KGKD-TV

KGKD (analog and digital Channel 11) is the NBC affiliate for Prairie City, a northern Midwestern community similar to Minneapolis. It went on the air September 1, 1954 as an ABC affiliate but lost its affiliation in 1961 to KIXP (Channel 9). For the next eighteen years it was an independent station; on March 1, 1979, then-NBC affiliate KRTC (Channel 5) switched to ABC. Channel 9 did not want to affiliate with the then-third place network and chose to go independent (it joined Fox in 2006). Thus Channel 11 became an NBC affiliate by default, and though it runs a distant third in daytime, its primetime schedule and 10 PM newscasts are a close second to KIVB (the CBS affiliate on Channel 4).
KGKD brands itself as "KGKD11"; its newscasts are titled "KGKD11 Today" (4:30-7 AM), "KGKD11 At 11" (11-11:30 AM), "KGKD11 First At 4," "KGKD11 At 5 (also, KGKD11 at 6)," and "KGKD11 Tonight" (10 PM). Both KGKD and ABC affiliate KRTC have hour-long newscasts from 6 to 7 Monday-Saturday. The Sunday 10 PM newscast is an hour long. Weekend daytime newscasts are titled "KGKD11 Saturday/Sunday Today" and air from 6-8 AM. That means that NBC's weekend morning program is delayed one hour, but otherwise the station airs the entire schedule in pattern. That is a far cry from the 1980s, when Johnny Carson was delayed 30 minutes, and David Letterman as well as a consequence.
KGKD is one of the few stations that airs "Jeopardy!" but not "Wheel of Fortune"; the latter is on Channel 4 at 6:30 PM. Other syndicated programs carried on KGKD include Rachael Ray, Daily Blast Live, Entertainment Tonight, and Inside Edition.
KGKD's schedule as of March 2020 (weekdays only, as weekends vary):
4:30 KGKD11 Today
7 AM Today
11 AM KGKD11 At 11
11:30 Daytime Jeopardy!
12 N Days Of Our Lives
1 PM Rachael Ray
2 PM Daily Blast Live
2:30 Daily Blast Live
3 PM Inside Edition
3:30 Entertainment Tonight
4 PM KGKD11 First At 4 (Mon-Fri only)
4:30 Jeopardy! (new episode)
5 PM KGKD11 At 5 (Mon-Sat)
5:30 NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt
6 PM KGKD11 At 6 (Mon-Sat)
7 PM NBC primetime (6-10 on Sunday)
10 PM KGKD11 Tonight (one hour on Sunday)
10:35 The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon (SNL airs at 10:30 Saturday)
11:35 Later With Seth Myers
12:35 A Little Late With Lilly Singh
1:05 KGKD11 Tonight (repeat)
1:35 Entertainment Tonight
2:05 Today
3 AM Early Today
3:30 Early Today
4 AM Early Today