| Semi-satellite ofKSNW,Wichita, Kansas | |
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| City | Garden City, Kansas |
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| Branding | see KSNW infobox |
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| Network | Kansas State Network |
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| KSNW,KSNC,KSNK,KSNL-LD | |
| History | |
First air date | November 5, 1958 (67 years ago) (1958-11-05) |
Former call signs | KGLD (1958–1982) |
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Call sign meaning | Kansas State Network Garden City |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 72361 |
| ERP | 7.4kW |
| HAAT | 239 m (784 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°46′40″N100°52′8″W / 37.77778°N 100.86889°W /37.77778; -100.86889 |
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| Website | www |
KSNG (channel 11) is atelevision station licensed toGarden City, Kansas, United States, affiliated withNBC andTelemundo. The station is owned byNexstar Media Group, and maintains anews bureau and advertising sales office on Fulton Street in southwestern Garden City; its transmitter is located east ofUS 83 in rural southwesternFinney County (south ofPlymell).
KSNG is part of the Kansas State Network (KSN), a regional network of five stations relaying programming fromWichita NBC affiliateKSNW (channel 3) across central and westernKansas, as well as bordering counties inNebraska andOklahoma; KSNG incorporates local advertising and news inserts aimed at areas of southwest Kansas within the Wichita–Hutchinson Plustelevision market.Master control and most internal operations are based at KSNW's studios on North Main Street in northwest Wichita (near downtown).
The station first signed on the air on November 5, 1958, as KGLD (standing for Garden City,Liberal andDodge City). Originally operating as asatellite of KCKT (channel 2, nowKSNC) inGreat Bend, it was founded by Central Kansas Television Co., Inc. The two stations were collectively branded as the "Tri-Circle Network". KCKT and KGLD were joined on November 28, 1959, by KOMC-TV (channel 8, nowKSNK) inOberlin.
In 1962, after theFederal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled that central and western Kansas was part of theWichita market, Central Kansas Television purchased KARD (channel 3, nowKSNW) and merged it with KCKT, KGLD, and KOMC-TV. The three stations, which were collectively branded as the "Tri-Circle Network," relayed NBC programming throughout central and western Kansas. 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's call letters were changed to KSNG on August 30, 1982, as part of an effort to help viewers think of the four stations as part of one large network. In 1988, the KSN stations were acquired bySJL Broadcast Management. The stations were then sold toLee Enterprises in 1995.Emmis Communications bought most of Lee Enterprises' television properties in 2000. Montecito Broadcast Group, a newly formed partnership between SJL and theprivate equity firmBlackstone Group, acquired the KSN stations from Emmis on January 27, 2006.
On July 24, 2007, Montecito announced the sale of its four stations (KSNW,KHON-TV inHonolulu,KOIN inPortland, Oregon, andKSNT inTopeka, as well assatellites of KSNW and KHON) toNew Vision Television; the sale was finalized on November 1, 2007.[2] On May 7, 2012, theLIN TV Corporation announced that it would acquire the New Vision Television station group, including KSNW and its four satellite stations, for $330.4 million and the assumption of $12 million in debt;[3] the sale – which was approved by the FCC on October 2,[4] and was completed1+1⁄2 weeks later on October 12 – marked a re-entry into Kansas for LIN, which briefly owned the license of KUPK (channel 13), a satellite of WichitaABC affiliateKAKE-TV (channel 10), in 2000, before selling it toBenedek Broadcasting shortly after the purchase was finalized.
On March 21, 2014,Media General announced that it would purchase LIN Media and its stations, including KSNW, in a $1.6 billion merger – giving the station its sixth owner since 2000. Like the earlier acquisition of KSNW by LIN, this deal marked Media General's re-entry to the market, as it previously ownedKBSD-TV (channel 6), a satellite ofKWCH-TV (channel 12), from 2000 to 2006.[5][6][7] The merger was completed on December 19.[8] On September 28, 2015,Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced it had offered to purchase Media General and its stations, including KSNW and its satellites.[9] On January 27, 2016, Nexstar announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire Media General.[10] The acquisition of KSNG and its other satellites by Nexstar reunited the stations with former satelliteKSNF, whose ownership was split from the rest of the Kansas State Network in 1986. The deal was approved by the FCC on January 11, 2017, and it was completed on January 17, marking Nexstar's first entry into the Wichita market.[11]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 11.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | KSNG-DT | NBC |
| 11.2 | T'mundo | Telemundo | ||
| 11.3 | 480i | ION | Ion Television | |
| 11.4 | BUSTED | Busted |
KSNG shut down its analog signal, overVHF channel 11, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transitionUHF channel 16 to VHF channel 11 for post-transition operations.[13] Two weeks later on June 27, 2009, KSNG increased itseffective radiated power from 7.4 kW to 56.8 kW.
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