News Operation
Currently, KELO-TV broadcasts a total of 26½ hours of local newscasts each week (with 4½ hours on weekdays and two hours each on Saturdays and Sundays), carrying the most hours of local news out of any station in South Dakota; the station is presently the only station in South Dakota carrying newscasts on weekend mornings. KELO's newscasts have used Gari Communications' The CBS Enforcer Music Collection as its news music package since 1997. Throughout its history, KELO-TV has won ten Regional Emmy Awards; along with a National Emmy win in 1999 for public service announcement for the Tradition of Caring, and two 2008 wins for "Best Mid-Size Market Newscast" for the station's weekday morning newscast KELOLAND This Morning and a feature story titled "Dominic's Wish".
On July 11, 1988, KELO began using a satellite uplink truck to allow live remotes of news stories. Four years later on January 21, 1991, KELO began closed captioning its local newscasts for the first time. On October 18, 2011 beginning with its 5 p.m. newscast, KELO-TV became the second television station in South Dakota to broadcast its local newscasts in high definition (ABC affiliate KSFY-TV began producing its newscasts in HD in August of that year), all in-studio and field segments are broadcast in the 1080i HD picture format; the station introduced a new set for its newscasts, updated its editing and control room equipment, and anchors began using iPads instead of paper scripts.
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