KSNW
FCC | |
Facility ID | 72358 |
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ERP | 650 kW |
HAAT | 312.8 m (1,026 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 37°46′26″N 97°30′53″W / 37.77389°N 97.51472°W |
Translator(s) | see § Semi-satellites |
Links | |
Public license information | |
Website |
KSNW (channel 3) is a television station in Wichita, Kansas, United States, affiliated with NBC and Telemundo. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group, and maintains studios on North Main Street in northwest Wichita (near downtown); its transmitter is located in rural northwestern Sedgwick County (east-southeast of Colwich).
KSNW serves as the
History
The station first signed on the air on September 1, 1955, as KARD-TV. The station, owned by the Wichita Television Corporation
In 1962, after the
The call letters of all four stations were changed on August 16, 1982, to help viewers think of the four stations as part of one large network. KARD changed its calls to KSNW, KCKT became
On July 24, 2007, Montecito announced the sale of its four stations (KSNW,
On May 7, 2012, the
On March 21, 2014,
News operation
KSNW presently broadcasts 31 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with five hours each weekday, and three hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). Despite being the first television station in the market to build a network of semi-satellites in the western and central parts of the state, KSNW's newscasts had lagged far behind rivals KWCH and KAKE for several decades. In recent years, however, KSNW has waged a spirited battle with KAKE for second place behind long-dominant KWCH, with the two stations regularly trading the runner-up slot in several timeslots.
Although the three KSN satellites originated their own newscasts for many years, their local operations were progressively cut back from the mid-1980s onward. By the start of the 21st century, local news programming on the other Kansas State Network stations had been reduced to inserts shown during KSNW's newscasts, and separate station identifications had largely been eliminated.
On April 26, 1991, as an
On September 29, 1997, KSNW began producing a half-hour prime time newscast at 9 p.m. for Fox affiliate KSAS-TV (channel 24),[14] as part of a news share agreement in which channel 3 would also produce news updates to air during KSAS's evening programs.[15] The program was canceled on December 31, 1998, due to low ratings.[16] In January 2009, KSNW acquired regional cable news channel Kansas Now 22, which is carried locally on Cox Communications, from Gray Television (owners of KAKE, and WIBW-TV in Topeka) to produce its own news and weather content for the channel and provide rebroadcasts of its local newscasts.
On
KSNW re-assumed production responsibilities for KSAS's newscast on January 2, 2012, after KWCH (which had produced the current 9 p.m. newscast since 2003) ended its news share agreement with channel 24 to focus on its newscasts for CW-affiliated sister station KSCW-DT (channel 33).[17] The KSAS newscast is produced out of KSNW's main news set, which features separate duratrans for the channel 24 broadcast.[17] On January 27, 2014, KSNW upgraded its field and other non-studio cameras to HD; with the upgrade, came the introduction of a new HD-ready news set and graphics package.[18]
Notable former on-air staff
- Melissa Beck – anchor
- Gregg Jarrett – reporter; now with Fox News
- Todd McDermott – anchor/reporter; now with WPBF in West Palm Beach, Florida
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
---|---|---|---|---|
3.1 | 1080i | 16:9 |
KSNW-DT | NBC |
3.2 | T'Mundo | Telemundo | ||
3.3 | 480i | ION | Ion Television | |
3.4 | TCN | True Crime Network | ||
36.3 | 480i | 16:9 | Charge! (KMTW) |
Analog-to-digital conversion
KSNW shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 3, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States
3.Kansas State Network
KSNW operates a network of four full-power stations and one
Current semi-satellites
Station | City of license (other locations served) |
Channels (VC / RF) |
First air date | Fourth letter in calls meaning |
Former callsigns | Former channel numbers | ERP (Digital) |
HAAT (Digital) |
Facility ID | Transmitter coordinates | Public license information |
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KSNC | ) | 2 22 ( UHF )
|
November 28, 1954 | Central Kansas | KCKT (1954–1982) | 2 (analog VHF, 1954–2008) | 500 kW
|
261.1 m (857 ft) | 72359 | 38°25′54.1″N 98°46′19.8″W / 38.431694°N 98.772167°W | Public file LMS |
KSNG | Dodge City )
|
11 11 ( VHF )
|
November 5, 1958 | Garden City | KGLD (1958–1982) | Analog: 11 (VHF, 1958–2009) Digital: 16 (UHF, until 2009) |
7.4 kW | 239 m (784 ft) | 72361 | 37°46′43.2″N 100°52′10″W / 37.778667°N 100.86944°W | Public file LMS |
KSNK | McCook, NE )
(Oberlin |
8 12 (VHF) |
November 28, 1959 | Nebraska and Kansas | KOMC (1959–1982) | 8 (analog VHF, 1959–2008) | 10.4 kW | 218 m (715 ft) | 72362 | 39°49′5″N 100°42′4.6″W / 39.81806°N 100.701278°W | Public file LMS |
KSNL-LD | Salina | 6 47 (UHF) |
May 2008 | Salina | K74CN (1964–1967), K18AA (1967–1988), K06LZ (1988–2008), K47KV-D (2008 CP )
|
none | 15 kW | 285.4 m (936 ft) | 168675 | 38°53′0.9″N 99°20′15.7″W / 38.883583°N 99.337694°W | LMS |
KSNC and KSNK shut down their analog signals on VHF channels 2 and 8 on June 12, 2009, with KSNC broadcasting its digital signal on UHF channel 22 and KSNK broadcasting its digital signal on
Former semi-satellites
Both KSNT and KSNF provided limited simulcasts of KSNW's programming from 1982 until SJL Communications purchased the station from George Hatch in 1988, when it dismantled part of the microwave system that allowed KSNF and KSNT access to KSNW's programming in a cost-cutting measure. As a result, both stations are the only ones to have been part of the Kansas State Network in some capacity to maintain their own separate programming and news departments to this day.
Station | Channels (Digital) |
City of license/market | Information |
---|---|---|---|
KSNT | 27 / 27 | Topeka |
KSNT only carried limited simulcasts of KSNW's programming from 1982 to 1988. During its first year as a KSN semi-satellite, KSNT shared a secondary ABC affiliation with CBS affiliate WIBW-TV, ending when KTKA signed on in 1983 (KSNT exclusively affiliated with NBC and WIBW exclusively affiliated with CBS at that point). It remained a sister station of KSNW throughout. |
KSNF | 16 / 17 | Pittsburg, KS |
Like KSNT, KSNF only carried limited simulcasts of KSNW's programming until it was completely separated from KSNW in 1988. From 1988 to 2017, it was under separate ownership from the KSN stations and KSNT (it was acquired by Nexstar in 1998). Despite this, KSNF retained the use of the "KSN" brand (Newscasts are called KSN Hometown News), although it does not use the logo used by KSNW and its satellites. KSNF continued using the original KSN logo longer than KSNW did. The acquisition of KSNW (and its satellites) and KSNT by Nexstar in 2017 meant that they are sister stations once again after a 29-year separation. |
References
- ^ "FCC History Cards for KSNW".
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KSNW". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Television Factbook (Spring-Summer 1957) (PDF) (24 ed.). p. 136.
- ^ 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 [bare URL PDF]
- ^ 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 $1.6B". Wichita Business Journal. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
- ^ "Media General Completes Merger With LIN Media" (Press release). Media General. Archived from the original on December 19, 2014. 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.
- ^ Channel 24 to launch newscast, Wichita Business Journal, June 15, 1997.
- ^ KSAS-TV changes name and debut date, Wichita Business Journal, September 15, 1997.
- ^ KSAS cancels evening news show, Wichita Business Journal, December 7, 1998.
- ^ a b KSAS, KWCH reach agreement, ending lawsuit, Wichita Business Journal, October 7, 2011.
- ^ "KSN debuts news in high definition with a new set". KSN-TV. Archived from the original on February 19, 2014. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
- ^ "RabbitEars listing for KSNW". RabbitEars.
- ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
- ^ FCC DA 10-395, March 9, 2010