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KSNW
Wichita, Kansas
Branding	KSN News
Channels	Analog: 3 (VHF) Digital: 45 (UHF)
Affiliations	NBC
Owner	New Vision Television
Founded	September 1, 1955
Call letters meaning	Kansas State Network Wichita
Former callsigns	KARD (1955-82)
Former affiliations	none
Website	ksn.com

KSNW channel 3 is a NBC affiliate based in Wichita, Kansas. It is owned by the New Vision Television group. 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.

Contents 1 History 2 News/Station Presentation 2.1 Newscast Titles 2.2 Former Station Slogans 3 Former KSN stations 4 See also 5 External links

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 with KARD-TV in Monroe, Louisiana.

In 1988, SJL Broadcast Management acquired the KSN stations. They were then sold to Lee Enterprises in 1995. Emmis Communications bought most of Lee Enterprises' stations in 2000. Montecito Broadcast Group, a newly-formed partnership between SJL and the Blackstone Group, acquired the KSN stations from Emmis on January 27, 2006.

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. However, the station's newscasts have lagged far behind those of rival stations KWCH and KAKE for several decades. In the May 2007 ratings period, however, KSN edged out KAKE for second place in the 25-54 demo at 5 and 6 pm.

On July 24, 2007, Montecito announced the sale of all of its stations (KSNW and its satellites, plus KHON-TV in Honolulu and its satellites, KOIN in Portland and KSNT in Topeka) to New Vision Television. The sale was finalized on November 1, 2007. [1]

• NewsCenter 3 (Early-Mid 1980s)
• KSN NewsCenter (Mid 1980s)
• KSN News/KSNW News (Mid-Late 1980s)
• Channel 3 News (late 1980s/early 1990s)
• NewsChannel 3 (Early 1990s-1998)
• KSN News (1998-present)

• Hello Wichita...Channel 3 Loves You
• Hello Kansas...KSN Loves You
• It's Time To Go 3
• Turn To 3/Turn to KSN
• Newschannel 3, Where the News Comes First (1990-1993)

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

• KSNC
• KSNG
• KSNK

• 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

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Wichita/Hutchinson Plus market  (Nielsen DMA #69)

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/SHPTV) - 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/SHPTV) Dodge City-Garden City (SW Kansas): KSWK 3 / KDCK 21 (PBS/SHPTV) - KBSD 6 (CBS) - KSNG 11 (NBC) - KUPK 13 (ABC) - KSAS-LP 29 / KAAS-LP 31 (Fox) - K39FW 39 / K43HN 43 (TBN)

v • d • e NBC Network Affiliates in the state of Kansas
KSNW 3 / KSNC 2 / KSNG 11 (Wichita / Great Bend / Garden City) - KSNT 27 (Topeka)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, PBS and Other Stations in Kansas