KNOX-TV

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KNOX-TV

Grand Forks, North Dakota
Channels	Analog: 10 (VHF)
Programming
Affiliations	Defunct
Ownership
Owner	Community Radio Corporation
Sister stations	KCND-TV, KNOX-AM
History
First air date	December 11, 1955
Last air date	February 1964; 57 years ago (1964-02)
Former affiliations	ABC (primary) NBC (secondary)
Call sign meaning	From radio station KNOX (AM)

KNOX-TV, channel 10, was a VHF television station in Grand Forks, North Dakota that operated from December 11, 1955 to February 1964.

History[]

KNOX broadcast on channel 10 as an ABC affiliate. The station later signed on Winnipeg-targeted border blaster KCND-TV, which was a semi-satellite of KNOX, on November 7, 1960. While KNOX was a primary ABC affiliate, the station also carried programming from NBC.

In 1962, KNOX and KCND, along with KEND-TV (now KVLY-TV) in Fargo, North Dakota, were purchased for $675,200 by the Pembina Broadcasting Company, a group led by Ferris Traylor, the part-owner of an Indiana TV station.^[1] KNOX merged with KEND, and KNOX shut down in 1964 after KEND (known as KTHI-TV at this time) began transmitting from a tower in Blanchard, between Fargo and Grand Forks. After KNOX-TV's shutdown, the Grand Forks area did not have a local television station until NBC affiliate WDAZ-TV signed on in 1967.

Channel 10 is now used by Fox affiliate (and KVRR satellite) KBRR serving Grand Forks, which signed on in 1985 licensed to Thief River Falls, Minnesota.

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