KCWL-TV
Encyclopedia
KFXL-TV is the Fox
affiliate for Lincoln, Nebraska
. Broadcasting on digital channel 51, it is owned by the Omaha World-Herald
. It is sister station to KHGI-TV
, the ABC
affiliate for the western portion of the Lincoln/Hastings/Kearney market, and is operated out of KHGI's studio in Axtell
. The rights to Fox in the Lincoln/Hastings/Kearney market are owned by Pappas Telecasting Companies
, owner of KHGI; KFXL has contracted with Pappas for marketing, sales and programming services.. The KFXL signal is also rebroadcast on the digital subchannels of most of the KHGI
/NTV network stations, bringing KFXL programming to the western half of the Lincoln/Hastings/Kearney market and parts of the North Platte market.
KSNB and KTVG began broadcasting network programming in high-definition
on January 1, 2009 prior to the broadcast of the Orange Bowl. KHGI-DT2, KWNB-DT2, and KWNB-LD2 all continue to carry Fox programming in high definition. However, the network's flagship station, KFXL-TV, continues to broadcast solely in 480i
standard definition. On Dish Network and DirecTV, KHGI-DT2 is carried in high-definition and identified as KFXL. The station airs very little locally-originated programming (public service announcements, brief weather forecasts, community events, and commercials), but all local content is in the 480i format.
after the FCC
finalized the DTV
allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station
. It was thus required to flash-cut
to a digital signal
when analog broadcasting formally ended on June 12, 2009. Instead, on June 9, 2009, three days before the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KCWL-TV turned off its analog signal
; on June 12, it turned on its digital signal.
. Previously, The WB was seen either via another Pappas-operated station, KXVO
in Omaha, or a cable-only WB 100+
station, KWBL; KOWH took KWBL's place on cable systems in central Nebraska, including Charter Communications
in Hastings
, Grand Island
, and Kearney
. As with KWBL, KOWH's programming utilized the WB 100+ schedule, with no live programming.
Five months before KOWH's sign-on, The WB and UPN
announced that they would close and form The CW Television Network
. Pappas had obtained the affiliation for KOWH by the time it signed on, and to reflect this affiliation, the station changed its callsign to KCWL-TV on August 2, 2006. Similarly to its WB affiliation, KCWL operated as a member of The CW Plus
.
On September 1, 2006, KCWL was added to the primary cable system in Lincoln, Time Warner Cable
, on channel 18 in their low basic cable tier. On June 3, 2009, Pappas Telecasting announced that KCWL would cease to be a CW affiliate upon the shutdown of the analog transmitter, leaving the Lincoln-Kearney-Hastings market without an over-the-air CW station. Instead, when the station returned to the air on June 12, it did so as Fox affiliate KFXL-TV, airing the same programming as KTVG-TV and KSNB-TV. Lincoln had been served by two analog translators of KTVG as well as Omaha Fox affiliate KPTM
, which includes Lincoln in its station ID. Steve Harry, general manager of KCWL, stated that the move was made to increase viewership of his station due to most viewers in Lincoln choosing KXVO, which Time Warner had continued to carry, over KCWL for The CW programming. Harry stated that as a Fox affiliate, KFXL would be in a better position to increase viewership in Lincoln due to the stronger signal, boosting its status as the city's default Fox station rather than KPTM.
For approximately two months, KFXL operated as a full-power repeater of KTVG under the moniker Fox 4 and 17; later in summer 2009, the network was rebranded as KFXL, Fox Nebraska, with KTVG and KSNB rebranded as satellites of KFXL.
The time brokerage agreement between Pappas Telecasting and Colins Broadcasting Corporation (the licensee of KSNB) expired without renewal on November 30, 2009. As a result, KSNB was removed from Fox Nebraska and shut down on December 1, 2009.
As of April 2010, KTVG-TV was no longer listed on KFXL ID screens. It was stated on a message board that parent station KHGI-TV announced during a newscast that KTVG-TV shut down on April 5, 2010; this was confirmed by a comment in the station's July DTV education quarterly activity report filed with the FCC.
Until KTVG shut down in April 2010, that station fed programming to KFXL and the network's low-power analog repeaters even though KFXL was billed as the main station. The digital subchannels of the NTV stations carrying KFXL received a direct feed from the studios in Axtell, as did KTVG.
/NTV network--KHGI-DT2 in Kearney, Nebraska
; KWNB-DT2 in Hayes Center, Nebraska
; KWNB-LD2 in McCook, Nebraska
; and in digital standard definition on KHGP-LP2 in O'Neill, Nebraska
.
) signal serves portions of the North Platte
market, which puts KFXL in competition with that market's local Fox affiliate, K11TW
, which is seen on a low-power analog signal and on a subcarrier of KNOP-TV
. In order to respect K11TW's rights to Fox in North Platte, KFXL is not carried on NTV's North Platte transmitter, KHGI-LD.
, had left the air on June 12, 2009.)
KFXL-TV was rebroadcast on KUVR-LD, channel 29, in McCook
until mid-June 2009, when KUVR-LD became KWNB-LD and began rebroadcasting KWNB-TV (though as noted above, KFXL remains available on KWNB-LD via channel 6.2). KTVG-TV also once operated its own repeater in McCook, WCWH-LP channel 40; this was shut down in favor of KWNB-LD2 on March 19, 2010.. KTVG-TV, and later KFXL-TV, were also rebroadcast on KOAZ-LP in O'Neill
until that repeater was shut down in favor of the multiplexed digital signal of KHGP-LP in 2011.
In addition, KFXL-TV (and KTVG before it) were carried on KHJP-LP, channel 29, in Valentine
from 2004-10. By spring 2010, Pappas Telecasting had shut off both of its repeaters in Valentine (the other, WCWH-LP, had been a KHGI repeater) and by December had returned both licenses to the FCC. Pappas has not turned on digital signals in Valentine, effectively withdrawing from that city except via cable coverage.
affiliate KPTM-TV.
KFXL is on Time Warner Cable
channel 18 in Lincoln and Crete, channel 5 in Seward and David City, and channel 2 in Fairbury and York. It is also carried on Charter Communications
channel 4 in Beatrice, Minden, Cozad, Lexington, Gothenburg, Ord, Kearney, and Grand Island. In Hastings, Charter Communications
carries KFXL on channel 3. All of the Charter systems in the Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney market, except Beatrice, also carry the KFXL high-definition signal on a digital tier. Glenwood Communications carries KFXL on channel 17 in Blue Hill
. Great Plains Cable Television customers in Hayes Center can find the station on basic channel 29, and in Broken Bow and McCook on channel 4. USA Communications customers in Albion and Central City receive KFXL on channel 7, and in Alma and Red Cloud on channel 4. Three River Telco customers in O'Neill receive KFXL on channel 14, while customers in Ainsworth and Valentine receive KFXL on channel 4. In Thedford, KFXL is on Consolidated Cable channel 4.
Dish Network
carries KFXL on local channels 17 (HD), 51 (SD), and 7554 across the entire Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney DMA, and DirecTV
carries KFXL on local channel 17.
During most of 2010, KFXL and KTVG-TV were duplicated on cable systems in southeast and south-central Nebraska; however, in August 2010 Time Warner Cable
removed the duplicate channels in order to free up space in their lineup.
CW affiliate KXVO-TV as the local station. In addition, DirecTV
replaced KCWL with KXVO as the local CW affiliate in its locals package across the entire Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney market area.
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
affiliate for Lincoln, Nebraska
Lincoln, Nebraska
The City of Lincoln is the capital and the second-most populous city of the US state of Nebraska. Lincoln is also the county seat of Lancaster County and the home of the University of Nebraska. Lincoln's 2010 Census population was 258,379....
. Broadcasting on digital channel 51, it is owned by the Omaha World-Herald
Omaha World-Herald
The Omaha World-Herald, based in Omaha, Nebraska, is the primary daily newspaper of Nebraska, as well as portions of southwest Iowa. For decades it circulated daily throughout Nebraska, and in parts of Kansas, South Dakota, Missouri, Colorado and Wyoming. In 2008, distribution was reduced to the...
. It is sister station to KHGI-TV
KHGI-TV
KHGI-TV, channel 13, is the ABC-affiliated television station for most of central and western Nebraska. The station is licensed to the town of Kearney....
, the ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
affiliate for the western portion of the Lincoln/Hastings/Kearney market, and is operated out of KHGI's studio in Axtell
Axtell, Nebraska
Axtell is a village in Kearney County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Kearney, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 696 at the 2000 census.-History:...
. The rights to Fox in the Lincoln/Hastings/Kearney market are owned by Pappas Telecasting Companies
Pappas Telecasting Companies
Pappas Telecasting Companies was a diversely organized broadcasting company headquartered in Visalia, California, United States. Founded in 1971, it was one of the largest privately held broadcasting companies in the country, with its stations reaching over 15% of all U.S. households and over 32%...
, owner of KHGI; KFXL has contracted with Pappas for marketing, sales and programming services.. The KFXL signal is also rebroadcast on the digital subchannels of most of the KHGI
KHGI-TV
KHGI-TV, channel 13, is the ABC-affiliated television station for most of central and western Nebraska. The station is licensed to the town of Kearney....
/NTV network stations, bringing KFXL programming to the western half of the Lincoln/Hastings/Kearney market and parts of the North Platte market.
Digital programming
KFXL-TV broadcasts on digital channel 51.| Channel | Name | Video Display resolution The display resolution of a digital television or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. It can be an ambiguous term especially as the displayed resolution is controlled by all different factors in cathode ray tube , flat panel or projection... |
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Programming |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51.1 | KFXL-TV | 480i 480i 480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC... |
4:3 | Main KFXL programming / Fox SD |
KSNB and KTVG began broadcasting network programming in high-definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
on January 1, 2009 prior to the broadcast of the Orange Bowl. KHGI-DT2, KWNB-DT2, and KWNB-LD2 all continue to carry Fox programming in high definition. However, the network's flagship station, KFXL-TV, continues to broadcast solely in 480i
480i
480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the US NTSC television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics. The i, which is sometimes uppercase, stands for interlaced, the 480 for a vertical frame resolution of 480 lines containing picture information; while NTSC...
standard definition. On Dish Network and DirecTV, KHGI-DT2 is carried in high-definition and identified as KFXL. The station airs very little locally-originated programming (public service announcements, brief weather forecasts, community events, and commercials), but all local content is in the 480i format.
Analog-to-digital conversion
Because it was granted an original construction permitConstruction permit
A construction permit or building permit is a permit required in most jurisdictions for new construction, or adding on to pre-existing structures, and in some cases for major renovations. Generally, the new construction must be inspected during construction and after completion to ensure compliance...
after the FCC
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
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, the station did not receive a companion channel for a 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...
. It was thus required to 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...
to a 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...
when analog broadcasting formally ended on June 12, 2009. Instead, on June 9, 2009, three days before the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KCWL-TV 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...
; on June 12, it turned on its digital signal.
History
KFXL signed on June 26, 2006 as KOWH (referring to its owner), an affiliate of The WB Television NetworkThe WB Television Network
The WB Television Network is a former television network in the United States that was launched on January 11, 1995 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and Tribune Broadcasting. On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Warner Bros...
. Previously, The WB was seen either via another Pappas-operated station, KXVO
KXVO
KXVO digital channel 38 is the The CW affiliated television station in Omaha, Nebraska. The station is owned by Mitts Telecasting Company and operated by Titan TV Broadcast Group through a local marketing agreement. KXVO shares operations and studios with another Titan-owned station, Fox affiliate...
in Omaha, or a cable-only WB 100+
The WB 100+ Station Group
The WB 100+ Station Group was a group of primarily non-broadcast local cable television outlets for The WB Television Network, for markets below the top 100 television media markets in the United States. Dayparts with no WB programming were programmed by the network...
station, KWBL; KOWH took KWBL's place on cable systems in central Nebraska, including Charter Communications
Charter Communications
Charter Communications is an American company providing cable television, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to more than 4.7 million customers in 25 states. By revenues, it is the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, behind Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox Communications...
in Hastings
Hastings, Nebraska
Hastings is a city in and the county seat of Adams County, Nebraska, United States. It is the principal city of the Hastings, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area, which consists of Adams and Clay counties. The population was 24,907 at the 2010 census...
, Grand Island
Grand Island, Nebraska
Grand Island is a city in and the county seat of Hall County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 48,520 at the 2010 census.Grand Island is home to the Nebraska Law Enforcement Training Center which is the sole agency responsible for training law enforcement officers throughout the state,...
, and Kearney
Kearney, Nebraska
Kearney is a city in and the county seat of Buffalo County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 30,787 at the 2010 census. It is home to the University of Nebraska-Kearney....
. As with KWBL, KOWH's programming utilized the WB 100+ schedule, with no live programming.
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
announced that they would close and form The CW Television Network
The CW Television Network
The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...
. Pappas had obtained the affiliation for KOWH by the time it signed on, and to reflect this affiliation, the station changed its callsign to KCWL-TV on August 2, 2006. Similarly to its WB affiliation, KCWL operated as a member of The CW Plus
The CW Plus
The CW Plus is a group of primarily digital sub-channels, analog, and non-broadcast cable television outlets for the CW Television Network, for markets below the top 99 television media markets in the United States....
.
On September 1, 2006, KCWL was added to the primary cable system in Lincoln, Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...
, on channel 18 in their low basic cable tier. On June 3, 2009, Pappas Telecasting announced that KCWL would cease to be a CW affiliate upon the shutdown of the analog transmitter, leaving the Lincoln-Kearney-Hastings market without an over-the-air CW station. Instead, when the station returned to the air on June 12, it did so as Fox affiliate KFXL-TV, airing the same programming as KTVG-TV and KSNB-TV. Lincoln had been served by two analog translators of KTVG as well as Omaha Fox affiliate KPTM
KPTM
KPTM is the Fox-affiliated television station for Omaha, Nebraska. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 43 from a transmitter south of Gretna and I-80. The station can also be seen on Cox channel 10 and in high definition on digital channel 710...
, which includes Lincoln in its station ID. Steve Harry, general manager of KCWL, stated that the move was made to increase viewership of his station due to most viewers in Lincoln choosing KXVO, which Time Warner had continued to carry, over KCWL for The CW programming. Harry stated that as a Fox affiliate, KFXL would be in a better position to increase viewership in Lincoln due to the stronger signal, boosting its status as the city's default Fox station rather than KPTM.
For approximately two months, KFXL operated as a full-power repeater of KTVG under the moniker Fox 4 and 17; later in summer 2009, the network was rebranded as KFXL, Fox Nebraska, with KTVG and KSNB rebranded as satellites of KFXL.
The time brokerage agreement between Pappas Telecasting and Colins Broadcasting Corporation (the licensee of KSNB) expired without renewal on November 30, 2009. As a result, KSNB was removed from Fox Nebraska and shut down on December 1, 2009.
As of April 2010, KTVG-TV was no longer listed on KFXL ID screens. It was stated on a message board that parent station KHGI-TV announced during a newscast that KTVG-TV shut down on April 5, 2010; this was confirmed by a comment in the station's July DTV education quarterly activity report filed with the FCC.
Until KTVG shut down in April 2010, that station fed programming to KFXL and the network's low-power analog repeaters even though KFXL was billed as the main station. The digital subchannels of the NTV stations carrying KFXL received a direct feed from the studios in Axtell, as did KTVG.
NTV digital subchannels
Since June 12, 2009, KFXL-TV has also been carried in high definition on the digital subcarriers of most of the stations in the KHGIKHGI-TV
KHGI-TV, channel 13, is the ABC-affiliated television station for most of central and western Nebraska. The station is licensed to the town of Kearney....
/NTV network--KHGI-DT2 in Kearney, Nebraska
Kearney, Nebraska
Kearney is a city in and the county seat of Buffalo County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 30,787 at the 2010 census. It is home to the University of Nebraska-Kearney....
; KWNB-DT2 in Hayes Center, Nebraska
Hayes Center, Nebraska
Hayes Center is a village in Hayes County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 240 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Hayes County.-Geography:Hayes Center is located at ....
; KWNB-LD2 in McCook, Nebraska
McCook, Nebraska
McCook is a city in Red Willow County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 7,994 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Red Willow County...
; and in digital standard definition on KHGP-LP2 in O'Neill, Nebraska
O'Neill, Nebraska
O'Neill is a city in Holt County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 3,733 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Holt County.-Geography:O'Neill is located at ....
.
North Platte
The KWNB (Hayes CenterHayes Center, Nebraska
Hayes Center is a village in Hayes County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 240 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Hayes County.-Geography:Hayes Center is located at ....
) signal serves portions of the North Platte
North Platte, Nebraska
North Platte is a city in and the county seat of Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States. It is located in the southwestern part of the state, along Interstate 80, at the confluence of the North and South Platte Rivers forming the Platte River...
market, which puts KFXL in competition with that market's local Fox affiliate, K11TW
K11TW
K11TW, known locally as KIIT, is a television station in North Platte, Nebraska, broadcasting locally as an affiliate of Fox. The station is a Class-A operation, even though the station's official calls are still translator-style calls...
, which is seen on a low-power analog signal and on a subcarrier of KNOP-TV
KNOP-TV
KNOP-TV is the NBC affiliated television station in North Platte, Nebraska. It is owned by Hoak Media along with local Fox affiliate KIIT. The station is also seen on rebroadcast translators K20DK south of Valentine, K35AL in Lexington, K09GW and K18DH in Broken Bow, and K21CY in Ogallala...
. In order to respect K11TW's rights to Fox in North Platte, KFXL is not carried on NTV's North Platte transmitter, KHGI-LD.
Former KFXL repeaters
Two additional repeaters, K18CD and KWAZ-LP channel 35 in Lincoln, carried KFXL's programming (and that of KTVG prior to June 12, 2009) until December 1, 2009; both repeaters, as with KSNB, were owned by Colins Broadcasting Company. (A third Colins-owned translator, K17CI in Beatrice, NebraskaBeatrice, Nebraska
Beatrice is a city in and the county seat of Gage County, Nebraska.Beatrice is located south of Lincoln on the Big Blue River. It is surrounded by agricultural country. The population was 12,459 at the 2010 census.-History:...
, had left the air on June 12, 2009.)
KFXL-TV was rebroadcast on KUVR-LD, channel 29, in McCook
McCook, Nebraska
McCook is a city in Red Willow County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 7,994 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Red Willow County...
until mid-June 2009, when KUVR-LD became KWNB-LD and began rebroadcasting KWNB-TV (though as noted above, KFXL remains available on KWNB-LD via channel 6.2). KTVG-TV also once operated its own repeater in McCook, WCWH-LP channel 40; this was shut down in favor of KWNB-LD2 on March 19, 2010.. KTVG-TV, and later KFXL-TV, were also rebroadcast on KOAZ-LP in O'Neill
O'Neill, Nebraska
O'Neill is a city in Holt County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 3,733 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Holt County.-Geography:O'Neill is located at ....
until that repeater was shut down in favor of the multiplexed digital signal of KHGP-LP in 2011.
In addition, KFXL-TV (and KTVG before it) were carried on KHJP-LP, channel 29, in Valentine
Valentine, Nebraska
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 2,820 people, 1,209 households, and 733 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,401.1 people per square mile . There were 1,373 housing units at an average density of 682.2 per square mile...
from 2004-10. By spring 2010, Pappas Telecasting had shut off both of its repeaters in Valentine (the other, WCWH-LP, had been a KHGI repeater) and by December had returned both licenses to the FCC. Pappas has not turned on digital signals in Valentine, effectively withdrawing from that city except via cable coverage.
Cable/satellite coverage
As the Fox affiliate for the Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney market, KFXL is found on nearly all cable systems in the south-central, southwest, central, and north-central parts of Nebraska. However, many small systems in the rural area surrounding Lincoln, including the Zito Media systems in Geneva and Wilber, have opted to instead carry OmahaOmaha, Nebraska
Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, and is the county seat of Douglas County. It is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 20 miles north of the mouth of the Platte River...
affiliate KPTM-TV.
KFXL is on Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...
channel 18 in Lincoln and Crete, channel 5 in Seward and David City, and channel 2 in Fairbury and York. It is also carried on Charter Communications
Charter Communications
Charter Communications is an American company providing cable television, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to more than 4.7 million customers in 25 states. By revenues, it is the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, behind Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox Communications...
channel 4 in Beatrice, Minden, Cozad, Lexington, Gothenburg, Ord, Kearney, and Grand Island. In Hastings, Charter Communications
Charter Communications
Charter Communications is an American company providing cable television, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to more than 4.7 million customers in 25 states. By revenues, it is the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, behind Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox Communications...
carries KFXL on channel 3. All of the Charter systems in the Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney market, except Beatrice, also carry the KFXL high-definition signal on a digital tier. Glenwood Communications carries KFXL on channel 17 in Blue Hill
Blue Hill, Nebraska
Blue Hill is a city in Webster County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 867 at the 2000 census.-History:The town of Blue Hill was considered to be named Belmont, but finding another town in Nebraska by that name, Blue Hill was the name finally selected. The name was derived from its...
. Great Plains Cable Television customers in Hayes Center can find the station on basic channel 29, and in Broken Bow and McCook on channel 4. USA Communications customers in Albion and Central City receive KFXL on channel 7, and in Alma and Red Cloud on channel 4. Three River Telco customers in O'Neill receive KFXL on channel 14, while customers in Ainsworth and Valentine receive KFXL on channel 4. In Thedford, KFXL is on Consolidated Cable channel 4.
Dish Network
Dish Network
Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...
carries KFXL on local channels 17 (HD), 51 (SD), and 7554 across the entire Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney DMA, and DirecTV
DirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
carries KFXL on local channel 17.
During most of 2010, KFXL and KTVG-TV were duplicated on cable systems in southeast and south-central Nebraska; however, in August 2010 Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...
removed the duplicate channels in order to free up space in their lineup.
Former The CW carriage
As CW affiliate KCWL, KFXL was carried as the market's local CW signal on cable systems that made room for the station. When the station switched to Fox programming in June 2009, cable systems that were already carrying Fox programming via KTVG opted to replace KCWL with the national CW100+ feed, though in the eastern end of the market (Lincoln area) cable systems continued to carry (or reverted to carrying) OmahaOmaha, Nebraska
Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, and is the county seat of Douglas County. It is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 20 miles north of the mouth of the Platte River...
CW affiliate KXVO-TV as the local station. In addition, DirecTV
DirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
replaced KCWL with KXVO as the local CW affiliate in its locals package across the entire Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney market area.