KSNK

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KSNK
(satellite of KSNW, Wichita, Kansas)
city =
station_
station_slogan = nowrap|Clear. Accurate. To the point.
station_branding = KSN
analog = 8 (VHF)
digital = 12 (VHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = NBC
network = KSN
founded =
airdate = 1959 [The "Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook" says November 28, while the "Television and Cable Factbook" says October 16.]
location = McCook, Nebraska/Oberlin, Kansas
callsign_meaning = Kansas
State Network
Nebraska &
Kansas
former_callsigns = KOMC (1959-1982)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = New Vision Television, Inc.
licensee = NVT Wichita Licensee, LLC
sister_stations =
former_affiliations =
effective_radiated_power = 295 kW (analog)
10.4 kW (digital)
HAAT = 218 m (both)
class =
facility_id = 72362
coordinates = coord|39|49|46.5|N|100|42|4.6|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.ksn.com/ www.ksn.com]

KSNK channel 8 is a NBC affiliate licensed in McCook, Nebraska, however located just west of Oberlin, KS. It is owned by New Vision Television, Inc.

KSNK is part of the Kansas State Network group of NBC affiliates, repeating the signal of KSNW in Wichita, Kansas, with local advertising and news inserts. It is the only KSNW satellite to be licensed outside of Kansas and also outside of the Wichita market, although it covers the general Oberlin/Colby/Goodland area as well.

Although the station's city of license is in Red Willow County, Nebraska, which is in the Lincoln/Hastings/Kearney market, one county in Nebraska, Dundy County, is in the Wichita/Hutchinson market.

It signed on the air on November 28, 1959 as KOMC-TV (for K Oberlin-McCook), a satellite of Great Bend's KCKT-TV, under the ownership of Central Kansas Television Co., Inc. KCKT, KOMC and KGLD-TV in Garden City, were known as the "Tri-Circle Network".

In 1962, the FCC ruled that central and western Kansas were part of the Wichita market. Central Kansas Television then bought Wichita's KARD-TV and combined it with its existing three-station network. The new group was known as the Kansas State Network, based at KARD. KOMC changed its call letters to KSNK in 1983 as KSN sought to help its viewers think of its four stations as part of one large network.

In the early-1980s, the station, originally licensed in Oberlin, moved its city of license to McCook. Its studio is still located in Oberlin.

On July 24, 2007, Montecito announced the sale of all of its stations to New Vision Television. The sale was finalized on November 1 of that year. [http://broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6462752.html]

KSNK's analog signal will leave the air on November 26, 2008. [http://www.ksn.com/aboutksn/16952796.html]

External links

* [http://www.ksn.com/ KSN Homepage]
*TVQ|KSNK
*BIA|KSNK|TV|TV

References