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KSNW channel 3 is a NBC affiliate based in Wichita, Kansas. It is owned by Montecito Broadcast Group, LLC (formerly SJL Broadcasting), after being sold by Emmis Communications in 2006. 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.

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 in Monroe, Louisiana.

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.

Newscasts

Monday-Friday

• KSN News Today 5-7 a.m. With Stephanie Bergmann & Leon Smitherman
• KSN News at Noon 12-1 p.m. With Stephanie Bergmann & Andrew Kozak
• 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

Saturday

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

Sunday

• KSN News Today 7-8 a.m. Weather Cut-ins.
• KSN News at Five 5-5:30 p.m. With Anthony Powell, Mark Bogner & Mark Davidson
• KSN News at Ten 10-10:35 p.m. With Anthony Powell, Mark Bogner & Mark Davidson

Former KSN stations

• KSNT Topeka: also owned by Montecito; but its schedule and news department are different from KSNW and no longer simulcasts KSNW 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

See also

• KSNC
• KSNG
• KSNK

External links

• [KSN Homepage]
• [mcsittel.com: Screengrabs from the 1983-1992 (including KSNW and KSNC), taken from Kingsport, TN]
• [King of the Road: A look at KARD-TV in 1964]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for KSNW]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for K06LZ]

 

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