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Branding KSAN (general)
KSAN News (newscasts)
(pronounced as "K-San") Slogan San Angelo's News Channel Channels Digital: 16 (UHF)
Virtual: 3 (PSIP) Owner Mission Broadcasting
(Mission Broadcasting, Inc.) | ||
KSAN-TV, virtual channel 3, is the NBC-affiliated television station for the San Angelo, Texas, television market. KSAN is owned by Mission Broadcasting; through a local sales agreement, the station is operated by CBS affiliate KLST, which is owned and operated by Nexstar Media Group. It is broadcast on digital channel 16, which remaps to former analog channel 3 via PSIP.
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On June 15, 2016, Nexstar announced that it has entered into an affiliation agreement with Katz Broadcasting for the Escape, Laff, Grit, and Bounce TV networks (the last one of which is owned by Bounce Media LLC, whose COO Jonathan Katz is president/CEO of Katz Broadcasting), bringing the four networks to 81 stations owned and/or operated by Nexstar, including KSAN-TV and KLST.
History
The station signed on February 8, 1962, as KACB-TV, a satellite of Abilene's KRBC-TV. Originally owned by the Ackers family, the stations were sold to Sunrise Television in 1998. Sunrise relaunched KACB as the third full-fledged station in the San Angelo market, with its own news department, local advertising, and programming line-up, on October 1. In 2002, Sunrise merged with LIN TV; the following year, LIN turned around and sold KACB and KRBC to Mission Broadcasting. On October 1, Mission renamed the station KSAN-TV.
Both KSAN and KRBC, though now separate stations, remain under the same ownership (Mission Broadcasting).
The KSAN-TV call letters were originally assigned to an early UHF station operating on channel 32 in San Francisco, California, which first began operations in 1954, but had a relatively small audience for many years, since few Bay Area television sets had UHF tuners in the 1950s. The channel is now occupied by KMTP-TV.
Coverage area
KSAN serves as the NBC affiliate for 11 counties in West Central Texas that form the San Angelo television market as defined by Nielsen (Tom Green, Sterling, Coke, Irion, Concho, McCulloch, Schleicher, Menard, Crockett, Sutton, and Kimble).
KSAN also provides news and weather coverage to one county that is assigned to another nearby television market (Runnels in the Abilene-Sweetwater DMA). Runnels County is the adjacent county to San Angelo, but the majority of the residents in the county watch local television stations that broadcast from Abilene, so the county is assigned to the Abilene-Sweetwater television market by Nielsen.
News operation
KSAN presently broadcasts 9 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 1½ hours on weekdays, 1 hour on Saturdays and a half-hour on Sundays).