Gray TV Completes Expansion of ABC, NBC in Eastern South Dakota

Gray TV’s network of translators and satellites in rural areas of the large Sioux Falls market are now carrying both ABC and NBC.

The promise to integrate the transmitter networks relaying ABC affiliate KSFY/13.1 and NBC affiliate KDLT/46.1 to central and northeastern South Dakota was one of the reasons for the FCC’s approval of Gray’s purchase of KDLT.

According to an article on the stations’ joint Dakota News Now website, KSFY’s ABC, CW, and MeTV channels are now being relayed on KDLT satellite KDLV (Mitchell) as well as translators in Aberdeen, Brookings, Springfield, and Watertown. Many of the areas lost ABC four years ago when Gray took KSFY satellite KABY/9 (Aberdeen) off the air after determining its tower was unsafe.

Meanwhile, KDLT’s NBC and AntennaTV channels are now being carried on KSFY satellite KPRY (Pierre). KDLT was already carried on a smaller translator signal in Pierre.

The region is also served by satellites and translators carrying Nexstar CBS affiliate KELO-TV, Independent Communications FOX affiliate KTTW, and South Dakota Public Broadcasting.