KSNK
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HAAT | 218 m (715 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 39°49′46.5″N 100°42′4.6″W / 39.829583°N 100.701278°W |
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Public license information | |
Website | www |
KSNK (channel 8) is a television station licensed to McCook, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with NBC and Telemundo. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains an advertising sales office on US 36 in northwestern Oberlin, Kansas, and its transmitter is located along U.S. 36 in rural northwestern Decatur County.
KSNK is part of the Kansas State Network (KSN), a regional network of five stations relaying programming from
Although the station's city of license is in Red Willow County, Nebraska, which is in the Lincoln–Hastings–Kearney market, its studio and transmitter are in Decatur County, Kansas, in the Wichita–Hutchinson market.
History
The station first signed on the air on November 28, 1959, as KOMC-TV (for Oberlin-McCook), a satellite of Great Bend's KCKT-TV, under the ownership of Central Kansas Television. KCKT, KOMC and KGLD-TV in Garden City formed the "Tri-Circle Network", the NBC affiliate for central and western Kansas. In 1962, after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) collapsed central and western Kansas into the Wichita market, Central Kansas Television purchased Wichita's KARD-TV and merged it with KOMC, KCKT and KGLD. The Tri-Circle Network changed its name to the "Kansas State Network" a few years later, with KARD serving as the flagship of the new four-station regional network.
The station changed its call letters to KSNK on September 6, 1982, as part of an effort to help viewers think of the four stations as part of one large network. Around this time, the station's city of license was relocated across the Kansas–Nebraska border from Oberlin to McCook, though the studios remained in Oberlin. In 1988, the KSN stations were acquired by
On July 24, 2007, Montecito announced the sale of its four stations (KSNW,
On March 21, 2014,
Newscasts
Although KSNK originated its own newscasts for many years, the station's local operations were progressively cut back from the mid-1980s onward. By the start of the 21st century, local news had been reduced to inserts in KSNW's newscasts, and separate identifications had been largely eliminated.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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8.1 | 1080i | 16:9 |
KSNK-DT | NBC |
8.2 | T'mundo | Telemundo | ||
8.3 | 480i | ION | Ion Television | |
8.4 | Justice | True Crime Network |
Analog-to-digital conversion
KSNK shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 8, on November 26, 2008.[13] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 12,[14][15] using virtual channel 8.
Notes
- ^ The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says November 28, while the Television and Cable Factbook says October 16.
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KSNK". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Malone, Michael (May 7, 2012). "New Vision Buys Montecito Stations
- ^ Malone, Michael (May 7, 2012). "LIN Acquiring New Vision Stations for $330 Million". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved May 7, 2012.
- ^ http://licensing.fcc.gov/prod/cdbs/pubacc/Auth_Files/1499220.pdf[permanent dead link]
- ^ Harrison, Crayton (March 21, 2014). "Media General To Buy LIN For $1.6 Billion". Hartford Courant. Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on March 22, 2014. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
- ^ Voorhis, Dan (March 21, 2014). "Media General buying KSNW's parent company, LIN Media". The Wichita Eagle. Archived from the original on March 22, 2014. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
- ^ Roy, Bill (March 21, 2014). "Media General to buy KSNW parent company for $1.6 billion". Wichita Business Journal. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
- ^ Media General Completes Merger With LIN Media Archived December 19, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Press Release, Media General, Retrieved December 19, 2014
- ^ "Nexstar Broadcasting seeks to buy Media General for $1.9 billion". Usatoday.com. September 28, 2015. Retrieved October 7, 2015.
- ^ Pickler, Leslie (January 27, 2016). "Nexstar Clinches Deal To Acquire Media General". The New York Times. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
- ^ Nexstar Broadcasting Group Completes Acquisition of Media General Creating Nexstar Media Group, The Nation’s Second Largest Television Broadcaster Nexstar Media Group, January 17, 2017. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
- ^ "Digital TV Market Listing for KSNK". RabbitEars.info.
- ^ "Straight talk about Digital Television | KSN.com - News, Weather, Sports - NBC - Wichita - Great Bend - Garden City - McCook - Kansas | About KSN". Archived from the original on July 17, 2008. Retrieved September 13, 2008.
- ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
- ^ CDBS Print