KSNW

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KSNW
Wichita, Kansas
Branding KSN News
Channels 3 (VHF) analog,
45 (UHF) digital
Affiliations NBC
Owner Montecito Broadcast Group
Founded September 1, 1955
Call letters meaning Kansas
State
Network
Wichita
Former callsigns KARD (1955-82)
Former affiliations none
Website ksn.com

KSNW channel 3 is a NBC affiliate based in Wichita, Kansas. It is owned by the Montecito Broadcast Group. KSNW is also the flagship station of the Kansas State Network, (KSN) the state's chain of NBC affiliates. KSNW's transmitter is located near Colwich, Kansas.

KSNW's programming is also seen on translator K06LZ in Salina.

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[edit] History

KSNW signed on the air on September 1, 1955 as KARD-TV, the third television station in Wichita. This made Wichita one of the smallest cities in the country with three network-affiliated stations.

In 1962, after the FCC ruled that central and western Kansas was part of the Wichita market, KARD merged with KCKT-TV, channel 2 in Great Bend and its satellites KGLD-TV in Garden City and KOMC-TV, channel 8 in Oberlin. The three stations, known as the "Tri-Circle Network," brought NBC programming to central and western Kansas. The Tri-Circle Network then changed its name to the Kansas State Network, with KARD as the flagship station of the new four station group. The stations eventually expanded their signals to reach 75% of Kansas plus portions of Nebraska. The stations changed their calls on August 16, 1982 to help viewers think of the four stations as parts of one large network. KARD became KSNW, KCKT became KSNC, KGLD became KSNG and KOMC became KSNK. The KARD call letters ended up with KARD-TV in Monroe, Louisiana.

In 1988, SJL Broadcast Management acquired the KSN stations. They were then sold to Lee Enterprises in 1995. Emmis Communications bought most of Lee Enterprises' stations in 2000. Montecito Broadcast Group, a newly-formed partnership between SJL and the Blackstone Group, acquired the KSN stations from Emmis on January 27, 2006.

KSN's weather department is unique, in that it is in a separate facility. The WeatherLab is in Exploration Place, Wichita's children's science museum - several blocks away from the station's main studios. Visitors can watch the meteorologists do live weathercasts as part of their tours of the museum.

In January 2006, the station hired former general manager Al Buch as the station's new GM, under the then-pending ownership of Montecito Broadcast Group. The CEO/founder of Montecito is George Lilly.

KSN claims to reach half of the television households in Kansas.

[edit] Controversy

On January 5, 2007, station management had to issue an on-air apology after sportscaster Jim Kobbe shouted an obscenity on the air while he thought his microphone was off. Kobbe screamed, "F*** off, Buzz!" During the apology, it was stated that disciplinary action would be taken.

[edit] Newscasts

[edit] Monday-Friday

  • KSN News Today 5-7 a.m. With Stephanie Bergmann & Mark Bogner
  • KSN News at Noon 12-12:30 p.m. With Stephanie Bergmann & Leon Smitherman
  • KSN News at Five 5-5:30 p.m. With Anita Cochran, Paul Pettite & Dave Freeman
  • KSN News at Six 6-6:30 p.m. With Anita Cochran, Paul Pettite & Dave Freeman
  • KSN News at Ten 10-10:35 p.m. With Anita Cochran, Paul Pettite, Jim Kobbe & Dave Freeman

[edit] Saturday

  • KSN News Today 6-8 a.m. Weather Cut-ins.
  • KSN News at Six 6-6:30 p.m. With Anthony Powell, Andrew Kozak & Mark Davidson
  • KSN News at Ten 10-10:30 p.m. With Anthony Powell, Andrew Kozak & Mark Davidson

[edit] Sunday

  • KSN News Today 7-8 a.m. Weather Cut-ins.
  • KSN News at Ten 10-10:35 p.m. With Anthony Powell, Andrew Kozak & Mark Davidson

[edit] Former KSN stations

  • KSNT Topeka: also owned by Montecito; but its schedule and news department are different and unrelated from KSNW's and no longer simulcasts KSN's programming from Wichita.
  • KSNF Joplin, Missouri / Pittsburg, Kansas: No longer associated with KSNW; owned by Nexstar, but still uses "KSN" name in its "KSN 16" moniker


[edit] See also

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Broadcast television in the Wichita/Hutchinson Plus market  (Nielsen DMA #67)

Wichita-Hutchinson: KSNW 3 (NBC) - KCTU-LP 5 (ION) - KPTS 8 (PBS) - KAKE 10 (ABC) - KWCH 12 (CBS) - KSAS 24 (Fox) - K28JB 28 (TBN) - KSCW 33 (The CW) - KMTW 36 (MNTV) - KFVT-LP 40 (Ind.) - KGPT-CA 49 (A1/WHT/Faith) - KSMI-LP 51 (AZA)

Great Bend-Hays-Salina (Central Kansas): KSNC 2 / K06LZ 6 (NBC) - KBSH 7 (CBS) - KOOD 9 (PBS) - KOCW 14 / KAAS 18 (Fox) - K15CN 15 (TBN) - K25CV 25 / K30GD 30 / K51GC 51 (ABC)

Colby-Goodland-McCook (NW Kansas/SW Nebraska): KLBY 4 (ABC) - KSNK 8 (NBC) - KBSL 10 (CBS) - K23BU 23 / K32BY 32 (PBS)

Dodge City-Garden City (SW Kansas): KSWK 3 / KDCK 21 (PBS) - KBSD 6 (CBS) - KSNG 11 (NBC) - KUPK 13 (ABC) - KSAS-LP 29 / KAAS-LP 31 (Fox) - K39FW 39 / K43HN 43 (TBN)
NBC Network Affiliates in the state of Kansas

KSNW 3 / KSNC 2 / KSNG 11 (Wichita / Great Bend / Garden City) - KSNT 27 (Topeka)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, PBS and Other Stations in Kansas
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