KSNK
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| KSNK (satellite of KSNW, Wichita, Kansas) |
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| McCook, Nebraska / Colby / Goodland, Kansas | |
| Branding | KSN News |
| Slogan | Clear. Accurate. To the point. |
| Channels | 8 (VHF) analog, 12 (VHF) digital |
| Affiliations | NBC |
| Owner | Montecito Broadcast Group, LLC |
| Founded | November 28, 1959 |
| Call letters meaning | Kansas State Network Nebraska & Kansas |
| Former callsigns | KOMC-TV (1959-1983) |
| Former affiliations | none |
| Website | ksn.com |
KSNK channel 8 is a NBC affiliate based in McCook, Nebraska. It is owned by Montecito Broadcast Group, LLC.
KSNK is part of the KSN network 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 based 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.
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Significantly Viewed Out-of-Market Broadcast Stations |
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Wichita-Hutchinson: KSNW 3 (NBC) - KCTU-LP 5 (ION) - KPTS 8 (PBS) - KAKE 10 (ABC) - KWCH 12 (CBS) - KSAS 24 (Fox) - K28JB 28 (TBN) - KSCW 33 (The CW) - KMTW 36 (MNTV) - KFVT-LP 40 (Ind.) - KGPT-CA 49 (A1/WHT/Faith) - KSMI-LP 51 (AZA) Great Bend-Hays-Salina (Central Kansas): KSNC 2 / K06LZ 6 (NBC) - KBSH 7 (CBS) - KOOD 9 (PBS) - 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) Dodge City-Garden City (SW Kansas): KSWK 3 / KDCK 21 (PBS) - KBSD 6 (CBS) - KSNG 11 (NBC) - KUPK 13 (ABC) - KSAS-LP 29 / KAAS-LP 31 (Fox) - K39FW 39 / K43HN 43 (TBN) |
