KNHL
KNHL channel 5 is a television station in Hastings, Nebraska affiliated with the SonLife Broadcasting Network. As KHAS-TV, it formerly served as the NBC affiliate for the western side of the Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney market. The station is owned by Legacy Broadcasting. The station was rebroadcast on translator K02HJ in Ord on channel 2 and K35AL in Lexington on channel 35. Both translators broadcast an analog signal.
In its later years as KHAS-TV, the station promoted itself as a full-market NBC station, challenging the long-standing status of Omaha's WOWT as the default NBC affiliate in the capital. It identified as "Hastings/Kearney/Grand Island/Lincoln" on-air and on its Website. It was also available on the Lincoln DirecTV and Dish Network feeds as the local NBC station, boosting its potential audience to over 700,000 people across Nebraska and Kansas.
In 2014, Gray Television, owners of KOLN-KGIN and KSNB-TV, acquired Hoak Media; as it already owned the three aforementioned stations in the same market, it planned to sell KHAS to the shell company Excalibur Broadcasting and operate KHAS under a shared services agreement. As a result of growing FCC scrutiny towards "virtual duopolies", Gray instead let KHAS fall silent on June 13, 2014 and its programming and news operation were re-located to KSNB-TV, pending a sale of KHAS-TV to a minority owned broadcaster.
