Channel 5, Hastings
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
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1956
Signed on as KHAS-TV Channel 5, affiliated with NBC Television Network.
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1967
Switched to color broadcasting.
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1997
Sold to Greater Nebraska Television.
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2005
Sold to Hoak Media.
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2008
December 1, 2008- switched to full power Digital Broadcasting on VHF Ch5.
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2010
September 6, 2010- added SD diginet 5.2 THIS-TV identified as THIS Nebraska.
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2013
November 1, 2013- 5.2 switched affiliation to COZI-TV.
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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.
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2015
June 6, 2015- KNHL returned to air as an affiliate of SonLife Network.
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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.
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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.