KSAS-TV

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KSAS-TV
Image:KSAS Logo.png
Wichita, Kansas
Branding Fox Kansas
Slogan Everybody Loves Fox Kansas
Your News. Your Time.
Channels Analog: 24 (UHF)

Digital: 26 (UHF)
Affiliations Fox
Owner Newport Television, LLC
First air date August 24, 1985
Call letters’ meaning KanSAS
Sister station(s) KMTW
Former affiliations independent (1985-1986)
Transmitter Power 3310 kW (analog)
350 kW (digital)
Height 341 m (analog)
303 m (digital)
Facility ID 11911
Transmitter Coordinates 37°46′40.4″N, 97°30′37.7″W
Website www.foxkansas.com

KSAS-TV, channel 24, is a Fox affiliate based in Wichita, Kansas. It is owned by Newport Television of Kansas City, Missouri. Newport's President and CEO is longtime Wichita Television Broadcaster, Sandy DiPasquale. Mr. DiPasquale is the last local owner of KWCH, Wichita's CBS affiliate, which he sold in 1994. Mr. DiPasquale moved Newport's headquarters to Kansas City in 2008 from his longtime base of Wichita. KSAS 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.

On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group, including KSAS and its LMA with KMTW, to Providence Equity Partners.[1] The deal closed on March 14, 2008.

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[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]. The current studio for the newscast was designed by FX Group [2]

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

[edit] Former Talent

[edit] Satellite stations

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 quasi-network are repeaters and translators airing virtually the exact programming as the flagship Wichita station. 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 DMA by number of counties in the United States.

The other Fox Kansas stations are:

Station City of license Channels
(Analog/
Digital)		 First air date Call letters’
meaning		 ERP
(Analog/
Digital)		 HAAT
(Analog/
Digital)		 Facility ID Transmitter Coordinates
KAAS-TV Salina 18 (UHF)
17 (UHF)		 April 3, 1988 KAnsAS 617 kW
65 kW		 317 m
314 m		 11912 39°6′16″N, 97°23′15.9″W
KOCW1 Hoisington 14 (UHF)2 2000 29.38 kW 163 m 83181 38°37′53.2″N, 98°50′53.3″W

Notes:

KSAS-TV is also relayed by KSAS-LP channel 29 in Dodge City and KAAS-LP channel 31 in Garden City.

[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 0-425-19519-8), 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

[edit] References

  1. ^ Clear Channel Communications (2007-04-20). "Clear Channel Agrees to Sell Television Station Group to Providence Equity Partners". Press release. Retrieved on 2007-04-20.
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Broadcast television in the Wichita/Hutchinson Plus market  (Nielsen DMA #69)

Wichita-Hutchinson: KSNW 3 (NBC) - KCTU-LP 5 (ION) - KPTS 8 (PBS) - KAKE 10 (ABC) - KWCH 12 (CBS) - K15DD 15 (HSN) - KSAS 24 (Fox) - K28JB 28 (TBN) - KSCW 33 (The CW) - KMTW 36 (MNTV) - KFVT-LP 40 (Ind.) - KGPT-CA 49 (A1/WHT/Faith/RTN) - KSMI-LP 51 (AZA)
Great Bend-Hays-Salina (Central Kansas): KSNC 2 / K06LZ 6 (NBC) - KBSH 7 (CBS) - KOOD 9 (PBS/SHPTV) - 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/SHPTV)
Dodge City-Garden City (SW Kansas): KSWK 3 / KDCK 21 (PBS/SHPTV) - KBSD 6 (CBS) - KSNG 11 (NBC) - KUPK 13 (ABC) - KSAS-LP 29 / KAAS-LP 31 (Fox) - K39FW 39 / K43HN 43 (TBN)
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Fox Network Affiliates in the state of Kansas
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other Stations in Kansas