KDLT-TV

KDLT-TV (channel 46) in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and KDLV-TV (channel 5) in Mitchell, South Dakota, are television stations affiliated with NBC and Fox, serving eastern South Dakota and southwest Minnesota. They are owned by Gray Media alongside ABC affiliate KSFY-TV (channel 13). The stations share studios in Courthouse Square on 1st Avenue South in Sioux Falls; KDLT-TV's transmitter is located near Rowena, while KDLV's transmission tower is in Plankinton.

KDLV operates as a full-time satellite 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 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. Before then, KDLT had been the only Big Three station in the market with no semi-satellites. 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 also merged the two stations' transmitter networks, allowing parts of the market to receive full network service over the air for the first time. In 2020, Gray bought the market's Fox affiliation from KTTW, moving Fox programming to a subchannel of KDLT-TV and the two stations' satellites.