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12 Facts About KSTP-TV

1.

KSTP-TV is a television station licensed to Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, serving the Twin Cities area as an affiliate of ABC.

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2.

The five outlets share studios on University Avenue, on the Saint Paul–Minneapolis border; KSTP-TV's transmitter is located at Telefarm Towers in Shoreview, Minnesota.

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3.

KSTP-TV operates two full-power satellite stations: KSAX in Alexandria, and KRWF in Redwood Falls .

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4.

KSTP-TV serves as the default ABC affiliate for the Mankato market, as that area does not have an ABC affiliate of its own.

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5.

The first telecast by KSTP-TV reportedly occurred on December 7,1947, when Jack Horner hosted a 25-minute program.

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KSTP-TV was originally an NBC affiliate, as KSTP radio had been an affiliate of the NBC Red Network since 1928.

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KSTP-TV has used its "groovy 5" logo or variations on it since April 1969—it is the longest-used station logo in the Upper Midwest.

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8.

The other talk show that aired on KSTP-TV is Live with Kelly and Ryan, which was on KSTP for 33 years beginning in the late 1980s under prior hosts Kathie Lee Gifford and Regis Philbin and ending in 2021, when it moved to KARE.

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Digital signal of KSTP-TV contains three subchannels, while KSTC-TV's signal contains four.

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10.

KSTP-TV operates two satellite stations northwest of the Twin Cities area.

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11.

On September 11,2014, KSTP-TV filed a complaint with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission regarding its carriage in Canada and simultaneous substitution, as well as notifying the CRTC of viewer complaints of problems with closed captioning and poorly-timed simsubbing on its cable feed in Canada.

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Hubbard Broadcasting, the owners of KSTP-TV, argued concerns about their video feed being modified for Canadian viewers via simsubbing, removal of its closed-captioning information, not having its digital subchannels carried as well, and that this might be a potential Copyright Act of Canada violation for its programming to air in Canada.

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