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14-03-2025
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Flashback Friday: Celebrating St. Patrick's with Captain 11
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO)– It's going to be a big day in downtown Sioux Falls tomorrow as residents celebrate Saint Patrick's Day. In this week's flashback Friday, KELOLAND's very own Captain 11 takes us back to 1983 to celebrate the holiday with parade goers. KELOLAND recently celebrated the 70th anniversary of Captain 11 with a special broadcast, you can watch it here. There's also an entire page of Captain 11 content on our website, you can find that here. If you want to see more stories from our archives, search for Flashback Friday on our website. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
08-03-2025
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Captain 11 shows airing on KELOXTRA and KELOLAND+
SIOUX FALLS S.D. (KELO) – You've been asking and now we can tell you that Captain 11 will be on TV again! KELOLAND Media Group will be airing a marathon of shows on KELOXTRA Sunday, March 9th from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and then back again from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. If you've picked up the KELOLAND+ app for Roku, FireTV, and Apple TV, be sure to 'tune in' this Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. CT. PLUS, there are three full episodes that you can watch on demand right now! Just page down in the app to the Captain 11 section. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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08-03-2025
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Captain 11 Day in Sioux Falls
SIOUX FALLS, SD (KELO) — Seventy years ago, young KELOLAND viewers first cast their gaze upon the man who possessed the wisdom of Solomon and the strength of Atlas. It was March 7th, 1955, when the very first Captain 11 show aired on KELOLAND TV. The program ran until 1996, making it the longest-running children's show in the world. Gov. Rhoden has signed 64 bills, including baby box bill We here at KELOLAND Media Group celebrated the Captain's milestone anniversary Friday. It included a proclamation from the mayor, who was also a longtime viewer of the Captain. 'Captain 11 began on March 7, 1955,' Mayor Paul TenHaken said. A salute to Captain 11 from the mayor of Sioux Falls. 'Do hearby proclaim today, March 7th, 2025 as Captain 11 Day in our great city of Sioux Falls,' TenHaken said. Mayor Paul TenHaken was a part of the Captain's crew as a boy growing up in Worthington, MN. 'I think I was on the show one time and it was a huge deal when we were on the show,' TenHaken said. Generations of kids saw Captain 11 as their hero and role model. 'It was a simpler time. When I think about Captain 11 it was like before we had all the chaos of what kids go through now,' TenHaken. The Captain also traveled the outer galaxies beyond our TV studio. 'He was in every parade, every town's centennial: there was Captain 11. New store openings: there was Captain 11. He was everywhere in our area,' KELOLAND Media Group Director of Marketing & Creative Services Paul Farmer said. KELOLAND Media Group employees paid tribute to the Captain by wearing his yellow crew member t-shirts. But the celebrating doesn't end after today. 'This is a year-long celebration as we celebrate the legacy of Captain 11. So all through 2025, we're going to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Captain 11 in different ways,' Farmer said. After all, one day is far too brief a period to honor the 70 year legacy of the man who was given the power to control time. 'How's my crew today?''Fine!!!' We will be airing a marathon of Captain 11 shows on KELOXTRA this Sunday March 9th from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and then back again from 7-10 p.m. If you've picked up the KELOLAND+ app for Roku, FireTV, and Apple TV, be sure to watch this Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Central Time. Plus, there are three full episodes that you can watch on demand right now. Just page down in the app to the Captain 11 section. A special Inside KELOLAND features the history of the Captain 11 Show. It airs on KELOLAND TV Saturday at 9 a.m. and again Sunday at 10:30 p.m. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
08-03-2025
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Dusty Johnson visits tiny homes designed for veterans
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson is in Sioux Falls and spent part of his day touring the local Veterans Community Project of Sioux Falls village. These tiny homes designed for veterans looking to get back on their feet are still fairly new to the community, but have already made an impact. Time warp: What was happening when KELOLAND's Captain 11 debuted in 1955 'We have six residents right now. We have three more in the queue that we're about to house, and then we've got five more that should be done in the next few months that we can house five more veterans,' Veterans Community Project of Sioux Falls executive director, John Holter said. On Friday Johnson went to see what resources veterans in the program are given upon arrival. 'I'm just blown away. I mean, this is a place where these veterans are going to be able to heal. They're going to be able to stabilize, and they're going to be able to get a plan for how to move toward permanent housing,' Johnson said. During his visit they discussed how important community support is, in addition to the physical supplies like food and a kitchen. 'When you've got somebody who has served their country, it's sometimes traumatized because of their service to our country, helping them get back to where they need to be. That's not easy. That's a journey,' Johnson said. 'And it's going to require the VA. It is going to require, community resources. It's going to require incredibly generous donors and volunteers that have made something like this happen. That's how we're going to do right by these folks.' Holter says the organization does not receive streamline government donations and volunteer work the main force behind continuing its mission. 'Almost all the work here gets done by volunteers, and we line up several volunteer days a week. And if you contact us, you can do everything from frame a house, to write 'thank you' notes to almost anything in between,' Holter said. The organization looks to have at least five more tiny homes built and ready to go by this time next year. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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10-02-2025
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Old TV provides clear picture of KELOLAND's past
SIOUX FALLS, A new appliance at our KELOLAND Media Group studio in downtown Sioux Falls will help us celebrate this year's 70th anniversary of the Captain 11 show. A retired Lutheran minister has restored a TV dating back to 1950, a full three years before we even went on the air! We retrace the TV's journey from a 1950s-era living room to our front lobby in 2025. An old TV that was kept in storage for years at KELOLAND TV has now come full circle. 'First, when I go to light it up, I think is it going to light up? I hope it does. And when it does, it's kind of a feeling of… ahhh. Yes! Thank you,' Jerry Merkouris said. Jerry Merkouris can breathe easy now that he's given new life to this 1950 RCA Victor. He performed a complete overhaul of the set at his workshop in Valley Springs. 'Took everything out. The picture tube, the old chassis and then started to do a cleanup and build kind of a wooden floor in there for framing,' Merkouris said. An early viewer donated the old set to KELOLAND TV decades ago. 'So we went out to their house, grabbed it, brought it back to the station, it sat in the engineering shop for years and years and years,' KELOLAND Media Group Marketing and Creative Services Director Paul Farmer said. The TV sold for $199 when it was brand-new. It had a lived-in look by the time Merkouris started working on it. Rapid City burglary suspect arrested 'There was a big stain on the front. One of your people suggested coffee. I think it was something a little stronger than that,' Merkouris said. So Merkouris reupholstered the front of the TV. He also replaced the cigarette smoke-stained knobs. He even retrofitted the set to play DVD's of old KELOLAND programming. 'This is special for us here at KELOLAND. To have this television restored so we can display it in the lobby and people can enjoy a little bit of history of television,' Farmer said. This is how our early viewers of KELOLAND watched TV back in the early 1950's. Families from throughout the neighborhood would huddle around the 13-inch screen to see what was on. 'If you had the first television on the block, maybe in your town, people would come. Popular events would be like boxing on Friday nights, wrestling was a big thing when I grew up,' Merkouris said. Merkouris did all the work for free. And now he's sharing this labor of love with our viewers. 'KELO is the birthplace of television in South Dakota. I think it's appropriate to have your old unit playing right here in public,' Merkouris said. Merkouris said this TV was a little more difficult to work with than other TV's he's restored because of its narrow width. We first introduced you to Merkouris in December when he showed us his collection of vintage TVs that were part of an open house he was hosting on New Year's Day. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
