area code 213, which was split into 213 and 714 all at...

").

On July 16, 2010, KBEO ceased broadcasting due to financial problems. However, it had failed to apply for a digital license to cover or extension of the construction permit; furthermore, the analog signal had left the air for good, also for financial reasons, on September 24, 2008. As a result, on July 27, 2010, the FCC canceled KBEO's license.