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CBS/ABC/CW affiliate in Monroe, Louisiana

The station has been affiliated with all four television networks of the "golden age": CBS, NBC, ABC and DuMont. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. In the 1960s, KNOE broadcast a mix of programs from ABC and CBS. In 1969, KNOE installed a translator station on channel 18, K18AB, atop the First National Bank Building in El Dorado to better serve viewers in that area. KNOE TV continued to air ABC programming until 1972 when KTVE became a primary ABC affiliate and NBC programming until 1974 when KLAA signed on. During its early years through the 1990s, KNOE, along with Lafayette station KLFY, served the Alexandria and Central Louisiana market as the CBS affiliate on record, as cable outlets in the area largely carried both stations prior to current sister station KALB launching a CBS subchannel in 2007. Noe died in 1976, and passed the station to his son, James "Jimmie" Noe Jr. The Noes continued to own the station until 2007, when it was sold to Dallas based Hoak Media. The sale closed on October 3 of that year. The family had already sold KNOE AM to Holladay Broadcasting in November 2006, and would sell KNOE FM to them the following year. The sale of the stations followed Jimmie Noe's death from cancer in 2005, in which it was decided by the family to leave the broadcasting business. On August 25, 2010, KNOE TV started broadcasting syndicated programming in high definition. On November 20, 2013, Gray Television announced it would purchase Hoak Media in a $335 million deal. This deal brought Gray back into the Monroe–El Dorado market as Gray had owned KTVE from 1967 until 1996. The deal also included the acquisition of Parker Broadcasting, owner of ABC affiliate KAQY, which KNOE TV had operated under a local marketing agreement since 2008. However, due to recent scrutiny by the FCC regarding LMAs (KAQY was originally to be sold to the shell company Excalibur Broadcasting, and would have maintained its LMA with Gray), KAQY was sold to a minority owned company, and KNOE TV would forgo any operational agreements with the new owner. In September 2014, KAQY signed off, and its programming was moved to KNOE TV's second digital subchannel, displacing CW+ to the third. Gray picked up MyNetworkTV in late 2017 for the KNOE DT3 subchannel; the block airs from 1:30 to 3:30 a. m., replacing default paid programming aired as part of the national CW Plus schedule. It is the market's third station to carry MyNetworkTV programming since KEJB ceased operations in 2010 and KMCT dropped the network in 2016 in order to carry only religious programming. On December 30, 2023, KNOE TV parent company Gray Television announced it had reached an agreement with the New Orleans Pelicans to air 10 games on the station during the 2023–24 season.

KNOE TV has been the dominant news station in the Ark La Miss for more than a quarter century. It has won numerous state, regional and national journalism awards, including the 2008 Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Award for News Director Taylor Henry's investigative series on rogue members of the Louisiana National Guard who looted stores they were deployed to protect during Katrina. On weekdays, KNOE TV airs a two hour morning newscast called Good Morning Ark La Miss (the last half hour is simulcast on KNOE DT2), as well as half hour newscasts at noon, 5 p. m., 6 p. m., and 10 p. m. On weekends, the station airs two half hour newscasts at 6 p. m. on Saturdays and 5:30 p. m. on Sundays and 10 p. m. both days. Newscasts are typically branded as KNOE 8 News and have been since 2008. On November 1, 2010, KNOE TV debuted a new news set, fit for high definition broadcast. On January 17, 2011, KNOE TV began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition, becoming the first station in the Ark La Miss region to do so; in studio as well as in the field. Beginning in September 2016, the station began broadcasting two unique newscasts using staff from KNOE TV. Airing weeknights at 5:30 and 10 p. m. (the latter against KNOE TV), KAQY News Now features short segments/news capsules in a rapid fire progression.

"Good Night and Good Duck", the second episode of Season 7 of the A&E series Duck Dynasty, was shot mostly at the KNOE TV studios, and aired nationally November 26, 2014. The episode had all mention of KNOE TV's CBS and ABC affiliations obscured on set for copyright reasons, through virtual or physical means.

KNOE TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 8, on February 17, 2009, the original target date on which full power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal relocated from its pre transition VHF channel 7 to channel 8.

In addition to the main signal, KNOE TV operates two translators. A simulcast of their main signal exists over K20OC D (channel 20), formerly K18AB D (channel 18) in El Dorado. Another translator, KCWL LD (channel 40, formerly K40MB D) in Monroe, is used to simulcast KNOE DT3 into 720p high definition. City of license Callsign Channel ERP HAAT Facility ID Transmitter coordinates El Dorado 20 9.2 kW 48977 Monroe 24 15 kW 184070