News Channel Nebraska
News Channel Nebraska is an independent, in-state network of commercial radio and television stations in the U.S. state of Nebraska and Sioux City. It is operated by Flood Communications LLC, which is owned by attorney, businessman and former Nebraska Speaker of the Legislature Mike Flood. The television stations are all members of the NCN network.
History
News Channel Nebraska was founded in 2015 at Norfolk, Nebraska. In 2017, Flood Communications announced the addition of Spanish-language network Telemundo, also called Telemundo Nebraska.Programming
News Channel Nebraska primarily focuses on rolling news coverage similar to the original CNN Headline News and the current NewsNet, whose owner and founder helped establish the format on the News Channel Nebraska stations. Newscasts air every hour and focus primarily on rural Nebraska stories with some coverage of the two major cities, Lincoln and Omaha, and weather forecasts every 10 minutes including former WTNH-TV meteorologist Geoff Fox broadcasting from his home studio in Irvine, California. The network also includes extensive coverage of high school and small college sports with two broadcast trucks covering rural football and basketball games. There is a "north" and "south" feed which show different sports programs, with the other feed's game rebroadcast on delay. High school sports programming requires a subscription when viewed online.NCN carries some limited syndicated lifestyle programming on weekend mornings, including AgPhD, Ron Hazelton's HouseCalls and P. Allen Smith Garden Style.
- Rolling News
- * NCN Daybreak
- * NCN Midday
- * NCN Evening
- * NCN Weekend
- Non-News Programming
- * High School Football
- * Girls High School Volleyball
- * High School Basketball
- *Nebraska Loves Public Schools
- * College Football
- * Women's College Volleyball
Low-powered television stations
NCN consists of eight low-power TV stations that make up the network, all stations have callsigns beginning with a K, as licensed by the Federal Communications Commission. Combined, they reach almost all of eastern and central Nebraska, as well as parts of Siouxland. The stations are owned by Flood Communications of Nebraska, LLC.| Station | City of license | Channels ' | First air date | Call letters’ meaning | ERP | HAAT | Facility ID | Transmitter Coordinates |
| KWBE-LD | Beatrice | 21 21 | 2016 | BEatrice; shared with sister station KWBE | 15 kW | 184308 | ||
| KMJF-LD | Columbus | 48 16 | 2015 | Michael John Flood | 12 kW | 185295 | ||
| KGHK-LD | Hastings | 30 | TBD | Grand Island Hastings & Kearney | 15 kW | 188559 | ||
| KFDY-LD | Lincoln | 27 27 | 2017 | Floody the nickname of Mike Flood's oldest son, Brenden Flood | 3.65 kW | 67012 | ||
| KNEN-LD | Norfolk | 35 | 2015 | North East Nebraska | kW | 185612 | ||
| KOHA-LD | Omaha | 27 27 | 2018 | OmaHA | 15 kW | 33144 | ||
| KBWF-LD | Siouxland | 15 29 | 2016 | Blake William Flood, Mike Flood's youngest son | 15 kW | 181673 | ||
| KMLF-LD | Grand Island | 21 30 | 2017 | Mandi Lynn F'''lood, Mike Flood's wife | 15 kW | XXXXXX |
Digital television
Digital channels
The digital signals of NCN's stations are multiplexed:| Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming |
| xx.1 | 720p 1080i | NCN TMNDONEB | Main NCN Programming / Independent / Main Telemundo Nebraska Programming as Omaha & Lincoln affiliate | |
| xx.2 | 720p 480i | NCN TMNDONEB Antenna TV | Main NCN Programming / Independent as Omaha & Lincoln affiliate / Main Telemundo Nebraska Programming as Columbus, Grand Island, Hastings, and Sioux City in Norfolk, 35.2 is Antenna TV | |
| xx.3 | 1080i 480i | DayStar WEATNATNTV 3ABN | Daystar as Omaha affiliate WeatherNation TV as Beatrice and Norfolk affiliate 3ABN as Lincoln affiliate |