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Channel 5, Hastings

City of License: Hastings, NE

First Air Date: January 1, 1956

Operating Power: 5 kw

Original Call Letters: KHAS TV

Network Affiliation: NBC

Issued To: Nebraska Broadcasting Company

Through the Years

  • 1956

    Signed on as KHAS-TV Channel 5, affiliated with NBC Television Network.

  • 1967

    Switched to color broadcasting.

  • 1997

    Sold to Greater Nebraska Television.

  • 2005

    Sold to Hoak Media.

  • 2008

    December 1, 2008- switched to full power Digital Broadcasting on VHF Ch5.

  • 2010

    September 6, 2010- added SD diginet 5.2 THIS-TV identified as THIS Nebraska.

  • 2013

    November 1, 2013- 5.2 switched affiliation to COZI-TV.

  • 2014

    Sold to Gray Television, Inc.

    NBC programming and local news programming moved to Gray-owned KSNB Channel 4.

    December 1, 2014- call letters changed to KNHL.

    December 15, 2014- sold to Legacy Broadcasting.

  • 2015

    June 6, 2015- KNHL returned to air as an affiliate of SonLife Network.

  • 2018

    September 1, 2018- Gray leases 5.3 to simulcast KCWH- CW Network originating from Lincoln -sale of KNHL to Gray is pending with the FCC.

  • 2019

    March 1, 2019- sold to Gray Media Group, Inc., and operated as a satellite station of KSNB-DT1 as 5.2 KSNB-DT2 as 5.1, and KSNB-DT3 as 5.4 and KCWH-LD1 on 5.3.