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Regular Session, 2013
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 56
BY SENATOR WALSWORTH
COMMENDATIONS. Commends KNOE television for providing northeast Louisiana with
60 years of local, state, national, and international news.
A RESOLUTION1
To commend KNOE television, a CBS affiliate station in Monroe, Louisiana, for sixty years2
of providing local, state, national, and international news.3
WHEREAS, KNOE TV went on the air in 1953 with facilities located north of4
Louisville Avenue and remains the oldest station in Monroe, Louisiana; and5
WHEREAS, James A. Noe Sr., former governor of Louisiana, owned the television6
station as well as KNOE radio (AM 540) now KMLB, and KMVX; and7
WHEREAS, called the golden age of television, KNOE TV was then affiliated with8
all four television networks, CBS, NBC, ABC, and Dupont; and9
WHEREAS, in the 1950s, the station was briefly affiliated with NTA Films Network,10
even when rival station KTVE became a primary ABC affiliate, KNOE TV continued to air11
ABC programming until 1972, while also airing NBC programming on a secondary basis12
until KLAA, now KARD, signed on in 1974; and13
WHEREAS, The Noe family owned the station until 2007, when it was sold to14
Dallas-based Hoak Media Corporation, having already sold KNOE AM to Holladay15
Broadcasting in November 2006; and16
WHEREAS, the sale of the stations followed the death of Mr. Noe's son, James17
Albert "Jimmie" Noe Jr., of cancer in 2005, when the family decided to leave the18 SR NO. 56
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broadcasting business; and1
WHEREAS, KNOE TV began broadcasting syndicated programming in high2
definition in 2010, with syndicated programming including Inside Edition, Wheel of Fortune,3
Jeopardy, Dr. Phil, and Judge Judy, one of the few stations choosing to air the direct4
competitors of Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune on different stations; and5
WHEREAS, owned by Hoak Media Corporation, KNOE TV now holds ABC6
affiliate KAQY, channel 11, owned by Parker Broadcasting since October 9, 2008; and7
WHEREAS, KNOE's digital transmitter is located south of Monroe in Columbia,8
Louisiana, and operates a low-powered translator, K18AB-D in El Dorado, Arkansas, that9
broadcasts KNOE's digital signal in high definition; and10
WHEREAS, on February 17, 2009, KNOE TV turned off its analog signal and its11
digital signal on channel seven and started transmitting in digital on channel eight; and12
WHEREAS, KNOE TV has been the dominant new station in the Ark-La-Miss13
territory for more than a quarter of a century, has numerous state, regional, and national14
journalism awards, including the 2008 Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for15
new director, Taylor Henry's investigative series on rogue members of the Louisiana16
National Guard, who looted stores that they were deployed to protect during Hurricane17
Katrina.18
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana19
does hereby extend its highest commendations to KNOE TV for providing northeast20
Louisiana with sixty years of local, state, national, and international news.21
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to22
KNOE TV in Monroe, Louisiana.23
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Michelle Broussard-Johnson.
DIGEST
Walsworth SR No. 56
Commends KNOE TV for providing northeast Louisiana with 60 years of local, state,
national, and international news.