KSAS-TV
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| KSAS-TV | |
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| Wichita, Kansas | |
| Branding | Fox Kansas |
| Slogan | Everybody Loves Fox Kansas Your News. Your Time. |
| Channels | Analog: 24 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | Fox |
| Owner | Newport Television, LLC |
| First air date | August 24, 1985 |
| Call letters’ meaning | KanSAS |
| Sister station(s) | KMTW |
| Former affiliations | independent (1985-1986) |
| Transmitter Power | 3310 kW (analog) 350 kW (digital) |
| Height | 341 m (analog) 303 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 11911 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | |
| Website | www.foxkansas.com |
KSAS-TV, channel 24, is a Fox affiliate based in Wichita, Kansas. It is owned by Newport Television of Kansas City, Missouri. Newport's President and CEO is longtime Wichita Television Broadcaster, Sandy DiPasquale. Mr. DiPasquale is the last local owner of KWCH, Wichita's CBS affiliate, which he sold in 1994. Mr. DiPasquale moved Newport's headquarters to Kansas City in 2008 from his longtime base of Wichita. KSAS signed on the air on August 24, 1985 as an independent station and a year later picked up the Fox affiliation. It is also the sister station of MyNetworkTV affiliate KMTW. KSAS' transmitter is located in Colwich, Kansas.
On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group, including KSAS and its LMA with KMTW, to Providence Equity Partners.[1] The deal closed on March 14, 2008.
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[edit] Newscasts
KSAS airs a nightly newscast, called "Fox Kansas Eyewitness News at Nine". The newscast is produced by KWCH, using that station's studios, footage, and talent. In 2005, it received the "Best Large Market Newscast in Kansas" award from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters [1]. The current studio for the newscast was designed by FX Group [2]
From 1997 to 1999, KSAS aired a previous shared newscast with KSNW called "Fox 24 News At 9", which was terminated due to poor rating performance.
[edit] On-Air Talent
[edit] Former Talent
- Stacey Allen
- Brad Fanning (now with WUPW Toledo, Ohio)
- Steve Prinzivalli (now with WBGH/WIVT Binghamton, New York)
- Dana Hertneky (now with KSNW Wichita)
- Diana Wilkin (1997-2000) is now GM at WPEC West Palm Beach, Florida [3]
[edit] Satellite stations
KSAS is the flagship station for Fox Kansas, a term coined by former Program Director Michael Hochman in 1998, a "network" of Fox affiliates in the state of Kansas all owned by Clear Channel. The other stations in the quasi-network are repeaters and translators airing virtually the exact programming as the flagship Wichita station. This was necessitated by the unusually large geographic make-up of the Wichita-Hutchinson Designated Market Area, which covers over 70 counties stretching from the Flint Hills to Colorado, the largest DMA by number of counties in the United States.
The other Fox Kansas stations are:
| Station | City of license | Channels (Analog/ Digital) |
First air date | Call letters’ meaning |
ERP (Analog/ Digital) |
HAAT (Analog/ Digital) |
Facility ID | Transmitter Coordinates |
| KAAS-TV | Salina | 18 (UHF) 17 (UHF) |
April 3, 1988 | KAnsAS | 617 kW 65 kW |
317 m 314 m |
11912 | |
| KOCW1 | Hoisington | 14 (UHF)2 | 2000 | 29.38 kW | 163 m | 83181 |
Notes:
- 1. KOCW used the callsign KBDK from its 2000 sign-on until 2006.
- 2. Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997 [4], KOCW did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, on or before February 17, 2009, which is the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, KOCW will be required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal (called a "flash-cut").
KSAS-TV is also relayed by KSAS-LP channel 29 in Dodge City and KAAS-LP channel 31 in Garden City.
[edit] Dennis Rader/BTK
In 2005, KSAS became a crucial location in the search for and apprehension of infamous Wichita serial killer Dennis Rader, known for decades as the anonymous BTK Killer. Rader's last known communication with the media and police was a padded envelope which arrived at KSAS' Wichita studios on N. West Street, one of many stations in the market which Rader had contacted over the years, on February 16, 2005. A purple, 1.44-MB Memorex floppy disk was enclosed in the package. Also enclosed were a letter, a photocopy of the cover of a 1989 novel about a serial killer (Rules of Prey ISBN 0-425-19519-8), and a gold-colored necklace with a large medallion. Police found metadata embedded in a Microsoft Word document on the disk that pointed to Wichita's Christ Lutheran Church, and the document was marked as last modified by "Dennis". A search of the church website turned up Dennis Rader as president of the congregation council.
[edit] External links
- Fox Kansas Homepage
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KSAS
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KAAS
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KOCW
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KSAS-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KAAS-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KOCW-TV
[edit] References
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