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KOLN, channel 10, is the CBS affiliate in Lincoln, Nebraska. It operates a satellite station, KGIN, on channel 11 in Grand Island. Combined, the two stations serve one of the largest coverage areas in the nation, stretching across 35 counties in central and western Nebraska. The stations, branded together on-air as 10/11 (pronounced ten-eleven), are owned by Gray Television.

The station is officially part of the Lincoln/Hastings/Kearney television market. However, this market has little basis in television reality. KOLN is the only station shared by the entire market. Lincoln receives ABC from KLKN-TV in Lincoln, NBC from WOWT-TV in Omaha, Fox from KPTM-TV in Omaha, and the WB from KXVO-TV in Omaha, while the rest of the market receives ABC from KHGI-TV in Kearney, NBC from KHAS-TV in Hastings and Fox from KSNB-TV in Superior.

KOLN/KGIN also operates a UPN affiliate on their digital subchannels. Beginning on September 5, 2006, those digital subchannels will switch to My Network TV programming.

Station history

While CBS programming has always dominated the station's schedule, it carried programming from the other networks until the 1980s. Lincoln viewers could still view the other networks' full schedules since most of the Omaha stations reach Lincoln over the air, and all of them are available on cable. Until KLKN signed on in 1996, Lincoln was one of the largest cities in the country with only one full-power commercial station.

Well into the 1980s, when nearly every other local television news broadcast began with the latest news, KOLN began its newscasts with the weather report. According to A. James Ebel, KOLN's general manager from 1954 to 1985, "The first thing I learned when I arrived here in 1954 is that the weather is the No. 1 story in Nebraska."[link] Mel Mains served as KOLN's main news anchor for 34 years, from 1961 to 1995.[link]

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Translators

• Ainsworth: K11KW, channel 11
• Broken Bow: K04CV, channel 4
• Cambridge: K30FV, channel 3
• Cozad: K55AF, channel 55
• Gothenburg: K28GC, channel 28
• Neligh: K53GC, channel 53
• Newport: K25GM, channel 25
• North Platte: K04ED, channel 4 and K57CZ, channel 57
• O'Neill: K43FX, channel 43
• Ord: K04HL, channel 4
• Valentine: K69AL, channel 69
• Wallace: K33FF, channel 33

External links

• [Query the FCC's TV station database for KOLN]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for KGIN]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for K11KW]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for K04CV]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for K30FV]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for K55AF]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for K28GC]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for K53GC]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for K25GM]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for K04ED]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for K57CZ]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for K43FX]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for K04HL]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for K69AL]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for K33FF]
• [Obituary of A. James Ebel] (longtime KOLN general manager)
• [Nebraska Broadcasters Association profile of Mel Mains] (longtime KOLN news anchor)

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