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| - Channel 8 was originally licensed to Albion, Nebraska, and began broadcasting in December 1964, as KHQL-TV, a satellite of KHOL-TV (now KHGI-TV) and the Nebraska Television Network (NTV). The station served as the ABC affiliate for much of the Nebraska side of the Sioux City market. In 1973, the call letters were later changed to KCNA-TV (representing the major area towns, Columbus, Norfolk, and Albion. In December 2006, KLKN began using new graphics and music, similar to its sister stations KCAU-TV, WOI-TV and WHBF, but did not drop the Eyewitness News title.
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| - Channel 8 was originally licensed to Albion, Nebraska, and began broadcasting in December 1964, as KHQL-TV, a satellite of KHOL-TV (now KHGI-TV) and the Nebraska Television Network (NTV). The station served as the ABC affiliate for much of the Nebraska side of the Sioux City market. In 1973, the call letters were later changed to KCNA-TV (representing the major area towns, Columbus, Norfolk, and Albion. The station was spun off from NTV in 1983 to become independent station KBGT-TV (Big 8—named for the Big Eight Conference, of which the Nebraska Cornhuskers was a member). In 1987, the station was sold to Citadel Communications and became KCAN, a satellite of Sioux City ABC affiliate KCAU-TV. In the spring of 1996, Citadel moved the license to Lincoln, and changed the calls to KLKN on August 1. Before then, Lincoln was one of the largest cities in the country with only one commercial television station; Omaha's KETV had served as Lincoln's default ABC affiliate, and is still available on cable on most Lincoln-area cable systems, including remaining the default ABC affiliate on some smaller systems. KLKN's signal coverage still skews west of Lincoln, with the transmitter located near Utica, Nebraska, in western Seward County. The Lincoln market is one of the few in the country (Grand Rapids and Tampa Bay being others) where there are two competing ABC affiliates in the market, as the Grand Island/Hastings/Kearney portion of the market continues to be served by NTV. In December 2006, KLKN began using new graphics and music, similar to its sister stations KCAU-TV, WOI-TV and WHBF, but did not drop the Eyewitness News title. KLKN does not carry ABC World News Now. Instead, the station signs off every night making it one of the few remaining stations in the country to do so. However, many Lincoln area viewers can receive World News Now via either KETV, Omaha from the northeast over-the-air or on cable, or Nebraska Television from the west via satellite. From 1996 to 2003, Citadel operated KLKE (Channel 24), a satellite station in Albion repeating KLKN programming, as a replacement for moving Channel 8's license from Albion to Lincoln. The station was shut down in March 2003 and its license returned to the Federal Communications Commission after determining that the cost of converting the station to digital broadcasting was prohbitive. KLKE's vacant transmitter is located near Elgin at 41°56′25.9″N 98°16′57.4″W / 41.940528°N 98.282611°W / 41.940528; -98.282611 (KLKE). This has resulted in parts of Northeast Nebraska including O'Neill, Neligh, and Albion having no local over-the-air ABC signal; however, KLKN and KHGI remain available on cable and satellite in these areas. On Monday December 1, 2008, KLKN launched an affiliation with Retro Television Network on its DT2 subchannel and Time Warner channel 82 and Charter digital 398, alongside sister stations WOI-TV in Des Moines and WHBF-TV in the Quad Cities.
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