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| Branding | Sioux Falls Live |
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| Owner | Forum Communications Company[1] |
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| History | |
| Founded | April 11, 1997 |
First air date | November 8, 2000 (2000-11-08) |
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Call sign meaning | The station's planned news operation and website is known as "Sioux Falls Live" |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 29121 |
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| HAAT | 229.7 m (754 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°30′14″N96°34′18.8″W / 43.50389°N 96.571889°W /43.50389; -96.571889 |
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Public license information | |
| Website | siouxfallslive |
KSFL-TV (channel 36) is atelevision station inSioux Falls, South Dakota, United States, affiliated withIon Television. It is owned byForum Communications Company alongsidelow-power station KCWS-LD (channel 27). KSFL-TV's studios are located on West 57th Street in Sioux Falls, and its transmitter is located inRowena.
Originally, the station had thecall sign KAUN and it was the localPax TV affiliate, whileThe WB was carried on acable-only channel known by the fictitious call sign KWJB. On October 1, 2003, channel 36 acquired the WB affiliation and it became KWSD, and Pax TV was moved to then-sister stationKAUN-LP. The programming on KWSD was provided byThe WB 100+ Station Group, a predecessor toThe CW Plus. In September 2006, The WB andUPN merged to becomeThe CW. KWSD became the CW affiliate for Sioux Falls, and UPN affiliate "UTV", adigital subchannel ofKELO-TV, became an affiliate ofMyNetworkTV.
At one point in the past decade, KWSD/KAUN had a 9 p.m. newscast that served the Sioux Falls Metro Area and the KWSD viewing area. That newscast was pulled, and reports were that there were plans in the works to bring back a 9 p.m. newscast to the Sioux Falls market.
KWSD's CW affiliation ended on September 10, 2012; at that time, the affiliation moved to a subchannel ofKSFY-TV.[3] KWSD switched its affiliation toMeTV on that date.[4] As of September 2015, the MeTV affiliation also moved to KSFY, on their third subchannel; KWSD then became aRetro TV affiliate.
As of June 2020, KWSD ended its affiliation with Retro TV and affiliated withYTA TV, solely to keep its cable positions and broadcasting license active in anticipation of a sale partner, with little local programming otherwise.
On November 23, 2022, it was reported thatFargo, North Dakota–basedForum Communications Company would purchase KWSD and sister station KCWS-LD from Jim Simpson, then-owner ofKNBN andKWBH-LD inRapid City, for $1.4 million;[5] the sale was completed on February 21, 2023.[6] Forum intends to create a third television news operation in the Sioux Falls market.[1]
On February 24, 2023, the station changed its call sign to KSFL-TV; several weeks later, it switched its affiliation toIon Television and upgraded to high-definition operations for the first time since its departure from The CW. On January 1, 2024, KSFL dropped Ion and became anindependent station; it switched back to Ion in June 2025.[when?]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 36.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KSFL-DT | Ion Television |
| 36.2 | YTA | YTA TV | ||
| 36.3 | 480i | JTV | Jewelry TV |
KSFL-TV (as KWSD) shut down its analog signal, overUHF channel 36, 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-transition UHF channel 51 to channel 36 for post-transition operations.[8]
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