KDLT-TV

KDLT-TV
Sioux Falls, South Dakota; United States;
Channels	Digital: 21 (UHF); Virtual: 46;
Branding	KDLT; Dakota News Now; Fox Sioux Falls;
Programming
Affiliations	46.1: NBC; 46.2: Fox; for others, see § KDLT-TV subchannels;
Ownership
Owner	Gray Television; (Gray Television Licensee, LLC);
Sister stations	KSFY-TV, KPRY-TV
History
First air date	June 12, 1960
Former call signs	KORN-TV (1960–1973); KXON-TV (1973–1982);
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 5 (VHF, 1960–1998); 46 (UHF, 1998–2009); Digital: 47 (UHF, until 2018);
Former affiliations	NBC (1960–1969); ABC (1969–1983);
Call sign meaning	Dakotaland Television, former owners
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	55379
ERP	589 kW
HAAT	608 m (1,995 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	43°30′18″N 96°33′23″W
Links
Public license information	Public file; LMS;
Website	www.dakotanewsnow.com
Satellite station
	KDLV-TV
Mitchell, South Dakota; United States;
Channels	Digital: 26 (UHF); Virtual: 5;
Programming
Affiliations	5.1: NBC; 5.2: Fox; 13.1: ABC;
History
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 5 (VHF, 1998–2009)
Former affiliations	13.2: CW+ (until 2020); 13.3: MeTV (until 2020);
Call sign meaning	Dakotaland V (Roman numeral 5)
Technical information
Facility ID	55375
ERP	1,000 kW
HAAT	315 m (1,033 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	43°45′33″N 98°24′44″W
Links
Public license information	Public file; LMS;

KDLT-TV (channel 46) is a television station in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States, affiliated with NBC and Fox. It is owned by Gray Television alongside ABC affiliate KSFY-TV (channel 13). The two stations share studios in Courthouse Square on 1st Avenue South in Sioux Falls; KDLT-TV's transmitter is located southeast of the city near Rowena.

The station operates a full-time satellite KDLV-TV (channel 5) in Mitchell, whose tower is located in Plankinton. KDLV is a straight simulcast of KDLT; its existence is only acknowledged in station identifications. Aside from the transmitter, KDLV has no physical presence in Mitchell. Both of KDLT's subchannels also air on KPRY-TV in Pierre, a semi-satellite of sister station KSFY-TV.

KDLT-TV got its start as KORN-TV, an NBC affiliate on channel 5 in Mitchell, in 1960. It did not begin broadcasting to the Sioux Falls area until 1969, when it switched to ABC. The station changed its call letters to KXON-TV in 1973 when channel 5 was split from KORN radio. The station was sold again in 1982 to become KDLT-TV; it lost its ABC affiliation when the network opted to move to KSFY-TV the next year, picking up NBC instead. For the better part of its history, it suffered from low ratings and the perception that it was a Mitchell station rather than a Sioux Falls station. In 1987, most operations, including news production, moved to Sioux Falls. In 1998, as part of an effort to improve the station's coverage, a new transmitter on channel 46 in Sioux Falls became the main station, while channel 5 was repurposed as a full-time satellite for the market's western portion. Even after these changes, the station has spent the better part of its history as the lowest-rated Big Three station in the market.

In 2019, Gray Television, owner of KSFY, sought and was granted Federal Communications Commission approval to buy KDLT in hopes of creating a stronger challenge to long-dominant KELO-TV. This brought KDLT and KSFY under one roof, with a merged news operation known as Dakota News Now. Gray then bought the market's Fox affiliation, resulting in the migration of Fox from KTTW to a subchannel of KDLT-TV and the two stations' satellites.

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