KSNC

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KSNC (satellite of KSNW, Wichita, Kansas)
Great Bend / Hays / Salina, Kansas
Branding	KSN News
Slogan	Clear. Accurate. To the point.
Channels	2 (VHF) analog, 22 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	NBC
Owner	Montecito Broadcast Group, LLC
Founded	November 28, 1954
Call letters meaning	Kansas State Network Central Kansas
Former callsigns	KCKT-TV (1954-1982)
Former affiliations	none
Website	ksn.com

KSNC channel 2 is a NBC affiliate based in Great Bend, Kansas. It is owned by Montecito Broadcast Group, LLC.

KSNC is part of the Kansas State Network (KSN) network of NBC affiliates, repeating the signal of KSNW in Wichita, Kansas, with local advertising and news inserts.

It signed on the air on November 28, 1954 as KCKT-TV, under the ownership of Central Kansas Television Co., Inc. In 1958, it signed on a satellite station, KGLD-TV, channel 11 in Garden City. The two stations became known as the "Tri-Circle Network". They were joined in 1959 by KOMC-TV, channel 8 in Oberlin.

In 1962, after the FCC ruled that central and western Kansas was part of the Wichita market, Central Kansas Television bought Wichita's KARD-TV merged with KCKT and its satellites. The Tri-Circle Network then renamed itself the Kansas State Network, with KARD as the flagship station. KCKT changed its calls to KSNC on August 16, 1982 as part of KSN's effort to help viewers in its huge coverage area think of the four stations as one large network.

[edit] External links

• KSN Homepage
• mcsittel.com: Screengrabs from the 1983-1992 (including KSNW and KSNC), taken from Kingsport, TN
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KSNC