KHSD-TV (as KIVV-TV) shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 5; the station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 29 to VHF channel 5 for post-transition operations. Mission TV submitted an application to the FCC in 2007 asking to defer further construction of the station's digital transmitter (which was not yet operating at full-power due to financial problems) until the end of the digital television transition, indicating that its owners were the subject of a bankruptcy proceeding at the time and to expand the funds necessary to complete construction of its full-power digital television facility "could be fatal." Rebroadcasters Satellite stations KOTA's programming is also shown on a network of three satellite stations. KHSD operates as a full-time repeater of KOTA. KNEP's primary channel is a semi-satellite of KOTA, airing separate commercials from studios in Scottsbluff. KNEP was formerly KDUH-TV, and aired its own full-length newscasts for years. However, due to cutbacks in later years, KDUH's newscasts were reduced to inserts in KOTA's weeknight newscasts with a few personalities locally based in Scottsbluff. On May 5, 2016, KNEP's full-length localized newscasts in Scottsbluff were reinstated, upon the launch of NBC Nebraska Scottsbluff which airs on KNEP's digital subchannel 4.2. The subchannel operates as a semi-satellite of North Platte's NBC affiliate, KNOP-TV. When KQME was being launched as KHSD-TV, KOTA-TV contracted with KDIX-TV in Dickinson, North Dakota (now KXMA-TV) to provide programming for that station, as KDIX was close enough to KHSD that its engineers would be able to pick up KHSD's signal. Consequently, KDIX was practically a satellite of KOTA from November 1966 until September 1970. KNEP is one of two ABC affiliates on Dish Network's Cheyenne–Scottsbluff local feed. The other is KTWO-TV in Casper, which is carried on Fox affiliate KLWY's digital subchannel. Translators References External links KNEP Scottsbluff ABC network affiliates Circle (TV network) affiliates True Crime Network affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1976 OTA-TV Gray Television 1976 establishments in South Dakota