KSAS-TV
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- For the airport with the ICAO airport code KSAS, see Salton Sea Airport.
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| KSAS: Wichita, Kansas KAAS: Salina, Kansas KOCW: Hoisington / Great Bend, Kansas KAAS-LP: Garden City, Kansas KSAS-LP: Dodge City, Kansas |
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| Branding | FOX Kansas |
| Slogan | Everybody Loves Fox Kansas and Your News. Your Time. |
| Channels | KSAS: 24 (UHF) KAAS: 18 (UHF) KOCW (formerly KSCC-LP): 14 (UHF) KAAS-LP: 31 (UHF) KSAS-LP: 29 (UHF) analog, KSAS: 26 (UHF) KAAS: 17 (UHF) digital |
| Affiliations | Fox |
| Owner | Clear Channel (sale pending) |
| Founded | KSAS: August 24, 1985 KAAS: April 1988 |
| Call letters meaning | KSAS: KANSAS KAAS: KANSAS KOCW: (unknown) |
| Former affiliations | Network One (secondary) |
| Website | www.foxkansas.com |
KSAS-TV, channel 24, is a Fox affiliate based in Wichita, Kansas. It is owned by Clear Channel Communications, and it 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.
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 "network" are repeaters and translators airing virtually the exact programming as the flagship. 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 such DMA by county in the United States.
The other FOX Kansas stations are:
- KAAS-TV channel 18 Salina (April 1988)
- KAAS-LP channel 31 Garden City
- KOCW (formerly KSCC-LP) channel 14 Hoisington / Great Bend (2001)
- KSAS-LP channel 29 Dodge City
On November 16, 2006, Clear Channel announced its intention to sell off all of its television stations, including KSAS and its satellites, after the company was bought out by a private equity firm.
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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. 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)
[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 0425195198), 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
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Wichita-Hutchinson: KSNW 3 (NBC) - KCTU-LP 5 (i) - 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.) - KTQW-CA 49 (A1/TSC) - 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) - 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) - K44FN 44 (PBS/NET) Dodge City-Garden City (SW Kansas): KSWK 3 / KDCK 21 (PBS) - KBSD 6 (CBS) - KSNG 11 (NBC) - KUPK 13 (ABC) - KAAS-LP 31 (Fox) |
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KFJX 14 (Pittsburg) - KSAS 24 / KOCW 14 / KAAS 18 / KAAS-LP 31 (Wichita / Hoisington/ Salina/ Garden City) - KTMJ-CA 43 (Topeka) |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other Stations in Kansas | |
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