KSNF
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HAAT | 319.8 m (1,049 ft) |
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Transmitter coordinates | 37°4′33″N 94°33′17″W / 37.07583°N 94.55472°W |
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Website | www |
KSNF (channel 16) is a television station licensed to Joplin, Missouri, United States, serving the Joplin, Missouri–Pittsburg, Kansas television market as an affiliate of NBC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which provides certain services to ABC affiliate KODE-TV (channel 12, also licensed to Joplin) under joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with owner Mission Broadcasting. The two stations share studios on South Cleveland Avenue in Joplin, where KSNF's transmitter is also located.
History
The station first signed on as KUHI-TV (for "Ultra High Frequency") on January 4, 1968, as a CBS affiliate. KUHI was the first station in the Joplin–Pittsburg market to broadcast on the UHF band.
It was originally owned by Marvin Caldwell & Associates. Mid-America Broadcasting sold the station to the owners of the
The "KSN" brand had become solidified in the market and continued to be used even though KSNF was no longer a part of the Kansas State Network nor made any references to it, although the KSN stations and KSNF were reunited under the same ownership in 2017 when Nexstar acquired the Kansas State Network stations.
On August 23, 1995, Price sold KSNF and fellow NBC affiliates
On January 12, 1998,
In 2002, it was announced KSNF and ABC affiliate KODE would merge, with building expansion planned at the KSN studios. Although some departments did in fact move to KSNF, by 2009 the process was not yet completed, leaving the Joplin market as the only one of the several Nexstar-owned duopolies to have failed to completely merge. In June 2008, KSNF began broadcasting NBC
On May 8, 2009, severe
On June 15, 2016, Nexstar announced that it has entered into an affiliation agreement with
Programming
KSNF currently broadcasts the majority of the NBC schedule, although the station currently does not clear NBC's overnight rerun and lifestyle lineups, preferring to carry some syndicated programming in the designated time period. The station does not clear the Sunday edition of Today.
News operation
KSNF presently broadcasts 23+1⁄2 hours of local newscasts each week (with 4+1⁄2 hours each weekday and 30 minutes each on Saturdays and Sundays).
While in its role as airing partial simulcasts of KSNW programming, it used the "Hello News" music package until 1990. In November 2005, a graphics and music change took place. As part of the update (and with upcoming digital changes) the "16" was removed from KSN's logo, opens, and all other images, including station vehicles. In the fall of 2010, KSNF debuted the Four State area's first and only hour-long 6 p.m. newscast. In August 2011, KSNF dropped its 5 p.m. newscast in favor of a new, hour-long 4 p.m. lifestyle program called Living Well making that the area's first and only 4 p.m. newscast. (The channel chose to air new episodes of Jeopardy! in its 5 p.m. slot as a lead-in to NBC Nightly News.)[10] On December 19, 2012, KSNF launched its local newscasts in 1080i high definition—and for the first time since the late 90s, re-branded itself as KSN Local News dropping Your Hometown News after 15 years.
On May 1, 2023, KSNF rebranded as KSN 16 with news programming being named KSN 16 Your Local News bringing back the channel number and adding the 16 to KSN's logo, opens, and all other images, including station vehicles. With the rebrand came a new state of the art set.
Notable former on-air staff
- T. J. Holmes - anchor/reporter; later at CNN; and then with BET Networks and with ABC's Good Morning America[11]
Subchannels
The station's signal is
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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16.1 | 1080i | 16:9 |
KSNF-DT | Main KSNF programming / NBC |
16.2 | 480i | Laff | Laff | |
16.3 | Escape | Ion Mystery | ||
16.4 | Ant TV | Antenna TV |
On February 1, 2021, KSNF-DT4 brought Antenna TV back to the Joplin–Pittsburg market after it was dropped by KPJO-LD on June 3, 2019, in favor of Court TV.
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KSNF". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "Changing Hands" (PDF). Broadcasting & Cable. Broadcasting Publications, Inc. August 28, 1995. p. 45. Retrieved June 14, 2018.
- ^ "Price Communications". The New York Times. August 23, 1995. Retrieved August 5, 2017.
- Cahners Business Information. October 9, 1995. Archived from the originalon June 11, 2014. Retrieved August 5, 2017. (subscription required)
- ^ "Survivors clean up after killer Midwest storms - Weather | NBC News". NBC News. May 8, 2009. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
- ^ "KSNF TOWER". May 8, 2009. Archived from the original on May 14, 2009.
- ^ "KSN Progress Update". June 1, 2009. Archived from the original on June 13, 2009.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ "Bounce TV, Grit, Escape, Laff Multicast Deal Covers 81 Stations, 54 Markets". Broadcasting & Cable. June 15, 2016. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
- ^ "TV Listings - FOURSTATESHOMEPAGE". FOURSTATESHOMEPAGE. June 13, 2019.
- ^ "T.J. Holmes bio". Retrieved March 12, 2013.
- ^ "Digital TV Market Listing for KSNF". RabbitEars.Info. Archived from the original on August 20, 2016. Retrieved June 19, 2016.