united states city sioux falls branding keloland television pronounced kel o land myutv on dt2 slogan your home for news channels digital 11 vhf virtual 11 psip subchannels 11.1 cbs 11.2 mynetworktv 11.3 ion translators see table affiliations cbs secondary until 1960 owner media general sale to nexstar broadcasting group pending young broadcasting of sioux falls inc. first air date may 19 1953 1953 05 19 former channel number s analog 11 vhf 1953 2009 digital 32 uhf 2004 2009 former affiliations primary nbc 1954 1960 secondary abc 1954 1967 dumont 1954 1955 dt2 upn 2004 2006 transmitter power 30 kw height 610 m facility id 41983 transmitter coordinates 43 31 7 n 96 32 5.7 w 43.51861 n 96.534917 w 43.51861 ; 96.534917 licensing authority fcc public license information profile cdbs website www.keloland.com kelo tv is the cbs affiliated television station in sioux falls south dakota broadcasting on vhf digital channel 11 . branded as keloland since 1954 many south dakotans pronounce its call letters as a homonym of hello . the station s studios are located on phillips avenue in downtown sioux falls while its transmitter is located near rowena south dakota . contents 1 satellite stations and translators 2 digital television 2.1 digital channels 2.2 analog to digital conversion 2.3 myutv 3 history 3.1 sale to nexstar 4 news operation 4.1 weather coverage 4.2 notable former on air staff 5 retransmission consent 6 references 7 external links satellite stations and translators edit kelo serves the largest viewing area of any station in the united states . it calls this vast area which consists all of south dakota as well as large parts of north dakota minnesota and iowa keloland . it covers this region with a network of three full power satellites known as the keloland television network . station city of license channels first air date erp haat facility id transmitter coordinates kdlo tv florence watertown aberdeen digital 3 vhf virtual 3 psip september 24 1955 3.7 kw 240.6 m 41975 44 57 56.2 n 97 35 23.3 w 44.965611 n 97.589806 w 44.965611 ; 97.589806 kdlo tv kplo tv reliance pierre digital 13 vhf virtual 6 psip july 15 1957 40 kw 317.8 m 41964 43 57 56.7 n 99 36 12 w 43.965750 n 99.60333 w 43.965750 ; 99.60333 kplo tv kclo tv1 rapid city digital 16 uhf virtual 15 psip november 28 19882 150 kw 154 m 41969 44 4 13.3 n 103 15 2.6 w 44.070361 n 103.250722 w 44.070361 ; 103.250722 kclo tv notes 1 . kclo tv does not offer myutv on its digital signal . 2 . originally low power k15ac from 1981 1988 . the three full power stations air separate commercials . the programming of kelo tv is also rebroadcast on the following translator stations k24dt channel 24 aberdeen repeats kdlo a unique feature of kelo s coverage area is that it covers two time zones central and mountain . this means that viewers of rapid city s kclo watch cbs s prime time schedule from 6 00 to 9 00 pm instead of 7 00 to 10 00 pm with the late show with stephen colbert at 9 35 pm mt. kclo because it is in a separate market can not air myutv or other programming aired by rapid city stations ; because of this kclo may air some syndicated programming different from the rest of the kelo network especially during afternoon hours . a late ice storm on april 6 1997 caused the kxjb tv mast in traill county north dakota to collapse . as a result several cable systems in eastern north dakota and northwestern minnesota were unable to receive cbs programming . some cable systems temporarily or permanently replaced kxjb with kdlo . cbs programming in eastern north dakota has since moved to kxjb ld and kvly dt2 . digital television edit digital channels edit the station s digital signal is multiplexed channel video aspect psip short name programming 1 11.1 1080i 16 9 kelo main kelo tv programming cbs 11.2 480i 4 3 utv mynetworktv 11.3 ion ion television kclo s digital configuration has only ion on channel 15.2 ; it can not air utv due to the presence of a mynetworktv subchannel on rapid city nbc affiliate knbn . analog to digital conversion edit kelo tv began broadcasting its digital signal on march 6 2003 becoming the first full powered digital signal in south dakota . the station shut down its analog signal over vhf channel 11 at 9 30 p.m. ct 8 30 p.m. mt on june 12 2009 the official date in which full power television stations in the united states transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate . the station s digital signal relocated from its pre transition uhf channel 32 to vhf channel 11 for post transition operations . 2 kdlo was originally scheduled to shut down its analog signal and broadcast in digital only on february 17 2009 while kelo kplo and kclo s broadcasts would become digital only effective june 12 2009 ; however the fcc rejected young broadcasting s petition for early termination of analog broadcasts on kdlo tv . myutv edit myutv is carried on digital subchannels of kelo kdlo and kplo digital subchannels 13.2 3.2 and 6.2 respectively . it is currently affiliated with the mynetworktv programming service and also carries the regional weather channel kelo weather now which is seen 24 hours a day on kclo digital subchannel 15.2 primarily during the overnight hours ; it is carried on cable channel 10 in most areas . it was formerly a upn affiliate branded simply as utv when it launched in 2004 until it affiliated with mynetworktv in september 2006 . myutv is not seen in the rapid city market on kclo . the upn affiliate there was kcpl lp channel 52 and the mynetworktv affiliate for rapid city is knbn channel 21.3 ; formerly kkra lp channel 24 ; as a result myutv still can not be carried on kclo by fcc market rules . the cw s programming in south dakota is represented by stations unrelated to kelo ksfy tv channel 13 in sioux falls and kwbh lp channel 27 in rapid city . history edit kelo signed on air on may 19 1953 as south dakota s first television station . it was owned by midcontinent media a theater and broadcasting conglomerate along with kelo radio am 1320 and 92.5 fm . it was a primary nbc affiliate but it also carried programs from abc cbs and dumont . after ksoo tv now ksfy tv signed on in 1960 kelo switched its primary affiliation to cbs and has remained with that network ever since . on september 23 1968 kelo became south dakota s first television station to broadcast its programming in color . shortly after kelo signed on the federal communications commission collapsed eastern south dakota southwestern minnesota and northwest iowa into one giant television market . later in the 1950s midcontinent began signing on satellite stations of kelo to serve its vast coverage area . kdlo in florence was the first of the satellite stations to go on the air on september 27 1955 ; followed by kplo licensed to reliance and serving south dakota s state capitol of pierre on july 15 1957 . kelo expanded to western south dakota in 1981 when it signed on k15ac channel 15 a translator of kplo tv to serve rapid city . on november 28 1988 it was upgraded to a full powered semi satellite as kclo . rapid city had been one of the few areas of the country without full service from the three major networks . kelo was home to captain 11 a popular children s show in the area from 1955 until 1996 . captain 11 was dave dedrick the station s longtime weatherman . he had been a popular radio personality before kelo went on air . channel 11 originally broadcast from a 575 foot 175 m tower near shindler south dakota . on september 20 1955 it was destroyed in a severe windstorm believed to be a tornado . station engineers had the station back on the air in 48 hours just in time for the world series . 3 in 1956 the station erected a 1 032 foot 315 m tower on the same site expanding its coverage area to most of eastern south dakota . in 1967 kelo moved to a new 2 032 foot 619 m tower near rowena shared with ksfy . the shindler tower is still used as a backup . on june 24 1968 ; a north central airliner clipped a guy wire on the year old rowena tower bringing it down . luckily the plane landed safely with no injuries . kelo engineers had the station back on the air in three days from the old tower in shindler . the rowena tower was quickly rebuilt . 3 on january 11 1975 the kelo tower was destroyed by a powerful winter storm . within hours the station was back on the air from shindler . 4 the tower was again rebuilt at rowena and became operational on december 19 1975 . the rowena site is sometimes called the bermuda triangle of tower sites due to the numerous collapses . in the years that followed kdlo s tower collapsed and kelo lost other microwave and translator sites to storms and other reasons . 4 kplo s tower collapsed on january 22 2010 in a severe ice storm . it returned to the air on march 19 2010 . for a time however it operated at low power leaving pierre without an over the air signal . the fcc subsequently issued a construction permit for a low powered fill in translator on channel 29 in pierre . on november 25 1986 kelo began broadcasting its programming in stereo . in 1995 midcontinent media sold kelo to young broadcasting ; the sale was approved by the federal communications commission on may 31 1996 . the station celebrated its 50th anniversary on may 19 2003 . on june 6 2013 young broadcasting announced that it would merge with media general . 5 the merger was approved on november 8 after media general shareholders approved the merger a day earlier ; 6 it was completed on november 12 . 7 sale to nexstar edit on january 27 2016 nexstar broadcasting group announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire media general including kelo . this deal will bring kelo tv under common ownership with abc affiliate kcau tv in sioux city iowa . 8 news operation edit currently kelo tv broadcasts a total of 26 hours of local newscasts each week with 4 hours on weekdays and two hours each on saturdays and sundays carrying the most hours of local news out of any station in south dakota ; the station is presently the only station in south dakota carrying newscasts on weekend mornings . kelo s newscasts have used gari communications the cbs enforcer music collection as its news music package since 1997 . throughout its history kelo tv has won ten regional emmy awards ; along with a national emmy win in 1999 for public service announcement for the tradition of caring and two 2008 wins for best mid size market newscast for the station s weekday morning newscast keloland this morning and a feature story titled dominic s wish . on july 11 1988 kelo began using a satellite uplink truck to allow live remotes of news stories . four years later on january 21 1991 kelo began closed captioning its local newscasts for the first time . on october 18 2011 beginning with its 5 00 pm newscast kelo tv became the second television station in south dakota to broadcast its local newscasts in high definition abc affiliate ksfy tv began producing its newscasts