KNOE-TV (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Monroe, Louisiana, United States, serving the Monroe, Louisiana–El Dorado, Arkansas market as an affiliate of CBS and ABC. It is owned by Gray Television alongside low-power dual CW+/MyNetworkTV affiliate KCWL-LD (channel 40, also licensed to Monroe). KNOE-TV's studios are located on Oliver Road north of Louisville Avenue in Monroe, and its transmitter is located north of Columbia off Seay Road near LA 847 The station also operates a low-powered translator, K20OC-D in El Dorado, which rebroadcasts KNOE-TV's digital signal in high definition. Even though the translator broadcasts on UHF channel 20, it remaps to virtual channel 8. History KNOE-TV went on the air on September 27, 1953. Initially, the station had a tower, weighing 4 tons and costing $65,000. At the time, it was the most powerful tower in the American South. KNOE-TV is the oldest surviving station in the northern part of Louisiana. Its sign-on forced its only competitor, KFAZ (channel 43), off the air in the summer of 1954. Mr. James A. Noe, Sr., former governor of Louisiana, owned the television station as well as KNOE radio (AM 540, now KMLB, and FM 101.9, now KMVX). The station has been affiliated with all four television networks of the "golden age": CBS, NBC, ABC and DuMont. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. In the 1960s, KNOE broadcast a mix of programs from ABC and CBS. In 1969, KNOE installed a translator station on channel 18, K18AB, atop the First National Bank Building in El Dorado to better serve viewers in that area. KNOE-TV continued to air ABC programming until 1972 when KTVE became a primary ABC affiliate and NBC programming until 1974 when KLAA signed-on. During its early years through the 1990s, KNOE, along with Lafayette station KLFY, served the Alexandria and Central Louisiana market as the CBS affiliate on record, as cable outlets in the area largely carried both stations prior to current sister station KALB launching a CBS subchannel in 2007. Noe died in 1976, and passed the station to his son, James "Jimmie" Noe, Jr. The Noes continued to own the station until 2007, when it was sold to Dallas-based Hoak Media. The sale closed on October 3 of that year. The family had already sold KNOE AM to Holladay Broadcasting in November 2006, and would sell KNOE-FM