KBJR-TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Superior, Wisconsin, United States, serving the Duluth, Minnesota, area as an affiliate of NBC and CBS.

KRII (channel 11) in Chisholm, Minnesota, formerly branded as Range 11, operates as a semi-satellite and has a news bureau and advertising sales office on East Howard Street in Hibbing.

KRII serves the northern portion of the market, including the Iron Range area, Grand Rapids and International Falls.

KRII's transmitter is located in Linden Grove Township; master control and most internal operations are based at KBJR's facilities in Duluth.

It was grandfathered under Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules forbidding common ownership of newspapers and broadcasting outlets.

The FCC considered the Knight-Ridder merger to be an ownership change, and as a result, the WDSM stations lost their grandfathered protection.

[5] Channel 6 is one of the few stations in the country whose call sign begins with "K" despite being licensed to a city east of the Mississippi River.

It left the air temporarily but managed to get back on-the-air the next morning cobbling together a makeshift workspace at its transmitter building after plastering a technical difficulties slide.

In March 2005, the Malara Broadcast Group purchased KDLH from New Vision Television and outsourced most of that station's functions to KBJR.

MyNetworkTV was created to give UPN and WB stations, not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates, another option besides becoming independent.

Weekday morning anchor Dan Hanger was on the air live from 5 to 9 a.m. At times, he and meteorologist Shannon Murphy were in the dark but were able to broadcast audio.

By late morning when KBJR returned to the air, Barbara Reyelts and George Kessler anchored nonstop using a newsroom setup with one microphone and one camera.

Its news bureau is home to a reporter who contributes Iron Range coverage to the KBJR and KDLH newscasts.

[8] In July 2015, the deal was reworked yet again; it returned to its previous structure, with SagamoreHill acquiring KDLH, but with the SSA wound down within nine months of the deal's closure—after which CBS programming would be moved to a subchannel of KBJR, and KDLH would operate independently of KBJR and solely carry CW programming.

[10] These changes took effect on-air on August 1, 2016, with the launch of KBJR's new "CBS 3" subchannel (named in reference to its continued carriage on Charter cable channel 3) and re-launched news programming.

[14] The acquisition was completed on August 2,[15] making KBJR and KDLH sisters to Gray stations in nearby markets, including CBS/Fox affiliates KEYC-TV in Mankato and WSAW-TV/WZAW-LD in Wausau, and NBC affiliates WLUC-TV in Marquette and WEAU in Eau Claire, while separating from their former Wisconsin sister stations which were divested in order to complete the purchase.

According to this station, the parade dates back to 1958 when KBJR (then WDSM) started the event as a way to kick off the holiday shopping season in the area.

The station aired an abbreviated late-night newscast at 10 p.m., Northland's NewsCenter Express, as a lead-in to Seinfeld reruns to fill the rest of the timeslot.

After thirteen months of mediocre ratings, KDLH changed its 10 o'clock show to the traditional 35 minutes and re-branded it to Northland's NewsCenter Tonight.

When the national service ended, KBJR-DT3 was re-branded as NBC Plus, which featured a computer-updated loop of regional satellite/radar images, current weather conditions and temperatures, and daily forecasts.

These newscasts competed directly with those shown on KBJR-TV; previously, KDLH deferred these timeslots to KBJR as part of the shared news operation.

While both KBJR 6 and CBS 3's news operations shared footage and some reporters, the two subchannels produced separate newscasts with their own distinct anchors, production staff, and studios.

The station argued that the redundant resources of having two news departments could be better-utilized to provide a wider variety of coverage, and newscasts in additional timeslots.