KSAN-TV

For other uses of "KSAN", see KSAN (disambiguation).
KSAN-TV
San Angelo, Texas
United States
Branding KSAN (general)
KSAN News (newscasts)
(pronounced as "K-San")
Slogan San Angelo's News Channel
Channels Digital: 16 (UHF)
Virtual: 3 (PSIP)
Affiliations NBC
Owner Mission Broadcasting
(Mission Broadcasting, Inc.)
Operator Nexstar Broadcasting Group
First air date February 8, 1962
(satellite of KRBC-TV until 1999)
Call letters' meaning San ANgelo
(also Chinese and Japanese language translations for virtual channel number (3)
Sister station(s) KLST
Former callsigns KACB-TV (1962–2003)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
3 (VHF, 1962–2009)
Transmitter power 1000 kW
Height 159.7 m
Facility ID 307
Transmitter coordinates 31°37′22.7″N 100°26′15.5″W / 31.622972°N 100.437639°W / 31.622972; -100.437639
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.conchovalleyhomepage.com

KSAN-TV, virtual channel 3, is the NBC-affiliated television station for the San Angelo, Texas television market. KSAN is owned by Mission Broadcasting; through a Local Sales Agreement, the station is operated by CBS affiliate KLST, which is owned and operated by Nexstar Broadcasting Group. It is broadcast on digital channel 16, which remaps to former analog channel 3 via PSIP.

Digital television

Channel Video Aspect Programming
3.1 1080i 16:9 Main KSAN programming / NBC

History

Logo as KSAN NewsChannel 3, used from 2003 until 2006. The current logo is similar, but does not feature the channel number.

The station signed on February 8, 1962 as KACB-TV, a satellite of Abilene's KRBC-TV. Originally owned by the Ackers family, the stations were sold to Sunrise Television in 1998.[1] Sunrise relaunched KACB as the third full-fledged station in the San Angelo market, with its own news department, local advertising and programming line-up, on October 1.[2] In 2002, Sunrise merged with LIN TV;[3] the following year, LIN turned around and sold KACB and KRBC to Mission Broadcasting.[4] On October 1, Mission renamed the station KSAN-TV.

To this day, both KSAN and KRBC, though now separate stations, remain under the same ownership (Mission Broadcasting).

The KSAN-TV call letters were originally assigned to an early UHF station operating on channel 32 in San Francisco, California, which first began operations in 1954, but had a relatively small audience for many years since few Bay Area television sets had UHF tuners in the 1950s. The channel is now occupied by KMTP-TV.

Coverage area

KSAN serves as the NBC affiliate for 11 counties in West Central Texas that form the San Angelo television market as defined by Nielsen (Tom Green, Sterling, Coke, Irion, Concho, McCulloch, Schleicher, Menard, Crockett, Sutton & Kimble).

KSAN also provides news and weather coverage to one county that is assigned to another nearby television market (Runnels in the Abilene-Sweetwater DMA). Runnels County is the adjacent county to San Angelo but the majority of the residents in the county watch local television stations that broadcast out of Abilene. This is why the county is assigned to the Abilene-Sweetwater television market by Nielsen.

References

  1. ↑ "Application Search Details". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved April 18, 2010.
  2. ↑ "KACB History". NBC 3 San Angelo, TX KACB-TV. Archived from the original on August 4, 2002. Retrieved April 18, 2010.
  3. ↑ BIA Financial Networks (March 24, 2002). "Changing hands". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved April 18, 2010.
  4. ↑ Kerschbaumer, Ken (May 18, 2003). "'Duopoly' in Terre Haute". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved April 18, 2010. [T]he group is buying KRBC-TV Abilene-Sweetwater, Texas, and KACB-TV San Angelo, Texas, from LIN Television.

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