KHAS-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KHAS-TV
city =
station_
station_slogan = Coverage you can count on
station_branding = News 5
analog = 5 (VHF)
digital = 21 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = NBC
NBC Weather Plus (DT2)
network =
founded =
airdate = January 1, 1956
location = Hastings/Kearney/Grand Island, Nebraska
callsign_meaning = HAStings
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Hoak Media Corporation
licensee = Hoak Media of Nebraska License, LLC
sister_stations =
former_affiliations =
effective_radiated_power = 100 kW (analog)
1000 kW (digital)
HAAT = 223 m (analog)
218 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 48003
coordinates = coord|40|38|56.7|N|98|23|1.7|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.khastv.com/ www.khastv.com]

KHAS-TV 5 is the NBC station in Hastings, Nebraska. It serves as the NBC affiliate for the western side of the Lincoln/Hastings/Kearney market. The station is owned by Hoak Media Corporation, which also owns and operates sister station KNOP-TV in North Platte. The station also has two rebroadcast translators: K02HJ in Ord on channel 2 and K14IY in Holdrege on channel 14.

Recently, KHAS-TV has begun promoting itself as a full-market NBC station, challenging the long-standing status of Omaha's WOWT-TV as the default NBC affiliate in the capital. It has begun identifying as "Hastings/Kearney/Grand Island/Lincoln" on-air and on its Website. It is also available on the Lincoln DirecTV and Dish Network feeds as the local NBC station, boosting its potential audience to 277,000 people across Nebraska and Kansas.

History

KHAS was founded by a group of local investors headed by Fred A. Seaton, publisher of the "Hastings Tribune" newspaper and Secretary of the Interior during the Eisenhower Administration. [cite web |url=http://new.khastv.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=207 |title=KHAS-TV : A History
accessdate=2008-02-08 |format= |work=khastv.com ] It took its calls from KHAS (AM), which Seaton had founded in 1940. In 1967, it was one of the first stations in the area to acquire color broadcasting equipment.

The Seaton family owned KHAS-TV until 1997, when it was sold to Dick Shively and Ulysses Carlini Sr., owners of North Platte TV stations KNOP-TV and K11TW, operating the three stations under the name Greater Nebraska Television. In 2005, Greater Nebraska Television sold the stations to Hoak Media. [cite web |url=http://www.theindependent.com/stories/083105/new_khas31.shtml |title=Hoak Media reaches deal to purchase KHAS-TV |accessdate=2008-02-08 |last=Fowler |first=Gretchen |coauthors= |date=2005-08-31 |work=The Grand Island Independent |publisher=]

The station's studio is located north of Hastings on U.S. 281. The transmitter tower is located next to the studio.

Personalities/Programming

Morning Show/Midday Anchors

*Katie Ferrell (News)
*Greg Tatro (Weather)

6 & 10 Anchors

*James Wilcox (Anchor)
*Corinne Hautala (Anchor)
*John Walsh (Weather)
*Ed Littler (Sports)

Weekend Anchors

*Robert Price (Anchor)
*David Ernst (Weather)
*Colin Murphy (Sports)

Reporters

*Ginger ten Bensel
*Robert Price
*Jeniffer Berry
*Denise Booker

Past Anchors & Reporters

* Joe Martin, anchor/ news director
* Dyanna [http://staging.agweb.com/news_printer.asp?articleID=120318 DeCola] , now at Ag Day TV
* Carla Thomas, weekend anchor
* Scott Dobroski, weekend anchor
* Rob Osman, anchor
* Ed Jarmer, anchor
* Ann Meyer, anchor
* Adam Freeman, weekend anchor

News/Station Presentation

Newscast Titles

*"The Sixth Hour Report/The Eleventh Hour Report" (1968-1975)
*"NewsCenter 5" (1975-1985)
*"Channel 5 News" (1985-1994)
*"News 5" (1994-present)

tation Slogans

*"Coverage You Can Count On" (1997-present)

References

External links

*TVQ|KHAS-TV
**TVQ|K02HJ
**TVQ|K14IY
*BIA|KHAS|TV|TV
* [http://www.hoakmedia.com/ Hoak Media (parent of KHAS-TV)]
* [http://www.ne-ba.org/about_us-hall_of_fame.asp?id=32 Nebraska Broadcasting Association profile of Fred A. Seaton]