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Channels Digital: KNOE-DT 8.2 (VHF/PSIP) Owner Gray Television
(Gray Television Licensee, LLC) | ||
KNOE-DT2, (known on-air as ABC KAQY), channel 8.2, is an ABC-affiliated television station serving the El Dorado, Arkansas/Monroe, Louisiana market, The station is a second digital subchannel of CBS affiliate KNOE-TV that is owned by Gray Television. Over-the-air, KNOE-DT2 broadcasts a 720p high-definition digital signal on VHF channel 8.2 from a transmitter located south of Monroe in Columbia, Louisiana. KNOE-DT2's parent station has studios on Oliver Road north of Louisville Avenue in Monroe.
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History
KNOE-DT2 began in 2006 as an affiliate of The CW
On November 20, 2013, Gray Television announced it would purchase Hoak Media and Parker Broadcasting in a $335 million deal. KAQY was to be acquired by Excalibur Broadcasting, and remain under an LMA with KNOE's new owners. However, upon the closing of the sale on June 13, 2014, and the FCC scrutinizing joint sales arrangements, Excalibur would later abandon its plans to acquire the station. Gray would continue to operate KAQY in the interim, at which it would later move its programming to a subchannel of KNOE. KAQY would then be spun off to minority interests pending approval from the FCC, which under this arrangement would allow the station to continue operating on the conditions that it would continue to operate the station independently and not make any partnerships or sharing arrangements with other broadcasters.
On August 27, 2014, Gray announced that it would sell KAQY's license, along with KHAS-TV, KNDX, and KXND, to Legacy Broadcasting, a new broadcasting company controlled by Sherry Nelson and daughter Sara Jane Ingram. A month later, KAQY signed off, and its programming was moved to KNOE-DT2 (with The CW being moved from KNOE-DT2 to KNOE-DT3 in the process). Despite this, it brands itself as ABC KAQY, which is a remnant from the old KAQY (now KMLU).
Programming
Syndicated programming on KNOE-DT2 (ABC KAQY) includes: Dr. Phil, Maury, The Wendy Williams Show, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Judge Judy, Inside Edition, Two and a Half Men, and Everybody Loves Raymond.
KNOE-DT2 (ABC KAQY) also simulcasts the last 30 minutes of KNOE's morning newscast Good Morning Ark-la-Miss prior to airing ABC's Good Morning America.