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KASN

KASN
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Pine Bluff/Little Rock, Arkansas
United States
City Pine Bluff
Branding The CW Arkansas
Slogan Dare to Defy (also CW network slogan)
Channels Digital: 39 (UHF)
Virtual: 38 ()
Subchannels 38.1 The CW
Affiliations The CW (2006-present)
Owner Mission Broadcasting
(Mission Broadcasting, Inc.)
Operator Nexstar Media Group
First air date June 17, 1986; 30 years ago (1986-06-17)
Call letters' meaning Arkansas
State
Network
Sister station(s) KLRT-TV,
KARK-TV, KARZ-TV
Former callsigns KJTM-TV (1986–1988)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 38 (UHF, 1986–2009)
Former affiliations
Transmitter power 1000 kW
Height 590 m
Facility ID 41212
Transmitter coordinates 34°26′31.1″N 92°13′3.8″W / 34.441972°N 92.217722°W / 34.441972; -92.217722
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.cwarkansas.com

KASN, virtual channel 38 (UHF digital channel 39), is a CW-affiliated television station serving Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, that is licensed to Pine Bluff. The station is owned by Mission Broadcasting, as part of a duopoly with Fox affiliate KLRT-TV (channel 16); Nexstar Media Group, which owns NBC affiliate KARK-TV (channel 4) and MyNetworkTV affiliate KARZ-TV (channel 42), operates KLRT and KASN under a shared services agreement.

All four stations share studio facilities located on West Capitol Avenue in Downtown Little Rock, one block east of the Arkansas State Capitol; KASN maintains transmitter facilities located near Redfield. On cable, KASN is available on Comcast Xfinity channel 7 in standard definition and digital channel 236 in high definition.

The station first signed on the air on June 17, 1986, as KJTM; it originally operated as an independent station, before becoming the market's original Fox affiliate on October 6, 1986. The station was originally owned by MMC Television Corporation.


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