KSAS-TV

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For the airport with the ICAO airport code KSAS, see Salton Sea Airport.

KSAS-TV / KAAS-TV / KSAS-LP / KAAS-LP / KOCW
KSAS: Wichita, Kansas KAAS: Salina, Kansas KOCW: Hoisington / Great Bend, Kansas KAAS-LP: Garden City, Kansas KSAS-LP: Dodge City, Kansas
Branding	FOX Kansas
Slogan	Everybody Loves Fox Kansas and Your News. Your Time.
Channels	KSAS: 24 (UHF) KAAS: 18 (UHF) KOCW (formerly KSCC-LP): 14 (UHF) KAAS-LP: 31 (UHF) KSAS-LP: 29 (UHF) analog, KSAS: 26 (UHF) KAAS: 17 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	Fox
Owner	Clear Channel (sale pending)
Founded	KSAS: August 24, 1985 KAAS: April 1988
Call letters meaning	KSAS: KANSAS KAAS: KANSAS KOCW: (unknown)
Former affiliations	Network One (secondary)
Website	www.foxkansas.com

KSAS-TV, channel 24, is a Fox affiliate based in Wichita, Kansas. It is owned by Clear Channel Communications, and it signed on the air on August 24, 1985 as an independent station and a year later picked up the Fox affiliation. It is also the sister station of MyNetworkTV affiliate KMTW. KSAS' transmitter is located in Colwich, Kansas.

KSAS is the flagship station for FOX Kansas, a term coined by former Program Director Michael Hochman in 1998, a network of Fox affiliates in the state of Kansas all owned by Clear Channel. The other stations in the "network" are repeaters and translators airing virtually the exact programming as the flagship. This was necessitated by the unusually large geographic make-up of the Wichita-Hutchinson Designated Market Area, which covers over 70 counties stretching from the Flint Hills to Colorado, the largest such DMA by county in the United States.

The other FOX Kansas stations are:

• KAAS-TV channel 18 Salina (April 1988)
• KAAS-LP channel 31 Garden City
• KOCW (formerly KSCC-LP) channel 14 Hoisington / Great Bend (2001)
• KSAS-LP channel 29 Dodge City

On November 16, 2006, Clear Channel announced its intention to sell off all of its television stations, including KSAS and its satellites, after the company was bought out by a private equity firm.

Contents 1 Newscasts 1.1 On-Air Talent 1.2 Former Talent 2 Dennis Rader/BTK 3 External links

[edit] Newscasts

KSAS airs a nightly newscast, called "FOX Kansas Eyewitness News at Nine". The newscast is produced by KWCH, using that station's studios, footage, and talent. In 2005, it received the "Best Large Market Newscast in Kansas" award from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters[1].

From 1997 to 1999, KSAS aired a previous shared newscast with KSNW called "FOX 24 News At 9", which was terminated due to poor rating performance.

[edit] On-Air Talent

• Liz Collin
• Lindsey Butor
• Kim Wilhelm

[edit] Former Talent

• Stacey Allen
• Brad Fanning (now with WUPW Toledo, Ohio)
• Steve Prinzivalli (now with WBGH/WIVT Binghamton, New York)
• Dana Hertneky (now with KSNW Wichita)

[edit] Dennis Rader/BTK

In 2005, KSAS became a crucial location in the search for and apprehension of infamous Wichita serial killer Dennis Rader, known for decades as the anonymous BTK Killer. Rader's last known communication with the media and police was a padded envelope which arrived at KSAS' Wichita studios on N. West Street, one of many stations in the market which Rader had contacted over the years, on February 16, 2005. A purple, 1.44-MB Memorex floppy disk was enclosed in the package. Also enclosed were a letter, a photocopy of the cover of a 1989 novel about a serial killer (Rules of Prey ISBN 0425195198), and a gold-colored necklace with a large medallion. Police found metadata embedded in a Microsoft Word document on the disk that pointed to Wichita's Christ Lutheran Church, and the document was marked as last modified by "Dennis". A search of the church website turned up Dennis Rader as president of the congregation council.

[edit] External links

• Fox Kansas Homepage
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KSAS
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KAAS
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KOCW