Talk:KNWA-TV

Why...
Why is it that the article for KNWA is located on a page called KFTA? This seems a touch strange to me, and I'd be interested to find out why. It seems like a possible mistake. SchuminWeb (Talk) 05:37, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * KFTA and KNWA are the same station; just so happens that they have 2 transmitters (a la KHBS/KHOG). They just decided to go with KNWA's callsign on air since it stands for Northwest Arkansas. This should be clarified in the article. - Hinto 02:04, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Aha... makes sense now, especially when one confirms the former identities of these stations. Though if they're using KNWA as their on-air identity, it probably ought to be on the page for KNWA.  I was a bit confused there, since, when I lived in Rogers in the late 80's and early 90's, the two stations showed the same programming but were still distinct - KPOM 24 and KFAA 51.  I remember back when their news program was called "Newsline 24/51" and later "Eyewitness News" before being cancelled entirely in 1992.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 07:04, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Also, I want to say that KPOM had another call-sign before that, but I'll still have to do some digging around for information on that (this was before KFAA existed). KPOM in particular has a very interesting history, but I'll have to relocate my source for that.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 07:07, 14 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure, but apparently KNWA is now no more than a satellite station, and KFTA is where the signal originates, so I'd say that's a reason to keep the page at KFTA (for the sake of consistency with articles for other American stations). However, it is awfully confusing that they decided to identify on air as KNWA instead (why did they put the KNWA calls on KFAA and not KPOM?), so I guess it'd be easier to explain the "anomoly" in the branding if this article was located at KNWA.


 * Agreed in that explaining the anomaly of the branding would be easier if it was located at KNWA. As for being a satellite station, I believe that's always been the case, though as I said earlier, they were identified separately on-air when I lived in that area, but the programming was identical.  The only programming difference was the second segment of the old Eyewitness News program, where each station did its own area's local news.  KFAA's version originated from Rogers, and KPOM's originated from Fort Smith.


 * I must admit; I'm totally confused now. I was under the impression that KNWA was in Fay, KFTA was in FSM, and that the station's main operations were in Fayetteville (and KNWA).  In the article, it says operations are in Fayetteville, under KFTA. Plus... does the station still go as "Arkansas NBC", or just as KNWA? Amnewsboy 22:54, 6 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Back when I lived in the area in the late 80's/early 90's, then-KFAA (now KNWA) was always shown on-air as originating from Rogers. SchuminWeb (Talk) 04:56, 8 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I know this is old talk, but in case anybody is still wondering, KNWA is now a seperate station from KFTA(formerly KPOM). Since news was restored to the station in 1999, the news and all other master operations has originated from Fayetteville from a studio on the square. KFTA also maintains a news studio in the same building in Fayetteville, since both stations are still owned by the same company, despite now being seperate stations. There was a studio in Rogers on 8th street during its days as KFAA, but that has since shut down. The station still remains licensed to Rogers for FCC purposes, and also maintains a small bureau staffed with a few reporters, in Rogers in the Pinnacle Hills area.

-I am a current Springdale resident btw.Bjoh249 (talk) 06:35, 29 July 2011 (UTC)


 * And according to the FCC database, KPOM's old calls were KLMN. Still have no idea when the stations signed on though. - Hinto 15:14, 14 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure regarding KPOM, though I have reason to believe that KFAA signed on in the fall of 1989. I have a tape that I recorded in August 1990 that showed a station identification that indicated that KFAA was celebrating its first anniversary at that time.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 03:15, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Here's a brief history of northwest Arkansas stations, as ascertained from my library of old TV Factbooks with some supplemental details on more recent changes from FCC records. I'm not familiar enough with Wikipedia's protocols to edit into specific station articles, but maybe somebody can take this information and apply it in the appropriate places, or at least find it of interest.
 * The earliest N.W. Ark. station I can find a reference for is KFSA-TV Ft. Smith (ch. 22) which signed on 7/10/53. This would be a very early UHF allocation, since the FCC assigned UHF channels from 14 upward only in 1952.  The 1955 TV Factbook indicates that the station carried network service from CBS, NBC, ABC, and DuMont (the latter being a short-lived network which ran for only a few years).   Station KNAC-TV Ft. Smith (ch. 5) signed on 12/3/56 as a CBS affiliate, and KFSA-TV was reduced to NBC and ABC by 1957.  It appears that KNAC-TV soon ran into financial difficulties, and a deal between the two stations was forged, allowing KFSA-TV to take over KNAC-TV's low-band VHF channel 5 allocation, which would have given it much better coverage (considering both the hilly terrain of the area and the fact that many TV sets of the time didn't have UHF tuners).  FCC microfiche records indicate that for a brief time in 1958-1959 the KNAC-TV call continued to be used on channel 5 until the formalities had been completed to allow the KFSA-TV call to be transferred.   With the acquisition complete, KFSA-TV then provided network service from CBS, NBC, and ABC through to the 1970's.  A change of station ownership in 1973 saw a callsign change to the present KFSM-TV, after which the station dropped CBS.  In 1980 the station dropped ABC and NBC and once again became a CBS affiliate, which it remains today with its digital signal now back on UHF at ch. 18.
 * Next in line are KGTO-TV Fayetteville (ch. 36) which signed on 2/8/69 with NBC affiliation, and KFPW-TV Fayetteville (ch. 40) which signed on 7/28/71 with ABC and CBS affiliation. KGTO-TV went off air 12/7/73, then was sold to KFPW-TV with the intention of operating it as a satellite station, but so far as I can determine that never happened so KGTO-TV was gone.  KFPW-TV then took over NBC affiliation from its acquisition, and provided feeds from all three major networks for a few years, before dropping NBC again by 1977.  During this period the station also moved its city of license from Fayetteville to Ft. Smith, and kept a primary ABC affiliation with CBS secondary.  In 1983 KFPW-TV changed its callsign to the present KHBS and the station dropped CBS, leaving it as the ABC affiliate still in operation today, its digital broadcast on ch. 21.  Station KTVP Fayetteville (ch. 29) signed on 12/8/77 as a satellite of KHBS, with a brief secondary CBS affiliation for a couple of years, then changed its callsign to the present KHOG-TV in 1987, and now transmits its digital signal on ch. 15.
 * Now to KLMN-TV Ft. Smith (ch. 24), which signed on 11/12/78 with CBS affiliation. In 1980 it switched to NBC, at the same time as KFSM-TV switched to CBS.  Following a change of ownership, the callsign changed to KPOM-TV in 1982.   Satellite station KFAA Rogers (ch. 51) signed on 10/1/89.  In 2004 both changed their callsigns, KPOM-TV becoming the present KFTA-TV and KFAA becoming the present KNWA-TV.  Following an ownership change KNWA-TV became a sister station of KFTA-TV instead of just a satellite, and KFTA-TV switched to Fox from 2006-2008.  Today, both stations broadcast their digital signals from the Ft. Smith transmitter (ch. 27) and Rogers (ch. 33), the former carrying KFTA-TV on its first digital stream and KNWA-TV on its second, the latter vice versa.
 * Finally, a mention of the area's current PBS station, the history of which is much simpler than many of the stations detailed above. The Arkansas Education Television Commission commenced operations of AETN (Arkansas Educational Television Network) from station KETS Little Rock in 1966.  Originally this was affiliated with the NET (National Educational Television), the forerunner of PBS which came along in 1970.   KAFT Fayetteville (ch. 13) opened 9/18/76, and now transmits its digital signal on ch. 9.
 * I have not attempted to detail the newer stations such as KWOG Springdale or KXNW Eureka Springs, since being much newer stations their history is more easily traced. Perhaps the above outline is not quite as brief as my opening comments implied, but I hope it is of use.  For citations, most of the above data through the 1990's is taken from the annual industry "Television Factbook" from 1955 through 1994. 72.204.13.203 (talk) 01:12, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

The other KNWA
The original KNWA was a radio station in Fayetteville, Arkansas broadcasting at 103.9 FM. Their format was easy listening. The station was sold in the late 1970's and rebranded KKIX. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.178.147.158 (talk) 19:54, 12 January 2012 (UTC)


 * The FCC issues and regards broadcast callsigns such as KXYZ and KXYZ-TV as distinct and different. Not all TV callsigns have the -TV suffix (or -DT etc. now with digital).  Quite often if a company already operated a radio station with (to continue with the same example) the callsign KXYZ and then later requested a license to operate a TV station as well, then it would be assigned KXYZ-TV, but that wasn't always the case.  Nor was it always the case that a radio station KXYZ and a TV station KXYZ-TV were necessarily under the same ownership. 72.204.13.203 (talk) 07:32, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

Article split
With KFTA in the process of being sold to become the Fox affiliate (though still in the Nexstar galaxy), this article should be moved to KNWA which is now the primary NBC affiliate; a separate article should then be set up for KFTA (or whatever its call letters will change to as a Fox station). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.232.105.208 (talk • contribs).
 * It certainly looks like we're moving in that direction. If splitting the article becomes the case, this article should become KNWA-TV, and a new article should be created at KFTA-TV for the new Fox affiliate.  Then of course the matter of separating redirects comes in there.  The existing KFTA-TV/KNWA-TV article would need to be changed into a disambiguation page in order to indicate that this one article had become two.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 05:07, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

KFTA has its own article now...
Someone recently created an article for KFTA-TV. It looks like it needs a little TLC, but I think we can provide that... SchuminWeb (Talk) 14:24, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup of Split
The section regarding the split is VERY confusing -- especially with the sheer amount of technical data and the tossing around here and there of call letters. There has got to be a better way to do this. --Amnewsboy 08:19, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Errors on page
They have Don Elkins as the other Don Elkins who died over twenty years ago, I noticed that IMDB.com has a similar mistake and later fixed it. Also, Matt Turner's link goes to Jeffrey Dahmer (which is kinda funny). Can anyone fix it? I have been having problems editing through Wiki lately. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.204.34.243 (talk) 06:59, 9 January 2007 (UTC).

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