Great Plains Communications Residential Blog
Find ideas to maximize your Great Plains Communications services, tech tips, and learn about upcoming shows and other exciting trends and news in our bi-weekly blog!
Congrats to our 2017 Grant Recipients!
Each year, Great Plains Communications is proud and honored for the chance to support our communities through our “Commitment to our Schools” program. This year we were able to present four grants totaling just under $20,000. We would like to take this time to again...
Planning Your Cinco de Mayo Celebration?
While Cinco de Mayo may not be the celebration of Mexico’s independence, it is a celebration of victory in a very interesting battle. Great Plains Communications has looked to our cable channel, History Channel for more information on the 1862 battle in Puebla,...
Setting Up Parental Controls
Summer vacation is just around the corner. It may not feel like it with the weather we’ve had this week, but most schools have just about a month left. This means the kids will be looking to fill their time. Keep your family protected with parental controls. While...
Congratulations to Carolyn Troxel, Our Outstanding Teacher of the Year!
Help us in congratulating Broken Bow Middle School teacher, Carolyn Troxel as our Outstanding Teacher of the Year! It had been a day full of standardized testing for the school, ending with a presentation in the auditorium. Little did Troxel know, that not only were...
Introducing the New GPC Weather Channel!
Great Plains Communications is excited to announce the upgrade of our local channels across the state, to GPC Weather. This upgrade brings brand continuity and state-of-the-art automated weather forecasting to all of our previous channel 2, GPC-TV, and Weather on 2...
National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week – Thank You To Our Dispatchers!
Every second week in April is National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. Many don’t know what that means or have never heard of this week-long event. April 9-15, 2017 has been dedicated to the people who are not often seen but heard through the sounds of an...
A Twist on Easter Classics with Food Network and HGTV
Easter is this weekend, and Great Plains Communications has found some of our favorite twists to some of the classic holiday traditions. To start, our cable channel, HGTV has provided a fun step-by-step guide to creating unique galaxy decorated ceramic eggs;...
New Auto-Pay Winners!
Great Plains Communications would like to congratulate Al and Barbara Shannon of Plainview, NE on being our latest Auto-Pay winners! By taking advantage of our Auto-Pay & Paperless Billing, they have won a $200 Visa Gift card. To be entered in the contest, simply...
April Fool’s Day History
Get your whoopee cushions and hand zappers ready, because April Fool's Day is this weekend. Have you ever wondered how the jokester’s holiday started? Did you know it is celebrated all around the world? Our cable channel, History Channel has a video to shed some light...
Troubleshooting At Home
Having problems with your Internet connection can be frustrating and confusing. After your first 12 tries at the refresh button, you restart the device. All that does is gives you a few minutes to contemplate just how frustrated you are. It still doesn’t work. Great...
Don’t Forget About Spring Cleaning Your Electronics!
It is officially spring, which doesn’t just mean cleaning the carpets and landscaping the yard. Great Plains Communications wants to remind you that your electronics could probably use some cleaning as well. Has your documents folder become the junk drawer of your...
Who Was St. Patrick?
Tomorrow many will dress in green or risk being pinched as part of the St. Patrick’s Day tradition. But who was St. Patrick and what part of the colorful holiday started in the United States? Are you one to believe he drove snakes out of Ireland? Great Plains...